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INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY: BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The Institute for Advanced Study was founded in 1930 with a major gift from New Jersey businessman and philanthropist Louis Bamberger and his sister, Mrs. FeUx Fuld, who wished to use their fortunes to make a significant and lasting contribution to society. They sought the advice of educator Abraham Flexner, who developed the concept of the Institute as a community of scholars whose primary purpose would be the pursuit of advanced learning and scholarly exploration. The Institute for Advanced Study has sustained its founding principle for more than sixty-seven years. This commitment has yielded an unsurpassed record of definitive scholarship. The Institute fills a unique role in postgraduate education and scientific and scholarly research. Called (by Institute Trustee Vartan Gregorian) "the university to universities," the Institute serves all colleges and universities by providing a place where scholars can hone their skills and do their best work, thereby adding substantially to their ability to contribute as both teachers and scholars to the academic institutions where they base their careers. For young scholars just entering the academic world, an opportunity to work at the Institute can set the direction for lifelong research interests and thereby determine professional careers. The Institute provides more mature scholars with the opportunity to take a new direction in their research or to complete a major piece of work away from the many obligations and distractions of working life at a contemporary university. In our era, a time when pure research and scholarly activities are undervalued, these opportunities are exceedingly rare. The Institute's foremost objective is the advancement of knowledge and the deep- ening of understanding across a broad range of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. One of the Institute's unique strengths is its small and distinguished permanent Faculty, well-established scholars whose broad interests and extensive ties to the larger academic world are reflected in their own work and also in the guidance and direction they provide to the Institute's visiting Members. The Faculty defines the major themes and questions which become the focus of each School's seminars and other activities, and the Faculty selects and works closely with visiting Members. Small in number and organized in four Schools (Historical Studies, Mathe- matics, Natural Sciences, and Social Science), the Faculty and Members can inter- act with one another without the departmental and disciplinary barriers found in universities. Each year the Institute awards fellowships to 160-180 visiting Members from universities and research institutions throughout the world. The Institute's nearly 5,000 former Members hold positions of intellectual and scientific leadership in the United States and abroad. More than a dozen Nobel laureates have been Institute Faculty or Members, and others are winners of the Wolf or Mac Arthur prizes. Twen- ty-seven out of thirty-six Fields Medalists, the Nobel equivalent tor mathematicians, have come from the Institute. The Institute does not receive income from tuition or fees. Resources for operations come from endowment income, grants from private foundations and government agencies, and gifts from corporations and individuals.
FOUNDERS, TRUSTEES AND OFFICERS OF THE BOARD AND OF THE CORPORATION FoKiiJt'r.s LOUIS BAMBERGER CAROLINE BAMBERGER FULD Board and Corporate Officers JAMES D. WOLFENSOHN Chairman of the Board LEON LEVY Chairman of the Executive Committee Vice C/iaitTTiaTi of the Board President of the Corporation ALLEN L ROWE Treasurer RACHEL n. GRAY Secretary of the Corporation The Board of Trustees JAMES G. ARTHUR Vniversity Professor Department of Mathematics , University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario RICHARD B. BLACK President, Oak Technology, Inc. Sunnyvale, California MICHAEL R. BLCH^MBERG President and Founder, Bloomberg Financial Markets Nev.' York, New York MARTIN A. CHOOLJIAN President, CH Capital Corporation Princeton, New jersey ANNE d'HARNONCOURT The George D. Widener Director and C.E.O. Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia, Pennsylvania JEAN BETHKE ELSHTAIN Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics The University of Chicago Chicago, Illinois
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