Johanna Schmitt Elected to National Academy of Sciences

Johanna Schmitt, a Brown University evolutionary ecologist, has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), one of the highest honors that can be accorded to a scientist or engineer.

Schmitt, who studies the genetic basis and evolution of plant responses to climate and other environmental cues, is one of 72 new members and 18 foreign associates elected this year in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

Schmitt, the Stephen T. Olney Professor of Natural History and a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Center for Environmental Studies, is Brown's first female scientist to be voted into the Academy.

Source: Brown University Media Relations
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