UNM archaeologist Patricia Crown named 2022 AAAS Fellow
January 31, 2023
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) announced today that Patricia Crown, the Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Emerita at The University of New Mexico, has been elected as a 2022 AAAS Fellow. Election as a Fellow honors members whose efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications in service to society have distinguished them among their peers and colleagues.
The AAAS honorees have gone above and beyond in their respective disciplines. They bring a broad diversity of perspectives, innovation, curiosity, and passion that will help sustain the scientific field today and into the future. Many of these individuals have broken barriers to achieving success in their given disciplines.
“I'm deeply honored to have been elected as an American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow for 2022,” Crown said. “The mission of the AAAS is ‘to advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all people.’ It is gratifying that my colleagues in the AAAS have deemed my research within the scope of this mission. And it is particularly gratifying because I not only taught at UNM for 29 years, but my research largely concerned the past in New Mexico, so this election emphasizes the significance of New Mexico as a hub of innovation now and in the past. In addition, my scholarship benefited from the exceptional UNM undergraduate and graduate students I have worked with over the past three decades.”
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