Eschbach Endowed Chair in Kidney Research and co-director of the Center for Dialysis Innovation, “for pioneering contributions and outstanding achievements in the development of the novel wearable artificial kidney, as well as numerous investigator-initiated clinical trials and multi-center collaborative studies.” Lisa Graumlich, professor of environmental and forest sciences and dean emeritus of the College of the Environment, “for foundational studies of regional paleoenvironmental history and sustained excellence in academic leadership to catalyze and sustain transformative research and educational initiatives.” Graumlich is also president-elect of the American Geophysical Union.Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences, and founding director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment, “for work on the health impacts of climate change, on climate impact forecasting, on adaptation to climate change and on climate policy to protect health.”.Brandi Cossairt, professor of chemistry and member faculty at the Clean Energy Institute, “for leadership in the innovative synthesis and chemical modification of nanoscale materials for application in light emission and catalysis.”.Sapna Cheryan, professor of psychology, “for contributions in research on racial and gender inequality that has influenced practices in education, government, and business” and “for shifting the explanation for inequality away from individual deficiencies and examining how societal stereotypes and structures cause inequalities.”.Joel Baker, professor and Port of Tacoma Chair in Environmental Science at UW Tacoma, director of the Puget Sound Institute and science director of the Center for Urban Waters, “for foundational work on the environmental fate, behavior and toxicity of PCBs.”.New UW members who were elected by current academy members are: An additional nine were elected by virtue of joining one of the National Academies.