This year 27 new American members were elected to the American Philosophical Society along with five foreign members. Of the 27 new American members this year, 10 are women and eight of these women have current ties to the academic world.
The study found that many incidents of sexual harassment and other inappropriate behavior occurred on social occasions when faculty and graduate students were engaging in heavy drinking.
A professor emerita of philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Professor Thomason has been awarded the 2012 Quinn Prize from the American Philosophical Association.
