Two SAS Professors Named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
School of Arts and Sciences professors Michael Klein and David Cass are among 187 who have been named fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences this year.
A member of the economics department, David Cass is the Paul F. Miller, Jr. and E. Warren Shafer Miller Professor of Social Sciences. His research interests include pure theory of capital, individual behavior under uncertainty, and models of financial equilibrium. He directs the Center for Analytic Research in Economics and the Social Sciences and is a research fellow of the Penn Institute for Economic Research. Other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Distinguished Fellowship in the American Economic Association, the most prestigious U.S. honor in the field of economics.
A member of the chemistry department, Michael Klein is the Hepburn Professor of Physical Science. He uses computer technology to model quantum and classical solids, fluids, and clusters, as well as molecular assemblies relevant to biological systems. He directs the Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter and has received the American Physical Society’s Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
The Academy was founded in 1780 by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock, and other scholar-patriots "to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people." Membership recognizes intellectual achievement, leadership, and creativity in all fields.