New National Academy Members announced
The National Academies announced election of 72 new members and 18
foreign associates on Tuesday. (Source: Chronicle of Higher
Education Daily Update) Some familiar names include Philip
Bucksbaum of Michigan (cold atoms;) Nancy Hopkins (biology/MIT, who
also urged MIT to see its discrimination against female scientists;)
Charles Lieber of Harvard University; George Oster of Berkeley, who has
studied molecular motors, among other phenomena; and Maria Zuber of
MIT, earth and planetary sciences, whose rise has been meteoric to say
the least.