Five African Americans Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is one of the nation's most prestigious honorary societies. It has a membership of more than 4,000 scholars from a wide variety of academic disciplines including all the natural sciences. Its membership includes at least 250 Nobel Prize winners and more than 60 winners of a Pulitzer Prize. This year, 229 new fellows were elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. As in past years, the academy has not disclosed the racial makeup of the new members. But through an analysis of the new members list, JBHE has been able to determine that at least five of the 229 new members are black.
The following are the new African-American members:
Roger W. Ferguson Jr. is an economist who serves as president and CEO of TIAA-CREF. He is the former vice chairman of the board of governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve System. He holds a bachelor's degree, a Ph.D., and a law degree, all from Harvard University.
Joseph S. Francisco is the William E. Moore Distinguished Professor of Physical Chemistry at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. He is a graduate of the University of Texas and holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
James Sidney Jackson is the Daniel Katz Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and director of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. He holds a Ph.D. from Wayne State University.
Olufunmilayo I. Olopade is the Walter L. Palmer Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine, founding director of the Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics, and associate dean for global health at the University of Chicago. She is one of the nation's leading scientists in breast cancer research.
Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins is a jazz saxophonist and composer from New York City. Now 80 years old, Rollins began performing on the piano at age 11.
All told, there are about 4,000 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. By JBHE's count there are 101 African-American members. Thus, approximately 2.5 percent of all members are black.
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