Paul W. Kroll, professor of Chinese at the University of Colorado Boulder, has been elected to the prestigious American Philosophical Society, becoming the fifth member ever of the university’s ...

The American Philosophical Society , founded in 1743 and located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is an eminent scholarly organization of international reputation, that promotes useful knowledge in the ...

Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne was elected into the American Philosophical Society, the oldest scholarly association in the U.S. (Courtesy of Stanford News). In April 2017, Stanford President ...

Ronald J. Daniels, president of Johns Hopkins University, and Diane Griffin, a distinguished professor of molecular microbiology and immunology in the university's Bloomberg School of Public Health, ...

Penn faculty professor Paul Offit and professor Dorothy Roberts are newly elected members to the American Philosophical Society (Photo from Penn Today). Perelman School of Medicine professor Paul ...

Three Yale affiliates are among the 36 distinguished scholars and leaders elected to the American Philosophical Society at its April meeting. They are historian David Blight, former Yale College Dean ...

Philly's American Philosophical Society takes on Cambridge's American Society of Arts and Sciences. It's Ben Franklin vs. John Adams all over again. Benjamin Franklin, in all his glory — and ready for ...

A society founded by Benjamin Franklin had met outside its home base in Philadelphia only once since it began in 1743. That is, until last week. The American Philosophical Society held its semiannual ...

Princeton sociologist Alejandro Portes is one of 35 newly elected members of the American Philosophical Society. Portes, the Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Sociology, has been ...

Two professors at the University of California, Davis, have been elected to the American Philosophical Society, America’s first learned society. They are Alexandra Navrotsky, distinguished ...