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Two USU Scientists Named as AAAS Fellows

To be named an American Academy for the Advancement of Science fellow is an honor reserved for the nation's top scientists. Utah State University professors Patricia Lambert and Lance Seefeldt are among 702 scientists named as AAAS fellows.

Lambert, a professor in USU's department of Sociology, Social Studies, and Anthropology, has been researching health patterns, disease, and warfare in pre-historic peoples of California, the Great Basin, the Southwest and Southeast, and North Coastal Peru.

Seefeldt is a professor in USU's department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and is working on research about how compounds are created to sustain plant and animal life. He's also conducting research investigating the feasibility of using algae as a fuel source.

Lambert and Seefeldt join professor and dean of USU's College of Science, James MacMahon, in representing USU as AAAS fellows.

Patricia Lambert, Professor in USU's department of Sociology, Social Work, and Anthropoloty, has been named a 2012 American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow.

At 14-years-old, Kerry began working as a reporter for KVEL “The Hot One” in Vernal, Utah. Her radio news interests led her to Logan where she became news director for KBLQ while attending Utah State University. She graduated USU with a degree in Broadcast Journalism and spent the next few years working for Utah Public Radio. Leaving UPR in 1993 she spent the next 14 years as the full time mother of four boys before returning in 2007. Kerry and her husband Boyd reside in Nibley.