GRA Eminent Scholar Barbara Boyan elected to NAE membership

The National Academy of Engineering today announced that GRA Eminent Scholar Barbara Boyan has been elected to membership for her work in engineering implant technologies for bone and cartilage repair.  Boyan is the Price Gilbert Chair in Tissue Engineering and associate dean for research in the Georgia Tech College of Engineering.

Election to NAE membership is considered one of the highest professional honors accorded an engineer. Members have distinguished themselves in business and academic management, in technical positions, as university faculty, and as leaders in government and private engineering organizations.

Boyan is also a Fellow of the American Institute of Mechanical and Biological Engineering, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the International Team for Implantology.