Dr. Virginia Pascual, director of the Gale and Ira Drukier Institute for Children’s Health and the Ronay Menschel Professor of Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Founded in 1780, the academy is one of the nation’s oldest honorary societies. Members have included Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Barbara McClintock among a host of other luminaries. This year, Dr. Pascual joins nearly 250 other inductees from academia, the arts, industry, policy, research and science.
“I’m in great company, and I’m very grateful and honored,” Dr. Pascual said. “The mission of the academy—to cultivate the interests, honor, dignity and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people—is beautiful and aspirational. I respect that spirit and could not be prouder to be a member of this community.”
