Congratulations to David Brakke on being inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences during a ceremony held at Harvard University in October. 

From the Academy website:

Since 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences has honored excellence and convened leaders from across disciplines and divides to examine new ideas, address issues of importance, and work together “to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.”

The Academy’s founders – including John Adams and John Hancock – envisioned an organization that would recognize accomplished individuals and engage them in meeting the nation’s challenges. The first members elected to the Academy in 1781 included Benjamin Franklin and George Washington.

Included in this year's inductees are: 

• Founder and Chief Feeding Officer José Andrés, World Central Kitchen
• Quantum physicist and information theorist Charles H. Bennett, IBM Research
• News anchor Anderson Cooper, CNN
• Filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer Ava DuVernay
• Actor, producer, and humanitarian Danny Glover
• Interdisciplinary scholar of antiquity Leslie V. Kurke, University of California, Berkeley
• Director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies Yuval Levin, American Enterprise Institute
• Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella,
• Attorney and playwright Mary Kathryn Nagle
• Cancer geneticist Kenneth Offit, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
• Architect and architectural historian Nasser Rabbat, MIT
• Synthetic chemist Gregory H. Robinson, University of Georgia
• Legal scholar Daniel B. Rodriguez, Northwestern University
• Activist and journalist Gloria Steinem,
• Professor of Economics and of Computer Science Philipp Strack, Yale University
• Novelist Amy Tan
• Microbiologist Susan Weiss, University of Pennsylvania

and of course, David Brakke!

Read the write-up about Dr. Brakke. 

David Brakke signing the Official Book of Members at the Induction Ceremony for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, held at Harvard University, October 2025