Eight Northwestern faculty members were elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an honorary society and research center founded in 1780, according to a Wednesday news release by the University. McCormick Prof. Guillermo Ameer, McCormick Prof. Jian Cao, chemistry Prof. Mercouri Kanatzidis, chemistry Prof. Shana Kelley, sociology and Black studies Prof. Aldon Morris,.
Contrary to the sanitized version we sometimes hear about the civil rights movement, change was not achieved solely by protest marches and people singing “We Shall Overcome”