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[Madhav Deshpande]

Hearty congratulations, Anne! Well deserved honor.

Madhav

Madhav M. Deshpande
Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies
Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India

[Residence: Campbell, California, USA]


On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 8:12 AM Olivelle, J P via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear Friends:
>
> Delighted to inform all of you that our friend and colleagues Anne
> Feldhaus was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a
> distinct and well-deserved honor.
>
> Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences honors
> excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to
> examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and the
> world, and work together, as expressed in our charter, “to cultivate every
> art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and
> happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.” Our studies have
> helped set the direction of research and analysis in science and technology
> policy, global security and international affairs, social policy,
> education, and the arts and humanities.
>
>
>
> Notable members – from our founders John Adams, Benjamin Franklin,
> Alexander Hamilton, and George Washington to Ralph Waldo Emerson, Maria
> Mitchell, and Alexander Graham Bell.  Other distinguished members have
> included Margaret Mead, Jonas Salk, Barbara McClintock, John F. Kennedy,
> Martin Luther King, Jr., Aaron Copland, Martha Graham, John Hope Franklin,
> Georgia O’Keeffe, E. O. Wilson, Madeleine Albright, and Colin Powell.
> International Honorary Members have included Charles Darwin, Albert
> Einstein, Winston Churchill, Wislawa Szymborska, Laurence Olivier, Mary
> Leakey, Gabriel Garcia Márquez, Akira Kurosawa, and Nelson Mandela. Our
> current members represent today’s innovative thinkers in every field and
> profession, including more than two hundred and fifty Nobel and Pulitzer
> Prize winners.
>
>
> With best wishes,
>
> Patrick Olivelle
>
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