Incoming AAAS Leshner Fellows Focus on Human Augmentation
The 10 recently named American Association for the Advancement of Science 2019-2020 Leshner Public Engagement Fellows will strive to reach diverse audience to explore societal issues related to science and engineering advances in human augmentation. Samira Kiani (bottom row, second from left in photo), a Fulton Schools assistant professor of biological and health systems engineering, is among the new Fellows. Her efforts will focus on public engagement on genetic engineering and the genomic revolution in biomedical engineering.