Two NYU Faculty Named to National Academy of Sciences

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has elected two members of NYU’s faculty to its ranks: Leslie Greengard, director of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and Richard Novick, a microbiologist at the School of Medicine’s Skirball Institute for Biomolecular Medicine. There are now 27 NYU faculty who are members of NAS.

Greengard, elected to the National Academy of Engineering this winter, is a pioneer in the development of algorithms and software for fast multi-pole methods. Novick, professor of microbiology and medicine, is a member of Skirball’s Molecular Pathogenesis Program. He has devoted his career to studying Staphylococcus aureus, a notorious bacterium that causes a wide variety of illnesses, from relatively minor skin abscesses to life-threatening toxic shock syndrome, and is the leading cause of hospital-acquired infections.