Professor Nicole Baumgarth Elected as AAAS Fellow
Professor Nicole Baumgarth of the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, was one of 10 UC Davis professors recently elected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. They are among 443 new fellows elected this year, honored for their efforts to advance science or its applications.
The new fellows will be formally recognized Feb. 15 at the AAAS annual meeting, to be held next year in Seattle.
Baumgarth serves as a professor in the Center for Comparative Medicine and the Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology. She was elected for fundamental contributions to the literature of immunological mechanisms that regulate and control immunity to pathogens, and for her service to the profession.