Fifteen Princeton University faculty members have been honored by the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the university has announced.
Seven have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. They are among 72 new members inducted in recognition of distinguished and continuing achievements in original research, the university said.
The Princeton faculty members are: Avinash Dixit, the John J.F. Sherrerd 1952 University Professor of Economics; Robert Keohane, professor of international affairs; Sergiu Klainerman, professor of mathematics; János Kollár, professor of mathematics; Alexandre Polyakov, the Joseph Henry Professor of Physics; Gertrud Schupbach, professor of molecular biology and investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and Thomas Silhavy, the Warner-Lambert Parke-Davis Professor of Molecular Biology, the university said.
Established in 1863, the National Academy of Sciences has 1,976 active members.
Eight Princeton faculty members have been named fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. They are among 213 leaders in scholarship, business, the arts and public affairs elected in recognition of contributions to their respective fields, the university said.
The Princeton faculty members are: Thomas Silhavy, the Warner-Lambert Parke-Davis Professor of Molecular Biology; John Darley, the Dorman T. Warren Professor of Psychology; Susan Fiske, professor of psychology; Mark Watson, professor of economics and public affairs; Harold Vincent Poor, professor of electrical engineering; Gilbert Harman, the Stuart Professor of Philosophy; Robert Hollander, professor emeritus of European literature and French and Italian; and Susan Stewart, professor of English.
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences was founded in 1780 and has 4,000 fellows, including more than 160 Nobel laureates and 50 Pulitzer Prize winners.

