American Academy of Sciences and Letters

We honor outstanding scholarly excellence and intellectual courage across the sciences, arts, and learned professions.

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Carlos Eire (Yale) interviews Barry Prize winner Anthony Grafton (Princeton) about why history matters, how the radical contraction of the humanities threatens our knowledge base, and why the university's character matters more than its mission statement.
https://t.co/CZOO8EZ4Vb

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Greg Forster (AASL) interviews Sylvester James Gates, Jr. (Maryland) about the life of the mind, the value of ancient ideas about education, and how the development of scientific theory drives technological innovation.

https://t.co/7uL0yNW4sm

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Brandice Canes-Wrone (Stanford) interviews Barry Prize winner Janet Box-Steffensmeier (Ohio State) about how better social science methods help citizens make sense of their world, and why interdisciplinary curiosity is growing among students.

https://t.co/UpmmjznUKR

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Congratulations to Professor Shivaji Sondhi, elected to two distinguished American societies: the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Sciences and Letters! 🎉 https://t.co/3j5HzgiOL7

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Santiago Schnell (Dartmouth) interviews Barry Prize winner Richard Binzel (MIT) about how space exploration taps into a deep root in human nature, and the importance of the ideas of nature and truth for the university’s mission.

https://t.co/XxJTITx6Fm

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Academy Member Arthur Brooks (Harvard) discusses how the personalities of college students have changed dramatically in a ten-year period, the virtue of hope, and why we shouldn’t give up on reforming the American university.

https://t.co/VxWAg6hV2N

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The future of the American university and the future of the American experiment in constitutional democracy are woven together.

Join us for this special event with some of the nation's leading constitutional scholars on June 16 in DC!

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Academy Member Noël Valis (Yale) discusses how great literature helps us discover our common humanity, the danger of politicizing the study of literature, and the need for the modern university to develop a clear understanding of its mission.

https://t.co/lMFQkWsE6z

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The Academy's series of member interviews continues. See below for interviews with Clifford Brangwynne, Stephen Macedo, Bertha Madras, Cass Sunstein and Noël Valis! (1/6)

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Academy Member Cass Sunstein (Harvard) discusses how academic inquiry is being affected by new forms of manipulation in the social environment of social media and AI, and the need to cultivate intellectual agency.

https://t.co/aDHYba8nhK

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The event: https://t.co/XVcVAC5IuH

The Barry Prizes: https://t.co/vhL0FvYSrB

The Zimmer Medal: https://t.co/iecwyyEP3c

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What a night! On Nov. 12 we held our annual investiture ceremony, held this year at historic Decatur House. Check out our website (link below) for all the details!

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Academy Member and Nobel Laureate Arieh Warshel (USC) discusses the reasons people want to control what science finds, ways peer review could be reformed, and how universities can take steps to encourage open inquiry.

https://t.co/1FVdB7t4cv

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The Academy has just posted the first in its new series of interviews with Academy members. See below for links to our interviews with Daniel Asia, William Howell and Arieh Warshel! 1/4

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Academy Member William Howell (JMU) discusses why the "humble audacity" of the university's truth-seeking mission is so challenging, why we need to invest relationally in the university's community of learning, and how to avoid "ivory tower" isolationism.

https://t.co/RWPpoxJf0a

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Margaret Chisolm (Johns Hopkins) interviews Nicholas Christakis (Yale) about the vast scope of positive social behaviors we rely upon but mostly take for granted, and the need to defend the university's truth-seeking mission.

https://t.co/1tpfElSqBj