Academy honors UO's Frohnmayer.Byline: The Register-Guard University of Oregon The University of Oregon is a public university located in Eugene, Oregon. The university was founded in 1876, graduating its first class two years later. The University of Oregon is one of 60 members of the Association of American Universities. 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 Winners of the Nobel Prize are scientists, writers and peacemakers who have been awarded in their field of endeavour, and who are known collectively as either Nobel laureates or Nobel Prize winners. and 50 Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prize Any of a series of annual prizes awarded by Columbia University for outstanding public service and achievement in American journalism, letters, and music. Fellowships are also awarded. winners. Among those named to the academy this year are violinist Itzhak Perlman Itzhak Perlman (born August 31, 1945) is an Israeli-American violinist, conductor, and pedagogue. He is one of the most distinguished violinists of the late 20th century. Biography , Nobel Prize-winning chemist George Olah, Sen. Edward Kennedy, actress Angelica Huston and former Sen. Warren Rudman Warren Bruce Rudman (born May 18, 1930 in Boston, Massachusetts) was an American Senator from New Hampshire. He was elected as a Republican in 1980 and re-elected in 1986, and was known as a pragmatic centrist, to such an extent that President Clinton approached him in 1994 about . 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 (body, education) University of California at Berkeley - (UCB) See also Berzerkley, BSD. http://berkeley.edu/. Note to British and Commonwealth readers: that's /berk'lee/, not /bark'lee/ as in British Received Pronunciation. 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. |
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