Three Penn faculty members were elected to the National Academy of Sciences earlier this month in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

Marsha I. Lester is the Edmund J. Kahn Distinguished Professor in the department of chemistry in Penn Arts & Sciences.

Andrea J. Liu is the Hepburn Professor in the department of physics & astronomy, also in Penn Arts & Sciences.

Amita Sehgal is the John Herr Musser Professor of Neuroscience in Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine.