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Bertness became an AAAS fellow for his contributions to marine ecology and for outstanding research mentoring. He is the Robert P. Brown Professor of Biology in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Brown. His research focuses on the ecology and conservation biology of marine shoreline communities, using salt marsh and rocky shore systems.

He and his students use manipulative field experiments in New England to develop general models of community organization and human impacts and then test the generality of their findings on Argentinean and Chilean shorelines with South American graduate student collaborators. His book Atlantic Shorelines (Princeton University Press, 2007) discusses his interests and approach to studying marine intertidal communities.

Bertness has earned a number of honors and awards. He gave the 2004 distinguished ecologist lecture at Mt. Holyoke College, and was the 2004 visiting chair in ecology at the University of Groningen in Holland. In 1999, he won the Elizabeth Leduc Prize for Distinguished Teaching in the Life Sciences. He has written articles for numerous publications including the Journal of Ecology, Science, American Scientist and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Donoghue, the Henry Merritt Wriston Professor at Brown University, became an AAAS fellow because of his interdisciplinary work exploring how the brain converts intention into movement. From 1991 through 2006, Donoghue was chairman of the Department of Neuroscience, and since 1998 he
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