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Photo credits (clockwise from top left): Daron Acemoglu (Photo by Nobel Prizes), Ben Bernanke (Photo by Paul Morigi), Joseph Stiglitz (Photo by Jérémy Barande / Ecole polytechnique Université Paris-Saclay), and Paul Krugman (Photo by Ed Ritger)
Election to the American Philosophical Society honors extraordinary accomplishments in all fields. Those accomplishments don’t end upon induction, however. In this week’s APS Member News Digest, read about artificial intelligence, identity, and America250.
- In recognition of the anniversary of independence, Forbes published a list of “America’s 250 Most Successful Living Immigrants,” which featured 15 APS Members across disciplines. In order of recognition, they are George Soros (APS 2009), Katalin Karikó (APS 2024), Yo-Yo Ma (APS 1999), Eric Kandel (APS 1984), Roald Hoffmann (APS 1984), Esther Duflo (APS 2025), Elizabeth Blackburn (APS 2005), Angus Deaton (APS 2014), Ardem Patapoutian (APS 2023), Jack Szostak (APS 2012), James Peebles (APS 2004), Joseph Neubauer (APS 2007), Daron Acemoglu (APS 2021), David Card (APS 2025), and Indra Nooyi (APS 2021).
- APS Members Daron Acemoglu (APS 2021), Ben Bernanke (APS 2006), Paul Krugman (APS 2011), and Joseph Stiglitz (APS 1997) are among the cosigners of “We Must Act Now,” an open letter calling for policymakers to prepare for oncoming economic transformation caused by AI, as reported in The New York Times
- Variety reports on a new video of various celebrities reading On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder (APS 2025)
- Edward Mendelson (APS 2017) spoke with Columbia University’s newsroom about the upcoming Christopher Nolan adaptation of The Odyssey
- Jill Lepore (APS 2014) was interviewed by Jacobin about the rise of judicial power
- Columbia University awarded Harriet Zuckerman (APS 1996) an honorary Doctor of Letters degree
- You Won't Get Free of It, a new book featuring a profile of Elizabeth Loftus (APS 2006), was reviewed in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere
- APS Members Robert Miller (APS 2014), Al Gore (APS 2008), and Lonnie Bunch (APS 2020) are featured in Netflix’s The American Experiment
- For The New York Times, Nicholas Lemann (APS 2022) wrote about Jewish identity, his own family history, and the present historical moment
- Joanna Drucker (APS 2023) was profiled in the UCLA newsroom for “The Re-Declaration Project,” on view now at the APS Museum’s These Truths
- Lonnie Bunch (APS 2020) was interviewed by NBC News on the 250th and the “pursuit of the promise of America”
- Sherrilyn Ifill (APS 2025) was on MS NOW discussing the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision on birthright citizenship