Susan Athey and Jeremy Stein named as Fellows of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

The American Academy of Arts & Sciences announced the election of new class members on April 28, 2008. These new class members included Susan Athey, Professor of Economics and Jeremy C. Stein, Moise Y. Safra Professor of Economics of Harvard University.

Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences is an independent policy research center that conducts multidisciplinary studies of complex and emerging problems. The Academy’s elected members are leaders in the academic disciplines, the arts, business, and public affairs. The 190 new Fellows and 22 Foreign Honorary Members are leaders in their fields and include Nobel laureates and recipients of Pulitzer and Pritzker prizes, Academy and Grammy awards, and Kennedy Center Honors.

An independent policy research center, the Academy undertakes studies of complex and emerging problems. Its diverse membership of scholars and practitioners from many disciplines and professions gives the Academy a unique capacity to conduct a wide range of interdisciplinary, long-term policy research. Current studies focus on science, technology and global security; social policy and American institutions; the humanities and culture; and education.

Founded in 1780 by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock and other scholar-patriots, the Academy has elected as members the finest minds and most influential leaders from each generation, including George Washington and Benjamin Franklin in the eighteenth century, Daniel Webster and Ralph Waldo Emerson in the nineteenth, and Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill in the twentieth. The current membership includes some 200 Nobel laureates and more than 60 Pulitzer Prize winners.

The new class will be inducted at a ceremony on October 11, at the Academy’s headquarters in Cambridge, MA.

For more information on the Academy of Arts & Sciences and the 2008 newly elected Fellows and Honorary Foreign Members, see the Academy's website.