Organization and Purpose
The Royal Society of Canada currently consists of over 2 000 Fellows: men and women from all branches of learning who have made remarkable contributions in the arts, the humanities and the sciences, as well as in Canadian public life. Today, the fellowship comprises four categories: Regularly Elected Fellows, Specially Elected Fellows, Foreign Fellows and Honorary Fellows.
Each year, approximately 80 outstanding individuals are elected to the fellowship. This cohort includes approximately 75 Regularly Elected Fellows recommended by the Divisions; up to six Specially Elected Fellows; up to four Foreign Fellows; and a maximum of one Honorary Fellow.
Election to fellowship in the Society is the highest accolade available to scientists, artists and scholars in Canada. Once inducted into the Society, Anglophone Fellows may use the post-nomial FRSC (Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada) and Francophone Fellows may use MSRC (Membre de la Société royale du Canada). The RSC is composed of three bilingual Academies, embracing a broad range of scholarly disciplines and artistic fields.
Academy I is the Academy of Arts and Humanities. There are three divisions of Academy I: an Anglophone Division (I) - Humanities; a Francophone division (II) – Lettres et sciences humaines; and a bilingual division for the Arts (III) – The Arts/Les Arts; embracing architecture, creative writing and the arts.
Academy II is the Academy of Social Sciences. There are two divisions of Academy II: an Anglophone division (I) – Social Sciences; and a Francophone division (II) – Sciences sociales.
Academy III is the Academy of Science. There are four bilingual divisions of Academy III: (I) - Applied Sciences and Engineering; (II) - Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences; (III) - Life Sciences; and (IV) - Mathematical and Physical Sciences.
The Society is dedicated to making its members’ broad and varied knowledge available to the public. Members are available to assess issues of value to Canadians and provide independent expert advice, notably to government on matters of public policy through its program of Expert Panel reports.
Read more about this topic: Royal Society Of Canada
Famous quotes containing the words organization and/or purpose:
“Prostitution is the most hideous of the afflictions produced by the unequal distribution of the world’s goods; this infamy stigmatizes the human species and bears witness against the social organization far more than does crime.”
—Flora Tristan (1803–1844)
“Whoever considers morality the main objective of human existence, seems to me like a person who defines the purpose of a clock as not going wrong. The first objective for a clock, is, however, that it does run; not going wrong is an additional regulative function. If not a watch’s greatest accomplishment were not going wrong, unwound watches might be the best.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)