Wendy Hall elected to the Royal Society
Wendy Hall has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for her work in computer science, which includes important work on OA. See the announcement from the University of Southampton or theannouncement from the Royal Society, both from May 15, 2009. (Thanks to Stevan Harnad).
At the time Hall was appointed a Dame Commander of the British Empire (DBE), Stevan Harnad, her colleague in the University of Southampton School of Electronics and Computer Science, summarized her contributions to OA:
An invaluable friend to Open Access, University of Southampton's Professor Wendy Hall, as Head of the School of Electronics and Computer Science from 2002 to 2007, not only presided over the adoption and implementation of the world's first Green OA Self-Archiving Mandate, but she quietly went on to help get Green (ID/OA) Mandates adopted at the European level, as a founding member of the Scientific Council of theEuropean Research Councilas well as President of the British Computer Society (BCS) and member of the Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology. It is no small thanks to Wendy's support that the UK in particular and Europe in general are leading the world in its inexorable progress toward the optimal and inevitable outcome for scientific and scholarly research, at long last. And this is but one part of what Wendy has done for computer science, and science in general....
Also see our past posts on Hall and her OA work.