UAF’s Johnson named National Academy of Inventors fellow

December 4, 2019

Jeff Richardson
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UAF photo by JR Ancheta. Jerome Johnson
UAF photo by JR Ancheta. Jerome Johnson


University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher Jerome Johnson is among the class of 168 new fellows recognized in 2019 by the National Academy of Inventors.

Johnson, a senior research advisor at the Alaska Center for Energy and Power and UAF’s Institute of Northern Engineering, will be inducted at the NAI annual meeting on April 10, 2020, in Phoenix.

The NIA Fellows Program highlights academic inventors who “who have demonstrated a spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society.” A complete list of 2019 inductees is available at https://academyofinventors.org/.