The National Academy of Sciences has elected 120 new members, including eight Harvard professors, drawn principally from the medical and mathematics faculties—but also including a recent Nobel laureate in economics. The new members are:
- Dennis Gaitsgory, Smith professor of mathematics
- Joel F. Habener, professor of medicine
- Michael Kremer, Gates professor of developing societies, the Nobelist
- Judy Lieberman, professor of pediatrics
- Margaret S. Livingstone, Takeda professor of neurobiology
- Olivier Pourquié, Mallory professor of pathology
- Wilfried Schmid, Robinson research professor of mathematics
- Suzanne Walker, professor of microbiology
