The annual "the rich get richer" in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences...

...though as with recent years, there is more diversity in institutions whose faculty were recognized.  Here they are by total faculty elected this year (those with an unusually large number relative to recent years are marked with an *; those with an unusually low number are marked with an #)

Harvard University (10)

Stanford University (10)

Massachussetts Institute of Technology (8)

New York University (7)

Yale University (7)

University of California, Berkeley (6)

Columbia University (5)

University of Chicago (5)

*Emory University (4)

University of California, Los Angeles (4)

California Institute of Technology (3)

Cornell University (3)

*Indiana University, Bloomington (3) 

#Princeton University (3)

University of California, San Francisco (3)

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (3)

*University of Texas, Austin (3)

Brown University (2)

Duke University (2)

#Northwestern University (2)

*Florida State University (2)

*Ohio State University (2)

University of California, Davis (2)

University of California, San Diego (2)

*University of Maryland, College Park (2)

#University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2)

#University of Pennsylvania (2)

University of Washington, Seattle (2)

The following schools all had one faculty member each elected this year:  University of Arizona; Texas A&M University; Johns Hopkins University; University of Minnesota; Rice University; Pennsylvania State University; Georgetown University; George Washington University; University of Oregon; #University of Wisconsin, Madison; Washington University, St. Louis; Arizona State University; University of Hawaii; Michigan State University; Boston University; University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; University of California, Santa Barbara; University of Virignia; University of California, Irvine; Rutgers University, New Brunswick; University of California, Santa Cruz. 

Election to the Academy is a curious process; I'll write a bit more about it in a subsequent post that will explain why the rich get richer, and why sometimes the elections sometimes seem to be governed by the principle "friends of friends."