UPB's Panah is President-Elect of National Association of Academies of Science

Dr. Assad Panah, professor of geology at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, was elected president-elect of the National Association of Academies of Science at the organization’s meeting in Washington, D.C.

Panah will serve a total of six years: two as president-elect, two as president and two as past president. It was the first time that anyone has been elected to a second term as president. Panah also served as president of the NAAS from 2003-04.

The NAAS is a nonprofit organization that oversees a network of 47 state and regional academies of science affiliated with the prestigious American Association for the Advancement of Science, of which Panah is a fellow.

In 2000, he received a Distinguished Service Award from the Pennsylvania Academy of Science, and in 2004, he received the same award from the NAAS.

Panah is the director of Pitt-Bradford’s petroleum technology program, which he developed and launched in 2007.

He developed and taught K-12 Teacher Enhancement program for NASA under a six-year grant from the Mission to Planet Earth and NASA Earth Science Enterprise from 1997-2002.

Panah has twice been named a Fulbright Scholar in addition to other awards.