Select Prizes and Awards to Members
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2015
Paul Modrich (Duke Medical School)
Aziz Sancar (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
National Medal of Science
A. Paul Alivisatos (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Michael Artin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Albert Bandura (Stanford University)
Stanley Falkow (Stanford University School of Medicine)
Shirley Ann Jackson (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Rakesh K. Jain (Harvard Medical School; Massachusetts General Hospital)
Mary-Claire King (University of Washington)
Simon Levin (Princeton University)
Geraldine Richmond (University of Oregon)
National Medal of Technology and Innovation
Joseph DeSimone (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; North Carolina State University)
National Medal of Arts, 2014
John Baldessari (John Baldessari Studio)
Sally Field (Beverly Hills, California)
Ann Hamilton (Ohio State University)
Meredith Monk (House Foundation for the Arts)
Tobias Wolff (Stanford University)
National Humanities Medal, 2014
Annie Dillard (Key West, Florida)
Rebecca Goldstein (Harvard University)
Vicki Ruiz (University of California, Irvine)
Alice Waters (Chez Panisse)
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Itzhak Perlman (New York, New York)
Stephen Sondheim (New York, New York)
Steven Spielberg (Amblin Entertainment, Inc. & DreamWorks SKG)
Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy
Paul G. Allen (Vulcan, Inc.)
Charles F. Feeney (Atlantic Philanthropies)
Hanne and Jeremy Grantham (Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co LLC)
Joan and Irwin Jacobs (Qualcomm, Inc.)
David M. Rubenstein (Carlyle Group)
Other Awards
Alan Alda (New York, New York) is the recipient of the 2016 Public Welfare Medal of the National Academy of Sciences.
A. Paul Alivisatos (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) is the recipient of the Tsinghua University Press-Springer Nano Research Award.
Hans Belting (Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung) was awarded the 2015 Balzan Prize.
Stephen J. Benkovic (Pennsylvania State University) has been elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
Charles Bernstein (University of Pennsylvania) received the Münster International Poetry Prize and the Jannus Pannonius Grand Prize for Poetry.
Wendell Berry (Port Royal, Kentucky) received the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle. He also received the 2016 Sidney Lanier Prize for Southern Literature, awarded by Mercer University’s Center for Southern Studies.
Robert J. Birgeneau (University of California, Berkeley) is the recipient of the 2015 Darius and Susan Anderson Distinguished Service Award of the Institute of Governmental Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
George Breslauer (University of California, Berkeley) is the recipient of the 2016 Clark Kerr Award for Distinguished Leadership in Higher Education.
Maurizio Brunori (Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”) is the recipient of the 2016 Eraldo Antonini Award in Porphyrin Chemistry.
Lewis Cantley (Weill Cornell Medical College) is the recipient of the 2015 AACI Distinguished Scientist Award, given by the Association of American Cancer Institutes.
Federico Capasso (Harvard University) is a co-recipient of the 2015 Rumford Prize, awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He shares the prize with Alfred Cho (Alcatel-Lucent’s Bell Labs).
Federico Capasso (Harvard University) has been elected into the Academia Europaea.
Sean B. Carroll (University of Wisconsin-Madison; Howard Hughes Medical Institute) was awarded The Rockefeller University’s Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science.
Alfred Cho (Alcatel-Lucent’s Bell Labs) is a co-recipient of the 2015 Rumford Prize, awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He shares the prize with Federico Capasso (Harvard University).
Stephen Cook (University of Toronto) received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Information and Communication Technologies category.
William Dally (Stanford University; NVIDIA) received the Funai Achievement Award from the Information Processing Society of Japan.
Ronald J. Daniels (Johns Hopkins University) is a recipient of Carnegie Corporation’s 2015 Academic Leadership Award.
Douglas Diamond (University of Chicago) is the 2015 recipient of the CME Group-MSRI Prize in Innovative Quantitative Applications.
Stephen J. Elledge (Harvard Medical School) is the recipient of the 2015 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award. He shares the prize with Evelyn M. Witkin (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey).
Charles F. Feeney (Atlantic Philanthropies) is the inaugural recipient of the Stead Medal in International Philanthropy, given by the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.
Ben L. Feringa (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) is the recipient of the 2015 Chemistry of the Future Solvay Prize.
Christopher Field (Stanford University; Carnegie Institution for Science) is the recipient of the 2015 Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication.
Cheryl Finley (Cornell University; Academy Visiting Scholar, 2004–2005) was awarded a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.
G. David Forney, Jr. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was awarded the 2016 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Medal of Honor.
Herbert Gleiter (Institute of Nanotechnology, Germany) was awarded the Cothenius Medal of the German National Academy of Sciences. He was also elected to the Academia Europaea, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and the EU Academy of Sciences.
Jeffrey I. Gordon (Washington University in St. Louis) is a recipient of the 2015 Keio Medical Science Prize, awarded by Keio University in Tokyo.
Linda Greenhouse (Yale University) delivered the 2015 William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in American Studies at Harvard University: three lectures under the title “Just a Journalist: Reflections on Journalism, Life, and the Spaces Between.”
Jürgen Habermas (University of Frankfurt, Germany) and Charles Taylor (McGill University) were awarded the John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity, given by the Library of Congress.
Helen H. Hobbs (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Cen-
ter) is a 2016 recipient of the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. She was also awarded the 2015 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize given by The Rockefeller University.
Randy Hulet (Rice University) was awarded the 2016 Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic Physics by the American Physical Society.
William L. Jorgensen (Yale University) has received the 2015 Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry.
David Karl (University of Hawai‘i) was awarded the 2015 Balzan Prize.
Mary-Claire King (University of Washington) has been awarded the 2016 Szent-Györgyi Prize for Progress in Cancer Research.
Nancy Kleckner (Harvard University) has been awarded the Genetic Society of America’s Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal.
Robert Langer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was awarded the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.
Stephen Leone (University of California, Berkeley) delivered the 2016 Milton Kahn Annual Lecture, hosted by the University of New Mexico Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology.
Peter Lepage (Cornell University) received the 2016 J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics from the American Physical Society.
Douglas N.C. Lin (University of California, Santa Cruz) is the recipient of the 2015 Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal, given by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
Gerald D. Mahan (Pennsylvania State University) is the recipient of the 2015 Outstanding Achievement in Thermoelectrics Award, given by the International Thermoelectric Society.
Tobin J. Marks (Northwestern University) have been named a 2015 Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
Gail Martin (University of California, San Francisco) was elected as a Foreign Member of The Royal Society.
Christopher McKee (University of California, Berkeley) was awarded the 2016 Henry Norris Russell Lectureship by the American Astronomical Society.
Joel Mokyr (Northwestern University) was awarded the 2015 Balzan Prize.
K.C. Nicolaou (Rice University) is the recipient of the 2016 Wolf Prize in Chemistry. He shares the prize with Stuart Schreiber (Harvard University; Broad Institute).
C. L. Max Nikias (University of Southern California) is a recipient of Carnegie Corporation’s 2015 Academic Leadership Award.
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney (University of Wisconsin-Madison) was awarded La médaille du Collège de France.
Svante Pääbo (Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie) is a recipient of the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
Jeffrey D. Palmer (Indiana University) has been awarded the McClintock Prize for Plant Genetics and Genome Studies by the Maize Genetics Executive Committee.
Roger Perlmutter (Merck) is the recipient of a PMWC Luminary Award.
William Rawn (William Rawn Associates, Architects, Inc.) received the 2015 National AIA Honor Award in Architecture for the Cambridge Public Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Keren Rice (University of Toronto) was awarded the Pierre Chauveau Medal of the Royal Society of Canada.
Robert Roeder (The Rockefeller University) received the Herbert Tabor Research Award from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Peter Salovey (Yale University) is the recipient of the 2015 Outstanding Contribution Award by a Senior Professional from the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association.
Stuart Schreiber (Harvard University; Broad Institute) is the recipient of the 2016 Wolf Prize in Chemistry. He shares the prize with K.C. Nicolaou (Rice University).
Stephen Shectman (Carnegie Institution for Science) is the recipient of the Maria and Eric Muhlmann Award from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
Ralph Snyderman (Duke University Medical Center) is the recipient of a PMWC Pioneer Award.
Nahum Sonenberg (McGill University) is the recipient of the Canadian Cancer Research Alliance’s Award for Outstanding Achievements in Cancer Research.
Peter Stang (University of Utah) received China’s 2015 International Science and Technology Cooperation Award.
Alexander Szalay (Johns Hopkins University) has been selected as the recipient of the 2015 IEEE Computer Society Sidney Fernbach Award.
Charles Taylor (McGill University) and Jürgen Habermas (University of Frankfurt, Germany) were awarded the John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity, given by the Library of Congress.
Mitsuko Uchida (London, United Kingdom) is the recipient of the 2015 Praemium Imperiale for Music.
Irving Weissman (Stanford School of Medicine) is the recipient of a PMWC Pioneer Award.
John Williams (Los Angeles, California) received the 44th American Film Institute Life Achievement Award.
Evelyn M. Witkin (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) is the recipient of the 2015 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award. She shares the prize with Stephen J. Elledge (Harvard Medical School).
William Wood (University of Colorado Boulder) has been awarded the Genetics Society of America’s Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education.
Peidong Yang (University of California, Berkeley) has been named a 2015 MacArthur Fellow.
Leonard I. Zon (Harvard Medical School; Boston Children’s Hospital) is the recipient of the 20th annual Alfred G. Knudson Award in Cancer Genetics from the National Cancer Institute.
New Appointments
A. Paul Alivisatos (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) has been appointed Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California, Berkeley.
Frances Arnold (California Institute of Technology) was appointed to the Board of Directors of Illumina, Inc.
Carolyn Bertozzi (Stanford University) has been appointed to the Advisory Board of Catalent.
Arthur Bienenstock (Stanford University) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Supporters of Agricultural Research (SoAR) Foundation.
Aaron Ciechanover (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of BioLineRx Ltd.
Mary Sue Coleman (University of Michigan) was appointed President of the Association of American Universities.
Nicholas M. Donofrio (NMD Consulting, LLC) has been elected to the Board of Directors of the National Association of Corporate Directors.
Elazer Edelman (MIT; Harvard Medical School) has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Echo Therapeutics, Inc.
Karl W. Eikenberry (Stanford University) has been named Executive Director of Northwestern University’s Buffett Institute for Global Studies.
William Galston (Brookings Institution) has been appointed Interim Director of the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution.
Douglas Hanahan (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of Intensity Therapeutics, Inc.
Steven Hyman (Harvard University; Broad Institute) was appointed to the Board of Directors of Voyager Therapeutics, Inc.
Peter Kareiva (University of California, Los Angeles) was appointed Director of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.
Louis Kunkel (Harvard Medical School; Boston Children’s Hospital) was appointed to the Strategic and Scientific Advisory Board of Sarepta Therapeutics.
Lewis L. Lanier (University of California, San Francisco) has been appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of Five Prime Therapeutics, Inc.
Reynold Levy (Riverdale, New York) was appointed President of the Robin Hood Foundation.
Claire Max (University of California, Santa Cruz) has been appointed Director of UC Observatories.
Elliot Meyerowitz (California Institute of Technology) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Supporters of Agricultural Research (SoAR) Foundation.
Cherry A. Murray (Harvard University) was confirmed as Director of the Office of Science in the U.S. Department of Energy.
Thomas J. Pritzker (Hyatt Corporation) has been appointed Chairman of the CSIS Board of Trustees.
David Rubenstein (Carlyle Group) has been appointed to the Board of Trustees of the National Gallery
of Art.
Barbara Schaal (Washington University in St. Louis) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Supporters of Agricultural Research (SoAR) Foundation.
Robert D. Schreiber (Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine) was appointed co-
editor-in-chief of Cancer Immunology Research.
Thomas E. Shenk (Princeton University) has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Vical Incorporated.
Éva Tardos (Cornell University) has been named Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Shirley M. Tilghman (Princeton University) has been named to the Harvard Corporation.
Matthew Tirrell (University of Chicago) has been named Deputy Laboratory Director for Science at Argonne National Laboratory.
David R. Walt (Tufts University) has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Cerulean Pharma Inc.
A. Eugene Washington (Duke University) has been named to the Boards of Directors for Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals.
Ernest J. Wilson III (University of Southern California) has been elected to the Board of the California Wellness Foundation.
Select Publications
Poetry
Linda Gregerson (University of Michigan). Prodigal: New and Selected Poems, 1976–2014. Mariner Books, September 2015
Rachel Hadas (Rutgers University-Newark). Talking to the Dead. Spuyten Duyvil Press, June 2015
Donald Hall (Wilmot, New Hampshire). The Selected Poems of Donald Hall. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, December 2015
Fiction
Anna Quindlen (New York, New York). Miller’s Valley. Random House, April 2016
Jane Smiley (Carmel Valley, California). Golden Age. Knopf, October 2015
Nonfiction
Roger Angell (New Yorker). This Old Man: All in Pieces. Doubleday, November 2015
John C. Avise (University of California, Irvine). Sketches of Nature: A Geneticist’s Look at the Biological World During a Golden Era for Molecular Ecology. Academic Press, October 2015
Ben S. Bernanke (Brookings Institution). The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath.
W. W. Norton, October 2015
Charles Bernstein (University of Pennsylvania). Pitch of Poetry. University of Chicago Press, March 2016
Sven Birkerts (Bennington College). Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age. Graywolf Press, October 2015
Sean B. Carroll (University of Wisconsin-Madison). The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters. Princeton University Press, March 2016
Colin Dayan (Vanderbilt University). With Dogs at the Edge of Life. Columbia University Press, December 2015
Annie Dillard (Key West, Florida). The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New. Ecco, March 2016
Wendy Doniger (University of Chicago). Redeeming the Kamasutra. Oxford University Press, March 2016
Benjamin Fagan (Auburn University; Academy Visiting Scholar, 2011–2012). The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation. University of Georgia Press, June 2016
Susan Howe (State University of New York at Buffalo). The Quarry. New Directions, November 2015
Jerome Kagan (Harvard University). On Being Human: Why Mind Matters. Yale University Press, March 2016
F. M. Kamm (Harvard Kennedy School). The Trolly Problem Mysteries, ed. Eric Rakowski (University of California, Berkeley). Oxford University Press, December 2015
Sanford Levinson (University of Texas at Austin). An Argument Open to All: Reading “The Federalist” in the Twenty-First Century. Yale University Press, November 2015
Herbert Lindenberger (Stanford University) and Frederick Aldama (Ohio State University). Aesthetics of Discomfort: Conversations on Disquieting Art. University of Michigan Press, February 2016
Lewis Lockwood (Harvard University). Beethoven’s Symphonies: An Artistic Vision. W. W. Norton, October 2015
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney (University of Wisconsin-Madison). Flowers that Kill: Communicative Opacity in Political Spaces. Stanford University Press, August 2015
William J. Perry (Stanford University). My Journey at the Nuclear Brink. Stanford University Press, December 2015
Henry Petroski (Duke University). The Road Taken: The History and Future of America’s Infrastructure. Bloomsbury, February 2016
Steven Pinker (Harvard University). Language, Cognition, and Human Nature. Oxford University Press, October 2015
Richard A. Posner (U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit). Divergent Paths: The Academy and the Judiciary. Harvard University Press, January 2016
Lisa Randall (Harvard University). Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe. Ecco, October 2015
Robert B. Reich (University of California, Berkeley). Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few. Knopf, October 2015
George Rupp (Columbia University). Beyond Individualism: The Challenge of Inclusive Communities. Columbia University Press, September 2015
Harry N. Scheiber (UC Berkeley School of Law) and Jane L. Scheiber (University of California, Berkeley). Bayonets in Paradise: Martial Law in Hawai‘i during World War II. University of Hawai‘i Press, February 2016
Michael Schudson (Columbia University). The Rise of the Right to Know: Politics and the Culture of Transparency, 1945–1975. Harvard University Press, September 2015
Howard Schuman (University of Michigan) and Amy Corning (University of Michigan). Generations and Collective Memory. University of Chicago Press, August 2015
Ramamurti Shankar (Yale University). Fundamentals of Physics II: Electromagnetism, Optics, and Quantum Mechanics. Yale University Press, June 2016
Robert A. M. Stern (Robert A. M. Stern Architects; Yale University) and Jimmy Stamp (Robert A. M. Stern Architects). Pedagogy and Place: 100 Years of Architecture Education at Yale. Yale University Press, April 2016
Sherry Turkle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age. Penguin Press, October 2015
Robert Wuthnow (Princeton University). Inventing American Religion: Polls, Surveys and the Tenuous Quest for a Nation’s Faith. Oxford University Press, October 2015
Philip Zimbardo (Stanford University) and Nikita D. Coulombe (Hawai‘i). Man, Interrupted: Why Young Men are Struggling and What We Can Do About It. Conari Press, April 2016
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