Academy honors UO's Frohnmayer.

Byline: The Register-Guard

University of Oregon President Dave Frohnmayer has been named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

The Cambridge, Mass.-based academy is one of the country's pre-eminent associations of scholars, artists, political leaders and humanitarians. Election is based on a nominee's contributions to a range of fields and professions.

Frohnmayer is the seventh UO faculty member to earn election to the academy and the first administrator. Others are professors and researchers in a variety of fields.

The academy elected 177 American and 30 international nominees as learned fellows this year. Membership currently totals 3,600 fellows and 600 foreign honorary members, including 150 Nobel laureates and 50 Pulitzer Prize winners.

Among those named to the academy this year are violinist Itzhak Perlman, Nobel Prize-winning chemist George Olah, Sen. Edward Kennedy, actress Angelica Huston and former Sen. Warren Rudman.

Frohnmayer has been president of the UO since 1994, was dean of its School of Law from 1992-94. He served three terms as Oregon's attorney general and three terms in the Legislature.

Frohnmayer graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College, attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and received his law degree from the University of California at Berkeley and has argued seven cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, winning six.

The academy was founded during the American Revolution by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock and other leaders of the newly founded nation. This year's fellows will be inducted at a ceremony Oct. 5 in Cambridge.