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Bulletin Vol american academy of arts & sciences winter 2005 Bulletin vol. lviii, no. 2 Page 1 American Academy Welcomes Its 224th Class of Members Page 16 Academy Study Challenges Corporate America To Think Beyond Regulation Page 39 Science on the Café Scene Roald Hoffmann inside: Academy Projects, Page 17 New Members: Class of 2004, Page 24 Visiting Scholars Program, Page 36 From the Archives, Page 44 Calendar of Events Wednesday, Monday, February 9, 2005 February 28, 2005 1887th Stated Meeting–Cambridge 1888th Stated Meeting–New York City “Markets, Morals, and Civic Life” Presiding: E. John Rosenwald, Jr., Vice Chairman and Senior Managing Director, Contents Speaker: Michael J. Sandel, Harvard Bear Stearns Companies, Inc. University “Universities as Urban Planners” Location: House of the Academy Academy News 1 Speakers: Lee C. Bollinger, Columbia University, James Polshek, Polshek Tuesday, llp Challenges Facing the February 15, 2005 Partnership Architects , and Omar Intellectual Community 7 Blaik, University of Pennsylvania Meeting–Pasadena, California Moderator: Robert Campbell, Cambridge, ma Academy Publications 16 Host: David Baltimore, President, California Institute of Technology Location: 7 West 43rd Street, New York City Projects and Studies 17 “Neuroeconomics” Speaker: Colin Camerer, California Wednesday, Institute of Technology March 9, 2005 New Members: Class of 2004 24 Location: The Athenaeum, California 1889th Stated Meeting and S. T. Lee Institute of Technology Lecture in the Humanities–Cambridge Visiting Scholars Program 36 “Images of Power in Shakespeare” Wednesday, Annual Fund 38 February 16, 2005 Speaker: Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University Meeting–Los Angeles, California Science on the Café Scene 39 Location: House of the Academy Host: Albert Carnesale, Chancellor, University of California, Los Angeles Wednesday, In Response: Presentations by newly elected Fellows April 6, 2005 The Ticking Bomb Contention 41 Speakers: Andrea Ghez and Joel Handler, 1890th Stated Meeting and Joint Meeting both University of California, Los Angeles with the Boston Athenaeum–Cambridge Noteworthy 42 Location: Faculty Club, University of Speaker: Robert Pinsky, Boston University California, Los Angeles From the Archives 44 Location: House of the Academy Thursday, Wednesday, February 17, 2005 May 11, 2005 Meeting–San Francisco, California 1891st Stated Meeting and Annual Host: David Kessler, Dean, University of Meeting–Cambridge California, San Francisco School of Medicine Speaker: Alan Brinkley, Columbia and Vice Chancellor for Medical Affairs University Presentation by newly elected Fellow Location: House of the Academy Speaker: Jay Levy, University of California, San Francisco Location: Kalmanovitz Library, University For information and reservations, contact the of California, San Francisco Events Of½ce (phone: 617-576-5032; email: [email protected]). Induction 2004 New Fellows Gang Tian (MIT) and Rodolfo Dirzo (Stanford University) Foreign Honorary Member Renata Mayntz (Max- Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung) with new Foreign Honorary Member Jürgen Kocka (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung) New Fellows A. Paul Alivisatos (University of California, Berkeley), New Fellows Paul F. Berliner (Northwestern University) and Sharon Olds R. Lawrence Edwards (University of Minnesota), and Harry N. Scheiber (New York University) (University of California, Berkeley) 4 Bulletin of the American Academy Winter 2005 G. David Forney (MIT) with new Fellows John F. McDonnell (McDonnell New Fellows Peter Rossky (University of Texas at Austin) and Mark E. Douglas Corporation) and Henry Samueli (Broadcom Corporation) Dean (International Business Machines Corporation) Trust member E. John Rosenwald (Bear Stearns Companies) and new New Fellows Rubie S. Watson (Harvard University) and Brice Marden Fellow Leonore Annenberg (Annenberg Foundation) (New York, New York) Bulletin of the American Academy Winter 2005 5 Induction 2004 New Fellows Dedre Gentner (Northwestern University) and Graham C. New Fellows Edward D. Lazowska (University of Washington) and Donald Walker (MIT) G. Saari (University of California, Irvine) New Fellows William Galston (University of Maryland) and Rogers M. Robert Post (Yale University), Jesse Choper (University of California, Ber- Smith (University of Pennsylvania) keley), and new Fellow Jay A. Levy (University of California, San Francisco) 6 Bulletin of the American Academy Winter 2005 Induction Ceremony Challenges Facing the Intellectual Community On October 9, 2004, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences welcomed its 224th class of members at an Induction Ceremony in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The ceremony began with a reading by poet Carl Phillips. Astronomer Steven Beckwith, neurobiologist Steven E. Hyman, circuit court judge Diane P. Wood, literary scholar Richard H. Brodhead, and U.S. Senator Paul S. Sarbanes also addressed the audience. Their remarks appear below. “To the Harbormaster” –ignorable, a small concern. I wanted to be sure to reach you; though my ship was on the way it got But the boy at the bow was shirtless: caught how bells at evensong, in some moorings. I am always tying up though this was morning, leave and then deciding to depart. In storms and changed the air– at sunset, with the metallic coils of the tide around my fathomless arms, I am unable Facing the others, he watched them to understand the forms of my vanity pull in unison their or I am hard alee with my Polish rudder course across and in my hand and the sun sinking. To you I offer my hull and the tattered cordage over again the water, of my will. The terrible channels where as if to the rowing there were now the wind drives me against the brown lips no struggling, of the reeds are not all behind me. Yet or it was as if–about struggling– I trust the sanity of my vessel; and the only dif½cult part left Carl Phillips if it sinks, it may well be in answer lay in settling to the reasoning of the eternal voices, the waves which have kept me from ½nally on a pattern for it. To paraphrase Samuel Johnson, the busi- reaching you. Three strokes; four– ness of the poet is not so much to tell us how And the boy at the bow sang out to them: or what to think but rather to enlarge our sen- The next poem is my own. It’s called sibility. The poems I admire the most, from “Crew”–as in the sculling crews on the What is dread which I have learned the most, are those that Charles River. but that from which the soul without actually asking us to do so direct us will be delivered? toward an interior interrogation of ourselves “Crew” as human beings. In the course of that inter- (St. John’s) To which O what rogation, we give thought to nothing less than is the soul? the rest of the boys what it means to be alive, human, flawed, Most wore shirts–oversized, sang back. to have a body and to trust it, even as we ac- shabby-aquarium-green knowledge its instinctive nature and the ways singlets that the light in which that nature collides routinely with off the water at once that strange and uniquely human creation– ½lled, making moral conduct, whatever that is. Sex and the bodies inside prayer, devotion, and the meaningful tension between the desire to risk abandon–with- visible: their lack out which devotion is nothing at all–and to of fullness, what resist it. eventually they would come If the body is a ship, who is the harbormas- into, briefly ter? That’s but one of the questions hovering the body seemed what it over this ½rst poem by Frank O’Hara. It’s never is called “To the Harbormaster.” Bulletin of the American Academy Winter 2005 7 constant, but the rate of change of the expan- sion over cosmic time, leading to the discov- We need a more scienti½- ery that the universe is actually accelerating cally literate electorate if as it grows. This is one of the most impor- tant discoveries in the last hundred years. we are to make the right We now have proof beyond any reasonable doubt not only for the existence of black holes choices for the future of but the presence of one in the center of our our society. own galaxy, a discovery credited in part to one of our Class I inductees, Andrea Ghez. We our latest detectors on the Hubble Space have been able to see back to the time when Telescope, we have improved the sensitivity the ½rst stars and galaxies emerged from the over the human eye by thirty billion times, soup after the Big Bang, a time we call cosmic enough to easily detect the light from a ½re- dawn. We can now produce pictures of the fly at the distance of the Moon. Engineering young galaxies, demonstrating unequivocal- drives science. ly that the universe really looked different Steven Beckwith thirteen billion years ago, a palpable veri½- • Techniques from applied mathematics are cation that the universe has evolved and the used to process the data we collect, removing Big Bang theory is better than the alternatives. unwanted interference from the instruments A few years ago, my wife and I were on va- and the Earth’s atmosphere. Basic research cation with friends from New York at their And we have not only discovered more than in mathematics provides the underpinnings beach home on Long Island. We were sit- a hundred planets orbiting stars other than for all theories in cosmology, gravitational ting on the deck of their house admiring the the Sun, in itself an almost unbelievable ac- research, and elementary particle physics moonrise over the ocean with the tide just complishment, but we have also made the needed to understand the early universe. starting to change, and–trying vainly to be ½rst measurements of elements in the atmos- • The development of chemical rockets erudite–I remarked on the lag between the phere of one of them. Ten years ago, very few made it possible to place our telescopes above time of the tides and the position of the Moon people thought we would discover any extra- the Earth’s atmosphere, allowing us to ap- as it went around the Earth.
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