New AAAS Fellow

University Professor Michael Sefton (ChemE 7T1) has been elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest science society and publisher of the prestigious journal, Science.

AAAS elected Sefton due to his significant contributions to tissue engineering, particularly the microencapsulation of live cells and combining live cells and synthetic materials to create artificial tissue.

Sefton and will be honoured on February 18 at the 2012 AAAS annual meeting in Vancouver.