American Academy to Induct 2001 Fellows
October 9, 2001- Patricia Meyer Spacks, the American Academy
of Arts and Science's 45th President, will preside over the 2001 American
Academy Induction ceremony on October 13th in Cambridge, MA. The Academy's
first woman president, Spacks is a leading authority on 18th century English
literature. Speakers at the ceremony include several of the newly inducted
Fellows to the prestigious American Academy, the nation's leading learned
society. Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, music producer
Quincy Jones, Qualcomm founder Irwin Jacobs, stem cell researcher Brigid Hogan,
Humanities Professor Andrew Delbanco, and SunAmerica Chairman Eli Broad are
scheduled to address the Academy membership. The talks will be given as part of
a daylong celebration honoring this year's class of new Academy Members.
The American Academy was founded in 1770 by John Adams and other
scholar-patriots to "to cultivate every art and science which may tend to
advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and
virtuous people." The current membership of over 3,700 Fellows and 600 Foreign
Honorary Members includes more than 150 Nobel laureates and 50 Pulitzer Prize
winners. Drawing on the wide-ranging expertise of its membership, the Academy
conducts thoughtful, innovative, non-partisan studies on international
security, social policy, education, and the humanities.
This year's class of new Members of 185 Fellows and 26 Foreign
Honorary Members include writer Luc Sante; former Amgen CEO Gordon Binder;
World Wide Web inventor Timothy Berners-Lee; economist and chess grandmaster
Kenneth Rogoff; historian and Revson Foundation President Eli Evans;
microbiologist Anthony Cerami; musicologist and University of Chicago president
Don Randel; syndicated columnist Geneva Overholser; photographer Richard
Avedon; Tony-winning lyricist Stephen Sondheim; former U.S. Secretary of the
Treasury Robert Rubin; former playwright and president of the Czech Republic
Vaclav Havel; Judge Rosalyn Higgins of the International Court of Justice; and
Olga Ladyzhenskaya, director of the Laboratory for Mathematical Physics at the
Russian Academy of Sciences.
When: October 13, 2001, 4 P.M.
Where: Ropes Gray Room, Pound Hall Harvard Law School 1563
Massachusetts Avenue
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