The American Academy of Arts & Sciences announced its members elected in 2020. The 276 artists, scholars, scientists, and leaders in the public, non-profit, and private sectors include Joan Baez,...

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More than 200 individuals with compelling achievements in academia, business, government, and public affairs were elected to the Academy in 2019.

The Academy announces the election of 260 new members in 2022, which continues a tradition of recognizing accomplishments and leadership in academia, the arts, industry, public policy, and research.

MAR 24, 2021 | Margaret Atwood is awarded the Emerson-Thoreau medal for her achievements in literature.

A bipartisan commission issues 31 recommendations to strengthen America’s institutions and civic culture to help a nation in crisis emerge with a stronger democracy.

The American Academy of Arts & Sciences and The MIT Press are today announcing that Dædalus, Journal of the American Academy, will now be an open access publication.

For the first time in their histories, five international academies have joined together to sign a document in support of increased investment in language education, an unprecedented collaboration...

Prolific scholar and public intellectual Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has been named the recipient of the Academy’s Don M. Randel Award for Humanistic Studies, which recognizes remarkable scholars whose...

OCT 27, 2021 | In a celebration of arts, artists, and the work of the American Academy’s Commission on the Arts, Stephen Colbert will interview Cochairs John Lithgow, Deborah Rutter, and Natasha...

JUN 11, 2020 | Across the country, concerned citizens joined us for the release of the final report of the Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship.

A poem by Elizabeth Alexander will accompany Marshall’s racial justice-inspired creations.

The Summer 2021 issue of Dædalus on “The Administrative State in the Twenty-First Century: Deconstruction and/or Reconstruction,” guest-edited by Mark Tushnet, features fourteen essays by scholars in...

AI is transforming our relationships with technology and with others, our senses of self, as well as our approaches to health care, banking, democracy, and the courts. But while AI in its many forms...

NOV 18 | Join Ken Burns in conversation with Brenda Thomson and Kevin Young to discuss the public's engagement with the humanities.

The Academy’s multi-year Public Face of Science initiative concludes with recommendations for improving connections between the public and science. The goals and findings of this initiative are...

Amplifying a recommendation in Our Common Purpose, this OpEd in The Washington Post by Yuval Levin and Lee Drutman proposes expanding the U.S. House of Representatives.

Schölkopf is recognized for research in machine learning. Russell is recognized for foundational contributions to Artificial Intelligence

The Spring 2020 issue of Dædalus, “Meeting the Challenges of a New Nuclear Age,” guest-edited by Robert Legvold and Christopher F. Chyba, examines some of the possible escalation pathways that could...

The past decade has seen tremendous progress in the field of artificial intelligence thanks to the resurgence of neural networks through deep learning. This has helped improve the ability for...

​​​​​​​The Rumford Prize – a storied science award presented by the American Academy of Arts & Sciences – has been given to astrophysicist and experimental cosmologist Charles L. Bennett.

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Joy Harjo, a member of the Academy, is a performer and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She is serving her second term as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States.

Terence Blanchard discusses how his early training in classical music and his love of his hometown paved the way for him to be the first black composer to present a work at The Metropolitan Opera.

JUN 11, 2020 | Across the country, concerned citizens joined us for the release of the final report of the Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship.

Harvard Law School Professor and former Dean Martha Minow has taught generations of lawyers – including former President Obama – about the power of the law and how a sentence can best match a crime....

A new Academy whitepaper that provides a blueprint for the collection of data about civil justice activity in the United States.

DEC 2 | Astronaut Jessica Meir joined Brian Keating, Professor of Physics at UCSD, Meir's alma mater, to discuss her adventures and the perspectives they provide about our world.

More than 200 individuals with compelling achievements in academia, business, government, and public affairs were elected to the Academy in 2019.

This report outlines the data and methodologies researchers use to understand how the Internet has impacted democracy and the challenges they face in this field.

The Arts have served as a source of inspiration and comfort from the anxiety and isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

This multi-disciplinary Academy initiative is focused on the urgent global challenge of climate change and recommending meaningful actions to accelerate climate mitigation and adaptation strategies...

In a new release today, the American Academy reports on the first broad national survey on the humanities, which asked Americans about their engagement in a variety of humanistic activities, as well...

A national survey by the Academy's Humanities Indicators reveals considerable public engagement in a range of humanities activities at home and in the workplace, as well as wide support that the...

Jo Handelsman addresses the loss of our earth's soil in her remarks for Class II: Biological Sciences at the 2019 Induction Ceremony (2:17), following an int...