Five Columbia professors were recently elected to the National Academy of Sciences and nine to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The faculty joining the NAS are economist Scott Barrett, food-systems expert Jessica Fanzo, biologist Oliver Hobert, biophysicist Arthur G. Palmer, and mathematician Duong H. Phong. The new AAAS inductees are journalist Daniel Alarcón ’99CC, novelist Paul Beatty, African-studies scholar Mamadou Diouf, political scientist Fredrick Cornelius Harris, epidemiologist Quarraisha Abdool Karim ’89PH, economist Serena Ng, legal scholar Eric Talley, psychologist Nim Tottenham ’96BC, and literary scholar Gauri Viswanathan ’85TC.
