David Weisburd, George Mason University distinguished professor of Criminology, Law and Society and executive director of the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy, has been elected to the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Weisburd, who is also the Walter E. Meyer Professor Emeritus of Law and Criminal Justice at the Hebrew University Faculty of Law in Jerusalem, is the first criminologist to be elected to the Academy.
The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities acts as a national focal point for Israeli scholarship in both the natural sciences and the humanities. The Academy membership consists of 148 of Israel's most distinguished scientists and scholars, who, with the help of the Academy's staff and committees, monitor and promote Israeli intellectual excellence, advise the government on scientific planning, fund and publish research of lasting merit, and maintain active contact with the broader international scientific and scholarly community.
Weisburd's entry into the Academy will be marked with a formal ceremony scheduled for Hanukkah later this year.
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July 03, 2024