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U of M's Kamil Ugurbil Inducted into American Academy of Arts and Sciences
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (Oct. 6, 2005)--University of Minnesota Medical School Professor Kamil Ugurbil will be elected to 225th Class of Fellows in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences at its annual induction ceremony on Oct. 8 in Cambridge, Mass.
Ugurbil, a professor of radiology, biochemistry, and medicine, is among 196 new Fellows and 17 new Foreign Honorary Members to be inducted.
Ugurbil holds the McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair of Radiology at the University of Minnesota. He serves as the director of the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, which evolved from his in vivo magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy research when he first came to the University in 1982. Ugurbil earned an A.B. in physics from Columbia University in New York and earned his Ph.D. in chemical physics at Columbia in 1977. Ugurbil worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories before returning to Columbia in 1979 as an assistant professor.
Current members of the Academy nominate and elect Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members through a highly competitive process. Members are leaders who have made contributions in a diverse set of fields and to society, making possible the wide range of interdisciplinary studies and independent public policy research conducted by the Academy.
The Academy was founded in 1780 by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock, and other scholar-patriots, honoring leadership, creativity, and intellectual achievement. Notable members include George Washington, Ben Franklin, Daniel Webster, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert Einstein, and Winston Churchill. Currently, 150 Nobel laureates and 50 Pulitzer Prize winners belong to the Academy.
University of Minnesota Distinguished McKnight University Professor and director of the Jane Goodall Center for Primate Research, Anne Pusey, will also be inducted this weekend. Other members elected this year include: the late Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist; Nobel Prize-winning physicist Eric Cornell, University of Colorado; Steven Squyres, leader of NASA’s Rover program for the exploration of Mars; Academy Award-winning actor and director Sidney Poitier; journalist Tom Brokaw; and Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. A complete list of the new members is available at www.amacad.org.
The Academic Health Center is home to the University of Minnesota’s six health professional schools and colleges as well as several health-related centers and institutes. Founded in 1851, the University is one of the oldest and largest land grant institutions in the country. The AHC prepares the new health professionals who improve the health of communities, discover and deliver new treatments and cures, and strengthen the health economy.
Contacts: Sara E. Buss, Academic Health Center, (612) 624-2449 Jonell Rusinko, Academic Health Center, (612) 624-5680
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