The American Philosophical Society recently announced the selection of 37 new members, including five faculty from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Medical School. The five elected members have academic interests including gene mutations, affective forecasting, and the history of American music and culture.
The newly elected members of the APS are:
William G Kaelin, Sidney Farber Professor of Medicine, Dana-Faber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Christine Edry Seidman, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical institute; Thomas W. Smith professor in medicine and Genetics, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Director, Cardiovascular Genetics Center, Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Michèle Lamont, Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies, FAS
Carol J. Oja, William Powell Mason Professor of Music and Professor of American Studies, Harvard University
The oldest learned society in the United States, the APS was founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743 and supports research through grants and fellowships, lectures, publications, exhibitions, and public education. The APS boasts of 976 elected members, 818 resident members, and 158 international members from more than two dozen countries. Previously elected members from Harvard include Lisa Randall, Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science, and Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History.
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