Select Prizes and Awards to Members
José Andrés (World Central Kitchen) received the Yale Legend in Leadership Award from the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute at the Yale School of Management.
Brenda Bass (University of Utah School of Medicine) received the 2026 RNA Society’s Lifetime Achievement in Science Award.
Sian Leah Beilock (Dartmouth College) received a 2026 Illustrious Alumni Award from the University of California San Diego.
Nicholas Burns (Harvard University) was awarded the Dayton Peace Prize.
Nancy E. Davidson (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center) is the 2026 recipient of the David Karnofsky Science of Oncology Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
John Donoghue (Brown University) was named a 2026 Laureate of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.
Cynthia Dwork (Harvard University) was awarded the 2026 Japan Prize.
Elena Fuentes-Afflick (Association of American Medical Colleges) is the 2026 recipient of the Elizabeth Blackwell Women in Medicine Career Achievement Award, given by the American Medical Women’s Association.
Alan M. Garber (Harvard University) received the Yale Legend in Leadership Award from the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute at the Yale School of Management.
David Ginty (Harvard Medical School) was awarded the 2026 Brain Prize by the Lundbeck Foundation. Dr. Ginty shares the award with Patrik Ernfors (Karolinska Institutet).
Carla Hayden (Mellon Foundation) received the Biographers International Organization’s 2026 Biblio Award.
Clark Spencer Larsen (Ohio State University) received the 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association of Biological Anthropologists.
H. Blaine Lawson, Jr. (Stony Brook University) was awarded the American Mathematical Society’s 2026 Leroy P. Stelle Prize for Lifetime Achievement.
Karolin Luger (University of Colorado, Boulder) was awarded the 2026 Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science, given by the Vilcek Foundation.
Teresa Meng (Stanford University) was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
Lynn Nottage (Columbia University) is the recipient of the 2025–2026 Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award, given by the Executive Committee of Arts and Sciences of Columbia University.
Alina Payne (Harvard University) was named a Fellow of the Society of Architectural Historians.
James Ryan (University of Virginia) received the Yale Legend in Leadership Award from the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute at the Yale School of Management.
Amy Tan (San Francisco, CA) received the Robert Kirsch Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Los Angeles Times as part of its 46th annual Book Prizes.
Natasha Trethewey (Northwestern University) is the 2026 recipient of Oregon State University’s Stone Award for Literary Achievement.
Kevin Young (The New Yorker; New York University) was awarded the 2026 Thomas Robinson Prize for Southern Literature, given by Mercer University’s Spencer B. King Jr. Center for Southern Studies.
Feng Zhang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
New Appointments
Manjul Bhargava (Princeton University) was named President of the National Museum of Mathematics.
Naomi Halas (Rice University) was elected to the Council of the National Academy of Sciences.
Suzanne Nora Johnson (Markle Foundation; University of Southern California) joined the Board of Directors of Wellcome Leap.
Sandra Knapp (Natural History Museum, London) was appointed Director of Research of the Museum.
Gary Koretzky (Weill Cornell Medicine) was appointed Vice Provost for Research for Cornell University’s Ithaca, Cornell Tech, and AgriTech campuses.
Tod Machover (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was appointed Faculty Director of the Media Lab at MIT.
M. Elizabeth Magill (University of Pennsylvania) was named Dean of the Georgetown University Law Center.
Jennifer Mnookin (University of Wisconsin–Madison) was appointed President of Columbia University.
Diane C. Mutz (University of Pennsylvania) was elected to the Council of the National Academy of Sciences.
Daniel R. Porterfield (Aspen Institute) was named Chief Executive Officer of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation.
Anna Marie Prentiss (University of Montana) was elected President-Elect of the Society for American Archaeology.
Franklin D. Raines (Washington, D.C.) was elected Chairman of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.
Guillermo Sapiro (Princeton University) was appointed a Lingnan Fellow of the Lingnan University Institute for Advanced Study.
Ben Vinson III (Howard University; American Historical Association) was appointed a Fellow at the Afro-Latin American Research Institute of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University.
Select Publications
Poetry
Jonathan Galassi (New York, NY). The Vineyard: A Poem. Knopf, March 2026
Jorie Graham (Harvard University). Killing Spree. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, May 2026
Fiction
Colm Tóibín (Columbia University). The News from Dublin: Stories. Scribner, March 2026
Nonfiction
Omer Bartov (Brown University). Israel: What Went Wrong? Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2026
John Y. Campbell (Harvard University) and Kaye Husbands Fealing, eds. (Georgia Institute of Technology). Financing Institutions of Higher Education. University of Chicago Press, February 2026
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw (Columbia Law School; UCLA School of Law). Backtalker: An American Memoir. Simon & Schuster, May 2026
Donald L. Horowitz (Duke University). The Promise and Perils of Devolution: Federalism, Regional Autonomy, and Ethnic Conflict. Oxford University Press, February 2026
Pieter M. Judson (European University Institute) and Tara Zahra (University of Chicago). The Great War and the Transformation of Habsburg Central Europe. Oxford University Press, December 2025
Andrew H. Knoll (Harvard University). Earth and Life: A Four Billion Year Conversation. Princeton University Press, March 2026
Charles Larmore (Brown University). La réalité du bien. Editions Hermann, February 2026
Nicholas Lemann (Columbia Journalism School). Returning: A Search for Home Across Three Centuries. Liveright, March 2026
Ruthie Rogers (The River Cafe). Table 4 at The River Cafe: Conversations about Food and Life. Gallery Books, March 2026
Neil deGrasse Tyson (Hayden Planetarium, American Museum of Natural History). Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter. Simon Six, May 2026
We invite all Fellows and International Honorary Members to send notices about their recent and forthcoming publications, new appointments, exhibitions and performances, films and documentaries, and honors and prizes to bulletin@amacad.org.