Professors Chosen to Join NAS and AAAS

Helmut Hofer of NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Anthony Movshon, professor and director of NYU’s Center for Neural Science, were recently elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Hofer and Movshon were among 72 new members and 18 foreign associates from nine countries who were elected in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
    The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) elected three NYU faculty as Fellows, the organization announced in late April. They are: Richard Pildes of the School of Law, Elliot Wolfson of the
Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, and Jorge Castañeda, a Distinguished Global Professor of Politics, who was elected as a foreign honorary member.