Select Prizes and Awards to Members
Bruce M. Alberts (University of California, San Francisco) received the Lasker-Koshland Award for Special Achievement in Medical Science.
Richard Alley (Pennsylvania State University) received the 2016 Climate Communications Prize from the American Geophysical Union.
Federico Capasso (Harvard University) was awarded the 2016 Balzan Prize for Applied Photonics.
Robert A. Caro (New York, New York) is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award, given by the National Book Foundation.
Robert De Niro (New York, New York) was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Ronald Drever (California Institute of Technology) was awarded a Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. He shares the prize with Kip Thorne (California Institute of Technology) and Rainer Weiss (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
Bob Dylan (Malibu, California) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Stephen Elledge (Harvard Medical School) was awarded the 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. He shares the prize with Harry Noller (University of California, Santa Cruz), Roeland Nusse (Stanford University School of Medicine), Yoshinori Ohsumi (Tokyo Institute of Technology), and Huda Zoghbi (Baylor College of Medicine).
Sandra Faber (University of California, Santa Cruz) was awarded the Fellows Medal of the California Academy of Sciences.
Bernard L. Feringa (University of Groningen) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He shares the prize with J. Fraser Stoddart (Northwestern University) and Jean-Pierre Sauvage (University of Strasbourg).
Glenn Fredrickson (University of California, Santa Barbara) received the 2016 William H. Walker Award for Excellence in Contributions to Chemical Engineering Literature.
Elaine Fuchs (Rockefeller University) was awarded the 2016 Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science.
Richard Garwin (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center) was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Bill Gates (Microsoft Corporation; Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) and Melinda Gates (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) were awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Frank Gehry (Frank O. Gehry & Associates) was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Herbert Gleiter (Institut für Nanotechnologie, Germany) was awarded the Medal of Friendship- Order of Merit by the government of China. He was also elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
Laurie H. Glimcher (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Harvard Medical School) is the recipient of the 2016 Marion Spencer Fay Award.
Terry Gross (WHYY) was awarded a 2015 National Humanities Medal.
F. Duncan Haldane (Princeton University) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. He shares the prize with J. Michael Kosterlitz (Brown University) and David J. Thouless (University of Washington).
Paula Hammond (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
Oliver Hart (Harvard University) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. He shares the prize with Bengt Holmström (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
Richard H. Holm (Harvard University) received the 2016 Robert A. Welch Award in Chemistry. He shares the prize with Stephen J. Lippard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
Bengt Holmström (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. He shares the prize with Oliver Hart (Harvard University).
Gerald Holton (Harvard University) was elected to the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Jeffrey Immelt (General Electric Company) is the recipient of the 2017 Edison Achievement Award.
Henryk Iwaniec (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) was awarded the 2017 AMS Joseph L. Doob Prize by the American Mathematical Society. He shares the prize with John Friedlander (University of Toronto).
Philip S. Khoury (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) received a Doctorate of Humanities Honoris Causa from Earth University in Costa Rica.
J. Michael Kosterlitz (Brown University) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. He shares the prize with F. Duncan Haldane (Princeton University) and David J. Thouless (University of Washington).
Arend Lijphart (University of California, San Diego) was awarded a Wilbur Cross Medal by the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Maya Lin (Maya Lin Studio) was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Stephen J. Lippard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) received the 2016 Robert A. Welch Award in Chemistry. He shares the prize with Richard H. Holm (Harvard University).
Wynton Marsalis (Jazz at Lincoln Center) was awarded a 2015 National Humanities Medal.
James McBride (New York University) was awarded a 2015 National Humanities Medal.
Marcia McNutt (National Academy of Sciences) was named the 2017 DRI (Desert Research Institute) Nevada Medalist.
Ira Mellman (Genentech, Inc.) was awarded a Wilbur Cross Medal by the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Louis Menand (Harvard University; The New Yorker) was awarded a 2015 National Humanities Medal.
Newton Minow (Sidley Austin LLP) was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Joel Mokyr (Northwestern University) was elected as a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.
Harry Noller (University of California, Santa Cruz) was awarded the 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. He shares the prize with Stephen Elledge (Harvard Medical School), Roeland Nusse (Stanford University School of Medicine), Yoshinori Ohsumi (Tokyo Institute of Technology), and Huda Zoghbi (Baylor College of Medicine).
Roeland Nusse (Stanford University School of Medicine) was awarded the 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. He shares the prize with Stephen Elledge (Harvard Medical School), Harry Noller (University of California, Santa Cruz), Yoshinori Ohsumi (Tokyo Institute of Technology), and Huda Zoghbi (Baylor College of Medicine).
Monica Olvera de la Cruz (Northwestern University) was awarded the 2017 Polymer Physics Prize from the American Physical Society.
Robert E. Page Jr. (Arizona State University) has been elected a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences.
Elaine Pagels (Princeton University) was awarded a 2015 National Humanities Medal.
Thalia Papayannopoulou (University of Washington) received the Wallace H. Coulter Award for Lifetime Achievement in Hematology from the American Society of Hematology.
Alan Perelson (Los Alamos National Laboratory) was awarded the 2017 Max Delbruck Prize in Biological Physics by the American Physical Society.
Joseph Polchinski (University of California, Santa Barbara) was awarded the 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. He shared the prize with Andrew Strominger (Harvard University) and Cumrun Vafa (Harvard University).
Michael Posner (University of Oregon) was awarded the 2017 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science.
Peter J. Ratcliffe (University of Oxford) received the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award. He shares the award with William G. Kaelin, Jr. (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Harvard Medical School) and Gregg L. Semenza (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine).
Rebecca Richards-Kortum (Rice University) was awarded a 2016 MacArthur Fellowship.
Kay Lehman Schlozman (Boston College) is the recipient of the American Political Science Association’s Samuel J. Eldersveld Career Achievement Award.
Laurence Senelick (Tufts University) was awarded lifetime honorary membership in the American Theatre and Drama Society. He was also elected to the College of Fellows of the American Theatre.
Thomas Siebel (C3 IoT) received the 2016 Most Admired CEO Lifetime Achievement Award from the San Francisco Business Times.
Leon Simon (Stanford University) is the recipient of the 2017 AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contributions to Research.
Henry I. Smith (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was awarded the 2017 IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal.
Bruce Springsteen (Colts Neck, New Jersey) was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Robert A.M. Stern (Robert A.M. Stern Architects; Yale University) was awarded the 2017 Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education.
J. Fraser Stoddart (Northwestern University) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He shares the prize with Bernard L. Feringa (University of Groningen) and Jean-Pierre Sauvage (University of Strasbourg).
Edward Stolper (California Institute of Technology) is the 2017 recipient of the Roebling Medal, given by the Mineralogical Society of America.
Andrew Strominger (Harvard University) was awarded the 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. He shares the prize with Joseph Polchinski (University of California, Santa Barbara) and Cumrun Vafa (Harvard University).
Mark Thiemens (University of California, San Diego) was awarded the Leonard Medal by the Meteoritical Society.
John Meurig Thomas (University of Cambridge) has been awarded the Royal Medal for Physical Sciences by The Royal Society.
Kip Thorne (California Institute of Technology) was awarded a Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. He shares the prize with Ronald Drever (California Institute of Technology) and Rainer Weiss (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
Cumrun Vafa (Harvard University) was awarded the 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. He shares the prize with Joseph Polchinski (University of California, Santa Barbara) and Andrew Strominger (Harvard University).
Diana Wall (Colorado State University) was elected an Honorary Member of the British Ecological Society.
David R. Walt (Tufts University) has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
Rainer Weiss (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was awarded a Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. He shares the prize with Ronald Drever (California Institute of Technology) and Kip Thorne (California Institute of Technology).
Peter Wolynes (Rice University) has been elected a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy.
New Appointments
David Agard (University of California, San Francisco) has been appointed to the University Council of Yale University.
Ben Barres (Stanford University School of Medicine) has been appointed a member of Cure Alzheimer’s Fund’s Research Consortium.
Bonnie Bassler (Princeton University) was elected to the Board of Directors of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals.
Emilio Bizzi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has been named to the Scientific Advisory Board of PathMaker Neurosystems.
George Q. Daley (Harvard Medical School; Children’s Hospital, Boston) has been appointed Dean of Harvard Medical School.
Chi Van Dang (University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine) has been appointed Scientific Director of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research.
Persis Drell (Stanford University) has been named Provost of Stanford University.
Mark Fishman (Harvard University) has been appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of Semma Therapeutics.
Jeffrey S. Flier (Harvard Medical School) has been appointed to the Board of Directors and Scientific Advisory Board of Scholar Rock.
W. Kent Fuchs (University of Florida) was appointed to the National Science Board.
Michael Gazzaniga (University of California, Santa Barbara) has been appointed to the Advisory Board of Yewno.
Linda Greenhouse (Yale Law School) has been elected President of the American Philosophical Society.
Nancy Ip (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) has been appointed a member of Cure Alzheimer’s Fund’s Research Consortium.
Eric W. Kaler (University of Minnesota) has been elected Chair of the NCAA Division I Board of Directors.
Laura Kiessling (University of Wisconsin-Madison) has been appointed to the University Council of Yale University.
David Leebron (Rice University) was elected Chair of the Board of Directors of the Association of American Universities.
Nancy Lynch (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has been appointed Associate Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.
Kelsey Martin (University of California, Los Angeles) has been named Dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
Mary Miller (Yale University) has been named Senior Director of the Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage at Yale.
Geneva Overholser (New York, New York) has been appointed to Northwestern University in Qatar’s Joint Advisory Board.
Julia M. Phillips (Sandia National Laboratories) was appointed to the National Science Board.
David Rockefeller, Jr. (Rockefeller Financial Services, Inc.) has been appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of Rockefeller & Co.
Robert Rotberg (Harvard Kennedy School) has been appointed Fulbright Distinguished Research Professor at the Institute of International Relations, University of São Paulo, Brazil (2016–2017).
Gary Segura (Stanford University) has been named Dean of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.
Laurence Senelick (Tufts University) was appointed to the Editorial Advisory Board of Early Popular Visual Culture.
James Skinner (University of Wisconsin-Madison) has been named Director of the Water Research Initiative at the Institute for Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago.
Debora Spar (Barnard College) has been named President of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
Darren Walker (Ford Foundation) has been appointed to the Board of Directors of PepsiCo.
Maria Zuber (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has been elected to the Board of Directors of Textron.
Select Publications
Poetry
John Ashbery (New York, New York). Commotion of the Birds. Ecco, November 2016
Paul Muldoon (Princeton University). Selected Poems, 1968–2014. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, December 2016
Fiction
Margaret Atwood (Toronto, Canada). Angel Catbird. Dark Horse Books, September 2016
Margaret Atwood (Toronto, Canada). Hag-Seed. Hogarth, October 2016
Paul Auster (Brooklyn, New York). 4 3 2 1: A Novel. Henry Holt and Co., January 2017
J. M. Coetzee (University of Adelaide, Australia). The Schooldays of Jesus. Viking, February 2017
Robert Coover (Brown University). Huck Out West. W. W. Norton & Company, January 2017
Emma Donoghue (London, Ontario, Canada). The Lotterys Plus One. Arthur A. Levine Books, March 2017
Ha Jin (Boston University). The Boat Rocker. Pantheon, October 2016
Ward Just (Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts). The Eastern Shore. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, October 2016
Amos Oz (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev). Judas. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, November 2016
Francine Prose (New York, New York). Mister Monkey. Harper, October 2016
Nonfiction
Akhil Reed Amar (Yale Law School). The Constitution Today: Timeless Lessons for the Issues of Our Era. Basic Books, September 2016
Rogers Brubaker (University of California, Los Angeles). Trans: Gender and Race in an Age of Unsettled Identities. Princeton University Press, October 2016
Benjamin Coates (Wake Forest University; Visiting Scholar, 2011–2012). Legalist Empire: International Law and American Foreign Relations in the Early Twentieth Century. Oxford University Press, July 2016
Judy Collins (New York, New York). Cravings: How I Conquered Food. Nan A. Talese, February 2017
Daniel C. Dennett (Tufts University). From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds. W.W. Norton & Company, February 2017
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Supreme Court of the United States). My Own Words. Simon & Schuster, October 2016
Helen Hardacre (Harvard University). Shinto: A History. Oxford University Press, December 2016
Charles Hirschman (University of Washington). From High School to College: Gender, Immigrant Generation, and Race-Ethnicity. Russell Sage Foundation, August 2016
Kay Redfield Jamison (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine). Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character. Knopf, February 2017
John Kaag (University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Visiting Scholar, 2007–2008). American Philosophy: A Love Story. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 2016
Eric R. Kandel (Columbia University). Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures. Columbia University Press, September 2016
Richard Kramer (City University of New York, The Graduate Center). Cherubino’s Leap: In Search of the Enlightenment Moment. University of Chicago Press, November 2016
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (Harvard University). Growing Each Other Up: When Our Children Become Our Teachers. University of Chicago Press, September 2016
Wendy Lesser (The Threepenny Review). You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, March 2017
George J. Mitchell (DLA Piper) and Alon Sachar (Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP). A Path to Peace: A Brief History of Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations and a Way Forward in the Middle East. Simon & Schuster, December 2016
Venkatesh Narayanamurti (Harvard University) and Toluwalogo Odumosu (University of Virginia). Cycles of Invention and Discovery: Rethinking the Endless Frontier. Harvard University Press, October 2016
Elaine Scarry (Harvard University). Naming Thy Name: Cross Talk in Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, November 2016
Ralph Snyderman (Duke University Medical Center). A Chancellor’s Tale: Transforming Academic Medicine. Duke University Press, November 2016
Bruce Springsteen (Colts Neck, New Jersey). Born to Run. Simon & Schuster, September 2016
Mark V. Tushnet (Harvard Law School), Alan K. Chen (University of Denver Sturm College of Law), and Joseph Blocher (Duke University School of Law). Free Speech Beyond Words: The Surprising Reach of the First Amendment. New York University Press, February 2017
Neil deGrasse Tyson (American Museum of Natural History), Michael A. Strauss (Princeton University), and J. Richard Gott (Princeton University). Welcome to Our Universe: An Astrophysical Tour. Princeton University Press, October 2016
Lawrence Weschler (The New Yorker). Waves Passing in the Night: Walter Murch in the Land of the Astrophysicists. Bloomsbury, January 2017
George M. Woodwell (Woods Hole Research Center). A World to Live In: An Ecologist’s Vision for a Plundered Planet. The MIT Press, February 2016
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