{"635840":{"#nid":"635840","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ladies and Gentlemen of the Academies","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis story by Joshua Stewart originally appeared in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/news.gatech.edu\/features\/ladies-and-gentlemen-academies\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech News Center\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EReceiving the letter of welcome to membership in the National Academy of Sciences or the National Academy of Engineering is a career high point for American scholars. Election to the academies recognizes a lifetime of impact and achievement, and ranks among the very highest honors for those fields.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELikewise, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences dates back to our country\u0026rsquo;s founding and honors the nation\u0026rsquo;s most-accomplished people \u0026mdash; all the way back to Benjamin Franklin and Alexander Hamilton.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAll of which makes this spring a remarkable one for Georgia Tech, with seven faculty members from all kinds of disciplines elected to these academies over the span of just a few weeks.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Georgia Tech is regarded as one of leading research universities in the nation because of the outstanding work of our faculty,\u0026rdquo; said President \u0026Aacute;ngel Cabrera. \u0026ldquo;We are tremendously proud that seven of them were recently named to the most prestigious national honorary and leadership organizations in the nation, a fitting recognition for their respective accomplishments and a reflection of the caliber of the Georgia Tech faculty.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EElection to these academies puts new members in rarefied company: Only 2,309 people in the U.S. can call themselves members of the engineering academy, just 2,403 have been elected to the sciences academy, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences boasts 13,838 members inducted over two and a half centuries.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAdding Tech faculty to the membership rolls of all three was a bright spot in a springtime mired in dark news about the global COVID-19 pandemic. It is also a testament to the breadth and depth of scientific endeavors across Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s research enterprise.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003ENational Academy of Sciences\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe induction of three Georgia Tech scholars into the National Academy of Sciences marked a significant milestone for the Institute. It\u0026rsquo;s the the first time three members of the Tech community joined the Academy in the same year \u0026mdash; and they represent three different colleges.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMarilyn Brown\u003C\/strong\u003E (who also joined the National Academy of Engineering and was part of a 2007 Nobel Peace Prize-winning team) studies energy in the School of Public Policy, \u003Cstrong\u003ERandall Engle\u003C\/strong\u003E studies attention and memory in the School of Psychology, and \u003Cstrong\u003EArkadi Nemirovski\u003C\/strong\u003E studies optimization in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (Nemirovski is also an adjunct professor in the School of Mathematics).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUntil now, just one current faculty member was among the Academy\u0026rsquo;s membership.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026raquo; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2020\/05\/08\/brown-engle-nemirovski-elected-national-academy-sciences\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EBrown, Engle, Nemirovski Elected to National Academy of Sciences\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, May 8, 2020\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nNational Academy of Engineering\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers make up more than 10% of the National Academy of Engineering\u0026rsquo;s membership, a number that grew by four this spring.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThat includes \u003Cstrong\u003EMarilyn Brown\u003C\/strong\u003E. While Brown is not strictly an engineer, the Academy cited her for bridging engineering, policy, and social and behavioral studies to achieve cleaner energy.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe other new members are \u003Cstrong\u003EThomas Kurfess\u003C\/strong\u003E, who has helped guide the digital transformation of manufacturing in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering; \u003Cstrong\u003ESusan Margulies\u003C\/strong\u003E, a brain and lung injury scholar and chair of the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering; and \u003Cstrong\u003EAlexander Shapiro\u003C\/strong\u003E in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, who studies optimization modeling that involves uncertainty.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026raquo; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2020\/02\/10\/four-georgia-tech-faculty-elected-national-academy-engineering\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFour Georgia Tech Faculty Elected to National Academy of Engineering\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, February\u0026nbsp;10,\u0026nbsp;2020\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe list of this year\u0026rsquo;s inductees into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences includes\u0026nbsp;artists and activists, lawyers and experimentalists, bioethicists and anthropologists. Singer\/songwriter Joan Baez, filmmaker Richard Linklater, and former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder are some of the newest members.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESo, too, is \u003Cstrong\u003ESusan Lozier\u003C\/strong\u003E, dean and Betsy Middleton and John Clark Sutherland Chair in Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s College of Sciences. Lozier studies the ocean and large-scale circulation, particularly the seas\u0026rsquo; role in climate variability and climate change.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe joins six other Georgia Tech faculty members in the Academy, which was founded in 1780 by John Adams, John Hancock, and others to advance learning in service to the public good.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026raquo; \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2020\/05\/07\/lozier-elected-american-academy-arts-and-sciences\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ELozier Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, May 7, 2020\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech honors faculty elected this year to National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and\u0026nbsp;American Academy of Arts and Sciences \u0026mdash; including three members of the College of 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