American Academy of Arts and Sciences Inducts Five from NYU as New Members

NYU School of Law Dean Richard Revesz, left, and four other NYU faculty were inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in early October. The induction events, held in Cambridge, Mass., included a panel discussion, “Energy and Climate Change,” which included Revesz, a professor of environmental and administrative law, as well as, second from left, William Reilly, former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator; Rosina Bierbaum, former associate director for environment at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; and Richard Meserve, former chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

The other four NYU faculty members inducted into AAAS this year were: School of Medicine
professor Alexandra Leigh Joyner; filmmaker Spike Lee, the artistic director of the Kanbar Institute’s Graduate Film Division at the Tisch School of the Arts; Stephen Schiffer, chair of the Department of Philosophy; and Richard Sieburth, a professor of French and comparative literature. Other new fellows include former Vice President Albert Gore, Jr., former Supreme Court Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt.