“National Academy of Sciences Elects New Members” (news item)

Colleges and Universities A-Z Princeton University
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<p>72</a> New Members Chosen By Academy</p>

<p>The National Academy of Sciences today announced the election of 72 new domestic members. Membership in the National Academy is considered one of the highest distinctions in academia. This year Berkeley led the nation with six new members, while MIT and UCSF followed with five. (MIT also had one foreign associate.) Columbia and two others had three. Princeton, Harvard and four others had two each. No other institution had more than one. </p>

<p>Princeton’s showing is significant given its lack of a medical school (which always generates many new members) much smaller faculty and broad focus on both the humanities and sciences. Princeton’s honorees were:</p>

<p>Sun-Yung Chang, Dept. of Mathematics</p>

<p>Francois Morel, Center For Environmental Bioinorganic Chemistry</p>

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<p>2009 Leading Institutions</p>

<p>6---Berkeley
5---MIT and UCSF
3---Columbia, U. of Michigan & UCLA
2---Princeton, CalTech, Harvard, U. of Minn, U. of Utah and U. of Washington</p>

<p>The Ivy League was also represented by one new member each from Cornell, Dartmouth, Penn and Yale.</p>

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<p>yeh, Stanford had a suprisingly dry year, with only 1 new member.</p>

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<p>^ Awwww… ;)</p>

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<p>is there any doubt we’re at the best school in the world :slight_smile: no offense ivies haha</p>

<p>congrats to Columbia, btw</p>

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<p>Sarah Hake works for USDA. She is an adjunct facuty of UCB (which means unpaid and volunteer). The number of Berkeley should be 5. MIT, however, should be counted as having 6, because foreign associate is generally considered a member of NAS, and has the same privilege of communicating manuscripts to PNAS (except voting for a new member).</p>