Faculty Honored

Nine Stanford professors have been elected to prestigious academic organizations. Paul Milgrom, MS ’78, PhD ’77, a professor of economics, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors that can be accorded a U.S. scientist or engineer. His election brings the number of Stanford scholars in the organization to 135. Eight professors were elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Lawrence Bobo, professor of sociology and director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity; Savas Dimopoulos, professor of physics; Margaret T. Fuller, professor and chair of developmental biology; Larry Kramer, dean of Stanford Law School; Lawrence Lessig, professor of law and founder of the Law School’s Center for Internet and Society; Susan K. McConnell, professor of biological sciences; Franco Moretti, professor of English and comparative literature and the founder and first director of the Center for the Study of the Novel; and Stephen H. Shenker, professor of physics and director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. The AAAS is one of the country’s oldest honorary learned societies, and with this year’s inductees includes 230 Stanford scholars.