Two faculty members in the College of Arts and Sciences – Martha Haynes, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Astronomy emerita, and Caroline Levine, the David and Kathleen Ryan Professor of Humanities – have been named to the American Philosophical Society (APS), the oldest learned society in America, founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743. 

They will be inducted during a ceremony in November among 42 members from diverse fields chosen to join the society this year. 

Haynes studies the large-scale distribution of galaxies in the local universe, focusing on how local environment influences galaxy formation and evolution. She is a leader and advocate for the development of instruments to expand our ability to probe the radio universe. 

Levine, the author of four books, has spent her career asking how and why the humanities and the arts matter, especially in democratic societies. She is the nineteenth-century editor for the Norton Anthology of World Literature.  

Read the full story on the College of Arts and Sciences website.