Company:American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Honorary society that recognizes achievement in the natural sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities and conducts a varied program of projects and studies responsive to the needs of society. Features publications in PDF format, news, events calendar, as well as lists of members and fellows.

Welcome About the Academy About the Academy For over years the American Academy of Arts and Sciences has been honoring excellence and providing service to the nation and the world Through independent nonpartisan study its ranks of distinguished scholar-patriots have brought the arts and sciences into constructive interplay with the leaders of both the public and private sectors The Academy was founded during the American Revolution by John Adams James Bowdoin John Hancock and other leaders who contributed prominently to the establishment of the new nation its government and its Constitution Its purpose was to provide a forum for a select group of scholars members of the learned professions and government and business leaders to work together on behalf of the democratic interests of the republic In the words of the Academy's charter enacted in the end and design of the institution is to cultivate every art and science which

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