Jackson named science Fellow

A Mississippi State University biological sciences professor has been named a Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Jerome A. Jackson was selected and will be honored at the AAAS Annual Meeting in February 1997. Fellows are chosen for their efforts toward advancing science or fostering applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished.

Jackson, an authority on endangered species, received the 1990 Mississippi Academy of Sciences award for oustanding contributions to science. The honor followed his lengthy research effort for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to determine whether the ivory-billed woodpecker is extinct in the Southeast.

A faculty member since 1970, he is a regular contributor to Birder's World magazine and a past editor of several professional journals. Jackson co-hosts a weekly nature segment on the evening news of WCBI-TV, a CBS affiliate in Columbus.

The tradition of AAAS Fellows began in 1874. Individual members are nominated by the Steering Group of their respective disciplines and voted on by the AAAS Council.

Founded in 1848, the Washington, D.C.-based AAAS represents the world's largest federation of scientists and has more than 144,000 individual members.