India, May 4 -- Five Yale faculty members have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

Steven Berry, Gary Brudvig, Jonathan Ellman, Leonid Glazman, and Mark Hochstrasser are among 120 new members and 30 international members elected to the academy. Election to the academy is considered one of the highest honors that can be bestowed on a U.S. scientist or engineer.

The new members bring the total number of active members to 2,662 and the total number of international members to 556. International members are nonvoting members with citizenship outside the United States.

Steven Berry is the David Swensen Professor of Economics in Y...