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Two members of CQE community elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Chicago Quantum Exchange steering committee member Bonnie Fleming and CQE researcher Mark Hersam have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies.

Fleming is the deputy director for science and technology and chief research officer at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. She also holds a joint appointment with the University of Chicago in the Enrico Fermi Institute within the Department of Physics.

Hersam is the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering. He is also chair of Northwestern’s department of materials science and engineering and director of the Northwestern University Materials Research Science and Engineering Center

Fleming and Hersam join 250 artists, scholars, scientists, and leaders in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors named to the society’s the 2024 class.

Read the University of Chicago announcement.

Read the Northwestern University announcement.