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2 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Faculty Members Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Faculty Represent the Fields of Plant Pathology, Religious Studies, Comparative Literature

Two faculty from the University of California, Davis, have been elected as new members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Established in 1780, the academy honors individuals dedicated to its message and goal of examining new ideas, addressing issues of importance to the nation and the world, and advancing the public good.

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The newly elected members from 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis are professors Pamela C. Ronald, Department of Plant Pathology, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences; and Archana Venkatesan, professor of religious studies and comparative literature, in the College of Letters and Science.

Every year the academy recognizes individuals with accomplishments and leadership in academia, the arts, industry, public policy and research. This year the academy has elected 261 new members. The complete list of individuals elected in 2022, including 37 international honorary members from 16 countries, can be found . The academy鈥檚 work is advanced by its elected members, who are leaders in the academic disciplines, the arts, business and public affairs from around the world.

Ronald and Venkatesan join 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis faculty members who are part of the academy. Among important figures elected to the academy throughout history are Albert Einstein, Robert Frost, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Stephen Jay Hawking.

Ronald is a distinguished professor in the Department of Plant Pathology and the Genome Center at 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis. The plant geneticist is internationally recognized for her work studying genes that control resistance to disease and tolerance to flooding in rice, a staple food for more than half the world鈥檚 population. She is known for her work isolating a gene that allows rice to survive two weeks of flooding and increases yield by 60% compared to traditional varieties. She recently received the Wolf Prize in Agriculture for her improvements to rice.

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Venkatesan

Ronald graduated from Reed College with a bachelor鈥檚 degree in biology, from Stanford University with a master鈥檚 degree in biology, from Uppsala University with a master鈥檚 degree in physiological botany and from 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Berkeley with a doctoral degree in molecular and physiological plant biology. She was a postdoctoral fellow in plant breeding at Cornell University and joined the faculty of 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis in 1992.

Venkatesan is a professor of religious studies and comparative literature whose research interests are in the intersection of text and performance in South India, as well as in the translation of early and medieval Tamil ecstatic poetry into English.

Her most recent book, published in 2020, was a translation of the 罢颈谤耻惫腻测尘辞岣籭, an epic Tamil work from the ninth century. Her translation, Endless Song, received the 2021 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize from the American Literary Translation Association and the 2022 AK Ramanujan Translation Prize from the Association for Asian Studies.

Her other book translations include A Hundred Measures of Time, her translation of Namm膩岣籿膩r鈥檚 100-verse Tiruviruttam; and The Secret Garland, her translation of 膧峁囜弓膩岣封檚 罢颈谤耻辫辫腻惫补颈 and N膩cciy膩r Tirumo岣籭 by the ninth-century female poet and mystic K艒ta. She is, with Crispin Branfoot, co-author of In Andal鈥檚 Garden: Art, Ornamentation and Devotion in Srivilliputtur

She is currently working on an interdisciplinary collaborative project on the Nava Tirupati, a network of nine Vishnu temples in Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India.

Venkatesan, who came to 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis in 2007, has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities; American Institute of Indian Studies; National Endowment for the Arts; Fulbright; and Guggenheim Foundation. She was a Chancellor鈥檚 Fellow from 2014 to 2019 and twice served as the chair of the Department of Religious Studies in the College of Letters and Science. She earned her bachelor鈥檚 degree, master鈥檚 degree and doctorate from 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Berkeley.

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