Prof. Hilvert elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, whose purpose it is "to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people", has elected Prof. Donald Hilvert as a new member in 2016.
In 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences was founded by John Adams, James Bowdoin, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Maria Mitchell, and Alexander Graham Bell. Other distinguished members include Margaret Mead, Jonas Salk, Barbara McClintock, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Aaron Copland, Martha Graham, John Updike, Georgia O'Keeffe, and John Hope Franklin. Foreign members have included Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, Laurence Olivier, Mary Leakey, John Maynard Keynes, Akira Kurosawa, and Nelson Mandela. The current members represent today's innovative thinkers in every field and profession, including more than two hundred fifty Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners.
Prof. Hilvert is a newly elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016. All members are invited to an induction at the House of the Academy in Cambridge, Massachusetts, beginning on Friday, October 7, with the formal ceremony on Saturday, October 8, 2016.
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