Member News Digest — October 22, 2026

^{Elizabeth Alexander. Photo by Ike Edeani for the Mellon Foundation}

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 the future of art, what comes after winning a Nobel Prize, and whether the world will end next month.

• Elizabeth Alexander (APS 2020) was named by TIME as one of the “100 most influential people shaping the future of art”
• Karl Deisseroth (APS 2022) spoke with The Conversation about the research that won him his recent Nobel Prize, and with The Stanford Daily about what comes next
• “Will the world end next month?” Joel Cohen (APS 1994) weighed in on the prediction made by scientists 56 years ago
• Mary Beard (APS 2012) spoke with The Telegraph about the “bloke-ish” style of history teaching, arguing dates and battles draw children away from history