Four Yale professors were recently elected as fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS).
New AAAS fellows are elected by the organization's current members. The fellows from Yale, who will be formally inducted in October, are:
* Rolena Adorno, the Reuben Post Halleck Professor and director of graduate studies in Spanish and Portuguese. Adorno's groundbreaking work has helped reconceptualize ways of thinking about the writing and literature of the first two centuries of Spanish-American culture.
* Michel H. Devoret, professor of physics and applied physics. Hailed as one of the leading experimental condensed matter physicists of his generation, Devoret is working to develop a "quantum computer," which would work exponentially faster than current computers.
* Donald P. Green, the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of Political Science, professor of psychology and director of the Institute for Social and Policy Studies. Green's work has focused on such issues as hate crime, racial bias and the interplay between public opinion and public policy.
* Peter B. Moore, Sterling Professor of Chemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry. Moore has won worldwide acclaim for his studies of ribosome structure -- working with Yale colleagues to determine the three-dimensional structure of its smaller subunit and the atomic structure of its large subunit.
* Edward F. Zigler, Sterling Professor of Psychology and of the Yale Child Study Center, and director of the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy. A specialist in mental retardation and early childhood development, Zigler helped in the creation of the Head Start program, family leave policies and child abuse laws.
The AAAS was founded in 1780 by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock and other scholar-patriots "to cultivate every art and science, which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people." The current membership includes more than 150 Nobel laureates and 50 Pulitzer Prize winners.
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