Three UCLA professors chosen to join national academic organizations
Claudio Pellegrini was elected to the National Academy of Sciences on Tuesday. Two other faculty were elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. (Courtesy of Michelle McCarron)
By Emi Nakahara
May 3, 2017 9:55 p.m.
Two national academic organizations recently selected three UCLA professors to join their ranks.
The American Academy of Arts &Sciences, an independent policy research center which honors academics and conducts policy studies, selected Judith Carney, a geography professor, and Stephanie Jamison, an Asian languages and cultures professor, as fellows Tuesday.
Claudio Pellegrini, professor emeritus in physics, was also elected Tuesday to the National Academy of Sciences, an honorary society for scientific researchers that aims to provide independent, objective advice to the nation on matters related to science and technology.
Carney studies African culture in the Americas and conducts fieldwork in Africa. Her published works cover the significance of African slaves’ cultivation of their native crops in the Americas.
Jamison studies Indo-European linguistics and culture. She is currently working on translating the Rigveda, the world’s oldest Sanskrit text, into English.
Pellegrini studies electron and photon beams physics. In 2015, he received the Enrico Fermi Award, a presidential award for scientific achievement, for his research on relativistic electron beams and free-electron lasers.
Carney and Jamison will be inducted as fellows Oct. 7 at a ceremony in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
