The American Academy serves the nation as a champion of scholarship, civil dialogue,
and useful knowledge. As one of the country's oldest learned societies and independent
policy research centers, the Academy convenes leaders from the academic, business,
and government sectors to respond to the challenges facing the nation and the world.
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Water Pressure:
Saving a Threatened Resource, a five-part series from WGBH News, draws
from research and expert commentary in the latest issue of Dædalus
More about the issue and the reporting series
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Author Phil Klay,
Academy Fellow and 19th U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, and
Academy Fellow Scott Sagan on "Writing About War," a conversation about the ethics of war,
at Stanford University
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Action follows
Academy report Restoring the Foundation: The Vital Role of Research
in Preserving the American Dream
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The first publication
from the Lincoln Project examines the benefits of public research universities.
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Read about the new class of members -
Are the humanities
really in crisis in higher education? This new Indicators report highlights challenges
but also progress in the field.
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The Global Nuclear
Future Initiative meets with nuclear experts in Abu Dhabi, United Arab
Emirates, on nuclear liability, nonproliferation, the back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle,
and nuclear safety and security.
Read about GNF’s meetings in Abu Dhabi
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