Dean Bloom Elected to American Philosophical Society

Dean Barry Bloom has been elected to the American Philosophical Society, the country’s first learned society, founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743. Also elected this year from Harvard were Drew Gilpin Faust, Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and Lincoln Professor of History at Harvard University, and Christopher Jencks, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government.

The American Philosophical Society has nearly 900 members worldwide. Previous members have included George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Charles Darwin, Margaret Mead, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, and Robert Frost. Within the 20th century, more than 200 members have received the Nobel Prize.

The Society promotes useful knowledge in the sciences and humanities and sponsors five research grant/fellowship programs. The Society also publishes a monograph series called Transactions, a book series, and a quarterly journal called Proceedings.

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Two Web Sites Launched

David Christiani, professor of occupational medicine and epidemiology in the Departments of Environmental Health and Epidemiology, and his research team have launched a web site detailing the risk factors, treatment responses, and long-range research related to lung cancer at http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/lungcancer/.

A web site has also been created by Academic Affairs for the School’s postdoctoral fellows at http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/academicaffairs/postdocs.htm.