Professor Bruce Weinberg has been named to the 2024 class of American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows, one of the highest honors a U.S. scholar can receive.
Weinberg, the Eric Byron Fix-Monda Endowed Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, was selected for his distinguished contributions to the field of labor economics, particularly for a multidisciplinary approach to studying creativity and innovation, socioeconomic determinants of youth outcomes and technological impact on wage structure.
“At a time like this, I think back to spending essentially my entire working career at Ohio State,” Weinberg said. “I am deeply grateful for my many wonderful mentors, colleagues, collaborators and trainees. I try to do my best to pass along the amazing training that I received to the next generation here at Ohio State. Being elected a Fellow of the AAAS is a great honor, especially because I was able to apply my understanding of science policy as a member of its Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy.”
He is among nine Ohio State scientists named to this round of AAAS Fellowships, which recognize scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. Fellows are elected by their academic peers and recognized for their achievements across disciplines, from research, teaching and technology to administration in academia, industry and government to excellence in communicating and interpreting science to the public.
Weinberg spearheads a $4.5 million National Science Foundation project, “Industries of Ideas,” a prototype system for measuring the effects of investments on firms and jobs in the artificial intelligence and electric vehicle industries.
He recently co-authored “How to Track the Economic Impact of Public Investments in AI” in Nature. And “Slow Convergence: Career Impediments to Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research” in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
“Ohio State’s newly elected Fellows have devoted their professional lives to protecting health, investigating complex principles of physics, and analyzing social behavior and labor economics,” said Peter Mohler, Ohio State executive vice president for research, innovation and knowledge. “The American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellowship is an important acknowledgment of the key role scientists play in solving critical problems and improving lives.”
The 2024 class of Fellows will be honored at a forum in Washington, D.C., in June.