Eight UCLA faculty members are among the newest class elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and independent policy research centers. UCLA had more scholars elected to the academy this year than any other public university. The only institutions with more 2014 fellows were Harvard and Stanford.
The new fellows from UCLA are:
Chris Burden, professor emeritus of art
Johanna Ruth Drucker, Bernard and Martin Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies
Louis M. Gomez, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Professor of Digital Media and Learning
Patricia Marks Greenfield, distinguished professor of psychology
Sabeeha Merchant, distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry
Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, dean of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies and distinguished professor of education
A. Eugene Washington, vice chancellor for health sciences, dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine, CEO of the UCLA Health System, and distinguished professor of gynecology and health policy
Paul S. Weiss, director of the California NanoSystems Institute, Fred Kavli Professor of Nanosystems Sciences and distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry and of materials science and engineering
