Longtime University of New Mexico Professor C. Jeffrey Brinker has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, announced this week. He was among 120 members elected in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
A distinguished professor emeritus in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Brinker joined Sandia National Laboratories as a member of the technical staff in 1979 and was appointed distinguished member of the technical staff and National Laboratory Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry at UNM in 1991. From 1999 to 2019, he was jointly employed by UNM and Sandia.
“We are extremely proud to now have a National Academy of Sciences member among our ranks in the School of Engineering,” said Christos Christodoulou, Jim and Ellen King Dean of Engineering and Computing. “Jeff has made an amazing impact in his field, and this recognition is well-deserved.”
April 29, 2021
Maureen Hanson, the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Bernice Grafstein, the Vincent and Brooke Astor Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medicine, have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the academy announced April 22.
They are among 252 newly elected members – 55% of whom are women – honored for individual achievements in academia, the arts, business, government and public affairs.
“We are honoring the excellence of these individuals, celebrating what they have achieved so far and imagining what they will continue to accomplish,” said David Oxtoby, president of the academy. “The past year has been replete with evidence of how things can get worse; this is an opportunity to illuminate the importance of art, ideas, knowledge and leadership that can make a better world.
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By Susan Gonzalez
April 27, 2021
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David Blight, Mary Miller, and Indra Nooyi
Three Yale affiliates are among the 36 distinguished scholars and leaders elected to the American Philosophical Society at its April meeting. They are historian David Blight, former Yale College Dean and art historian Mary Miller, and Yale School of Management alumna Indra Nooyi, a former senior trustee on the Yale Board of Trustees and former PepsiCo CEO.
Founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743, the American Philosophical Society is the oldest learned society in the United States. It was established for the purpose of “promoting useful knowledge.” It honors leading scholars, scientists, and professionals through elected membership and opportunities for interdisciplinary intellectual fellowship, particularly in its semi-annual meetings. The society also supports research and discovery through grants an
$5.2 million in philanthropic support for significant scholarly research in the social sciences and humanities
04.28.2021
New York, NY, April 28, 2021 With the goal of applying scholarly perspectives to some of society’s most important issues, Carnegie Corporation of New York today announced the 2021 class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows. The philanthropic foundation will grant each fellow $200,000 to fund significant research and writing in the social sciences and humanities that address important and enduring issues confronting our society.
The Corporation launched the Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program in 2015 as an initiative that was conceived by the late Vartan Gregorian, who served as president of the foundation from 1997 until his death on April 15, 2021. Gregorian, a former professor of history and past president of Brown University, aimed to advance and elevate the work of the fellows to reinforce the importance of the social sciences and humanities in academia and American