
Fellow-Category: Natural Sciences





Katherine H. Freeman
Professor of Geosciences and faculty member at Penn State since 1991, Katherine H. Freeman is a leading scholar of organic compounds preserved in ancient soils, sediments, and oils. She developed methods for precise measurement of stable carbon isotopes in individual compounds and she was the first to apply such analytical tools to understand biological and



Dale A. Frail
Dale A. Frail is an astronomer who is best known for his work on gamma-ray bursts but he is also the co-discoverer of the first extrasolar planets. He works on a wide variety of research problems in high-energy astrophysics, including pulsars, gamma-ray bursts, soft-gamma-ray repeaters, supernova remnants, and more. In his research, Frail uses observations


Norman C. Ellstrand
Norman C. Ellstrand is Professor of Genetics at the University of California Riverside (UCR) and Adjunct Professor at Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences. At age four his parents helped him match a picture of a Scarlet Tanager to a living bird outside his window, starting his lifelong passion in biology. With a B.S.


Judith S. Eisen
The focus of Judith Eisen’s research is to understand the mechanisms underlying development and function of the vertebrate nervous system. As a postdoctoral fellow with Monte Westerfield at the University of Oregon Institute of Neuroscience, and later as a beginning assistant professor there, Eisen devised methods to label and transplant individual neurons and neural precuror


C. Josh Donlan
Josh Donlan is the Executive Director of Advanced Conservation Strategies, whose purpose is to deliver innovative, self-sustaining, and economically efficient solutions to environmental challenges by building cross-sector synergy and integrating biological, economic, technological, and socio-political threats and opportunities. He leads the organization by building interdisciplinary teams to tackle problems in novel ways. Trained as an



Ingrid Daubechies
Born in Belgium, Ingrid Daubechies studied physics at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (B.S., 1975, Ph.D., 1980) and worked as a Research Assistant (1975-84) and then Research Professor (1984-87) in its Department of Theoretical Physics before moving to the United States to take up a position as Technical Staff Member in the Mathematical Research Center at AT&T


