At the 860th Meeting of the Academy held June 14, 1893 in the Physiological Lecture Room of the Harvard Medical School in Boston, physician and Member Harold C. Ernst, using diagrams, lantern slides, and live samples, explained the methods of investigation...

The Super Bowl has inspired a wager between Robert Hauser, the executive officer of the American Philosophical Society (APS), based in Philadelphia and founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin, and Jonathan Fanton, the president of the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based American Academy of Arts & Sciences founded in 1780 by John Adams and others.

Norm Augustine and Neal Lane, cochairs of Academy project on “New Models for U.S. Science and Technology Policy,” argue for a coherent national roadmap to strengthen U.S. R&D, basic research in particular, and to drive American innovation throughout the 21st century.

Members of the project’s steering committee are sharing the project’s findings with stakeholders around the country.

A panel discussion featuring presidential science advisor John Holdren

High school students continue to engage with the humanities (English, languages, and history) at a high rate, albeit with evidence of some troubling racial disparities, according to new findings from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences’ Humanities Indicators.

Study is requested by bipartisan group of members of U.S. Senate & House of Representatives.

The American Academy will brief the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) on the Academy’s ARISE II project.

The Academy received grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

As Board Chair Nancy Andrews notes in her message, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect every aspect of Academy life. Yet despite the challenges of the last eighteen months, by nearly every measure the strength of our community of members has only increased.

In an article published in The Independent Ledger in Boston on February 26, 1781, the Academy wrote that “they request the Assistance of the Ingenious in every profession. Observations in Astronomy and Geography, will be of great use. Meteorological Observations and Experiments are much wanted.” By May 1781, the Academy had organized its activity into “subjects of study,” instructing that the “seventh class make meteorology their special object, observe the azimuth, meridional height, vertical direction and various phenomena of the Aurora borealis. . . .”

Yuval Levin (American Enterprise Institute)'s Opinion Piece in the New York Times on the case for enlarging the House of Representatives; with the headline “Some Good Can Come Out of the Kevin McCarthy Fiasco.”

Remembrance of Stephen R. Graubard