The U.S. Census Bureau has announced that Director Robert Groves has been elected as a new member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for his excellence in original scientific research. Elected into the behavioural and social sciences section, Groves will be formally inducted into the Academy in April 2012 during its 149th annual meeting in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Groves is among 72 men and women elected to the NAS this year, thereby achieving one of the highest honours given to a scientist or engineer in the US. Upon his induction, the NAS will have 2,113 active members, including nearly 200 who have won Nobel Prizes. Among the more renowned members of the NAS since its establishment in 1863 are Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Orville Wright and Alexander Graham Bell.
Groves began his appointment as Census Bureau director on July 15, 2009, and has overseen the operations of the 2010 Census. He also has proposed major improvements in the Census Bureau's operations, most notably through the Improving Operational Efficiency programme, in which ideas on ways to reduce costs, increase efficiency and improve programmes were solicited from the agency's employees.
He is also an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Statistical Association, and the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research; a member of the International Statistical Institute; and a National Associate of the National Research Council.
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