Select Prizes and Awards to Members
Philippe Aghion (Collège de France) was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics. Professor Aghion shares the Nobel Prize with Joel Mokyr (Northwestern University) and Peter Howitt (Brown University).
Emanuel Ax (New York, NY) was named Musical America’s 2026 Artist of the Year.
James A. Banks (University of Washington) was selected by the American Educational Research Association to present the 2025 Brown Lecture in Education Research.
Deanna M. Barch (Washington University in St. Louis) received a 2026 William James Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science.
Jamelle Bouie (The New York Times) received the 2025 Carey McWilliams Award from the American Political Science Association.
Adriana Briscoe (University of California, Irvine) was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
John M. Carethers (University of California, San Diego) was awarded the 2025 Distinguished Lectureship on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities by the American Association for Cancer Research.
Jennifer Tour Chayes (University of California, Berkeley) received the 2025 Richard A. Tapia Achievement Award for Scientific Scholarship, Civic Science, and Diversifying Computing.
John Clarke (University of California, Berkeley) was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics. Professor Clarke shares the Nobel Prize with Michel Devoret (Yale University) and John Martinis (University of California, Santa Barbara).
James Dahlberg (University of Wisconsin–Madison) received a 2025 Bayh-Dole Coalition American Innovator Award.
Roger J. Davis (University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School) received the Bert and Natalie Vallee Award in Biomedical Science from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Jennifer Doudna (University of California, Berkeley) was awarded the 2026 Joseph Priestley Medal from the American Chemical Society.
Joseph Ecker (Salk Institute for Biological Studies) was awarded the 2026 Barbara McClintock Prize for Plant Genetics and Genome Studies.
Percival Everett (University of Southern California) received the Baldacci Award for Literary Activism from the Authors Guild Foundation.
Joseph S. Francisco (University of Pennsylvania) received the 2025 Pauling Medal from the American Chemical Society.
Wendy Freedman (University of Chicago) was awarded the 2026 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics from the Franklin Institute.
Dedre Gentner (Northwestern University) received the 2026 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science from the Franklin Institute.
Hahrie Han (Johns Hopkins University) was awarded a 2025 MacArthur Fellowship.
Maureen Hanson (Cornell University) received the 2025 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Research and Creative Activities.
Carla Hayden (Mellon Foundation) received the Authors Guild Foundation’s Champion of Writers Award.
Joseph Heitman (Duke University) received a 2025 Distinguished Faculty Award from the Duke Medical Alumni Association.
Steven Henikoff (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center) is the recipient of the 55th Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research, given by Brandeis University.
Gary Horowitz (University of California, Santa Barbara) was awarded the 2025 Dirac Medal by the International Center for Theoretical Physics.
Evelyn Hu (Harvard University) was awarded the 2026 Mildred Dresselhaus Prize from the American Physical Society.
Yonggang Huang (Northwestern University) was elected a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Maria Jasin (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) is the 2025 recipient of the Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, awarded by Rockefeller University.
Paula Johnson (Wellesley College) received the 2025 Cato T. Laurencin Lifetime Research Award from the National Medical Association.
Charles Kane (University of Pennsylvania) received the 2025 Lorentz Medal from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Lydia Kavraki (Rice University) was elected to the European Academy of Sciences.
Dacher Keltner (University of California, Berkeley) received a 2026 William James Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science.
Donald Kinder (University of Michigan) received the 2025 Ithiel de Sola Pool Award from the American Political Science Association.
Patrick V. Kirch (University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa) was awarded the Fellows Medal from the California Academy of Sciences.
Bryna Kra (Northwestern University) received the 2025 Martin E. and Gertrude G. Walder Award for Research Excellence, given by Northwestern University.
David A. Lake (University of California, San Diego) was awarded a 2025 Revelle Medal, given by the University of California, San Diego.
Cato T. Laurencin (University of Connecticut) was elected to the Chinese Society for Biomaterials.
Brenda N. Major (University of California, Santa Barbara) received a 2026 William James Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science.
Ann Masten (University of Minnesota) received the 2025 Gold Medal for Impact in Psychology from the American Psychological Foundation. Professor Masten also received the 2025 Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Child Development Award from the Society for Research in Child Development.
Steven McKnight (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center) received the 2025 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award. Dr. McKnight shares the award with Dirk Görlich (Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences).
Martha Minow (Harvard University) received the 2025 Burton Award–The Hon. Robert A. Katzmann Award for Academic Excellence.
Joel Mokyr (Northwestern University) was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics. Professor Mokyr shares the Nobel Prize with Philippe Aghion (Collège de France) and Peter Howitt (Brown University).
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (World Trade Organization) received the 2025 Cressey Award, given by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.
Eric Olson (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center) was awarded the 2025 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize.
Ann Philbin (Hammer Museum) is the recipient of the 2025 Getty Prize, given by the J. Paul Getty Trust.
W. Kimryn Rathmell (The Ohio State University) received the 2025 Women Who Conquer Cancer Mentorship Award.
John Reppy (Cornell University) was awarded the 2026 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize from the American Physical Society.
Dorothy Roberts (University of Pennsylvania) received a 2025 Bioethics Founders’ Award, given by The Hastings Center for Bioethics.
Salman Rushdie (New York University) is the recipient of the 2025 Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, given by the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation.
Michael Sandel (Harvard University) was awarded the 2025 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture.
George Saunders (Syracuse University) received the 2025 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation.
Henry Smith (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) received the 2025 SPIE Frits Zernike Award for Microlithography.
Patricia Smith (Princeton University) received the 2025 National Book Award for Poetry for her collection The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems.
Davor Solter (Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology) was awarded the 2026 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize, given by the Paul Ehrlich Foundation. Professor Solter shares the award with Azim Surani (University of Cambridge).
Nicholas C. Spitzer (University of California, San Diego) was awarded a 2025 Revelle Medal, given by the University of California, San Diego.
Lawrence H. Summers (Harvard University) is the recipient of the 2025 Philip Merrill Award for Outstanding Contributions to Liberal Arts Education, given by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni.
Wesley Sundquist (University of Utah) received the American Association for the Advancement of Science Mani L. Bhaumik Breakthrough of the Year Award.
Amy Tan (San Francisco, CA) received the Preston Award for Distinguished Service to the Literary Community from the Authors Guild Foundation.
Twyla Tharp (Twyla Tharp Dance) received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement from La Biennale di Venezia.
Paul S. Weiss (University of California, Los Angeles) was elected to the European Academy of Sciences.
Uri Wilensky (Northwestern University) was awarded the 2025 Yidan Prize for Education Research by the Yidan Prize Foundation.
Laura K. Williams (Harvard University) was awarded a 2025 MacArthur Fellowship.
David K. Wilson (Morgan State University) received the Dr. Frederick S. Humphries Sr. Leadership Award, presented by the HBCU Executive Leadership Institute at Clark Atlanta University.
Paul H. Wise (Stanford University) received the 2025 Clifford G. Grulee Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Omar Yaghi (University of California, Berkeley) was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Professor Yaghi shares the Nobel Prize with Susumu Kitagawa (Kyoto University) and Richard Robson (University of Melbourne).
New Appointments
Alfredo Artiles (Stanford University) was named President of the National Academy of Education.
Megan Bang (Northwestern University) was elected to the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Board of Directors.
Bradley Cairns (University of Utah) was named CEO of Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah.
Raymond Deshaies (California Institute of Technology) was appointed to the Board of Directors of Xencor, Inc. Dr. Deshaies was also appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of Iambic Therapeutics.
Vivian Gadsden (University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education) was named Vice President of the National Academy of Education.
Heather Gerken (Yale Law School) was named President of the Ford Foundation.
Christopher K. Glass (University of California, San Diego) was appointed Director of the Center for Epigenomics at the University of California, San Diego.
Eric J. Nestler (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai) was named the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Ardem Patapoutian (Scripps Research Institute) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of Stratus Therapeutics.
Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (University of California, Santa Cruz) was named President of the Board of Directors of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
W. Kimryn Rathmell (The Ohio State University) was appointed to the Life Sciences Council of the CEO Roundtable on Cancer.
Cristina Rodríguez (Yale Law School) was named Dean of Yale Law School.
James Rothman (Yale University) was appointed to the Board of Directors of Alveo Technologies.
Deborah F. Rutter (formerly, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts) was appointed Vice Provost for the Arts at Duke University.
Kim Sajet (formerly, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery) was named Director of the Milwaukee Art Museum.
Brenda Schulman (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry) was named Nonresident Fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
Edward Scolnick (Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard) was appointed Senior Scientific Advisor of 4M Therapeutics.
Mariko Silver (Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts) was elected to the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Board of Directors.
Beth Simmons (University of Pennsylvania) was elected President of the American Political Science Association.
Robert F. Sproull (University of Massachusetts Amherst) was elected to the Board of Directors of New England Public Media.
Arthur Sze (Institute of American Indian Arts) was appointed U.S. Poet Laureate by the Library of Congress.
A. Eugene Washington (Duke University) was elected to the Board of Trustees of Howard University.
Daniel H. Weiss (Johns Hopkins University) was named Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Philadelphia Art Museum.
Paul S. Weiss (University of California, Los Angeles) was appointed to the Editorial Advisory Board of RSC Applied Interfaces.
Select Publications
Poetry
Henri Cole (Boston, MA). The Other Love: Poems. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 2025
Susan Howe (Guilford, CT). Penitential Cries. New Directions, September 2025
Yusef Komunyakaa (New York University) and Laren McClung (New York University). Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, February 2026
Paul Muldoon (Princeton University). Scanty Plot of Ground: A Book of Sonnets. Faber & Faber, November 2025
Patricia Smith (Princeton University). The Intentions of Thunder. Simon & Schuster, September 2025
Fiction
Julian Barnes (London, United Kingdom). Departure(s). Knopf, January 2026
Wendell Berry (Henry County, KY). Marce Catlett: The Force of a Story. Counterpoint, October 2025
Louise Erdrich (Minneapolis, MN). Python’s Kiss. Harper, March 2026
John Irving (Toronto, Canada). Queen Esther. Simon & Schuster, November 2025
Gish Jen (Cambridge, MA). Bad Bad Girl. Knopf, October 2025
Ha Jin (Boston University). Looking for Tank Man. Other Press, October 2025
Walter Mosley (Brooklyn, NY). Gray Dawn. Mulholland Books, September 2025
Anna Quindlen (New York, NY). More Than Enough. Random House, February 2026
Salman Rushdie (New York University). The Eleventh Hour: A Quintet of Stories. Random House, November 2025
George Saunders (Syracuse University). Vigil: A Novel. Random House, January 2026
Nonfiction
Peter Ackroyd (London, United Kingdom). Forgotten London: Exploring the Hidden Life of the City. Frances Lincoln, October 2025
Akhil Reed Amar (Yale University). Born Equal: Remaking America’s Constitution, 1840–1920. Basic Books, September 2025
Sven Beckert (Harvard University). Capitalism: A Global History. Penguin Press, November 2025
Tim Berners-Lee (World Wide Web Consortium). This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 2025
Ken Burns (Florentine Films) and Geoffrey C. Ward (New York, NY). The American Revolution: An Intimate History. Knopf, November 2025
Partha Dasgupta (University of Cambridge). On Natural Capital: The Value of the World Around Us. Mariner Books, January 2026
Justin Driver (Yale Law School). The Fall of Affirmative Action: Race, the Supreme Court, and the Future of Higher Education. Columbia Global Reports, September 2025
Johanna Drucker (University of California, Los Angeles). Affluvia: The Toxic Off-Gassing of Affluent Culture. Bridge Art NFP, May 2025
Catherine Z. Elgin (Harvard University). Epistemic Ecology. MIT Press, May 2025
Anne Fadiman (Yale University). Frog: And Other Essays. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, February 2026
Eric Foner (Columbia University). Our Fragile Freedoms. W. W. Norton & Company, September 2025
Howard W. French (Columbia University). The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide. Liveright, August 2025
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Harvard University) and Martha H. Patterson (McKendree University). The New Negro: A History in Documents, 1887–1937. Princeton University Press, August 2025
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (Harvard University). The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us. Liveright, January 2026
Stephen Greenblatt (Harvard University). Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival. W. W. Norton & Company, September 2025
Jonathan Haidt (New York University) and Catherine Price (Philadelphia, PA). The Amazing Generation: Your Guide to Fun and Freedom in a Screen-Filled World. Rocky Pond Books, December 2025
Joy Harjo (Tulsa, OK). Girl Warrior: On Coming of Age. W. W. Norton & Company, October 2025
Peter J. Hotez (Baylor College of Medicine) and Michael E. Mann (University of Pennsylvania). Science Under Siege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces that Threaten Our World. PublicAffairs, September 2025
Walter Isaacson (Tulane University). The Greatest Sentence Ever Written. Simon & Schuster, November 2025
Jill Lepore (Harvard University). We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution. Liveright, September 2025
Thomas Evan Levy (University of California, San Diego). The Boomer Archaeologist: A Graphic Memoir of Tribes, Identity, and the Holy Land. Equinox, June 2025
Alan Lightman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Martin Rees (University of Cambridge). The Shape of Wonder: How Scientists Think, Work, and Live. Pantheon, September 2025
Glenn C. Loury (Brown University). Self-Censorship. Polity, July 2025
Thomas Mallon (Washington, D.C.). The Very Heart of It: New York Diaries, 1983–1994. Knopf, June 2025
Ann S. Masten (University of Minnesota). Ordinary Magic: Resilience in Development. Guilford Press, May 2025
Steven Pinker (Harvard University). When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . . : Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life. Scribner, September 2025
Martin Rees (University of Cambridge) and Alan Lightman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). The Shape of Wonder: How Scientists Think, Work, and Live. Pantheon, September 2025
Robert B. Reich (University of California, Berkeley). Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America. Knopf, August 2025
Dorothy Roberts (University of Pennsylvania). The Mixed Marriage Project: A Memoir of Love, Race, and Family. One Signal, February 2026
Zadie Smith (London, United Kingdom). Dead and Alive: Essays. Penguin Press, October 2025
John Fabian Witt (Yale University). The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America. Simon & Schuster, October 2025
Tim Wu (Columbia University). The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity. Knopf, November 2025
Pauline Yu (American Council of Learned Societies). Chinese Songs in a French Key. Columbia University Press, August 2025
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.