IU’s Einhorn, Ostrom elected to National Academy of Sciences

By Mary Hardin and George Vlahakis

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Einhorn and Ostrom join 10 other IU faculty as members of the prestigious organization. They were the only members elected this year from a university or college in Indiana.

Seventy-five new members and 15 foreign associates from 10 countries also were elected in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. In addition, one member was elected posthumously.

NAS is a private organization of scientists established in 1863 by a congressional act of incorporation signed by Abraham Lincoln. NAS acts as an official adviser to the federal government in any matter of science or technology.

A medical oncologist who has been with the IU School of Medicine since 1973, Einhorn has received international recognition for his role in the development of a chemotherapy regimen for disseminated testis cancer, the most common cancer in young men. His research led to a marked increase in the cure rate for what had previously been a devastating and rapidly fatal disease. Testis cancer is not Einhorn’s only area of expertise. He also is an internationally recognized authority on other types of urologic cancer, lung cancer and certain other tumors.

Ostrom joined the IU faculty in 1966 and served as chair of the IUB Department of Political Science in 1980-84. She has been co-director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis since 1973 and has a part-time faculty appointment in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

Ostrom was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1991. In 1999, she became the first woman to receive the John Skytte Prize from Sweden’s Uppsala University. It is one of the largest international scholarly awards in the social sciences.

She is past president of the American Political Science Association and has led the Public Choice Society, the Midwest Political Science Association and the International Association for the Study of Common Property.

She has served as a member of editorial boards for the American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Criminal Justice Review, Public Productivity Review, Publius, Quarterly Journal of Administration, Sage Urban Affairs Annual Review, Social Science Quarterly and Urban Affairs Quarterly.

To read more about the inductees, go to these archival HP Web sites:

http://www.iuinfo.indiana.edu/HomePages/041699/text/ostrom.htm

http://www.iuinfo.indiana.edu/homepages/3-3-2000/text/einhorn.htm