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The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has announced the election of 175 new fellows and 20 new foreign honorary members, including eight from Columbia. The academy, an international honorary society dedicated to scholarship and research, made the announcement April 24.
The newly elected Columbia faculty members are:
- Laurence F. Abbott , professor of physiology and cellular biophysics in the Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics;
- Floyd Abrams , the William J. Brennan Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Journalism and a partner at Cahill Gordon & Reindel L.L.P.;
- Michael Ellis Goldberg , the David Mahoney Professor of Brain and Behavior at the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior;
- E. Tory Higgins , the Stanley Schachter Professor of Psychology at the Business School;
- Kenneth T. Jackson , the Jacques Barzun Professor of History and the Social Sciences and director of the Herbert H. Lehman Center for the Study of American History;
- Arthur Elliott Levine , president of Teachers College;
- James L. Manley , the Judith Clarence Levi Professor of Life Sciences in the Department of Biological Sciences; and
- Victor Navasky , the Delacorte Professor of Magazine Journalism at the Graduate School of Journalism and publisher emeritus of The Nation.
The new fellows also include former U.S. Presidents George H.W. Bush and William Jefferson Clinton; U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts; Nobel Prize-winning biochemist and Rockefeller University President Sir Paul Nurse; Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, chair and vice chair, respectively, of the 9/11 commission; actor and director Martin Scorsese; choreographer Meredith Monk; conductor Michael Tilson Thomas; and Marshall Carter, chair of the New York Stock Exchange.
"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 the new class at its annual induction ceremony on Oct. 7, at its headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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 18 th century, Daniel Webster and Ralph Waldo Emerson in the 19 th , and Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill in the 20 th . 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; culture and the humanities; and education. |
