The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has inducted two University of Virginia professors into its ranks.

Professor Danielle Citron of the School of Law and  F. Palmer Weber Medical Research Professor Dr. Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco of the School of Medicine were welcomed in ceremonies held Sept. 29 and 30 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

According to the organization’s mission statement, “The American Academy of Arts and Sciences honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and the world and work together to cultivate every art and science, which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.”

At UVA, Citron is the Jefferson Scholars Foundation Schenck Distinguished Professor in Law and Caddell and Chapman Professor of Law. She is the inaugural director of the school’s LawTech Center, which focuses on pressing questions in law and technology, and a co-host of the Law School podcast, “Common Law.”