Seven MIT faculty members are amongst 204 leaders from academia, enterprise, public affairs, the humanities and the arts elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the academy introduced right this moment.
One of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies, the academy can be a number one heart for impartial coverage analysis. Members contribute to academy publications, in addition to research of science and know-how coverage, power and world safety, social coverage and American establishments, the humanities and tradition, and schooling.
Those elected from MIT this 12 months are:
- Elazer Reuven Edelman, the Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Professor of Health Sciences and Technology
- Michael Greenstone, the 3M Professor of Environmental Economics
- Keith Adam Nelson, a professor of chemistry
- Paul A. Seidel, a professor of arithmetic
- Gigliola Staffilani, the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of Mathematics
- Sherry Roxanne Turkle, the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology
- Robert Dirk van der Hilst, the Schlumberger Professor of Earth Sciences and head of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
“It is a privilege to honor these men and women for their extraordinary individual accomplishments,” Don Randel, chair of the academy’s Board of Directors, mentioned in an announcement. “The knowledge and expertise of our members give the Academy a unique capacity — and responsibility — to provide practical policy solutions to the pressing challenges of the day. We look forward to engaging our new members in this work.”
The new class might be inducted at a ceremony held on Oct. 11 at the academy’s headquarters in Cambridge.
Since its founding in 1780, the academy has elected main “thinkers and doers” from every era, together with George Washington and Benjamin Franklin in the 18th century, Daniel Webster and Ralph Waldo Emerson in the nineteenth century, and Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill in the twentieth century. The present membership contains greater than 250 Nobel laureates and greater than 60 Pulitzer Prize winners.