# Profs. Richard Sylla and Yacov Trope Among NYU Faculty Elected as 2012 AAAS Fellows

1 Press Releases April 17, 2012 ![KMC Flag Close-up](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/KMC-Flag-Close-up-body.jpg?itok=YEpTG40v) Eight NYU Faculty Join Hillary Rodham Clinton, Jeff Bezos, and Clint Eastwood as 2012 AAAS Fellows > Election to the Academy is both an honor for extraordinary accomplishment and a call to serve ...

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) has elected eight New York University faculty as fellows: Crispin James Garth Wright, a professor of philosophy; Yacov Trope, a professor of psychology; Danny Reinberg, a professor of biochemistry and molecular pharmacology, NYU School of Medicine; Elizabeth Phelps, a Silver Professor of Psychology and Neural Science; Paul Boghossian, a Silver Professor of Philosophy; Richard Sylla, Henry Kaufman Professor of the History of Financial Institutions and Markets at NYU’s Stern School of Business; Daryl Levinson, David Boies Professor of Law at NYU’s School of Law; and Marvin Trachtenberg, Edith Kitzmiller Professor of Fine Arts at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts.

Read the full release [here](http://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2012/04/17/eight-nyu-faculty-join-hillary-rodham-clinton-jeff-bezos-and-clint-eastwood-as-2012-aaas-fellows.html).