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Dr. Huda Zoghbi Invested in the American Academy of Sciences and Letters

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Baylor’s Huda Y. Zoghbi Invested as Member of the 
American Academy of Sciences and Letters

Dr. Huda Zoghbi, Distinguished Service Professor at Baylor College of Medicine, an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and founding Director of the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital, has been invested as a member of the American Academy of Sciences and Letters (the Academy) in recognition of intellectual excellence and courage. 

 

The investiture was conducted last night by Academy President Donald W. Landry of Columbia University and Board Chair Sanjeev R. Kulkarni of Princeton University in a ceremony at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

 

“Like other academies, we honor intellectual excellence, but our Academy is distinguished by a special accent on intellectual courage. All our new members this year reflect the independence of mind we strive to honor,” said Academy President Dr. Donald Landry, M.D., Ph.D., who is also the Hamilton Southworth Professor of Medicine at Columbia University. 

 

The American Academy of Sciences and Letters promotes scholarship and honors outstanding achievement in the arts, sciences, and learned professions. It supports learning by encouraging the exchange of ideas within academia and in society at large, and by sponsoring occasions for scholarly interaction and providing platforms for the presentation ad dissemination of scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, mathematics and engineering. 

 

Zoghbi’s other top recognitions for her work include: the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, the Gairdner Award, the Brain Prize, and the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Inventors.

 

Below is a complete list of Academy members invested during last night’s ceremony.

 

Scholars Invested as Academy Members on Oct. 23, 2024

 

Susan C. Alberts, Robert F. Durden Distinguished Professor of Biology and Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University

Danielle Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor, Harvard University

Akhil Reed Amar, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University

Gary A. Anderson, Hesburgh Professor of Catholic Thought, University of Notre Dame

Clifford Ando, Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor; Professor of Classics, History and in the College; University of Chicago

Daniel Asia, Professor of Composition and Head of the Composition Department, University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music

Leora Batnitzky, Perelman Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of Religion, University of Chicago

Peter Berkowitz, Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Marianne Bertrand, Chris P. Dialynas Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Jay Bhattacharya, Professor of Health Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine

Clifford P. Brangwynne, June K. Wu ’92 Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering; HHMI Investigator; Founding Director, Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute; Princeton University

Arthur C. Brooks, Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Public and Nonprofit Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School; Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School

Alex Byrne, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Paolo G. Carozza, Professor of Law and Concurrent Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame

Arul M. Chinnaiyan, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, American Cancer Society Research Professor, and S.P. Hicks Endowed Professor of Pathology and Urology, University of Michigan

Nicholas A. Christakis, Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science, Yale University

J. Christopher Clemens, Executive Vice Chancellor, Provost, and Jaroslav Folda Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Brian Conrad, Professor of Mathematics, Stanford University

Judith A. Curry, Professor Emerita of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology

Percy Deift, Silver Professor of Mathematics, Courant Institute, New York University

Jennifer A. Doudna, Nobel Laureate; Li Ka Shing Chancellor’s Chair and Professor in the Departments of Chemistry and of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California-Berkeley; Founder, Innovative Genomics Institute

Jeffrey Eugenides, Lewis and Loretta Glucksman Professor in English and American Letters, New York University

Sir Niall Ferguson, Milbank Family Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Richard W. Garnett, Paul J. Schierl/Fort Howard Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University

Jeannie Suk Gersen, John H. Watson, Jr. Professor of Law, Harvard University

Philip Hamburger, Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law, Columbia University

James Hankins, Professor of History, Harvard University

Bernard Haykel, Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University

Helen H. Hobbs, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Professor of Internal Medicine and Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Oliver Hobert, Professor of Biological Sciences and of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University

William G. Howell, Sydney Stein Professor of American Politics, University of Chicago

Caroline M. Hoxby, Scott and Donya Bommer Professor in Economics, Stanford University

Wayne L. Hubbell, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of California-Los Angeles

Alexandru D. Ionescu, Professor of Mathematics, Princeton University

William Chester Jordan, Dayton-Stockton Professor of History Emeritus, and Director of the Program in Medieval Studies, Princeton University

Lee Jussim, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Steven Justice, Professor Emeritus of English, University of California-Berkeley

Brian G. Keating, Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of California-San Diego

Isaac Kohane, Marion V. Nelson Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School

Frances Lee, Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton University

Stephen Macedo, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics, Princeton University

Bertha Kalifon Madras, Professor of Psychobiology, Harvard Medical School

Karin I. Öberg, Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences, Harvard University

Steven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, Harvard University

H. Vincent Poor, Michael Henry Strater University Professor, Princeton University

Sir Salman Rushdie, Novelist

Christian Smith, Wm. R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology, University of Notre Dame

Geoffrey R. Stone, Edward H. Levi Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Chicago

Barry Stuart Strauss, Corliss Page Dean Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies, Emeritus, Cornell University

Jenny Strauss Clay, William Kenan Professor of Classics Emerita, University of Virginia

Cass R. Sunstein, Robert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard University

Megan Sykes, Michael J. Friedlander Professor of Medicine, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Professor of Surgical Sciences, and Director of the Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, Columbia University

Salvatore Torquato, Lewis Bernard Professor of Natural Sciences, Princeton University

Noël Valis, Kingman Brewster, Jr. Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Yale University

Tyler J. VanderWeele, John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health; Director, Human Flourishing Program; Harvard University

Arieh Warshel, Nobel Laureate; Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, University of Southern California

Keith E. Whittington, David Boies Professor of Law, Yale University

Luigi Zingales, Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, and Faculty Director of the Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, University of Chicago

Huda Y. Zoghbi, Professor of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine; Director of the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children's Hospital; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

 

About the Academy

The American Academy of Sciences and Letters promotes scholarship and honors outstanding achievement in the arts, sciences, and learned professions. It encourages the fruitful exchange of ideas within academia and society at large by sponsoring occasions for scholarly interaction and providing platforms for the presentation and dissemination of scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering. An independent 501(c)(3) non-partisan organization, it offers public programming, supports promising young scholars, and promotes traditional liberal arts ideals and standards of intellectual excellence.

Academy Board of Trustees

William B. Allen, Michigan State University, Emeritus
Brandice Canes-Wrone, Stanford University
Margaret S. Chisolm, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Carlos M. N. Eire, Yale University
Mary Ann Glendon, Harvard Law School, Emerita
Barry H. Honig, Columbia University
Sergiu Klainerman, Princeton University
Sanjeev R. Kulkarni (Chair), Princeton University
Donald W. Landry (President), Columbia University
Santiago Schnell, University of Notre Dame

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