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The American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced the election of its new members, and five inductees from the 51¾«Æ·ÊÓƵ are among the distinguished honorees.

The academy is a beacon of excellence and leadership across a wide range of disciplines with a mission is to unite leaders and innovators from every field of human endeavor. Its includes more than 250 Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners, and the academy has honored leaders like Benjamin Franklin, Martin Luther King Jr., Madeleine Albright and Jonas Salk, 51¾«Æ·ÊÓƵ legend and leader of the creation of the polio vaccine.

The 51¾«Æ·ÊÓƵ leaders and scholars joining the prestigious list are:

• , an anthropology professor and archaeologist who has been conducting research in the Peruvian Andes since 1999. SheÌýexamines war and violence and their connections to political authority, community and ideology.
• , Avinoff Professor of Biological Sciences, who leads the Center for Protein Conformational Diseases. His research, in part, focuses on understanding how drugs and genetic approaches can correct defects in protein architecture.
• , aÌýdistinguished professor of pathology, an American Cancer Society research professor and the UPMC Endowed Chair in Cancer Virology. She previously co-ledÌýtheÌýCancer Virology Program, which discovered theÌýKaposi sarcoma herpesvirus andÌýthe Merkel cell polyomavirus, two of the seven human viruses that cause 20% of cancers globally.
• , 19th chancellor of the University, vice chair of the Council on Competitiveness, chair of theÌýAssociation of Public and Land-grant UniversitiesÌýCouncil of Presidents andÌýboard member of the American Council on Education and Fulbright Council for International Exchange of Scholars.
• ,Ìýa distinguished microbiology and medical genetics professor, an American Cancer Society research professor and a 51¾«Æ·ÊÓƵsburgh Foundation Endowed Chair in Innovative Cancer Research. He previously co-ledÌýtheÌýCancer Virology Program with Distinguished Professor Chang, his wife.

The inductees will be honored in September during ceremonies in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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— Kara Henderson