Eight members of the Yale faculty have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in recognition of their contributions to their disciplines and to society at large.
They were among the 203 new fellows and 24 new foreign honorary members who were nominated and elected to the academy by its current members. These individuals -- who include scholars and researchers in disciplines ranging from mathematics to physics, biological sciences, social sciences, humanities and the arts, public affairs and business -- work together in the AAAS to conduct a wide range of interdisciplinary studies and public policy research.
The new inductees from Yale are:
Akhil Amar, the Southmayd Professor of Law and Political Science. Amar teaches constitutional law, is co-editor of a leading constitutional law casebook, "Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking," and author of several books, including most recently, "America's Constitution: A Biography."
Henry Hansmann, the Augustus E. Lines Professor of Law. Hansmann's scholarship has focused principally on the law and economics of organizational ownership and structure.
Robert A.M. Stern, dean of the Yale School of Architecture and the J.M. Hoppin Professor of Architecture. Stern is founder and senior partner of Robert A.M. Stern Architects, a 260-person firm with commissions ranging from the Museum for African Art in New York to the world headquarters of Mexx International in The Netherlands. Stern is author and co-author of many books on the history of architecture, particularly that of New York City, and hosted the PBS series "Pride of Place: Building the American Dream."
Margot Fassler, director of the Institute of Sacred Music and the Robert S. Tangeman Professor of Music History. Fassler is a historian of music and liturgy who specializes in medieval and American sacred repertories. Her book "Gothic Song" won the Nicholas Brown Prize of the Medieval Academy and the Otto Kindelday Prize of the American Musicological Society.
William L. Jorgensen, the Whitehead Professor of Chemistry. Jorgensen's research focus is computer-aided drug design, the basis of polypeptide and nucleic acid folding, and modeling of organic and enzymatic reactions.
Lawrence G. Manley, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English. Manley specializes in literature of the English and Continental Renaissance, theater studies and the history of literary criticism. He is the author of "Literature and Culture in Early Modern London" and "Convention, 1500-1750," which won the René Wellek Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association.
Frances M. Rosenbluth, professor of political science. Rosenbluth is a comparative political economist with a special interest in Japan. Her current work focuses on the electoral microfoundations of different forms of capitalism, and on the politics of gender inequality. Rosenbluth is director of the Georg Walter Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy, part of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale.
Dr. Bernard G. Forget, chief of hematology in the Department of Internal Medicine at the School of Medicine. Forget is doing research on the mechanisms of normal and abnormal gene expression during red blood cell differentiation.
The AAAS was founded in 1780 by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock and other scholar-patriots. Over the years, its members have included George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Webster, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill. Today, more than 170 Nobel laureates and 50 Pulitzer Prize winners are members of the academy.
An independent policy research center, the AAAS undertakes studies of complex and emerging problems. Its current research focuses on science and global security, social policy, the humanities, and culture and education.
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