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For more than 245 years, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences<\/strong> has been honoring excellence and providing service to the nation and the world. Through independent, nonpartisan study, its ranks of distinguished “scholar-patriots” have brought the arts and sciences into constructive interplay with the leaders of both the public and private sectors. The academy was founded during the American Revolution by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock, and other leaders who contributed prominently to the establishment of the new nation, its government, and its Constitution. Its purpose was to provide a forum for a select group of scholars, members of the learned professions, and government and business leaders to work together on behalf of the democratic interests of the republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Year<\/strong><\/td>Faculty name<\/strong><\/td>Related stories<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
2025<\/td>Donald L. Brenneis<\/td>Anthropologist Donald L. Brenneis elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
2024<\/td>Patricia Zavella, Lise Getoor, and Karen Tei Yamashita<\/td>Three UC Santa Cruz faculty members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
2023<\/td>Beth Shapiro<\/td>Biologist Beth Shapiro elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
2022<\/td>Sandra Chung<\/td>Linguist Sandra Chung elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
2021<\/td>Angela Davis, James Estes, and Barbara Rogoff<\/td>Three UCSC professors elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
2020<\/td>Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz<\/td>Astronomer Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
2019<\/td>Natalie Batalha<\/td>Astronomer Natalie Batalha elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
2018<\/td>Marc Mangel<\/td>Mathematical biologist Marc Mangel elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
2015<\/td>Gail Hershatter<\/td>UC Santa Cruz history professor elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
2012<\/td>Peter Young<\/td>Physicist Peter Young elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
2011<\/td>Thomas Banks, James Clifford, and James Zachos<\/td>UCSC professors elected to AAAS<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
2010<\/td>Michael Dine, Gary Glatzmaier, Susan Strome, and John Thompson<\/td>Four UCSC professors elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
2008<\/td>Thorne Lay<\/td>Seismologist Thorne Lay elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
2006<\/td>David Haussler<\/td>Three UCSC professors elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
2002<\/td>Douglas Lin and Claire Max<\/td>Two UC Santa Cruz astronomers elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
2001<\/td>Stanford Woosley<\/td>Stanford Woosley elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
1999<\/td>Harry Noller<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
1994<\/td>Joseph Miller<\/td>UCSC appoints Joseph Miller as Vice Provost for Silicon Valley Initiatives<\/a> (mentions membership)<\/td><\/tr>
1992<\/td>Elliot Aronson<\/td>UCSC Professor Emeritus Elliot Aronson receives lifetime achievement award from the Association for Psychological Science<\/a> (mentions membership)<\/td><\/tr>
1989<\/td>Sandra Faber<\/td>Astronomer Sandra Faber honored in White House ceremony<\/a> (mentions membership)<\/td><\/tr>
Former faculty members<\/strong><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/tr>
2005<\/td>M.R.C. Greenwood<\/td>Greenwood and Soul\u00e9 elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
2003<\/td>Geoffrey Pullum<\/td>Linguistics professor elected to American Academy of Arts & Science<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
1999<\/td>Marcia McNutt<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
1994<\/td>Steven Feld<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
1985<\/td>Frederic Jameson<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
In memoriam<\/strong><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/tr>
1974<\/td>Frank Drake<\/td>Pioneering radio astronomer Frank Drake dies at 92<\/a> <\/td><\/tr>
2006<\/td>Harry Berger, Harold Widom<\/td>Three UCSC professors elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
2005<\/td>Michael Soul\u00e9<\/td>Michael Soul\u00e9, father of conservation biology, dies at 84<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
1991<\/td>Hayden White<\/td>Influential historian Hayden White dies at 89<\/a> <\/td><\/tr>
1974<\/td>Robert Kraft<\/td>Robert P. Kraft, eminent astronomer and former director of UC Observatories, dies at age 87<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
1973<\/td>Harry Beevers<\/td>Eminent plant physiologist dies at 80<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
1970<\/td>George Herbig<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
1969<\/td>Robert Edgar<\/td>In Memoriam: Robert S. Edgar (1930\u20132016)<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
1968<\/td>Donald Osterbrock<\/td>Donald Osterbrock, eminent astronomer and former director of Lick Observatory, dies at age 82<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
1966<\/td>Tibor Scitovsky<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
1965<\/td>Robert Sinsheimer<\/td>Pioneering biologist Robert L. Sinsheimer dies at age 97<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
1961<\/td>Richard Musgrave<\/td>Richard Musgrave, renowned pioneer of public finance, dies at 96<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
1959<\/td>Joseph Bunnett<\/td>In Memoriam: Joseph Bunnett<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
1954<\/td>Albert Whitford<\/td>Albert Whitford, eminent astronomer and former director of Lick Observatory, dies at 96<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For more than 245 years, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences has been honoring excellence and providing service to the nation and the world. Through independent, nonpartisan study, its ranks of distinguished “scholar-patriots” have brought the arts and sciences into constructive interplay with the leaders of both the public and private sectors. The academy was founded during […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":4944,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4954","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucsc.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucsc.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucsc.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucsc.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucsc.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4954"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucsc.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6275,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucsc.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4954\/revisions\/6275"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucsc.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucsc.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}