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72 New Members Chosen By National Academy of Sciences

On Tuesday, representatives of The National Academy of Sciences announced the election of 72 new members and 18 foreign associates from 16 countries in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

Those elected bring the total number of active members to 2,013. Foreign associates are nonvoting members of the Academy, with citizenship outside the United States. Today's election brings the total number of foreign associates to 371.

The National Academy of Sciences is a private organization of scientists and engineers dedicated to the furtherance of science and its use for the general welfare. It was established in 1863 by a congressional act of incorporation signed by Abraham Lincoln that calls on the Academy to act as an official adviser to the federal government, upon request, in any matter of science or technology.

Newly elected members and their affiliations at the time of election are:

ADELSON, Edward H.; professor of vision science, department of brain and cognitive sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
ADLEMAN, Leonard M.; Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer Science, department of computer science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
ALMERS, Wolfhard; senior scientist, Vollum Institute, and professor of biochemistry, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland
AMASINO, Richard M.; Wisconsin Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry, department of biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison
BAKER, David; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and professor, department of biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle
BANFIELD, Jillian F.; professor, department of earth and planetary sciences and department of environmental science, policy, and management, University of California, Berkeley
BARBARA, Paul F.; R.J.V. Johnson-Welch Regents Chair in Chemistry, department of chemistry and biochemistry, University of Texas, Austin
BASSLER, Bonnie; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and professor of molecular biology, department of molecular biology, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
BEZANILLA, Francisco; Professor and Pritzker Scholar, Section of Biophysics and Protein Dynamics, Institute of Molecular Pediatric Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago
CEPERLEY, David M.; staff scientist, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and professor of physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
CLAPHAM, David E.; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and A.R. Castenade Professor of Cardiovascular Research, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston
CLEVELAND, Don W.; professor and head, Laboratory of Cell Biology, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of California, San Diego
COBB, Melanie H.; Jane and Bill Browning Jr. Chair in Medical Science, Southwestern Graduate School for Biomedical Sciences, and professor, department of pharmacology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
COFFMAN, Robert L.; vice president and chief scientific officer, Dynavax Technologies, Berkeley, Calif.
DAVIS, Mark E.; Warren and Katharine Schlinger Professor of Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
DE FRIES, Ruth S.; professor, department of geography, University of Maryland, College Park
DOI, Roy H.; Distinguished Professor, Section on Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis
EATON, William A.; chief, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.
ECKER, Joseph R.; professor, Plant Biology Laboratory and Genome Analysis Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego
ELLISON, Peter T.; professor of anthropology, and dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
FERRARA, Napoleone M.A.; fellow, department of molecular oncology, Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, Calif.
FINLAYSON-PITTS, Barbara J.; professor of chemistry, department of chemistry, University of California, Irvine
FORSYTH, Donald W.; James L. Manning Professor of Geological Sciences, department of geological sciences, Brown University, Providence, R.I.
FRANK, Joachim; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and laboratory chief, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany
FUJIMOTO, James G.; department of electrical engineering and computer science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
FUTUYMA, Douglas J.; Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolution, department of ecology and evolution, State University of New York, Stony Brook
GANETZKY, Barry; Steenbock Professor of Biological Sciences, and professor of genetics and medical genetics, Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
GELMAN, Rochel; professor of psychology and cognitive science, department of psychology and center for cognitive science, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick-Piscataway
GILBERT, Charles D.; professor, Laboratory of Neurobiology, Rockefeller University, New York City
GIRVIN, Steven M.; professor of physics and applied physics, department of physics, Sloane Physics Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
GLEICK, Peter H.; president, Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security, Oakland, Calif.
GOFF, Stephen P.; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, department of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City
GOLDIN, Claudia; program director, Development of the American Economy, and Henry Lee Professor of Economics, department of economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
GREENE, Laura H.; Swanlund Professor of Physics, Loomis Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
GREENGARD, Leslie; professor of mathematics and computer science, Courant Institute, New York University, New York City
HAUSSLER, David H.; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and professor, department of computer science, University of California, Santa Cruz
HELLER, Eric J.; professor of chemistry and physics, department of chemistry, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
HOFFMAN, Brian M.; professor of chemistry, department of chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.
IWANIEC, Henryk; New Jersey State Professor, department of mathematics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick
JAMES, Anthony A.; professor, department of molecular biology and biochemistry, University of California, Irvine
KARL, David M.; professor of oceanography, department of oceanography, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu
KENNICUTT, Robert C. Jr.; Plumian Professor of Astronomy, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
KUTZBACH, John E.; professor emeritus, Center for Climatic Research, Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison
LANGMUIR, Charles H.; professor of geochemistry, department of earth and planetary sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
LENSKI, Richard E.; John A. Hannah Professor of Microbial Ecology, department of microbiology and molecular genetics, and director, graduate program in ecology, evolutionary biology and behavior, Michigan State University, East Lansing
LIN, Robert P.; professor of physics, department of physics, and director, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
MARLETTA, Michael A.; Aldo DeBenedictis Professor of Chemistry, and professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, department of chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
McDERMOTT, Ann E.; professor of chemistry, department of chemistry, Columbia University, New York City
MILGROM, Paul B.; Shirley R. and Leonard W. Ely Jr. Professor of Humanities and Sciences, and professor of economics, department of economics, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
NOVICK, Richard P.; investigator, Skirball Institute for Biomolecular Medicine, and professor of medicine and microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York City
O'CONNELL, James E.; director, Archaeological Center, and professor and chair, department of anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City
O'DONNELL, Michael E.; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and professor, Laboratory of DNA Replication, Rockefeller University, New York City
ONUCHIC, Jose N.; co-director, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, and professor of physics, department of physics, University of California, San Diego
ORR-WEAVER, Terry L.; member, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, and professor of biology, department of biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
PAGE, Lyman A. Jr.; Henry DeWolf Smyth Professor of Physics, department of physics, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
PATTERSON, David A.; professor of computer science, University of California, Berkeley
PLUMMER, E. Ward; Distinguished Professor of Physics, department of physics and astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
RAETZ, Christian R.H.; George Barth Geller Professor of Biochemistry, department of biochemistry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C.
RAVETCH, Jeffrey V.; Theresa and Eugene M. Lang Professor, and head, Laboratory of Genetics and Immunology, Rockefeller University, New York City
RESKIN, Barbara F.; S. Frank Miyamoto Professor of Sociology, department of sociology, University of Washington, Seattle
RIGGS, Arthur D.; Director, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, Calif.
RUSSELL, David W.; McDermott Distinguished Professor, and professor, department of molecular genetics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
SAMPSON, Robert J.; Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, department of sociology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
SAUNDERS, John W. Jr.; professor emeritus, department of biological sciences, State University of New York, Albany
SHOCHET, Melvyn J.; Elaine M. and Samuel D. Kersten Jr. Distinguished Service Professor in Physical Sciences, and professor, department of physics, Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago
STEIDEL, Charles C.; Dubridge Professor of Astronomy, department of astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
THIEMENS, Mark H.; dean, division of physical sciences, professor of chemistry, and Chancellor's Associates Chair, department of chemistry and biochemistry, University of California, San Diego
TIRRELL, David A.; Ross McCollum-William H. Corcoran Professor, professor of chemistry and chemical engineering, and chair, division of chemistry and chemical engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
VOICULESCU, Dan-Virgil; professor of mathematics, department of mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
WING, Elizabeth S.; curator of zooarchaeology, Florida Museum of Natural History, and professor of anthropology and of zoology, University of Florida, Gainesville
WOOSLEY, Stanford E.; professor of astronomy and astrophysics, department of astronomy and astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz
WU, Carl; chief, Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.
Newly elected foreign associates, their affiliations at the time of election, and their country of citizenship are:
BAI, Chunli; vice president, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (People's Republic of China)
BOON, Thierry; director, Ludwig Institute of Cancer Research, Brussels ( Belgium)
BRAGINSKY, Vladimir B.; research professor, Moscow State University, Moscow ( Russia)
CARLESON, Lennart A.E.; professor emeritus, department of mathematics, University of Uppsala ( Sweden)
DAVIDOVICH, Luiz; professor of physics, Institute of Physics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro ( Brazil)
DE ARAUJO, Aloisio Pessoa; professor, Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Rio de Janeiro ( Brazil)
DE LANGE, Titia; Leon Hess Professor, Laboratory of Cell Biology and Genetics, Rockefeller University, New York City ( Netherlands)
DEL PINO, Eugenia M.; professor, School of Biological Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador, Quito ( Ecuador)
FRASCH, Alberto C.; international research scholar, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and director, Institute for Research in Biotechnology, Universidad Nacional de San Martin ( Argentina)
GADAGKAR, Ragavendra; professor, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Banglore ( India)
GAMKRELIDZE, Thomas V.; president, Georgian Academy of Sciences, Tbilisi ( Georgia)
GARRETT, Christopher J. R.; Landsdowne Professor of Ocean Physics, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria ( Canada and United Kingdom)
JONES, Monty P.; executive secretary, Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa, and United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Accra (Ghana)
KROTO, Harold W.; professor, department of chemistry and biochemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee ( United Kingdom)
PALACIOS, Rafael; Distinguished Professor, Center for Genomic Sciences, National University of Mexico, Cuernavaca, Morelos ( Mexico)
POZZAN, Tullio; professor, department of biomedical sciences, University of Padova ( Italy)
RAKOTOARISOA, Jean Aimé; director, Institute de Civilisations Musée d'Art et d'Archeologie, and professor of geography, University of Antananarivo (Madagascar)
YUAN, Longping; director general, China National Hybrid Rice Research and Development Center, Hunan (People's Republic of China)

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American Academy of Arts & Sciences Announced New Fellows

On Monday, representatives of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences 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 US 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.

The Academy will welcome this year's new class at its annual Induction Ceremony on October 7, at the Academy's 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 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.

Title and Affiliations at Time of Election:

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 Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
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, Houston Texas
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 - Madison
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, New York
Coley, Phyllis (Lissy) D.: Professor of Biology, University of Utah
Connors, Jack : Founding Chairman, Hill, Holiday, Connors, Cosmopoulos, Inc.
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 at Albany
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: Division of Basic Sciences and Deputy Director, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Professor of Radiation Oncology, 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 for Scholars
Hastie, Reid : Professor of Behavioral Science, University of Chicago
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, Jr., Benjamin W.: Senior Fellow, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
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: Board of Trustees Professor of African American Studies and 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 (Ha): 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, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Keating, Mark Taylor: Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Head of the Human and Genetics and Ophthalmology Disease Area at the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
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.: Julian 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, John F. Kennedy School of Government, 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, Boulder
Murrin, Michael: David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor in Humanities, University of Chicago
Navasky, Victor Saul: Publisher, Emeritus, The Nation; Delacorte Professor of Journalism, Director, George Delacorte Center for Magazine Journalism, Columbia University
Newcombe, Nora S.: James H. Glackin Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Temple University
Newman, Charles M.: Professor of Mathematics, Director, Curant Institute for Mathematical Sciences, 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: 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, Co-Founder, Blackstone Group; Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations, New York
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 L.: Director, The 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 H.: Richard Herschel Weiland 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, The 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, The 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 María: Professor of Biological Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica 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, National Institute of Genetics; 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
Harrán, Don: Artur Rubenstein Professor of Musicology, Emeritus, Hebrew University, Israel
Hassner, Pierre : Professor of Political Science, Institut d’Études Politiques, 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
Pérez-Díaz, Victor: Professor of Sociology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
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, Universität Bielefeld, Germany

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Ellen and Melvin Gordon Donate $25 Million for University of Chicago’s Largest-ever Science Building

Ellen and Melvin Gordon have made a donation of US$25 million toward the University of Chicago’s largest science building, constructed to exacting standards so that scientists could pursue innovative research that crosses the traditional boundaries between physics, chemistry and biology.

Ellen Gordon is president of Tootsie Roll Industries, and Melvin Gordon is chairman of the board. The Gordons serve on boards of several philanthropic institutions. Ellen Gordon also holds memberships on a variety of advisory councils in higher education, business and the community, including the Visiting Committee to the Biological Sciences Division and the Pritzker School of Medicine since 1994.

Second in size only to the University’s Joseph Regenstein Library, the Gordon Center encompasses 400,000 square feet at 929 E. 57th St. The building was designed according to strict specifications to control cleanliness, temperature, sound and other environmental factors needed to do cutting-edge experimental science in the 21st century.

Once fully occupied, the building will bring together 100 senior scientists, along with 700 additional researchers and students. Scientists began moving into the building last June.

Much of the research done at the Gordon Center will occur at the nanoscale, the scale of atoms and molecules. At this scale, many problems in biology, physics and chemistry all merge. Occupying the heart of the building to tackle these problems will be the Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, which was jointly founded in 1998 by the Divisions of Biological and Physical Sciences. Work within the institute could influence developments as diverse as molecular-based computing techniques to more effective cancer treatments.

Also gaining laboratory and office space in the Gordon Center and pursuing similar sorts of often-converging lines of research will be the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Ben May Cancer Research Institute, the Chemistry Department, and the James Franck Institute.

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Richard Blum Gives $15 Million to Fund Center to Alleviate Poverty

University of California , Berkeley, Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau announced April 19 a major new multidisciplinary campus initiative to improve the quality of life for impoverished people by helping them develop their full economic potential.

The Richard C. Blum Center for Developing Economies is being launched with a $15 million gift, which includes a $5 million challenge grant, from San Francisco financier, philanthropist and University of California regent Richard C. Blum. The center will tap the expertise and resources of the nation's top public teaching and research university to achieve significant — and financially sustainable — solutions to problems affecting the nearly 3 billion people in the world who are living on less than $2 a day.

The Blum Center will have two purposes: 1) to educate UC Berkeley students about the world of foreign assistance, its potential and challenges; and 2) to draw on UC Berkeley faculty expertise from a wide range of disciplines including governance and law, affordable technology, agriculture, health care services, infrastructure and general economic development. It will also focus on encouraging and developing entrepreneurship. It will draw on the expertise from faculty at other University of California campuses to put together teams to work on projects in the field.

Several initiatives will be launched within the center's first three years, all with a student service component. Plans also call for the new center to offer courses in fall 2006, with the expectation that the curriculum will eventually lead to a certificate in the area of developing economies, or a major or minor. Campus officials say there is every indication that the center's classes and initiatives will attract enthusiastic participation from both students and faculty, many of whom will be involved via in-country fieldwork.

An executive director for the center is being sought, and a physical location for the center is yet to be determined.

Blum has been devoted to helping to solve the issue of poverty for three decades, with particular emphasis on investing in local communities to help them develop greater economic self-sufficiency. He founded the American Himalayan Foundation 25 years ago, which runs over 130 projects in the Himalayan region ranging from schools, health services, cultural preservation, forest restoration and small-scale economic development.

Blum also founded the Global Economy and Development Center at the Brookings Institution three years ago, and he has served on the board of trustees for the Atlanta-based Carter Center for many years. The Carter Center was established by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter to address issues of conflict resolution, health care in Africa and elsewhere, and world poverty in general.

Carter, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and former Secretary of State George Shultz, all close friends of Blum's, have agreed to serve as honorary trustees on the Blum Center's board of trustees.

The Blum Center will be a unique, university-led model for fighting global poverty, according to Richard K. Lyons, UC Berkeley professor of finance and executive associate dean at the Haas School of Business, who is working with Blum on creation of the center. Lyons said the center's board of trustees will be chaired by Laura Tyson, former president of the Council of Economic Advisors in the Clinton administration, former dean of the Haas School of Business and current dean of the London School of Business.

Blum earned his B.S. in 1958 and his M.B.A. in 1959 from UC Berkeley and also studied at the University of Vienna, Austria. He started his career in 1958 at the venerable investment firm of Sutro and Company and became the youngest partner in its 100-year-plus history. He then founded Blum Capital Partners, LP in 1975. He also co-founded Newbridge Capital, a pioneer investor in private equity in Asia, which today has six offices in Asia and is one of the major foreign investors in the region. He is also chairman of the board of CB Richard Ellis, Inc., the world's largest commercial real estate services company.

In 1994, the Haas School of Business named him Business Leader of the Year. He is also the founder and chairman of the American Himalayan Foundation, co-chair of the international council of trustees for The World Conference of Religions for Peace, is on the board of trustees of The Brookings Institution, The American Cancer Foundation and Glide Church AME in San Francisco, and is a member of the governing council for The Wilderness Society, as well as for numerous other public boards and non-profit organizations.

He is on the UC Board of Regents and currently is chairman of the board's Finance Committee.

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Autism Research Centre Receives Funding to Study Early Detection

The Autism Research Centre (ARC), University of Cambridge, will receive £461,420 (US$831,847) in funding to investigate whether earlier identification, resulting in earlier treatment, improves the prognosis of an autistic child.

The study, entitled "Early vs. Late Detection of Autism in Children”, will investigate the early detection of autism in children aged 18 months, compared to those diagnosed at 3 years.

Using a quantitative version of the Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (CHAT) screening instrument, which is a newly revised instrument, this project will compare early detection in children with autism (at 18 months) against later detection (at 36 months). The aim is to ascertain the value of the screening instrument as a cost-effective, easy-to-use tool for early identification of autism spectrum conditions, and to test for direct empirical evidence of the effectiveness of early intervention.

Autism is thought to be a spectrum of neurodevelopmental conditions, characterised by difficulties in the development of social relationships and communication skills, the presence of unusually strong narrow interests, and repetitive behaviour. Early identification of this condition, resulting in earlier intervention, is believed to improve prognosis as well as reduce parental stress.

The Big Lottery Fund awarded the National Autistic Society (NAS) the grant of £461,420 (US$831,847) over 3 years, which will fund the ARC. The NAS is a partner of the ARC.

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Seven UTD Faculty Members Win $584,000 In Texas Advanced Research Program Awards

Seven faculty members at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) recently won grants totaling more than US$584,000 from the Advanced Research Program (ARP), an annual competition that funds scientific and engineering research projects at Texas public colleges and universities.

The UTD proposals selected for funding were among 88 projects that received a total of $8.3 million in the 2006 competition, which is administered by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. ARP and an allied initiative, the Advanced Technology Program, were created by the Texas Legislature in 1987 as competitive, peer-reviewed grants programs to fund scientific and engineering research projects of faculty members at Texas higher education institutions.

The names of the UTD 2006 ARP award recipients, the titles of their projects and the amount of their grants follow:

Dr. Jung-Mo Ahn , assistant professor, Department of Chemistry, Development of Alpha-Helix Mimetics and Their Therapeutic Application for Diabetes, $100,000.
Dr. Ray Baughman , Robert A. Welch Professor of Chemistry, Enhancement of Electrical and Thermal Properties of Transparent Carbon Nanotube Sheets, $100,000.
Dr. Alain Bensoussan , Distinguished Research Professor of Operations Management, School of Management, Statistical Updating Methods in Risk and Decision Analysis: Applications to Supply Chains, $79,000.
Dr. Walter Hu , assistant professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Controlled Cell Growth on Biomimetic Multi-Level Nanoscale Polymer Scaffolds, $60,000.
Dr. George McMechan , Ida M. Green Professor of Geosciences, A New Highly Efficient Algorithm for 3-D Velocity Analysis for Imaging of Oil and Gas Reservoirs, $89,993.
Dr. Robert Stern , professor, Department of Geosciences, North American Earth Structure: the Melding of Petrologic Study of Xenoliths and Geophysical Data, $55,488.
Dr. Tianbing Xia , assistant professor, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Mapping Ribozyme Conformational Landscapes with Femtosecond Dynamics, $100,000.

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Oxford Appoints New Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research, Academic Services and University Collections

Professor Ewan McKendrick, Chair of the Law Board, Professor of English Private Law, and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall is to become Oxford’s next Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research, Academic Services and University Collections. He will take up his new post in June 2006. He succeeds Professor Nigel Thrift, Professor of Geography, who is leaving to take up a new post as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick.

Among his duties as Pro-Vice-Chancellor, McKendrick will be responsible for seeking out new funding opportunities and coordinating the University’s relationships with its major research funders. He will oversee contract research staff and the distribution of research funding. In the academic year 2004-2005, Oxford’s overall research income from external sponsors reached over £183 million (US$329 million) out of an overall total research income of £263 million (US$474 million). He will lead the University’s quest for the highest possible RAE rating and chair the University’s Research Committee. He will also have general responsibility for co-ordinating the oversight of university libraries, museums and collections, and computing services.

McKendrick was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, where he took a post-graduate law course (B.C.L), after graduating in Law at the University of Edinburgh. He has published widely, principally in the areas of contract law, commercial law, and the law of restitution. He has held a number of major administrative roles within the University - including Chair of the Law Board (since 2004) and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Faculty of Law. He is a practicing barrister and currently the Law Delegate for Oxford University Press.

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Vincent Poor to Become Princeton Engineering Dean

H. Vincent Poor, a Princeton alumnus and professor of electrical engineering known worldwide as a distinguished researcher, teacher and innovator, has been named dean of the University's School of Engineering and Applied Science , effective June 1.

Poor will succeed Maria Klawe, who announced in January that she will leave Princeton to become president of Harvey Mudd College in California. Klawe led the engineering school through an important strategic planning effort and into a period of major growth.

Poor earned bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from Auburn University, and completed a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science at Princeton in 1977. Currently the Michael Henry Strater University Professor of Electrical Engineering , he joined the Princeton faculty in 1990 after 13 years at the University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign. He also has held visiting positions at a number of other institutions, including Imperial College ( London), Harvard and Stanford.

In 2005, Klawe appointed Poor to be the founding director of the Center for Innovation in Engineering Education , an initiative to prepare all students — both engineers and non-engineers — to be leaders in an increasingly technology-driven society. As center director, he led a group of 10 faculty members from seven departments in creating an alternative freshman engineering curriculum that integrates math, physics and hands-on engineering projects into a unified course series.

Through the center and his own teaching, Poor also has emphasized the need to engage non-engineering students in courses that examine technological issues that shape and are shaped by society. In 2000, he created a course called "The Wireless Revolution," which explores the technical, social and economic dimensions of wireless communications. The course quickly became one of the most popular on campus with enrollments of more than 200 students.

The National Science Foundation recognized Poor's contributions in 2002, presenting him with the Director's Award for Distinguished Teaching Scholars, the foundation's highest honor for excellence in both teaching and research. He received the engineering school's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2003 and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Education Medal in 2005.

Poor also has maintained a very active research program. In 2005, he published a book, 25 journal articles and 26 conference papers. He supervised nine graduate students and six postdoctoral researchers working on 10 separately funded projects. He received two patents and served as editor-in-chief of a leading journal, the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

An elected member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the IEEE, Poor is an authority on wireless communications and signal processing. His graduate-level textbook, "An Introduction to Signal Detection and Estimation," is considered the definitive reference in its field. He is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recent Guggenheim fellow.

As dean, Poor said a top priority will be to build on the core elements of the school's strategic vision: setting a new standard for engineering education with an emphasis on innovation and leadership; and conducting cross-disciplinary research that has a major impact on national and global problems.

Poor said he wants the school to leverage its already significant collaborations with the broader University in areas such as biological engineering, neuroscience, environmental science, materials science, information technology policy, finance, architecture and music. "This is happening already, but we want to make these collaborations as easy as we can," he said.

It also is critical for the school to build its relations with industry and government, both to provide a real-world context for education and to maximize the impact of Princeton research in solving problems and creating opportunities, Poor said. His own experience has included consulting relationships with more than a dozen corporations and government labs.

Tilghman's decision to appoint Poor followed three months of intensive work by a nine-member search committee chaired by Sharad Malik, the George Van Ness Lothrop Professor in Engineering, and including representatives across engineering and the sciences. Malik said the committee met with about 100 faculty members, students and administrators, both from within and outside Princeton, and defined three main qualities it was seeking: strong leadership, scholarship and teaching.