Ann Bradlow named fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Northwestern University professor Ann Bradlow has been selected as 2023 fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the largest general scientific society in the world.

The 2023 class of AAAS Fellows includes 502 scientists, engineers and innovators spanning 24 scientific disciplines, recognized for their scientifically and socially distinguished achievements.

AAAS Fellows will be honored in Washington, D.C., in September.

“As we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the AAAS Fellows, AAAS is proud to recognize the newly elected individuals,” said Sudip S. Parikh, CEO of AAAS and executive publisher of the Science family of journals.

“This year’s class embodies scientific excellence, fosters trust in science throughout the communities they serve, and leads the next generation of scientists while advancing scientific achievements.”

Ann Bradlow is the Abraham Harris Professor of Linguistics in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. She served as chair of the department of linguistics from 2007 to 2015.

Bradlow’s research focuses on the sound structure of language. She is founder and principal investigator of the Speech Communication Research Group at Northwestern, an interdisciplinary research program in acoustic phonetics and speech perception with a focus on the impact of long-term linguistic experience on speech production and perception.

Pioneering work from the Speech Communication Research Group has identified both language-specific and language-general acoustic correlates of variation in speech intelligibility and established a critical role for linguistic knowledge in speech recognition under noisy listening conditions. Bradlow’s research group also has made critical contributions towards understanding the cognitive mechanisms underlying perceptual adaptation to foreign-accented speech.