Thomas D. Cook, professor of sociology and IPR faculty fellow, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Cook was elected in April and will be formally inducted into the academy in October at its headquarters in Cambridge, Mass.

The academy, founded in 1780 by John Adams, James Bowdoin and John Hancock, is an honorary society that recognizes achievement in the natural sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Cook joins IPR colleagues Charles Manski (IPR-Economics) and Charles Moskos (IPR-Sociology) as fellows of this prestigious group. Cook is an expert in evaluation methods and has written eight books and is working on three others. He has been awarded the Gunnar Myrdal Prize for Science by the American Evaluation Association and the Donald T. Campbell Prize for Innovative Methodology by the Policy Sciences Organization. He received the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association's Division of Evaluation, Measurement and Statistics in 1997.

Cook has been a member of Northwestern's faculty since 1968.