Select Prizes and Awards to Members
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2017
Joachim Frank (Columbia University)
Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, 2017
Richard H. Thaler (University of Chicago)
Nobel Prize in Literature, 2017
Kazuo Ishiguro (London, United Kingdom)
Nobel Prize in Physics, 2017
Barry C. Barish (California Institute of Technology)
Kip S. Thorne (California Institute of Technology)
Rainer Weiss (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2017
Jeffrey C. Hall (Cambridge, Maine; Brandeis University)
Michael Rosbash (Brandeis University)
Other Awards
James Roger Angel (University of Arizona) has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
Joseph E. Aoun (Northeastern University) is the recipient of a 2017 Academic Leadership Award, given by Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Charles L. Bennett (Johns Hopkins University) was awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
Andrea Bertozzi (University of California, Los Angeles) was selected as a 2017 Simons Investigator by the Simons Foundation.
Clara D. Bloomfield (Ohio State University) is the recipient of the 2017 Robert A. Kyle Award for Outstanding Clinician-Scientist, presented by the Mayo Clinic Division of Hematology.
Emmanuel J. Candès (Stanford University) was named a 2017 Fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Joanne Chory (Salk Institute for Biological Studies) was awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
Don W. Cleveland (University of California, San Diego) was awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
Max D. Cooper (Emory University) was awarded the 2018 Japan Prize in Medical Science and Medicinal Science.
France Cordova (National Science Foundation) was inducted into the U.S. News STEM Leadership Hall of Fame.
Thibault Damour (Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques) was awarded a Gold Medal by the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in France.
John J. DeGioia (Georgetown University) is the recipient of a 2017 Academic Leadership Award, given by Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Titia de Lange (Rockefeller University) received the 47th Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research, given by Brandeis University.
Joseph DeSimone (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; North Carolina State University) received the 22nd Heinz Award in Technology, the Economy, and Employment.
Michael Dine (University of California, Santa Cruz) was awarded the J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Physics by the American Physical Society.
James R. Downing (St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital) was awarded the 2017 E. Donnall Thomas Lecture and Prize by the American Society of Hematology.
Carol Dweck (Stanford University) was awarded the inaugural Yidan Prize.
Felton Earls (Harvard University) is the recipient of the 2018 Sarah Gund Prize for Research and Mentoring in Child Mental Health, awarded by the Child Mind Institute. He also received the 2017 Professor Emeriti Award from the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.
Elazer Edelman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) received the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics 2017 Career Achievement Award.
Jonathan A. Epstein (University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine) received an Outstanding Investigator Award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
Paul Farmer (Harvard Medical School; Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Partners in Health) was awarded the 2018 Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences.
Robert Full (University of California, Berkeley) was named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor.
Shafi Goldwasser (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was named a Fellow of the Association for Computer Machinery.
Jeffrey I. Gordon (Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis) received the Sanofi-Institut Pasteur International Award.
Jorie Graham (Harvard University) was awarded the Wallace Stevens Award, given by the Academy of American Poets.
Peter Grant (Princeton University) and Rosemary Grant (Princeton University) are the recipients of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Ecology and Conservation Biology category.
Barbara Grosz (Harvard University) is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
Christopher Hacon (University of Utah) was awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics.
Naomi Halas (Rice University) was awarded the 2018 Julius Edgar Lillienfeld Prize by the American Physical Society.
John L. Hennessy (Stanford University) was elected an International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Wayne Hu (University of Chicago) was selected as a 2017 Simons Investigator by the Simons Foundation.
John Jeffries (University of Virginia School of Law) received the Thomas Jefferson Award from the University of Virginia.
Marc Kamionkowski (Johns Hopkins University) was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Robert Keohane (Princeton University) was awarded the 2016 Balzan Prize for International Relations, History, and Theory.
Maria Klawe (Harvey Mudd College) is the recipient of a 2017 Academic Leadership Award, given by Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Lynne Maquat (University of Rochester) is the recipient of the 2018 FASEB Excellence in Science Award, given by the Federation of American Societies of Experimental Biology. She was also awarded the 2017 Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science, given by Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
Margaret McFall-Ngai (University of Hawai’i at Manoa) was named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor.
Barbara J. McNeil (Harvard Medical School) received the Walsh McDermott Medal from the National Academy of Medicine.
Daniel Mendelsohn (New York, New York) was awarded Princeton University’s James Madison Medal.
Silvio Micali (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was named a Fellow of the Association for Computer Machinery.
Paul Milgrom (Stanford University) is the recipient of the 2017 cme Group-MSRI Prize in Innovative Quantitative Applications.
Toshiko Mori (Toshiko Mori Architect; Harvard University Graduate School of Design) is the recipient of the 2018 Maine in America Award, given by the Farnsworth Art Museum.
Paul Muldoon (Princeton University) was awarded The Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry for 2017.
Kim Nasmyth (University of Oxford) was awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
Eric J. Nestler (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai) was awarded the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology Paul Hoch Distinguished Service Award and the Wilbur Cross Medal from the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
William Nordhaus (Yale University) received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award.
Michel Nussenzweig (The Rockefeller University) received the Sanofi-Institut Pasteur International Award.
Onora O’Neill (University of Cambridge) was awarded the 2017 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy & Culture.
Lyman Page, Jr. (Princeton University) was awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
Henry Samueli (Broadcom Corporation) was inducted into the U.S. News STEM Leadership Hall of Fame.
George Saunders (Syracuse University) was awarded the Man Booker Prize for Lincoln in the Bardo.
Helmut Schwarz (Technische Universität Berlin) was elected a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.
Michelle Simmons (University of New South Wales) was named the 2018 Australian of the Year.
Michael Sipser (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was named a Fellow of the Association for Computer Machinery.
David N. Spergel (Princeton University) was awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
Raymond Stata (Analog Devices, Inc.) is the recipient of the 2017 Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award, given by the Global Semiconductor Alliance.
Natasha Trethewey (Northwestern University) is the recipient of the 22nd Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities.
Andrew J. Viterbi (Viterbi Group) has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
Darren Walker (Ford Foundation) was awarded the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal from Harvard University.
Kara Walker (Columbia University) was awarded the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal from Harvard University.
Peter Walter (University of California, San Francisco) was awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
Carl Wieman (Stanford University) was named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor.
New Appointments
Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede (Nigerian Stock Exchange; Africa Initiative for Governance) was appointed to the International Advisory Board of the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.
Graeme I. Bell (University of Chicago) has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Pascal Biosciences, Inc.
Philip Bucksbaum (Stanford University) has been elected Vice President of the American Physical Society.
Thomas P. Campbell (Metropolitan Museum of Art) has been elected a member of the Board of the Broad Museum in Los Angeles.
Kenneth I. Chenault (American Express) has been named Chairman and Managing Director of General Catalyst Partners.
Steven Chu (Stanford University) has been selected as President-Elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Johnnetta B. Cole (Smithsonian Institution) has been named a Senior Consulting Fellow of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Michael V. Drake (Ohio State University) was elected Chair of the Board of Directors of the Association of American Universities.
Fred H. Gage (Salk Institute for Biological Studies) has been appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of Presto Therapeutics.
Shafi Goldwasser (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has been appointed Director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at the University of California, Berkeley.
John L. Hennessy (Stanford University) has been named Executive Chairman of Alphabet.
David Ho (Rockefeller University) has been appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of WuXi Biologics.
Mellody Hobson (Ariel Investments) has been appointed to the Board of Trustees of The Rockefeller Foundation.
Randy H. Katz (University of California, Berkeley) has been appointed Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California, Berkeley.
Sherry Lansing (Sherry Lansing Foundation) has been elected a member of the Board of the Broad Museum in Los Angeles.
Ann L. Lee (Genentech; Roche) has been appointed Executive Vice President of Technical Operations of Juno Therapeutics, Inc.
Judy Lewent (Merck & Company) has been appointed to the Business Advisory Board of twoXAR, Inc.
Monica Lozano (University of California Board of Regents) has been named President and CEO of College Futures Foundation.
Robert Malenka (Stanford University) has joined Cerevance as a Senior-Level Scientific Advisor.
Barbara J. McNeil (Harvard Medical School) was elected Chair of the Grants Committee of the Warren Alpert Foundation.
Michael S. McPherson (formerly, Spencer Foundation) has been named a Senior Fellow of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Mona Nemer (University of Ottawa) was named Canada’s Chief Science Advisor.
Susan Packard Orr (David and Lucille Packard Foundation) has been elected to the Board of Directors of the National Audubon Society.
Roger M. Perlmutter (Merck Research Laboratories) has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Exonics Therapeutics, Inc.
Sharon Percy Rockefeller (WETA) has been appointed to the Board of Trustees of The Rockefeller Foundation.
Peter Schultz (Scripps Research Institute) has been appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of WuXi Biologics.
Ruth J. Simmons (Brown University) was named President of Prairie View A&M University.
James Stavridis (Tufts University) has been appointed to the Board of Trustees of The Rockefeller Foundation.
Luis A. Ubiñas (New York, New York) has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Boston Private Financial Holdings, Inc.
Meg Whitman (Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.) has been named Chief Executive of NewTV.
Janet Yellen (United States Federal Reserve) has been named a Distinguished Fellow at the Hutchins Center of Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution.
Maria Zuber (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Bank of America.
Select Publications
Poetry
David Ferry (Wellesley College), trans. The Aeneid. University of Chicago Press, September 2017
Carl Phillips (Washington University in St. Louis). Wild Is the Wind. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, January 2018
Fiction
James Carroll (Boston, Massachusetts). The Cloister. Doubleday/Talese, March 2018
Anne Carson (McGill University). Bakkhai. New Directions, December 2017
Thomas Keneally (Manly, Australia). Crimes of the Father. Atria, October 2017
James McBride (New York University). Five-Carat Soul. Riverhead Books, September 2017
Sigrid Nunez (New York, New York). The Friend. Riverhead, February 2018
Laurence Senelick (Tufts University). A translation of Georges Feydeau, From Marriage to Divorce: Five Farces of Marital Discord. Broadway Play Publishers, August 2017
Nonfiction
Danielle Allen (Harvard University). Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A. Liveright, September 2017
Martin Amis (Brooklyn, New York). The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump: Essays and Reportage, 1994–2017. Knopf, February 2018
Edward L. Ayers (University of Richmond). The Thin Light of Freedom: Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America. W.W. Norton, October 2017
John Banville (Dublin, Ireland). Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir. Knopf, February 2018
Robert Bly (Minneapolis, Minnesota). More Than True: The Wisdom of Fairy Tales. Henry Holt and Co., March 2018
Richard Brilliant (Columbia University). Death: From Dust to Destiny. Reaktion Books, October 2017
Noam Chomsky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) with David Barsamian (Alternative Radio). Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy. Metropolitan Books, December 2017
J. M. Coetzee (University of Adelaide). Late Essays: 2006–2017. Viking, January 2018
Henri Cole (Claremont McKenna College). Orphic Paris. New York Review Books, April 2018
Antonio Damasio (University of Southern California). The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures. Pantheon, February 2018
Noah Feldman (Harvard Law School). The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President. Random House, November 2017
Paula Fredriksen (Boston University). Paul: The Pagans’ Apostle. Yale University Press, August 2017
Michael S. Gazzaniga (University of California, Santa Barbara). The Consciousness Instinct: Unraveling the Mystery of How the Brain Makes the Mind. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2018
Linda Gordon (New York University). The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition. Liveright, October 2017
Patricia Hampl (University of Minnesota). The Art of the Wasted Day. Viking, April 2018
David M. Kreps (Stanford Graduate School of Business). The Motivation Toolkit: How to Align Your Employees’ Interests with Your Own. Norton, January 2018
Alan Lightman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine. Pantheon, March 2018
Errol Morris (Fourth Floor Productions). The Ashtray (Or the Man Who Denied Reality). University of Chicago Press, May 2018
Steven Pinker (Harvard University). Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress. Viking, March 2018
Eric A. Posner (University of Chicago Law School). Last Resort: The Financial Crisis and the Future of Bailouts. University of Chicago Press, March 2018
Marilynne Robinson (University of Iowa). What Are We Doing Here? Essays. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, February 2018
Michael J. Sandel (Harvard University) and Paul J. D’Ambrosio (East China Normal University), eds. Encountering China: Michael Sandel and Chinese Philosophy. Harvard University Press, January 2018
Laurence Senelick (Tufts University). Jacques Offenbach and the Making of Modern Culture. Cambridge University Press, September 2017
Lorna Simpson (Brooklyn, New York). Lorna Simpson Collages. Chronicle Books, April 2018
Cass R. Sunstein (Harvard Law School), ed. Can It Happen Here? Authoritarianism in America. Dey Street Books, March 2018
Michael Walzer (Institute for Advanced Study). A Foreign Policy for the Left. Yale University Press, January 2018
Edward O. Wilson (Harvard University). The Origins of Creativity. Liveright, October 2017
Christian Wolff (Dartmouth College). Occasional Pieces: Writings and Interviews, 1952–2013. Oxford University Press, March 2017
Gordon S. Wood (Brown University). Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Penguin Press, October 2017
Richard W. Wrangham (Harvard University), David R. Pilbeam (Harvard University), and Martin N. Muller (University of New Mexico), eds. Chimpanzees and Human Evolution. Harvard University Press, November 2017
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