A’Lelia Bundles (Author and Journalist), Anne Thompson (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), Anita Gonzalez (Georgetown University), and Patricia Hill (Entrepreneur) pose at the Washington, D.C. Members’ Reception at the National Portrait Gallery on January 29, 2025. The reception included remarks from Academy President Laurie Patton and National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet (Smithsonian).
David Weinstein (Write the World), Catherine Snow (Harvard University), and others in the atrium of the House of the Academy on February 10, 2025, for a Cambridge Members’ Reception. The event also included remarks from Laurie Patton, who was introduced by Sally Kornbluth (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
Members Carl Holladay (Emory University) and Terrie Moffitt (Duke University) enjoy a reception at the Burroughs Wellcome Fund in Research Triangle Park on January 28, 2025. The program welcomed new Academy President Laurie Patton and featured remarks from Louis Joseph Muglia (Burroughs Wellcome Fund) and a moment of artistic reflection from Judith Ernst (Ceramic Artist) and Jaki Shelton Green (Poet Laureate of North Carolina).
Goodwin Liu (Supreme Court of California), Laurie Patton (American Academy of Arts and Sciences), and Mary Susan Lozier (Georgia Institute of Technology) at Emory University on February 26, 2025, for the Atlanta Area Members’ Reception and Dinner. Following dinner, Justice Liu and President Patton discussed the future of the Academy, giving local members an opportunity to share ideas and perspectives.