3 U-M faculty members elected to National Academy of Sciences
April 29, 2026
ANN ARBOR—Three University of Michigan professors are among 120 new members elected into the National Academy of Sciences for distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Those elected—Ruma Banerjee, Nancy Burns and Elizaveta (Liza) Levina—bring the total number of active members to 2,705 and international members to 557, of which 25 were chosen this year.
- Banerjee is the Vincent Massey Collegiate Professor of Biological Chemistry. Her research focuses on the enzymes, coenzymes and metabolic pathways that support and interact with the sulfur network in mammals.
- Burns, the Warren E. Miller Collegiate Professor of Political Science and Research Professor in ISR’s Center for Political Studies, studies gender, race, political participation, public opinion and intergovernmental relations in the American context.
- Levina, the Vijay Nair Collegiate Professor of Statistics, is known for her work on high-dimensional statistical inference and statistical network analysis covering a wide range of methods, theory and applications. Her current application interests are in neuroimaging.
The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit institution that was established under a congressional charter signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. It recognizes achievement in science by election to membership, and—with the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medicine—provides science, engineering and health policy advice to the federal government and other organizations.
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