Syracuse Sun

College of Arts and Sciences Professor Marina Artuso (Department of Physics) has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She was elected by the AAAS Council for extraordinary achievements in her field and her efforts on behalf of the advancement of science. The fellows will be honored at a ceremony later this year in Washington, D.C.

Artuso joins a prestigious list of Syracuse University professors who have been named AAAS Fellows. Since 2010, these A&S faculty received the honor: Jennifer Ross, professor and department chair of physics and Jason Wiles, associate professor of biology (2023); Alan Middleton, professor of physics (2016); George Langford, dean emeritus and professor emeritus of biology (2013); M. Cristina Marchetti, professor of physics (2013); Donald Siegel, professor emeritus of Earth and environmental sciences (2012); and William Starmer, professor emeritus of biology (2011).

Professor Artuso’s colleagues at Syracuse University have known for over three decades that she’s an outstanding experimental physicist,” says Stephen Maisto, associate dean of research in A&S and professor emeritus of psychology. “Her receipt of the AAAS Fellowship reflects that now the international community of scientists is aware of the quality and significance of Professor Artuso’s research.”

Established in 1848, AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society and the publisher of the well-known scientific journal Science. Fellows are elected by the AAAS Council through a careful deliberation process to preserve the honor attached to this recognition. Each Fellow is acknowledged with a citation recognizing their contributions to the scientific community.

Professor Artuso’s citation reads: “For leadership in experimental particle physics, particularly in studies of the B-meson and development of new and innovative instrumentation.”

Marina Artuso has been working with an ongoing, multinational experiment known as Large Hadron Collider “b” (LHCb) at the CERN laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland since 2005; she has been a Syracuse team leader there, directing the high-energy physics group, since 2021. She and her team study subatomic exotic particles resulting from collisions in the LHC, a 27-kilometer-circumference tunnel in which proton beams are made to collide, producing concentrated energy that mimics the conditions in the early Universe.

"Marina Artuso has been a long-time advocate for women in physics,” says Jennifer Ross. “She was an original member of the group of women scientists and engineers who created the Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) group on campus."

Professor Maisto also mentioned, “[Her] AAAS Fellowship status identifies Syracuse University as an institution in which world-renown scientists do their research and train the next generation of scientists. It also helps to build the reputation that SU is a place where quality research is done.”