Washington, DC- Under Secretary Blank was inducted as an Eleanor Roosevelt Fellow by the American Academy of Political and Social Science [6]. The event was held at the Newseum in Washington, DC. In appointing its first set of Fellows in 2000, the Academy sought to recognize and honor individual social scientists for their distinguished scholarship in the social sciences, sustained efforts to communicate that scholarship to audiences beyond their own discipline, and professional activities that promise to continue to promote the progress of the social sciences. Each Fellow is designated to a position named after a distinguished scholar and public servant. The AAPSS was founded in Philadelphia in 1889 to promote the progress of the social sciences. (Read the Academy blog [7])