The National Academy of Sciences announced the election of 100 new members and 25 foreign associates in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Forty percent of the newly elected members are women — the most ever elected in any one year to date.

Among those elected into this newest class of distinguished members are four Princeton University faculty, two of whom are based at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. From the Wilson School, Janet M. Currie and Helen Milner join Princeton faculty Nieng Yan and Ali Yazdani.

Currie is the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs and co-director of Princeton's Center for Health and Wellbeing. She also co-directs the Program on Families and Children at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research focuses on health and wellbeing, especially of children.

Milner is the B.C. Forbes Professor of Politics and International Affairs and director of the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance. Her research interests include the political economy of trade policy, the interaction of domestic and international politics, globalization, foreign aid, and international trade and environmental policy. 

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a private, non-profit society of distinguished scholars. Established by an Act of Congress, signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, the NAS is charged with providing independent, objective advice to the nation on matters related to science and technology. Scientists are elected by their peers to membership in the NAS for outstanding contributions to research.