Academy Elects 2008 Class of Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members Princeton University - Eleven named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
“Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences is an independent policy research center that conducts multidisciplinary studies of complex and emerging problems. The Academy’s elected members are leaders in the academic disciplines, the arts, business, and public affairs.”
Election to the American Academy is one of the greatest honors a university scholar can receive.
This year, Princeton had the second highest number of newly-elected members among all universities. Because Princeton is an institution that focuses on the arts and sciences and does not have professional schools of medicine, law or business, its eleven newly-elected members constitute an especially impressive number. When excluding these professional schools, Princeton had the highest number of newly-elected members in the nation. Among the leading institutions, Princeton and the U. of Chicago are also notable for having fewer faculty members, making their numbers even more impressive.
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Counting all new memberships, Harvard led the nation with a very impressive 19 while Princeton followed with 11. The institutions with the largest number of newly-elected members are as follows:
19—Harvard (10 arts & sciences, 7 medical school, 2 law school)
11—Princeton (11 arts & sciences)
9---Yale (8 arts & sciences, 1 law school)
8—-MIT (8 arts & sciences)
8---U. of Chicago (7 arts & sciences, 1 law school)
7---Stanford (6 arts & sciences, 1 law school)
6---UCLA (6 arts & sciences)
6---UPenn (5 arts & sciences, 1 medical school)
5---Berkeley (5 arts & sciences)
5---Columbia (5 arts & sciences)
5---Northwestern (5 arts & sciences)
5---U. of Michigan (4 arts & sciences, 1 law school)
3---Cornell (3 arts & sciences)
3---NYU (3 arts & sciences)
The Ivy League was also represented by a newly-appointed scholar from Brown.
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Princeton’s eleven new members are:
• Robert Austin, professor of physics;
• Charles Beitz, the Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics;
• Emily Carter, the Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Applied and Computational Mathematics;
• Sun-Yung Alice Chang, professor of mathematics;
• Pablo Debenedetti, the Class of 1950 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science;
• Elizabeth Diller, professor of architecture;
• John Fleming, the Louis W. Fairchild '24 Professor of English and Comparative Literature Emeritus;
• Daniel Rodgers, the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History;
• Marlan Scully, lecturer with the rank of professor in mechanical and aerospace engineering and the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials;
• Jeffrey Stout, professor of religion; and
• Robert Wuthnow, the Gerhard R. Andlinger '52 Professor of Social Sciences.
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