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American Academy of Arts and Sciences Announces 2006 Class of Fellows; Elected Include Scholars, Scientists, Artists, Civic, Corporate, Philanthropic Leaders
(Ascribe Newswire Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- The American Academy of Arts and Sciences today announced the election of 175 new Fellows and 20 new Foreign Honorary Members. Those elected include two former presidents of the United States; the Chief Justice of the United States; a Nobel laureate; winners of the Pulitzer Prize in poetry, drama, music, investigative reporting, and non-fiction; a former U.S. poet laureate; and a member of the French Senate.
The 195 scholars, scientists, artists, civic, corporate and philanthropic leaders come from 24 states and 13 countries, and range in age from 37 to 83. Represented among this year's newly elected members are more than 60 universities, a dozen corporations, as well as museums, research institutes, media outlets and foundations.
This year's new Fellows include former Presidents George H.W. Bush and William Jefferson Clinton; Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts; Nobel Prize-winning biochemist and Rockefeller University President Sir Paul Nurse; the chairman and vice chairman of the 9/11 commission, Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton; actor and director Martin Scorsese; choreographer Meredith Monk; conductor Michael Tilson Thomas; and New York Stock Exchange chairman Marshall Carter along with leading scientists and scholars from across the nation.
The newly elected class also includes: Elbert Rutan, designer and constructor of the Voyager, the first vehicle to circumnavigate the earth without refueling and other renowned experimental aircraft; Charles Thacker, designer of the world's first personal computer workstation; William Greenough of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, whose research provided the first clear evidence for the structural basis of memory; Michael Dawson, University of Chicago political scientist who has authored influential studies of race and politics in the United States; Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig, who is a leading expert on the legal and social consequences of the information revolution; Bancroft Prize-winning historian William Cronon; National Book Award-winning author Xuefei Jin; former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove; Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel; Los Angeles Times editor Dean Baquet; and New Yorker editor David Remnick; and Kenneth Chenault, Chairman and CEO of the American Express Company.
Foreign Honorary Members in this year's class come from Europe, Asia, South America and the Middle East, and include former French Minister of Justice and current member of the French Senate, Robert Badinter; National University of Singapore President Shih Choon Fong; Japanese ecologist Yoh Iwasa; Ecuadorian biologist and Galapagos Islands champion Eugenia Del Pino Veintimilla; British author and playwright William Trevor; and Henri Loyrette, president and director of the Louvre Museum in Paris.
Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members are nominated and elected to the Academy by current members. A broad-based membership, comprised of scholars and practitioners from mathematics, physics, biological sciences, social sciences, humanities and the arts, public affairs and business, gives the Academy a unique capacity to conduct a wide range of interdisciplinary studies and public policy research.
It gives me great pleasure to welcome these outstanding leaders in their fields to the Academy, said Academy President Patricia Meyer Spacks. Fellows are selected through a highly competitive process that recognizes individuals who have made preeminent contributions to their disciplines and to society at large.
Throughout its history, the Academy has convened the leading thinkers of the day, from diverse perspectives, to participate in projects and studies that advance the public good, added Chief Executive Officer Leslie Berlowitz. I am confident that this distinguished class of new Fellows will continue that tradition of cherishing knowledge and shaping the future.
The Academy will welcome this year's new class at its annual Induction Ceremony on October 7, at the Academy's headquarters in Cambridge, Mass.
Founded in 1780 by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock and other scholar-patriots, the Academy has elected as Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members the finest minds and most influential leaders from each generation, including George Washington and Ben Franklin in the eighteenth century, Daniel Webster and Ralph Waldo Emerson in the nineteenth, and Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill in the twentieth. The current membership includes more than 170 Nobel laureates and 50 Pulitzer Prize winners. An independent policy research center, the Academy undertakes studies of complex and emerging problems. Current Academy research focuses on science and global security; social policy; the humanities and culture; and education.
A list of newly elected Fellows and Honorary Foreign Members with their affiliations follows.
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FELLOWS AND THEIR AFFILIATIONS
Abbott, Laurence F.: Professor of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University
Abrams, Floyd: Partner, Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP; William J. Brennan Visiting Professor, Columbia University
Abriola, Linda Marie: Dean of Engineering, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University
Acemoglu, K. Daron: Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Adleman, Leonard M: Distinguished Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer Science, Professor of Molecular Biology, University of Southern California
Alcock, Charles R: Director, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Alda, Alan: Actor, Writer, Director, Beverly Hills, California
Alesina, Alberto: Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University
Alexander, John David: Former President, Pomona College
Andrew, Dudley: Professor of Film Studies and Comparative Literature, Yale University
Andrews, Donald Wilfrid Kao: T. C. Koopmans Professor of Economics, Yale University
Angrist, Joshua: Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Aslin, Richard N.: William R. Kenan Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester
Awschalom, David D.: Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Santa Barabara
Ayres, Ian: William K. Townsend Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Banerjee, Subir Kumar: I.T. Distinguished Professor and Director, Institute for Rock Magnetism, University of Minnesota
Baquet, Dean Paul: Editor, Los Angeles Times
Beck, Nathaniel: Professor of Political Science, New York University
Berger, Harry: Professor Emeritus of Literature and Art History, University of California, Santa Cruz
Bernstein, Charles: Donald T. Regan Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
Blake, Randolph: Centennial Professor of Psychology, Vanderbilt University; Fellow, The Kennedy Center for Human Development
Bloch, Erich: Principal, The Washington Advisory Group
Bluestone, Jeffrey Allen: A.W. and Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Professor of Metabolism and Endocrinology, Director, Diabetes Center, University of California, San Francisco
Bobo, Lawrence J.: Martin Luther King Jr. Centennial Professor and Director, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and Program in African and African American Studies, Stanford University
Boger, Dale L: Richard and Alice Cramer Professor of Chemistry, Scripps Research Institute
Botchan, Michael R.: Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Brooke, Peter A.: Chairman, Advent International Corporation
Browning, Christopher R.: Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Buhrman, Robert Alan: John Edson Sweet Professor of Engineering, Director, Center for Nanoscale Systems, Cornell University
Bush, George H.W.: Former President of the United States
Campbell, Kevin Peter: Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Roy J. Carver Professor of Physiology and Biophysics and Neurology, University of Iowa
Carpenter, Stephen Richard: Stephen Alfred Forbes Professor of Zoology, University of Wisconsin
Carter, Marshall N.: Chairman, New York Stock Exchange
Cheeger, Jeff: Professor of Mathematics, New York University
Chenault, Kenneth Irvine: Chairman and CEO, American Express Company
Chevalier, Judith: Professor of Finance and Economics, Yale University
Chien, Shu: Professor of Bioengineering and Medicine, University of California, San Diego
Christiansen, Keith: Curator of Italian Paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cleveland, Don W.: Professor of Medicine, Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego
Clinton, William Jefferson: Former President of the United States; Founder, William J. Clinton Foundation
Coley, Phyllis (Lissy) D.: Professor of Biology, University of Utah
Connors, Jack : Founding Chairman, Hill, Holiday, Connors, Cosmopoulos
Coppersmith, Susan N.: Professor of Physics, Chair, Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Cronon, William: Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dawson, Michael C: Professor in Political Science and the College, University of Chicago
Dimopoulos, Savas: Professor of Physics, Stanford University
Dove, Rita: Commonwealth Professor of English, University of Virginia
Eisenbud, David: Director of Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, University of California, Berkeley
Englander, Solomon Walter: Jacob Gershon-Cohen Professor of Medical Science, Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Epstein, Lee: Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor of Political Science, Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis
Fallon, Jr., Richard H.: Ralph S. Tyler Jr. Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School
Fine, Kit: Silver Professor of Philosophy, New York University
Finlayson-Pitts, Barbara J.: Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine
Flom, Joseph Harold: Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Frank, Joachim: Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Professor of Biomedical Sciences Adjunct Professor of Biology, State University of New York
Freedman, Stuart Jay: Luis W. Alvarez Memorial Chair in Experimental Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Fuller, Margaret Tatnall: Reed Hodgson Professor of Human Biology, Professor of Genetics, Stanford University
Goldberg, Michael Ellis: David Mahoney Professor of Brain and Behavior, Columbia University
Goldstein, Matthew: Chancellor, City University of New York
Golubitsky, Martin: Cullen Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, University of Houston
Goodchild, Michael F.: Professor of Geography and Faculty Lecturer, University of California, Santa Barbara
Graham, William A.: Dean, John Lord O'Brian Professor of Divinity, and Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard Divinity School
Greene, Jack P.: Andrew D. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, Johns Hopkins University
Greenough, William Tallant: Swanlund and Center for Advanced Study Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry and Cell and Structural Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Grenfell, Bryan Thomas: Alumni Professor of Biology, Pennsylvania State University
Groudine, Mark Terry: Director and Member, Division of Basic Sciences, Professor of Radiation Oncology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington School of Medicine
Gupta, Anil K.: Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh
Halperin-Donghi, Tulio: Muriel McKevitt Sonne Professor of Latin American History, Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley
Hambrecht, William R.: Chairman and CEO, W.R. Hambrecht & Co.
Hamilton, Lee Herbert: President and Director, Woodrow Wilson International Center
Hastie, Reid : Professor of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado
Haussler, David : Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz
Hawley, R. Scott: Investigator, Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Head III, James William: Louis and Elizabeth Scherck Distinguished Professor, Professor of Geological Sciences, Brown University
Heineman, Benjamin Walter: Senior Vice President for Law and Public Affairs, General Electric Company
Hellwarth, Robert Willis: George T. Pfleger Chair in Electrical Engineering, Professor of Physics, University of Southern California
Higgins, E. Tory: Stanley Schachter Professor of Psychology, Columbia University
Hine, Darlene Clark: Professor of History, Northwestern University
Hobbs, Helen Haskell: Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Eugene McDermott Distinguished Chair for the Study of Human Growth and Development, 1995 Dallas Heart Ball Chair in Cardiology Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Horton, James Oliver: Benjamin Banneker Professor of American Studies and History, George Washington University
Ifill, Gwen: Moderator and Managing Editor, Washington Week, Senior Correspondent, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, WETA
Irvine, Judith Temkin: Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan Jackson, Kenneth T.: Jacques Barzun Professor of History and the Social Sciences, Director of the Herbert H. Lehman Center for the Study of American History, Columbia University
Janko, Richard Charles Murray: Professor and Chair of Classical Studies, University of Michigan
Jin, Xuefei: Professor of English, Boston University
Kaushansky, Kenneth: Helen M. Ranney Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego
Kavli, Fred: Founder, Kavlico Corporation; Chairman, Kavli Foundation
Kean, Thomas H.: Chairman, Board of Trustees, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Keating, Mark Taylor: Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Professor of Cell Biology and Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Keen, Rachel: Professor of Psychology, University of Massachusetts
Kekst, Gershon: Founder and President, Kekst and Company
Kieckhefer, Richard A.: Professor of Religion and History, Northwestern University
Knechtges, David R.: Professor of Asian Languages and Literature, University of Washington
Kohlberg, Jr., Jerome: Chairman and Founder, Kohlberg & Co.
Kramer, Larry D.: Dean, Richard E. Lang Professor of Law, Stanford University
Kraut, Richard: Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Philosophy and Classics, Northwestern University
LaCapra, Dominick C.: Bowmar Professor of Humanistic Studies, Cornell University
Lake, David A.: Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego
Lazarsfeld, Robert K: Professor of Mathematics, University of Michigan
LeDoux, Joseph E.: Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science, New York University
Lessig, Lawrence: Professor of Law, Stanford University
Lester, Henry Allen: Bren Professor of Biology, California Institute of Technology
Levine, Arthur Elliott: President, Teachers College, Columbia University
Lin, Robert Peichung: Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Lindberg, Donald A.B.: Director, U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health
Lopate, Phillip: John Crawford Adams Professor of English, Hofstra University
Mahley, Robert W.: President, J. David Gladstone Institutes
Manley, James L.: Judith Clarence Levi Professor of Life Sciences, Columbia University
Maquat, Lynne E.: Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester Medical Center
McCammon, J. Andrew: Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Professor of Pharmacology and Chemistry, University of California, San Diego
McConnell, Susan K.: Susan B. Ford Professor of Biological Sciences, Stanford University
Miller, Steven E.: Director, International Security Program, Harvard University
Monk, Meredith: Composer, Theater Director, Choreographer, Singer, The House Foundation for the Arts
Moran, Nancy A.: Regents' Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona
Moretti, Franco: The Danily C. and Laura Louise Bell Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Director, Center for the Study of the Novel, Stanford University
Murnane, Margaret Mary: Fellow, JILA; Professor of Physics, University of Colorado
Murrin, Michael: David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor in Humanities, University of Chicago
Navasky, Victor Saul: Publisher, Emeritus, The Nation
Newcombe, Nora S.: James H. Glackin Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Temple University
Newman, Charles M.: Professor of Mathematics, New York University
Newton, A. Richard: Dean of the College of Engineering, Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Nolet, Guust: George J. Magee Professor of Geophysics and Geological Engineering, Princeton University
Novick, Peter J.: Professor of Cell Biology, Yale University
Nurse, Paul Maxime: President, Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Rockefeller University
Ong, Nai-Phuan: Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, Princeton University
Oster, George F.: Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Professor of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley
Page, Jr., Robert Eugene: Foundation Professor and Founding Director, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
Patterson, David Andrew: E.H. and M.E. Pardee Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
Peterson, Peter G.: Senior Chairman, Blackstone Group Pickart, Cecile M.: Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Johns Hopkins University
Pomeranz, Kenneth L.: Chancellor's Professor of History, University of California, Irvine
Poole, Keith T.: Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego
Postlewaite, Andrew: Harry P. Kamen Professor of Economics and Professor of Finance, University of Pennsylvania
Poulet, Anne Lytle: Director, Frick Collection
Provine, William B.: Charles A. Alexander Professor of Biological Sciences, Cornell University
Remnick, David: Editor, The New Yorker
Richmond, Geraldine L.: Richard M. and Patricia H. Noyes Professor of Chemistry, University of Oregon
Roberts, Jr., John Glover: Chief Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
Roemer, John E.: Elizabeth S. and A. Varick Stout Professor of Political Science and Economics, Yale University
Romer, David: Herman Royer Professor in Political Economy, University of California, Berkeley
Rutan, Elbert (Burt) L.: President and Chief Executive Officer, Scaled Composites LLC
Sack, Robert David: Clarence J. Glacken and John Bascom Professor of Geography, Professor of Integrated Liberal Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Salmon, Edward Dickinson: James Larkin and Iona Mae Ballou Distinguished Professor of Cell Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Sargent, Anneila Isabel: Benjamin M. Rosen Professor of Astronomy, Director of Combined Array for MM Astronomy, California Institute of Technology
Schaal, Barbara Anna: Spencer T. Olin Professor of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis
Scorsese, Martin: Actor, Director, Film Producer, New York, New York
Segal, Lore: Novelist, New York, New York
Sellars, Peter: Professor, Theater and Opera Director, University of California, Los Angeles
Shenker, Stephen: Professor of Physics, Stanford University
Shepherd, Gordon Murray: Professor of Neuroscience, Yale University
Simpson, Joanne: Chief Scientist Emeritus for Meteorology, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Skinner, James Lauriston: Joseph O. Hirschfelder Professor of Chemistry, Department Chairperson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Smith III, Amos Brittain: Rhodes-Thompson Professor of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
Spaulding, Helen Bowdoin: Retired Chairman of the Board, Boston Foundation
Spencer, Charles S.: Chairman, Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History
Stanish, Charles: Director, The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles
Steinmetz, David Curtis: Amos Ragan Kearns Professor of the History of Christianity, Duke University
Stock, James H.: Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Stucky, Steven Edward: Given Foundation Professor of Composition, Cornell University
Swager, Timothy Manning: Professor of Chemistry, Associate Director of the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Taruskin, Richard: Class of 1955 Professor of Music, University of California, Berkeley
Thacker, Charles P: Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft Corporation
Tilson Thomas, Michael: Music Director, San Francisco Symphony
Tisch, Wilma Stein: Trustee, Tisch Foundation
Tracy, Craig A.: Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Davis
Vande Woude, George F.: VARI Director and Distinguished Scientific Investigator, Van Andel Research Institute
Varaiya, Pravin P.: Nortel Networks Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
Vogel, Paula: Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor of Creative Writing, Brown University
Voigt, Ellen Bryant: Poet, Marshfield, Vermont
Waldrop, Rosmarie: Poet, Novelist, Translator, Providence, Rhode Island
Waters, Mary C.: Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
Waxman, Seth Paul: Partner, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, LLP
Wexner, Leslie H.: CEO, Limited Brands Corporation
Widom, Harold : Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, University of California, Santa Cruz
Wolterstorff, Nicholas : Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology, Yale University
Foreign Honorary Members and their Affiliations at the time of Election
Ackroyd, Peter: Chief Book Reviewer, London Times, United Kingdom
Badinter, Robert: Senateur des Hauts de-Seine, Senat de France, France
Brunori, Maurizio: Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Rome, Italy
del Pino Veintimilla, Eugenia Mara: Professor of Biological Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Catlica del Ecuador, Ecuador
Duboule, Denis: Directeur and Professor of Zoology and Animal Biology, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Fong, Shih Choon: President, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Gojobori, Takashi: Professor and Director, Center for Information Biology and DNA Data Bank of Japan, Japan
Haggett, Peter: Emeritus Professor in Urban and Regional Geography, Senior Research Fellow, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Hanski, Ilkka Aulis: Professor of Zoology, University of Helsinki, Finland
Harrn, Don: Arthur Rubenstein Professor of Musicology, Hebrew University, Israel
Hassner, Pierre: Professor of Political Science, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, France
Iwasa, Yoh: Professor of Biology, Kyushu University, Japan
Loyrette, Henri: President Directeur, Musee du Louvre, France
Nickell, Stephen: Professor of Economics, London School of Economics, United Kingdom
Nitzan, Abraham: Professor of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Perez-Diaz, Victor: Professor of Sociology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Riley, Bridget: Painter, London, United Kingdom
Sonenberg, Nahum: James McGill Professor, Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Canada
Trevor Cox, William: Short Story Writer, Playwright, Novelist, London, United Kingdom
Wehler, Hans-Ulrich: Professor of History, Universitt Bielefeld, Germany
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