ACE Professor, iSEE Director Madhu Khanna Elected to AAAS
Madhu Khanna, Alvin H. Baum Family Chair and Director of the Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE), has been named a 2025 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the highest honors awarded to U.S. scientists.
Khanna, an environmental economist, is among three University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professors recognized this year by AAAS, the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals. Fellows are elected annually by the AAAS Council for exceptional achievements across disciplines – from research, teaching, and technology to administration and communicating science to the public.
“I’m incredibly honored to be selected as an AAAS Fellow,” Khanna said. “It’s gratifying to be recognized by your peers and to see environmental social science research elevated through this prestigious award.”
The new AAAS Fellows will be honored at a forum in Washington, D.C., on May 29, 2026.
Khanna, who first joined the U. of I. Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics in 1995, is the ACES Distinguished Professor in Environmental Economics in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences (ACES).