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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. - - - - 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 - - - - CONTACT: Paul Karoff, AAAS Communications, 617-576-5043 ON THE WEB: http://www.amacad.org |