Two U-M faculty members were among those recently elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Philip Bucksbaum, Otto Laporte Professor of Physics and director, Center from Frontiers in Optical Coherent & Ultrafast Physics, and Raymond Kelly, professor of anthropology in LSA, were among the 72 new members and 18 foreign associates from 13 countries elected in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

Bucksbaum has several research projects in the Randall Laboratory, in the National Science Foundation Center for the Ultrafast Optical Science at U-M, and in other laboratories around the country and in Europe. His research focus is non-linear optics, precision measurements, high-intensity physics and ultra-fast laser physics.

Kelly joined the faculty as a lecturer in 1971. He is a generalist, and his research has focused on answering questions of broad anthropological interest, using a combination of field work and cross-cultural research.

He has published four books. Research topics include social inequality in classless societies, the causes of Nuer territorial expansion in Africa and the origins of war in human social evolution.