Three Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Three members of the UW–Madison faculty, and one former faculty member, have been elected fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest learned societies in the United States.

UW–Madison faculty elected were: Paul Boyer, professor of history and director of the Institute for Research in the Humanities; Stanley G. Payne, Hilldale-James Vicens Vives professor of history; and Grace Wahba, Bascom professor of statistics and professor of biostatistics.

Also elected was Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Shirley Abrahamson, who was a member of the UW Law School faculty from 1966 to 1992.

They were among 151 scholars, artists, writers, journalists and architects elected to the academy, which was founded in 1780 by John Adams and other leaders of the young republic. The society was chartered “to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.”