As part of the Section on Anthropology, Dr. Lorena Madrigal was elected as an AAAS Fellow for distinguished contributions to the study of evolutionary change in recent human populations and for distinguished service to the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Lorena Madrigal is professor of Anthropology at the University of South Florida, and a biological anthropologist who studies human microevolution using demographic and population genetic approaches. Her specific interests include the Afro and Indo diasporas in Costa Rica, the genetic bases of longevity, the effect of female longevity on inclusive fitness, the human mitochondrial mutation rate, human sexual selection and evolutionary processes in historical populations. She has published two volumes with Cambridge University Press: Statistics for Anthropology and Human Biology of Afro-Caribbean Populations. She has served on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Human Biology, the American Journal of Human Biology and the American Anthropologist. She has held several elected offices in the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, of which she is currently the president. Her one and only job since earning her Ph.D. at the University of Kansas has been at USF.