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21Name:  Ms. Tracy P. Palandjian
 Institution:  Social Finance
 Year Elected:  2022
 Class:  5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs
 Subdivision:  503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1971
   
 
Tracy Palandjian is CEO and Co-Founder of Social Finance, a national impact finance and advisory nonprofit that builds innovative partnerships and investments to measurably improve lives. Since 2011, the organization has pioneered the use of innovative public-private partnerships and impact investment strategies, including the Social Impact Bond and the Career Impact Bond, to mobilize capital at scale and deliver sustainable impact in communities across the United States. Prior to Social Finance, Tracy was a Managing Director at The Parthenon Group from 1999 to 2010, where she established and led the Nonprofit Practice and worked with foundations and NGOs to accomplish their missions in the U.S. and globally. Tracy also worked at Wellington Management Company and McKinsey & Company. A frequent speaker and writer on ESG, impact investing, and policy innovation, Tracy is Vice Chair of the U.S. Impact Investing Alliance. A native of Hong Kong, Tracy is fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin. She graduated from Harvard College with a B.A. magna cum laude in Economics and holds an M.B.A. with high distinction from Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholar. Tracy previously served as Chair of the Board at Facing History and Ourselves and currently serves on the boards of The Surdna Foundation, The Boston Foundation, and Mass General Brigham. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was elected to the Harvard Corporation in 2022.
 
22Name:  Mr. Robert McCracken Peck
 Institution:  Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Drexel University)
 Year Elected:  2022
 Class:  4. Humanities
 Subdivision:  404c
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1952
   
 
Robert McCracken Peck, Senior Fellow of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, is a writer, naturalist, and historian who has traveled extensively in North and South America, Africa, Asia and Europe. He served as Special Assistant to the Academy's President and Director of the Academy's Natural History Museum before being named Fellow of the Academy in 1983. In 2000 he assumed additional responsibilities as the Academy's Curator of Art and Artifacts and Editor of Scientific Publications. From 2003-2007 he served as Librarian of the Academy. In 2003 he was named Senior Fellow of the Academy. Peck is the author of six books: The Natural History of Edward Lear (2016, 2018, and 2021), (Specimens of Hair (2018), Land of the Eagle: A Natural History of North America (1990), Headhunters and Hummingbirds: An Expedition into Ecuador (1987), A Celebration of Birds: The Life and Art of Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1982), and William Bartram's Travels (1980); the co-author of two: A Glorious Enterprise: The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the Making of American Science (2012) and All In The Bones: A Biography of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (2008), and has written chapters for dozens of others. He has also written for a wide range of popular and scholarly magazines including: Audubon, Natural History, National Wildlife, International Wildlife, Nature, Arts, Antiques, Image, Terra, Explore, Landscope (Australia), The Journal for Maritime Research, Polar Record, The Explorers Journal, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. His 1990 book, Land of the Eagle: A Natural History of North America, was the companion volume to an 8-part B.B.C./P.B.S. television series of the same title which dealt with the discovery and exploration of America from a natural history point of view. Within weeks of its appearance in Great Britain, Mr. Peck's book went onto the U.K. Best-Seller List, where it remained for nine weeks (reaching the #3 slot in April, 1990). The German edition, Im Land Des Adlers (1992) also achieved Best-Seller status. The book was selected by the New York Times for its list of notable books for the year. An active member of the Explorers Club (whose Philadelphia chapter has recognized him its Explorers Award), Mr. Peck has developed a special interest in the history of exploration, retracing the travel routes of a number of 18th and 19th century naturalists including: William Bartram, John James Audubon, Henry David Thoreau, Alexander Von Humboldt, John Burroughs and John Muir. He has served as a natural history consultant to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Princeton University Library, Readers Digest Books, David Attenborough and the British Broadcasting Corporation (B.B.C.). In 1989 a new species of South American frog (one of three new species he discovered during an expedition to Ecuador) was named in his honor. In 1991 Mr. Peck was honored by the Academy of Natural Sciences' Richard Hopper Day Medal for his work in interpreting natural history to the public. (Other recipients of the medal have included: Jacques Piccard, Louis Leakey, Ruth Patrick, David Attenborough, Lewis Thomas, Gerald Durrell, Stephen Ambrose, Sylvia Earle, and Elizabeth Kolbert.) He has also received Philadelphia’s Wyck-Strickland Award for outstanding contributions to the cultural life of Philadelphia and the Garden Club of America’s Sarah Chapman Francis Medal for environmental writing. He has held fellowships at Harvard University’s Houghton Library (1994-1995 and 2010-2011), and at the Yale Center for British Art (1997); and has twice been a visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome (2014 and 2017). He was granted an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree by the University of Delaware in 2012. His other honors have included an award for courage and integrity from the Philadelphia and St. Louis chapters of the Explorers Club, and the David S. Ingalls, Jr. Award for Excellence from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, the Founders Medal of the Society for the History of Natural History (2021), and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the Wagner Free Institute of Science (2019). Mr. Peck has traveled widely on behalf of the Academy of Natural Sciences, accompanying research expeditions in Nepal (1983), Ecuador (1984, 1992, and 1998), Venezuela (1985 and 1987), South Africa (1993), Botswana, (1993), Namibia (1993), Siberia (1994), Guyana (1997), and Mongolia (seven expeditions, 1994-2011). He conducted research on the history of science in Russia in 2019. In recognition of his deep knowledge of the cultural and natural history of Mongolia, Mr. Peck was invited by the White House and the U.S. State Department to represent the United States at ceremonies marking Mongolia’s 800th birthday in Ulaan Baatar in July 2006. The two-person presidential delegation consisted of Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns and Mr. Peck. Mr, Peck’s photographs have been published in books, journals, and magazines and exhibited in museums across the U.S. His one-man photographic exhibition documenting nomadic life in Central Asia, has been shown at the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Anthropology, the American Museum of Natural History (New York), the Houston Museum of Natural Science, the Academy of Natural Sciences, and the Mongolian Embassy, Washington, D.C.. In 2008 Mr. Peck curated an exhibition and co-authored a book about the British artist and naturalist Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807-1894), Charles Darwin’s illustrator and the first person to create life-sized sculptures of dinosaurs (at the Crystal Palace in London in 1854). The book was published in the summer of 2008 and was excerpted to serve as the lead story in Natural History magazine. His book, The Natural History of Edward Lear, published by David R. Godine in the fall of 2016, grew out of an exhibition on the British writer, traveler, and artist that Mr. Peck guest-curated for Harvard University’s Houghton Library. Both the American and the British editions of the book sold out within a year. A Chinese edition, published in 2018, met with equal success. A revised and expanded edition of the book was published by Princeton University Press in 2021. Mr. Peck’s book, Specimens of Hair, The Curious Collection of Peter A. Browne, was published by Blast Books in 2018. Enhanced by the spectacular photography of Rosamond Purcell, it is a book about an extraordinary collection of wool, fur and hair that was collected by a Philadelphia naturalist in the early 19th century in an effort to better understand the relationships – and commercial application – of these animal products and of humans in a pre- Darwinian world. The book was one of only four selected by Publishers Weekly as a recommended purchase for Christmas 2018 under a category the magazine called “slightly weird and very wonderful.” Favorably reviewed in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Philadelphia Inquirer, it was featured in a blog in Atlas Obscura (reaching an audience of 5 million people), and in on-line articles for National Geographic and Time Magazine. The book stimulated a 20 minute interview with Mr. Peck about the Browne collection and the subject of hair on NPR’s popular “Science Friday” program.
 
23Name:  Dr. Kimberly A. Prather
 Institution:  Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
 Year Elected:  2022
 Class:  1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
 Subdivision:  105. Physical Earth Sciences
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1962
   
 
Kimberly A. Prather is a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and the Distinguished Chair in Atmospheric Chemistry at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego (UCSD). She is also Founding Director of the NSF Center for Aerosol Impacts on Chemistry of the Environment. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis in 1990. Prior to her arrival at the Scripps Institute, she taught at the University of California, Riverside from 1992 to 2001 and worked as a Research Associate at the Statewide Air Pollution Research Center from 1994 to 2001. Prather has worked on aerosols throughout her professional career. She devised an aerosol time-of-flight mass spectrometer with high temporal and size resolutions, using it to study health effects of ultrafine particles to precisely measure their size and composition, as well as to measure exhaust particles from heavy-duty gasoline/diesel vehicles. She discovered that aerosols traveled well into the stratosphere where they froze and later returned to Earth; this research became critical in studying atmospheric environments' impact on the COVID-19 pandemic. While WHO and CDC first proposed that the virus was passed from person to person by contact with surfaces, it is actually spread via stable aerosols--not by surface contacts or droplets settling on these surfaces. Recently, at a National Academy of Sciences symposium, Anthony Fauci, Prather, and others discussed aerosols' role in the spread of COVID-19 and the importance of minimizing contamination using good ventilation, HEPA filters, and masking especially at newly-opened schools and offices. Prather received the American Society for Mass Spectrometry Award, the National Science Foundation Special Creativity and Young Investigators Awards, the Smoluchowski Award, the Kenneth T. Whitby Award, The Arthur F. Findeis Award, the UCSD Faculty Sustainability Award, the American Chemical Society's Distinguished Scientist Award, the Haagen-Smit Clean Air Award, the Chancellor's Associates Excellence Award in Research in Science and Engineering, and the 2024 NAS Award in Chemical Sciences. She has been a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences since 2010, the National Academy of Engineering since 2019, and the National Academy of Sciences since 2020. Prather was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2022.
 
24Name:  Dr. Jahan Ramazani
 Institution:  University of Virginia
 Year Elected:  2022
 Class:  4. Humanities
 Subdivision:  402a
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1960
   
 
Jahan Ramazani is University Professor and Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He was educated at Virginia (BA, summa cum laude, 1981), Oxford (MPhil, 1983), and Yale (PhD, 1988). He is the author of many books and articles on modern and contemporary poetry. Some of his scholarship has focused on the elegy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, as in his first two books, Yeats and the Poetry of Death: Elegy, Self-Elegy, and the Sublime (1990) and Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney (1994), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has also raised the profile of postcolonial poetry in English of Africa, India, the Caribbean, and Black and Asian Britain in his books The Hybrid Muse: Postcolonial Poetry in English (2001) and in his Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Poetry (2017). Other of his books exploring the global and transnational dimensions of poetry include A Transnational Poetics (2009), winner of the Harry Levin Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association for the best book in comparative literary history (2008 to 2010), and Poetry in a Global Age (2020). He has also sought to illuminate poetry’s dialogue with other discourses and genres, particularly in Poetry and Its Others: News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres (2014). In addition, he is the editor of “Poetry and Race” (2019), a special issue of New Literary History, and co-editor of “Song” (2016) in the same journal; a co-editor of the most recent editions of The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry (2003) and The Norton Anthology of English Literature (2006, 2012, 2018); and an associate editor of The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (2012). Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016, he is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEH Fellowship, a Rhodes Scholarship, the William Riley Parker Prize of the MLA, and the Thomas Jefferson Award, the University of Virginia’s highest honor.
 
25Name:  Dr. Jennifer Richeson
 Institution:  Yale University
 Year Elected:  2022
 Class:  3. Social Sciences
 Subdivision:  305
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1972
   
 
Jennifer A. Richeson is the Philip R. Allen Professor of Psychology and Director of the Social Perception and Communication Laboratory at Yale University. For over 20 years, she has conducted research on the social psychology of cultural diversity. Specifically, she examines processes of mind and brain that influence the ways in which people experience diversity, with a primary focus on the dynamics that create, sustain, and sometimes challenge societal inequality. Much of her recent research considers the political consequences of the increasing racial/ethnic diversity of the United States. Richeson also investigates how people reason about and respond to different forms of inequality and the implications of such processes for detecting and confronting injustice. Professor Richeson’s empirical and theoretical work has been published in numerous scholarly journals and has been featured in popular publications such as the Economist and the New York Times. She has been recognized with many honors and awards, including a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship for her work "highlighting and analyzing major challenges facing all races in America and in the continuing role played by prejudice and stereotyping in our lives." Professor Richeson is also the recipient of the Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contributions to Psychology from the American Psychological Association (APA), the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, the Career Trajectory Award from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, the Nalini Ambady award for excellence in mentoring from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and the SAGE–CASBS award. Professor Richeson is an elected member of both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2019 she received an honorary doctorate from Brown University for work that “expands the boundaries of knowledge on interracial interaction and the living contexts of diversity.” Richeson was born and raised in Baltimore, MD. She earned a Bachelor of Science in psychology from Brown University, and a MA and PhD in social psychology from Harvard University. Prior to joining the Yale faculty in 2016, Richeson held faculty appointments at Northwestern University and Dartmouth College. Through her teaching, writing, and research, Professor Richeson aims to discover promising interventions that will enable us to foster and maintain culturally diverse environments that are cohesive, equitable, and just. Selected Recent Publications Richeson, J.A. 2020 (September). The mythology of racial progress. The Atlantic Magazine Onyeador, I.N., Daumeyer, N.M., Rucker, J.M., Duker, A., Kraus, M.W., & Richeson, J.A. 2020. Disrupting beliefs in racial progress: Reminders of persistent racism alter perceptions of past, but not current, racial economic equality. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. McDermott, M., Knowles, E.D., & Richeson, J.A. 2019. Class perceptions and attitudes towards immigration and race among working-class Whites. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy. Daumeyer, N.M., Onyeador, I.N., Brown, X., & Richeson, J.A. 2019. Consequences of attributing discrimination to implicit vs. explicit bias. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Kraus, M.W., Onyeador, I.N., Daumeyer, N.M., Rucker, J.M., & Richeson, J.A. 2019. The misperception of racial economic inequality. Perspectives on Psychological Science. Craig, M.A., Rucker, J.M., & Richeson, J.A. 2018. Racial and political dynamics of an approaching “majority-minority” United States. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 677(1): 204-214. Destin, M., Rheinschmidt-Same, M., & J.A. Richeson. 2017. Status-based identity: A conceptual approach integrating the social psychological study of socioeconomic status and identity. Perspectives in Psychological Science, 12(2): 270-89. McCall, L., Burk, D., Laperrière, M., & Richeson, J.A. 2017. Exposure to rising inequality shapes Americans’ beliefs about opportunity and policy support. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(36): 9593-98. Levy, D.J., Heissel, J., Richeson, J.A. & E.K. Adam. 2016. Psychological and biological responses to race-based social stress as pathways to disparities in educational outcomes. American Psychologist, 71(6): 455-73. Richeson, J., and S. Sommers. 2016. Race relations in the 21st Century. Annual Review of Psychology, 67: 439-63. Craig, M.A., and J.A. Richeson. 2016. Stigma-based solidarity: Understanding the psychological foundations of conflict & coalition among members of different stigmatized groups. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 25(1): 21-27. Rotella, K., J. Richeson and D. McAdams. 2015. Groups’ Search for Meaning: Redemption on the path to intergroup reconciliation. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 18(5): 696-715.
 
26Name:  Dr. David Nathaniel Spergel
 Institution:  Simons Foundation; Princeton University
 Year Elected:  2022
 Class:  1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
 Subdivision:  101. Astronomy
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1961
   
 
David Spergel is the President of the Simons Foundation and is the Charles Young Professor of Astronomy Emeritus at Princeton. Spergel received his AB from Princeton in 1982, spent a year at Oxford studying with James Binney and then received his PhD from Harvard in 1986. After spending a year at the IAS, he joined the Princeton faculty in 1987. He was Department Chair at Princeton from 2005-2015 and was the Founding Director at the Center for Computational Astrophysics at the Flatiron Institute from 2016-2021. AMNH awarded him an Honorary D.Sc. (2021). Spergel is a member of the NAS and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His work has been recognized with a MacArthur Fellowship, a Sloan Fellowship, the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Shaw Prize, the Heinemann Prize, the Gruber Prize and the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. The American Astronomical Society has honored him with the Warner Prize, the Heineman Prize and as a Legacy Fellow. He was twice awarded the NASA Exceptional Service Award. He received Princeton University’s Presidential Distinguished Teaching Award and the National Society of Black Physicists’ Mentorship Award. Spergel is noted for his work on the WMAP satellite that help establish the standard model of cosmology, map the initial conditions of the universe, and determine its basic properties. He is the author of over 400 refereed papers with over 100,000 citations.
 
27Name:  Dr. Howard Alvin Stone
 Institution:  Princeton University
 Year Elected:  2022
 Class:  1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
 Subdivision:  103. Engineering
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1960
   
 
Howard Alvin Stone is the Donald R. Dixon '69 and Elizabeth W. Dixon Professor at Princeton University's Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis in 1988. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Cambridge, in 1989 Howard joined the faculty of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University, where he eventually became the Vicky Joseph Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics. He arrived at Princeton in July 2009. Professor Stone's research interests are in fluid dynamics, especially as they arise in research and applications at the interface of engineering, chemistry, physics, and biology. In particular, he developed original research directions, using experiments, theory, and simulations, in microfluidics, multiphase flows, electrokinetics, flows involving bacteria and biofilms. Stone was the first recipient of the Batchelor Prize, the most prestigious prize in fluid mechanics. For ten years he served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, and is currently on the editorial or advisory boards of Physical Review Fluids, Langmuir, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, and Soft Matter. He received the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, The G.K. Batchelor Prize in Fluid Mechanics (2008), and the American Physical Society's Fluid Dynamics Prize (2016). He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the National Academy of Engineering (2009), the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2011), and the National Academy of Sciences (2014). Stone was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2022.
 
28Name:  Professor Natasha Trethewey
 Institution:  Northwestern University
 Year Elected:  2022
 Class:  5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs
 Subdivision:  501. Creative Artists
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1966
   
 
Natasha Trethewey currently serves as the Board of Trustees Professor of English at Northwestern University. She was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 2012 and again in 2013. She earned her B.A. from the University of Georgia in 1989, her M.A. from Hollins University in 1991, and her M.F.A. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1995. Trethewey is an exceptional poet and writer. Her works focus on problematic episodes in the American South and, more particularly, the Gulf Coast - and in her own family history. Thus, the themes of her poetry - ordinary lives in the Jim Crow South, Black soldiers in the Civil War, the life of a New Orleans sex worker, the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina, and, most recently, the difficult life and traumatic death of her mother, which led Trethewey to become a poet. During her appointment as Poet Laureate, Trethewey created a section of the PBS NewsHour, "Where Poetry Lives." As one critic has written, "A sense of justice made urgent by loss continues to underpin her work, which entwines historical narrative and lived experience, refusing to diminish either. Her poetry speaks plain truth rendered in forms strong enough to hold contradictions and sometimes devastating complexities." Trethewey's bibliography includes: Domestic Work (2000), Bellocq's Ophelia (2002), Native Guard (2006), Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (2010), Thrall (2012), Monument: Poems New and Selected (2018), and Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir (2020). Among numerous awards, she was the 2003 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the 2007 recipient of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the 2017 recipient of the Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities, and the 2018 recipient of the Sidney Lanier Prize for Southern Literature. She has been a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the American Academy of Arts & Letters since 2019, and was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2022.
 
29Name:  Dr. Leslie B. Vosshall
 Institution:  Rockefeller University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute
 Year Elected:  2022
 Class:  2. Biological Sciences
 Subdivision:  208. Plant Sciences
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1965
   
 
Leslie B. Vosshall is the Robin Chemers Neustein Professor and head of the Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Behavior at The Rockefeller University. In 2022, she became the Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), where she had been an Investigator since 2008. She earned her Ph.D. at The Rockefeller University in 1993. She was previously an Annenberg Assistant Professor, Head of the laboratory and Chemers Family Associate Professor at the Rockefeller University, and a faculty member at the Marine Biological Laboratory. Vosshall is known for her strong impact on public health and extraordinary contributions to the scientific community. Female mosquitoes bite humans to obtain blood to nurture eggs, thereby transmitting viral pathogens including dengue and Zika to hundreds of millions of people each year. Over the past decade, Vosshall single-handedly built the yellow fever mosquito Aedes Aegypti into a genetic model organism for neurobiology and provided key insights into the sensory mechanisms these deadly insects use to hunt humans. She elucidated the mechanism of action of insect repellents and developed small molecules that disrupt mosquito biting behavior and show great promise in reducing disease transmission. Vosshall is a strong proponent of open access publications and pre-prints and fostering diversity in science. She was the 2002 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the 2008 Lawrence C. Katz Prize from Duke University, the 2010 DART/NYU Biotechnology Award, the 2011 Gill Young Investigator Award, the 2020 National Academy of Sciences Pradel Research Award, and the co-recipient of the 2020 Alden W. Spencer Award with Kristin Scott. Vosshall is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015 and the National Academy of Medicine in 2021. She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2022.
 
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