New York City
May 14, 2012More than 150 Academy members and guests attended a reception in New York City in honor of New York Area Fellows. Leslie C. Berlowitz (President of the Academy), Alan Alda (actor, writer, and director), Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. (President and Chief Executive Officer, TIAA-CREF), and Carol Gluck (George Sansom Professor of History, Columbia University) spoke about the unique role that the Academy plays as the nation’s oldest independent research center, addressing complex challenges to our civil society and national competitiveness.
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Carol Gluck (Columbia University), Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
(TIAA-CREF), Alan Alda (New York, New York), and Academy President Leslie
C. Berlowitz |
Carol Kekst (New York, New York), Gershon Kekst (Kekst
and Company), and Gerald Rosenfeld (Lazard Ltd.; New York University) |
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James S. Tisch (Loews Corporation), Billie Tisch (Tisch
Foundation), Helene Kaplan (Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates),
and Joel Conarroe (John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation) |
Steven Siegelbaum (Columbia University College of Physicians and
Surgeons), George Rupp (International Rescue Committee), and Shu Chien
(University of California, San Diego) |
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Daniel Mendelsohn (Bard College), Thomas Hines (University
of California, Los Angeles), and Richard Gardner (Columbia Law School) |
Igor Klebanov (Princeton University), Leslie C. Berlowitz
(American Academy), Cathleen Morawetz (New York University), and Laura Engelstein
(Yale University) |
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Don Michael Randel (Andrew W. Mellon Foundation), Roger W.
Ferguson, Jr. (TIAA-CREF), and Antonio M. Gotto Jr. (Weill Cornell Medical
College) |