American Academy of Arts & Sciences Announces New 2013 Members (news item)

Colleges and Universities A-Z Princeton University
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<p><a href="http://www.amacad.org/news/alphalist2013.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.amacad.org/news/alphalist2013.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Election to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences is one of the greatest honors a 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, Harvard led with the highest number of newly-elected members among all universities. Berkeley came in second. Princeton and MIT shared the third highest total while Stanford and Yale tied for fourth. </p>

<p>A large number of AAAS Fellows come from medical, law and other professional schools. Fellows are elected in special membership ‘sections’ that specifically include these professional categories. Because Princeton is an institution that focuses on the arts and sciences and does not have such professional schools, it is automatically excluded from several ‘sections’, making its eight newly-elected members an even more impressive number. When excluding newly-elected members associated with professional schools, Princeton came in first, tied with Berkeley and MIT. </p>

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<p>2013 Fellows of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences</p>

<p>10---Harvard (2 in the Arts & Sciences with the rest in the Medical, Law and Education schools)</p>

<p>9-----Berkeley (8 in the Arts & Sciences and one in the Law School)</p>

<p>8-----Princeton (all in the Arts & Sciences)
8-----MIT (all in the Arts & Sciences)</p>

<p>7-----Stanford (6 in the Arts & Sciences and 1 at the Medical School)
7-----Yale (5 in the Arts & Sciences and 2 at the Law School)</p>

<p>6-----</p>

<p>5-----Columbia (all in the Arts & Sciences)
5-----UCLA (all in the Arts & Sciences)</p>

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

<p>8—Princeton, Berkeley, MIT
7---
6--Stanford
5—Columbia, UCLA, Yale
4---
3---
2---Harvard</p>

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

<p>59--Harvard</p>

<p>[gap]</p>

<p>33—Princeton
32---Stanford</p>

<p>27--UCLA
26—MIT
25---
24—Yale
23---
22---
21—NYU, Northwestern
20—Columbia
15—Penn</p>

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<p>Nice post! </p>

<p>Formatting is neater than mine. :wink:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1497211-faculty-strength.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1497211-faculty-strength.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>National Academy of Sciences announced new members today.
[April</a> 30 2013: NAS Members and Foreign Associates Elected](<a href=“2013 NAS Members and Foreign Associates Elected”>2013 NAS Members and Foreign Associates Elected)</p>

<p>Here’s my count of the top American schools:</p>

<p>Harvard - 8
Stanford - 6
MIT, Princeton, Rutgers - 4
Berkeley, Caltech, Illinois, NYU, Washington University - St. Louis, Yale - 3</p>

<p>Again, like you mention, MIT, Princeton, Caltech and Berkeley do well with no medical campus.</p>

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<p>Princeton University only has two elected members this year. The other two are from Institute of Advanced Study.</p>

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<p>^ Oh, Institute of Advanced Study is not part of Princeton University? My mistake.</p>

<p>Ptongrad,

Berkeley claims 10:
[Ten</a> Berkeley faculty named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences](<a href=“Berkeley News | Berkeley”>Berkeley News | Berkeley)</p>

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<p>Just checking back in here and you are absolutely correct! Berkeley ties with Harvard and leads all schools when looking at just the Arts & Sciences faculty. My mistake.</p>