“American Academy of Arts & Sciences Announces New 2011 Members” (news item)

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<p>American</a> Academy of Arts & Sciences News Release</p>

<p>List</a> of New 2011 Fellows</p>

<p>Princeton</a> University - FACULTY AWARD: Eight named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences</p>

<p>Election to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences is one of the greatest honors a university scholar can receive.</p>

<p>“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.”</p>

<p>This year, just like last 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 eight newly-elected members (plus one lecturer) constitute an especially impressive number. When excluding these professional schools, Princeton still came in second to Harvard but only by a single Fellow. </p>

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<p>Counting all new memberships, Harvard led the nation this year with a very impressive 18 while Princeton followed with 8. The institutions with the largest number of newly-elected members are as follows:</p>

<p>2011 FELLOWS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES</p>

<p>18--Harvard (9 in the University Arts & Sciences, 9 in the professional schools)</p>

<p>8--Princeton (8 in the University Arts & Sciences)
8--UCLA (6 in the University Arts & Sciences, 2 in the professional schools)</p>

<p>7--Columbia (7 in the University Arts & Sciences)
7--Stanford (6 in the University Arts & Sciences, 1 in the professional schools)</p>

<p>6--NYU (4 in the University Arts & Sciences, 2 in the professional schools)</p>

<p>5--Cal Tech (5 in the University Arts & Sciences)</p>

<p>4--Cornell (all in the Arts & Sciences); Yale (all in the Arts & Sciences)</p>

<p>3--Berkeley, JHU, Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn, Purdue, UC Santa Cruz, USF</p>

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<p>University Arts & Sciences (omitting professional schools)</p>

<p>9--Harvard
8--Princeton
7--Columbia
6--Stanford, UCLA
5--Cal Tech
4--Cornell, NYU, Yale</p>

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<p>American Academy of the Arts & Sciences Fellows
(over last two years)</p>

<p>35--Harvard</p>

<p>[gap]</p>

<p>17--Princeton
16--Stanford, UCLA</p>

<p>[gap]</p>

<p>11--Columbia, NYU, Yale</p>

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<p>A sharp-eyed fellow CC’er has just pointed out to me that I substituted “UCLA” for “U. of Chicago” in the entry above. U. of Chicago (rather than UCLA) had 8 total new Fellows in the AAAS this year (six omitting professional schools) and its total for the last two years is 16.</p>

<p>My apologies to the U. of Chicago folks!</p>