Nobel Laureate William Nordhaus Named American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the world’s largest general scientific societies, has named eight Yale faculty members as incoming fellows. It is Yale’s largest group of new AAAS fellows in more than a decade.

The new AAAS fellows include Economist and Nobel laureate William Nordhaus, as well as David Hafler, Leonard Milstone, Ruth Montgomery, Thomas Near, Karla Neugebauer, Craig Roy, and Jeffrey Townsend. They are part of a new class of fellows that include 471 scientists, engineers, and other innovators spanning many disciplines who are being recognized for distinguished achievement. The fellows come from academic institutions, labs and observatories, hospitals and medical centers, museums, global corporations, nonprofits, institutes, and government agencies.

William Nordhaus is a Sterling Professor Emeritus and research professor of economics at FAS and professor emeritus of forestry and environmental studies at Yale School of the Environment. His research has focused on economic growth and natural resources, the economics of climate change, and the resource constraints on economic growth. In 2018, he won the Nobel Prize in economics for his work integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis. He joined the Yale faculty in 1967.

Want to learn more about Professor Nordhaus' work? Read this interview on the economic consequences and opportunities of climate change.