{"id":48272,"date":"2011-10-12T12:36:20","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T16:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=48272"},"modified":"2011-10-14T11:11:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T15:11:53","slug":"biologist-inducted-into-american-academy-of-arts-and-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2011\/10\/biologist-inducted-into-american-academy-of-arts-and-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"Biologist Inducted into American Academy of Arts and Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_48257\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48257\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/colwell_Signing.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48257 img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/colwell_Signing-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/colwell_Signing-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/colwell_Signing-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/colwell_Signing.jpg 630w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48257\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert K. Colwell, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, signs the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\u2019 Book of Members, a tradition that dates back to 1780. (American Academy of Arts and Sciences Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Robert Colwell,<strong> <\/strong>Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, was<strong> <\/strong>among 179 of the nation\u2019s most influential artists, scientists, scholars, authors, and institutional leaders who were inducted into the <a href=\"http:\/\/amacad.org\/\">American Academy of Arts and Sciences<\/a> at a ceremony in Cambridge, Mass., on Oct. 1.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1780, the American Academy is one of the nation\u2019s oldest and most prestigious learned societies, and an independent research center that draws from its members\u2019 expertise to conduct studies in science<strong> <\/strong>and technology policy, global security, the humanities and culture, social policy, and education.<\/p>\n<p>Colwell was recognized for his contributions to the field of tropical biology. He has conducted much of his field research in Costa Rica, and recently has studied the potential effects of global warming on plant and animal species there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInduction recognizes extraordinary individual achievement and marks a commitment on the part of new members to provide fundamental, non-partisan knowledge for addressing today\u2019s complex challenges,\u201d said American Academy President Leslie Berlowitz.<\/p>\n<p>The 231st Class of the Academy includes winners of Nobel, Pritzker, and Pulitzer prizes; the Turing Award; MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships; Kennedy Center Honors; and Grammy, Golden Globe, and Academy awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Colwell, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, was recognized for his contributions to tropical biology. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":48257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[40],"class_list":["post-48272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 00:55:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48272"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48277,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48272\/revisions\/48277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/48257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48272"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=48272"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=48272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}