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Shu Yang: APS Fellowship

caption: Shu YangShu Yang, professor in the departments of materials science and engineering and chemical and biomolecular engineering, in SEAS, has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). Her fellowship nomination was from the scholarly society’s Topical Group on Soft Matter.

The APS Fellowship Program was created to recognize members who may have made advances in knowledge through original research and publication or made significant and innovative contributions in the application of physics to science and technology. Dr. Yang was cited for her “contributions to the geometric design and controlled assembly of soft matter.” Some of her most innovative work in those fields — learning to mimic the light-controlling structures that allow giant clams to efficiently farm algae inside their bodies—was recently featured in The Atlantic.

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