Five Faculty Inducted Into American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) recently inducted five New York University faculty members as fellows. They are among 175 new fellows and 20 new foreign honorary members elected by AAAS. Among the newly elected are former presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton as well as chief justice of the Supreme Court, John Roberts.

NYU’s new AAAS members are: Nathaniel Beck; professor in the Department of Politics; Jeffrey Cheeger, faculty member in the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences; Kit Fine, Silver Professor of Philosophy; Joseph LeDoux, faculty member in the Department of Neural Science; and Charles Newman, former director of NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.

Founded in 1780 by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock, and others, AAAS has elected as fellows and foreign honorary members the finest minds and most influential leaders from each generation, including George Washington and Ben Franklin in the 18th century, Daniel Webster and Ralph Waldo Emerson in the 19th, and Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill in the 20th.