Marc Freeman, Ph.D., director and senior scientist of the OHSU Vollum Institute, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The Academy, whose members include Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Maria Mitchell, is both an honorary society that recognizes and celebrates the excellence of its members and an independent research center convening leaders from across disciplines, professions and perspectives to address significant challenges. Freeman is one of more than 250 members who will be inducted in a ceremony in October 2026.
Academy Mission: 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 “to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.”
The American Academy was founded during the American Revolution, by John Adams, John Hancock, and 60 other scholar-patriots who understood that a new republic would require institutions able to gather knowledge and advance learning in service to the public good.