Jerlando Jackson has been elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of 13 scholars from UW–Madison who received fellowship status this year.
Jackson is chair of the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, and concurrently holds the Rupple-Bascom Professorship of Education and the Vilas Distinguished Professorship of Higher Education. He also is the director and chief research scientist of Wisconsin’s Equity and Inclusion Laboratory (Wei LAB).
This year, 564 scientists, engineers, and innovators who are members of AAAS were chosen to be AAAS Fellows. The honor, presented annually since 1874, recognizes efforts to advance science and society, with the fellows expected to maintain the highest standards of scientific integrity and professional ethics.
“AAAS is proud to bestow the honor of AAAS Fellow to some of today’s brightest minds who are integral to forging our path into the future,” says Sudip Parikh, AAAS chief executive officer and executive publisher of the Science family of journals. “We celebrate these distinguished individuals for their invaluable contributions to the scientific enterprise.”
Jackson’s research centers on hiring practices, career mobility, workforce diversity, and workplace discrimination, and has evolved to focus on organizational disparities. He was named as a fellow for his distinguished contributions to research on organizational disparities in the STEM workforce and for development of successful interventions to increase participation of underrepresented groups in science and engineering.
“I am deeply honored to be elected an AAAS Fellow,” says Jackson. “This honor re-energizes me, and it has been especially rewarding to work alongside scientists to respond to their most pressing workforce challenges — specifically, unclogging pathways for women and people of color into the scientific workforce.”
Learn more about the 13 from UW–Madison who have been elected as AAAS Fellows.