News from the National Academy of Sciences
May 2, 2017
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected
The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 84 new
members and 21 foreign associates in recognition of their distinguished and
continuing achievements in original research.
Those elected today bring the total number of active members to 2,290 and
the total number of foreign associates to 475. Foreign associates are
nonvoting members of the Academy, with citizenship outside the United States.
Newly elected members and their affiliations at the time of election are:
Arkani-Hamed, Nima; professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J.
Avouris, Phaedon; IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center (retired), Brooklyn,
N.Y.
Baran, Phil S.; Darlene Shiley Professor, department of chemistry, The
Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, Calif.
Bates, Frank S.; Regents Professor, department of chemical engineering and
materials science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Baylin, Stephen B.; Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor in Cancer Research,
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Beilinson, Alexander; David and Mary Winton Green University Professor,
department of mathematics, The University of Chicago, Chicago
Belkaid, Yasmine; chief, mucosal immunology section, laboratory of parasitic
diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.
Bell, Stephen P.; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and
professor of biology, department of biology, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge
Bergmann, Dominique; professor, department of biology, Stanford University,
Stanford, Calif.
Bhatia, Sangeeta N.; John J. (1929) and Dorothy Wilson Professor, Institute
for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge
Bramson, Maury D.; professor of mathematics, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis
Buzsáki, György; professor, Neuroscience Institute, departments of
physiology and neuroscience, New York University Langone Medical Center, New
York City
Carroll, Dana; distinguished professor, department of biochemistry,
University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City
Charbonneau, David; professor of astronomy, Harvard University, Cambridge,
Mass.
Coates, Geoffrey W.; Tisch University Professor, department of chemistry,
Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
Cohen, Judith G.; Kate Van Nuys Page Professor of Astronomy, department of
astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Crabtree, Robert H.; Conkey P. Whitehead Professor of Chemistry, department
of chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Cronan, John E.; professor and head of microbiology, professor of
biochemistry, and Microbiology Alumni Professor, department of microbiology
, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Cummins, Christopher C.; Henry Dreyfus Professor of Chemistry, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Darensbourg, Marcetta Y.; distinguished professor of chemistry, department
of chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station
DeVore, Ronald A.; The Walter E. Koss Professor and distinguished professor,
department of mathematics, Texas A&M University, College Station
Diamond, Douglas W.; Merton H. Miller Distinguished Service Professor of
Finance, The University of Chicago, Chicago
Doe, Chris Q.; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and professor
of biology, Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene
Duflo, Esther; Co-founder and co-Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty
Action Lab, and Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Edwards, Robert Haas; professor of neurology and physiology, University of
California, San Francisco
Elkies, Noam D.; professor of mathematics, department of mathematics,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Firestone, Mary K.; professor and associate dean of instruction and student
affairs, department of environmental science policy and management,
University of California, Berkeley
Fischhoff, Baruch; Howard Heinz University Professor, Institute for Politics
and Strategy and department of engineering and public policy, Carnegie
Mellon University, Pittsburgh
Ginty, David D.; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and Edward R
. and Anne G. Lefler Professor of Neurobiology, department of neurobiology,
Harvard Medical School, Boston
Glass, Christopher K.; professor of cellular and molecular medicine and
professor of medicine, University of California, San Diego
Goldman, Yale E.; professor, department of physiology, Pennsylvania Muscle
Institute, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine,
Philadelphia
González, Gabriela; spokesperson, LIGO Scientific Collaboration; and
professor, department of physics and astronomy, Louisiana State University,
Baton Rouge
Hagan, John L.; John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and Law, department
of sociology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.
Hatten, Mary E.; Frederick P. Rose Professor, laboratory of developmental
neurobiology, The Rockefeller University, New York City
Hebard, Arthur F.; distinguished professor of physics, department of physics
, University of Florida, Gainesville
Huse, David A.; professor of physics, department of physics, Princeton
University, Princeton, N.J.
Jensen, Klavs F.; Warren K. Lewis Professor of Chemical Engineering and
professor of materials science and engineering, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge
Joshua-Tor, Leemor; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and
professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.
Kahn, Barbara B.; vice chair for research strategy and George R. Minot
Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center, Boston
Kinder, Donald R.; Philip E. Converse Collegiate Professor of Political
Science and Psychology and research scientist, department of political
science, Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Kosterlitz, J. Michael; Harrison E. Farnsworth Professor of Physics, Brown
University, Providence, R.I.
Lazar, Mitchell A.; Willard and Rhoda Ware Professor in Diabetes and
Metabolic Diseases, and director, Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and
Metabolism, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine,
Philadelphia
Locksley, Richard M.; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and
professor, department of medicine (infectious diseases), and Marion and
Herbert Sandler Distinguished Professorship in Asthma Research, University
of California, San Francisco
Lowe, Scott W.; member and chair, Geoffrey Beane Cancer Center, Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City
Lozano, Guillermina; professor and chair, department of genetics, The
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
Marshall, Fiona B.; James W. and Jean L. Davis Professor, department of
anthropology, Washington University, St. Louis
Mavalvala, Nergis; Curtis and Kathleen Marble Professor of Astrophysics and
associate head, department of physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
, Cambridge
Moore, Jeffrey Scott; Murchison-Mallory Professor of Chemistry, department
of chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Moore, Melissa J.; chief scientific officer, mRNA Research Platform, Moderna
Therapeutics, Cambridge, Mass.; and Eleanor Eustis Farrington Chair of
Cancer Research Professor, RNA Therapeutics Institute, University of
Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester
Nelson, Karen E.; president, The J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Md.
Nunnari, Jodi M.; professor, department of molecular and cellular biology,
University of California, Davis
O’Farrell, Patrick H.; professor of biochemistry and biophysics, department
of biochemistry and biophysics, University of California, San Francisco
Ort, Donald R.; research leader and Robert Emerson Professor, USDA/ARS
Global Change and Photosynthesis Research Unit, departments of plant biology
and crop sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Pakes, Ariel; Thomas Professor of Economics, department of economics,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Parker, Gary; professor, department of civil and environmental engineering
and department of geology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Patapoutian, Ardem; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and
professor, department of molecular and cellular neuroscience, The Scripps
Research Institute, La Jolla, Calif.
Pellegrini, Claudio; distinguished professor emeritus, department of physics
and astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles
Pikaard, Craig, S.; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Gordon
and Betty Moore Foundation; and distinguished professor of biology and
molecular and cellular biochemistry, department of biology, Indiana
University, Bloomington
Priess, James R.; member, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle
Pringle, John Robert; professor of genetics, department of genetics,
Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
Randerson, James T.; professor, department of earth system science,
University of California, Irvine
Read, Nicholas; Henry Ford II Professor of Physics and professor of applied
physics and mathematics, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Roediger, Henry L.; James S. McDonnell Distinguished and University
Professor of Psychology, department of psychology and brain sciences,
Washington University, St. Louis
Rosenzweig, Amy C.; Weinberg Family Distinguished Professor of Life Sciences
, and professor, departments of molecular biosciences and of chemistry,
Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.
Schemske, Douglas W.; John Hannah Distinguished Professor, department of
plant biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing
Seto, Karen C.; professor, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
, New Haven, Conn.
Seyfarth, Robert M.; professor of psychology and member of the graduate
groups in anthropology and biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Sibley, L. David; Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Distinguished Professor in
Molecular Microbiology, department of molecular microbiology, Washington
University School of Medicine, St. Louis
Siliciano, Robert F.; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and
professor of medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Soltis, Douglas E.; distinguished professor, Florida Museum of Natural
History, University of Florida, Gainesville
Spielman, Daniel A.; Henry Ford II Professor of Computer Science and
Mathematics, departments of computer science and mathematics, Yale
University, New Haven, Conn.
Sprent, Jonathan; professor, Garvan Institute of Medical Research,
Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia
Strand, Michael Ray; Regents Professor, University of Georgia, Athens
Sudan, Madhu; Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, John A. Paulson
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge,
Mass.
Tishkoff, Sarah; David and Lyn Silfen University Professor, departments of
genetics and biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Tomasello, Michael; James F. Bonk Professor, department of psychology and
neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, N.C.
Van Essen, David C.; Alumni Professor of Neurobiology, department of anatomy
and neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis
Vidale, John E.; professor, department of earth and space sciences,
University of Washington, Seattle
Villeneuve, Anne M.; professor, department of developmental biology,
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif.
Wennberg, Paul O.; R. Stanton Avery Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and
Environmental Science and Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena
Wilson, Rachel I.; Martin Family Professor of Basic Research in the Field of
Neurobiology, department of neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston
Yuan, Junying; Elizabeth D. Hay Professor of Cell Biology, department of
cell biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston
Zachos, James C.; professor, department of earth and planetary sciences,
University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Zagier, Don B.; scientific member and director, Max Planck Institute for
Mathematics, Bonn, Germany