Hopkins professors Peter Devreotes and Charles Bennett were recently elected to the National Academy of Science as distinguished professors of its 225th class.
They join Hopkins professors John Irwin and Peter Olson, who are two of the American Academy of Arts and Science's current members.
The recognition of these four professors brings the number of Hopkins faculty to 20 members in the National Academy of Science and 36 professors in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
President Brody commended the faculty members for their accomplishments.
"They are scholars and teachers of the first order and wonderful representatives of our university," Brody said.
"Their recognition honors them, of course, but it also honors you [the community of JHU]. You are their colleagues in the never ending quest for, as our university motto so elegantly puts it, the truth sets us free," he added.
Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences Daniel Weiss spoke to the Hopkins Office of News and Information, saying, "being inducted into The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is the highest recognition a scholar can receive in this country."
"This is wonderful news for professors Olson and Irwin, each of whom is richly deserving of this recognition," Adam Falk, interim dean of the Krieger School told the Hopkins Department of News and Information.
"It is also a great source of pride for the Krieger School to have faculty honored simultaneously in two such different disciplines. We are indebted to them for everything they have contributed to Arts and Sciences over the years," he added.
Irwin, former chair of the Writing Seminars department, is also a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, Christian Gauss Prize, and the Scaglione Prize for his works The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges and the Analytic Detective Story.
Irwin is former editor of The Georgia Review and currently is editor of The Johns Hopkins University Press's Fiction and Poetry Series.
Olson is the former chair of the department of earth and planetary sciences. He is currently working with graduate students and post-doctoral fellows to study the dynamics of the earth's interior.
Olson's specific field of invesitgation is plate tectonics and geomagnetic field.
Devreotes is a professor of cell biology in the School of Medicine. He has co-authored more than 180 scientific publications and is noted for cloning the first receptors involved in cell attraction.
His current field of research involves study of a single-celled amoeba.
Bennettnot , a professor in the department of physics and astronomy, became a Hopkins faculty member in January after serving as senior scientist for experimental cosmology at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
He also works as a principle investigator for the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotrophy Probe, a mission to determine the composition and curvature of the universe.
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences consists of scholars from an amalgam of fields, such as mathematics, physics, biological sciences, humanities, the arts, public affairs and business.
The spectrum of specialties allows the academy to conduct a wide range of interdisciplinary studies and research.
