Since its founding during the American Revolution, 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 distinguished "scholar-patriots" have brought the arts and sciences into constructive interplay with the leaders of both the public and private sectors. Today the academy is an international learned society that elects to its membership men and women of exceptional achievement, drawn from science, scholarship, business, public affairs and the arts, and conducts projects and studies responsive to the needs and problems of society. For more information: https://www.amacad.org