At its Annual Meeting of Members on December 17, the National Institute of Social Sciences elected three new members to the Board of Trustees.

The National Institute honored two distinguished individuals at its 105th Annual Gold Medal Dinner: Dr. Paul Farmer, a medical anthropologist, Harvard Medical School professor, and co-founder of Partners In Health; and Peter Gelb, managing director of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.

The National Institute of Social Sciences mourns the passing of Paul A. Volcker, former chair of the Federal Reserve, who died on December 8. Mr. Volcker, whose aggressive policies are credited with subduing the country’s rampant inflation of the 1970s and 1980s, received the National Institute’s Gold Medal in 1988.

The National Institute of Social Sciences has partnered with the American Historical Association to support graduate students attending the AHA’s annual meetings, which take place each January.

The first grants will be awarded to support students at the AHA’s 2020 annual meeting, which will be held in New York City from January 3-6.

Barbara and Donald Tober are among those being honored on Wednesday, November 6 at the 2019 Living Landmarks Celebration at The Plaza in New York. Both Mr. and Mrs. Tober are devoted New Yorkers, and noted philanthropists supporting various New York cultural institutions. Mrs. Tober is chair emerita of the Museum of Arts and Design while Mr. Tober is chair of the Sugar Foods Corporation.

This summer, the National Institute of Social Sciences donated a trove of historical materials—some more than 150 years old—to the Yale University Archives.

Hirokazu Shirado, who received a grant from the National Institute of Social Sciences, will be an assistant professor at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University commencing in the Fall 2019.

The National Institute of Social Sciences mourns the passing of former Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau. Mr. Morgenthau, who served as Manhattan’s D.A. for more than 30 years, died on Sunday, July 21. He was 99. The National Institute had honored Mr. Morgenthau with a Gold Medal for Distinguished Service to Humanity in 2008, and he had served as one of the National Institute’s honorary trustees for many years.

The National Institute of Social Sciences is pleased to announce that it will present its 2019 Gold Medals to medical anthropologist and physician Paul Edward Farmer, the co-founder and chief strategist of Partners in Health, and to celebrated arts administrator and leader Peter Gelb, who has been general manager of the Metropolitan Opera since 2006.

On Wednesday, May 15, the National Institute hosted a remarkable evening at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York.

The National Institute of Social Sciences held its annual luncheon on June 20th at the Princeton Club of New York. The members and guests heard Glenn Nye, the president and CEO of the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, and Joshua Graham Lynn, managing director and co-founder of Represent.Us, the country’s largest grassroots anti-corruption organization, discuss ways to reform the nation’s political system.

On Thursday, June 20, the Hon. Glenn C. Nye III, the president and CEO of the Center for the Study of the Presidency & Congress in Washington, D.C., will discuss “Breaking the Gridlock: Reforming Our Broken Political System” at the annual luncheon of the National Institute of Social Sciences. The luncheon will be held at the Princeton Club, 15 West 43rd Street in Manhattan, beginning at noon.

Nationally recognized art historian and curator Elliot Bostwick Davis, who was recently named curator of the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, will headline the annual luncheon of the National Institute’s Florida Chapter on Tuesday, 23 April 2019.