Daniel Lathrop, John Mather, Steve Rolston, Raman Sundrum and John Weeks have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as a Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers.

This year 539 members have been awarded this honor by AAAS because of their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. New Fellows will be presented with an official certificate and a rosette pin on Saturday, 18 February at the AAAS Fellows Forum during the 2012 AAAS Annual Meeting in Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

Lathrop was honored for novel turbulence experiments and diagnostics uncovering the effects of rotation, magnetic fields, and long-range quantum order in superfluid helium.

Mather was honored for outstanding scientific leadership of NASA's astronomy missions including his Nobel Prize-winning Cosmic Background Explorer and the future James Webb Space Telescope. He is a College Park Professor and adjunct in the Department of Physics.

Rolston was honored for research with ultracold atoms, in particular for the development of optical lattices and ultracold plasmas.

Sundrum was honored for fundamental contributions including anomaly-mediation in supergravity theories and the "Randall-Sundrum" mechanism within higher-dimensional warped compactifications, and associated phenomenological implications.

Weeks was honored for seminal contributions to the statistical physics of liquids, interfaces and other condensed-phase systems. He is a Distinguished University Professor and an affiliate in the Department of Physics.

This year’s AAAS Fellows will be formally announced in the AAAS News & Notes section of the journal Science on 23 December 2011.