fellows of scholarly society
Five Yale faculty members and a Yale trustee were recently elected as fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS).
They are among 196 new fellows and 17 new foreign honorary members who were honored for their outstanding contributions to scholarship, business, the arts and public affairs.
The faculty members who were elected AAAS fellows are:
Jack Balkin, the Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment. Balkin is the director of the Information Society Project at the Law School and author of "The Laws of Change: I Ching and the Philosophy of Life," "What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said" and "Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology," among other books.
Truman Bewley, the Alfred Cowles Professor and dean of graduate studies in economics. Bewley is an authority on the micro foundations of macroeconomics. He is author of "Why Wages Don't Fall During a Recession" and editor of the three-volume "Advances in Econometrics Fifth World Congress."
Stephen Morris, the Ford Foundation Professor of Economics. Morris is a specialist in microeconomics and game theory. He has written widely on such topics as the economic basis of political correctness, information economics, speculative investor behavior, inflation dynamics, and risk management and currency crises, among others.
Anna Pyle, the William Edward Gilbert Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry. Pyle specializes in studies on the structure and function of catalytic RNA, RNA helicase mechanisms and the computational analysis of RNA structure. Specifically, her research group explores how RNA can fold and organize itself to catalyze reactions.
Michael Wallerstein, professor of political science. Wallerstein's research concerns inequality in advanced industrial societies. In particular, he studies the impact of labor market institutions, such as systems of collective bargaining, as well as the politics of redistributive policies, such as social insurance and affirmative action.
In addition, Yale trustee and alumna Maya Lin '81 B.A., '86 M.Arch. Lin was an undergraduate when she created The Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the Mall in Washington, D.C. Today, she is a renowned architect and sculptor whose works include The Women's Table at Yale; the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama; and the Museum for African Art in New York City.
Founded in 1780 by John Adams and other leaders of the young republic, the AAAS was created as a learned society "to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity and happiness of a free, independent and virtuous people," according to its charter. Fellows address issues facing American society through interdisciplinary and collaborative projects and publications. Among the current projects, for example, are a long-term study of current global security issues and an exploration of the critical problems confronting children in American society, with a particular emphasis on health and education. The academy also publishes a journal, Daedalus, which examines topics of concern in American intellectual life.
Other new fellows elected this year include Nobel Prize-winning physicist Eric Cornell; Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist; Academy Award-winning actor and director Sidney Poitier; journalist Tom Brokaw; Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page; and four Pulitzer Prize winners -- dramatist Horton Foote, playwright Tony Kushner, novelist Alison Lurie and cartoonist Art Spiegelman.
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