Select Prizes and Awards to Members
Susan Ackerman (University of California San Diego) was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
Eric Adelberger (University of Washington) was awarded a 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
Margaret Atwood (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) received the 2020 Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award.
David Baker (University of Washington) was awarded a 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
Arden L. Bement Jr. (Purdue University) is the recipient of the Arthur M. Bueche Award, given by the National Academy of Engineering.
Francine Berman (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) was elected to the National Academy of Public Administration.
Myles Brown (Harvard Medical School; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute) was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
Adam Burrows (Princeton University) was awarded the Viktor Ambartsumian International Science Prize. He shares the award with Alexander Szalay (Johns Hopkins University) and Isabelle Baraffe (University of Exeter; Lyon Center for Astrophysics Research).
Raj Chetty (Harvard University) was awarded the Infosys Prize in Social Sciences.
James J. Collins (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was awarded the 2020 Dickson Prize in Medicine, given by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Michael Cook (Princeton University) received the 2020 Middle East Medievalists Lifetime Achievement Award.
Caroline Dean (John Innes Centre) was awarded a Royal Medal by the Royal Society.
Jennifer A. Doudna (University of California, Berkeley) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. She shares the award with Emmanuelle Charpentier (Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens).
Catherine Dulac (Harvard University) was awarded a 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
Paul Farmer (Harvard Medical School; Brigham and Women’s Hospital) was awarded the Berggruen Prize for Philosophy & Culture.
Anthony Fauci (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) received a Citizen Leadership Award from the Aspen Institute.
Nikky Finney (University of South Carolina) is the recipient of the Wallace Stevens Award, given by the Academy of American Poets.
Scott E. Fraser (University of Southern California) was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
Howard Earl Gardner (Harvard Graduate School of Education) received the 2020 Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award from the American Educational Research Association.
Gretchen H. Gerzinia (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) was elected to the American Antiquarian Society.
Andrea Ghez (University of California, Los Angeles) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. She shares the award with Roger Penrose (University of Oxford) and Reinhard Genzel (University of California, Berkeley; Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics).
Jane Goodall (Jane Goodall Institute) was awarded the 2020 Tang Prize in Sustainable Development.
Craig Hawker (University of California, Santa Barbara) received the American Chemical Society’s 2021 Kathryn C. Hach Award for Entrepreneurial Success.
Mellody Hobson (Ariel Investments) received a Citizen Leadership Award from the Aspen Institute.
Louis Ignarro (David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA) was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
Don Ingber (Wyss Institute, Harvard University) has been named a 2021 recipient of Yale University’s Wilbur Cross Medal for Alumni Achievement.
Vicky Kaspi (McGill University) is the recipient of the 2021 Bakerian Medal of the Royal Society of the United Kingdom.
Alex Kolodkin (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine) was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
Nicholas Kristof (The New York Times) received the inaugural Aurora Humanitarian Journalism Award. He shares the award with Jane Ferguson (PBS NewsHour; Princeton University).
Milan Kundera (Paris, France) was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize of the Czech Republic.
Cato T. Laurencin (University of Connecticut) is the recipient of the 2020 Herbert W. Nickens Award, given by the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Ruth Lehmann (Whitehead Institute; Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was awarded the 2021 Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science.
Judy Lieberman (Boston Children’s Hospital; Harvard Medical School) was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
Bill McKibben (Middlebury College) received the Distinguished Environmental Leadership Award, given by the Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods. He shares the award with Sue Halpern (Middlebury College).
Paul Milgrom (Stanford University) was awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. He shares the award with Robert B. Wilson (Stanford University).
Danesh Moazed (Harvard Medical School) received a PBSci Distinguished Alumni Award from the UC Santa Cruz Division of Physical and Biological Sciences.
Toshiko Mori (Toshiko Mori Architect; Harvard University Graduate School of Design) was awarded the 2020 Louis Auchincloss Prize by the Museum of the City of New York.
Gülru Necipoğlu (Harvard University) was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
Alondra Nelson (Institute for Advanced Study; Social Science Research Council) was elected to the National Academy of Medicine. She was also awarded the 2020 Morison Prize in Science, Technology, and Society from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Charles Nelson III (Harvard University) was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
Yuri Orlov † (Cornell University) was awarded the 2021 Robert R. Wilson Prize for Achievement in the Physics of Particle Accelerators by the American Physical Society.
Orlando Patterson (Harvard University) was awarded the Order of Merit of Jamaica.
Roderic Pettigrew (Texas A&M University) is the recipient of the Vannevar Bush Award from the National Science Board.
Elizabeth A. Phelps (Harvard University) was awarded the George A. Miller Prize in Cognitive Neuroscience.
Jennifer Richeson (Yale University) received the 2020 SAGE-CASBS Award, given by SAGE Publishing and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
Henry Samueli (Broadcom Inc.) is the recipient of the 2021 IEEE Founders Medal.
Greg Sarris (Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria) received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Heyday Publishers.
Frederick Schauer (University of Virginia School of Law) was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
Sara Seager (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was named an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Robert Seyfarth (University of Pennsylvania) received the Distinguished Animal Behaviorist Award from the Animal Behavior Society.
Kathryn Sikkink (Harvard Kennedy School) was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
Subra Suresh (Nanyang Technological University) was awarded the 2020 ASME Medal by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Melody A. Swartz (University of Chicago) was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
Alexander Szalay (Johns Hopkins University) was awarded the Viktor Ambartsumian International Science Prize. He shares the award with Adam Burrows (Princeton University) and Isabelle Baraffe (University of Exeter; Lyon Center for Astrophysics Research).
Marc Tessier-Lavigne (Stanford University) was named an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Saul Teukolsky (Cornell University) was awarded the Einstein Prize of the American Physical Society. He shares the prize with Clifford Will (University of Florida).
John C. Tully (Yale University) was awarded the Ahmed Zewail Prize in Molecular Sciences.
Peter von Hippel (University of Oregon) is the recipient of the 2021 Ignacio Tinoco Award from the Biophysical Society.
Gungwu Wang (National University of Singapore) was awarded the 2020 Tang Prize in Sinology.
Clifford Will (University of Florida) was awarded the Einstein Prize of the American Physical Society. He shares the prize with Saul Teukolsky (Cornell University).
Kongjian Yu (Turenscape; Peking University) is the recipient of the IFLA Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award, given by the International Federation of Landscape Architects.
Xiaowei Zhuang (Harvard University) was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
Jan Ziolkowski (Harvard University) was elected to the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
New Appointments
Alan Ashworth (University of California, San Francisco) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of Circle Pharma, Inc.
Joanne Berger-Sweeney (Trinity College) was elected to the Board of Directors of the Henry Luce Foundation.
Jeffrey A. Bluestone (Sonoma Biotherapeutics; University of California, San Francisco) was appointed to the Board of Directors of Gilead Sciences, Inc.
Louise Bryson (J. Paul Getty Trust) was named chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Public Media Group of Southern California.
Ursula Burns (VEON Ltd. and Xerox Corporation, ret.) was appointed to the Board of Directors of Waystar.
William F. DeGrado (University of California, San Francisco) was appointed scientific advisor at Innovation Pharmaceuticals.
Juan de Pablo (University of Chicago) was appointed vice president for National Laboratories, Science Strategy, Innovation, and Global Initiatives at the University of Chicago.
Daniel Diermeier (Vanderbilt University) joined the Federal Advisory Board of SpiderOak Mission Systems.
Nicholas B. Dirks (University of California, Berkeley) was named president and chief executive officer of the New York Academy of Sciences.
Garret FitzGerald (University of Pennsylvania) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of Bicycle Therapeutics plc.
Kenneth C. Frazier (Merck & Co.) was appointed to the Board of Directors of Catalyst.
Cynthia M. Friend (Harvard University) was named president of The Kavli Foundation.
Laurie H. Glimcher (Harvard Medical School; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute) was appoint-ed to the Board of Directors of Analog Devices, Inc.
Robert Jones (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) was elected to the Board of Trustees of the National 4-H Council.
David Julius (University of California, San Francisco) was elected a trustee of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Eric W. Kaler (University of Minnesota) was named president of Case Western Reserve University.
Peter Kareiva (University of California, Los Angeles) was named president and chief executive officer of the Aquarium of the Pacific.
Peter S. Kim (Stanford University) was appointed to the Board of Directors of Entrada Therapeutics.
Cato T. Laurencin (University of Connecticut) joined the Board of Directors of the National Academy of Inventors.
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey (University of Pennsylvania) was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Robert Malenka (Stanford University) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of AZTherapies, Inc.
Juanita L. Merchant (University of Arizona, Tucson) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research.
Alondra Nelson (Institute for Advanced Study; Social Science Research Council) was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Russell Sage Foundation.
Zaki Anwar Nusseibeh (Minister of State, United Arab Emirates) was appointed supreme president of the United Arab Emirates University.
Christina H. Paxson (Brown University) was appointed to serve as chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. She was also elected chair of the Board of Directors of the Association of American Universities.
Roger Perlmutter (Merck Research Laboratories) was appointed independent board director of insitro.
Tomaso A. Poggio (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was appointed to the AI Technology Advisory Group of Hyundai Motor Corporation.
Peter J. Ratcliffe (University of Oxford) was appointed non-executive director of Immunocore.
Daniela L. Rus (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was appointed to the AI Technology Advisory Group of Hyundai Motor Corporation.
Randy Schekman (University of California, Berkeley) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of Eureka Therapeutics, Inc.
Larry Smarr (University of California San Diego) was named Technology Evangelist at Kazuhm.
Jacqueline Stewart (University of Chicago) was named chief artistic and programming officer of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
Bruce Stillman (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) was ap-pointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of Circle Pharma, Inc.
Sarah Thomas (Harvard University) was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Natural History Museum.
Ajit Varki (University of California San Diego) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of Aviceda Therapeutics.
Kevin Young (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library) was named director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Select Publications
Poetry
Margaret Atwood (Toronto, Ontario, Canada). Dearly: New Poems. Ecco, November 2020
Henri Cole (Claremont Mc-Kenna College). Blizzard: Poems. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 2020
Jorie Graham (Harvard University). Runaway: New Poems. Ecco, September 2020
John Lithgow (Los Angeles, CA). Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown: Verses for a Despotic Age. Chronicle Prism, September 2020
Rosanna Warren (University of Chicago). So Forth. W.W. Norton, May 2020
Kevin Young (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library), ed. African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song. Library of America, October 2020
Fiction
Martin Amis (New York, NY). Inside Story: A Novel. Knopf, October 2020
Russell Banks (Saratoga Springs, NY). Foregone: A Novel. Ecco, March 2021
Sanford Levinson (University of Texas at Austin School of Law) and Cynthia Levinson (Austin, TX). Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Graphic Novel. First Second, September 2020
Viet Thanh Nguyen (University of Southern California). The Committed. Grove Press, March 2021
Marilynne Robinson (University of Iowa). Jack. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 2020
Lynne Sharon Schwartz (New York, NY). Truthtelling: Stories, Fables, Glimpses. Delphinium Press, October 2020
Jane Smiley (Carmel Valley, CA). Perestroika in Paris. Knopf, December 2020
Nonfiction
Lisa Feldman Barrett (Northeastern University). Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, November 2020
Ian Buruma (New York, NY). The Churchill Complex: The Curse of Being Special, from Winston and FDR to Trump and Brexit. Penguin Press, September 2020
F Stuart Chapin III (University of Alaska Fairbanks). Grassroots Stewardship: Sustainability Within Our Reach. Oxford University Press, June 2020
Colin Dayan (Vanderbilt University). Animal Quintet: A Southern Memoir. LARB Books, December 2020
Ruth Defries (Columbia University). What Would Nature Do: A Guide for Our Uncertain Times. Columbia University Press, December 2020
Joan Didion (New York, NY). Let Me Tell You What I Mean. Knopf, January 2021
Felton Earls (Harvard Medical School; Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health) and Mary Carlson (Harvard Medical School; Boston Children’s Hospital). Voice, Choice, and Action: The Potential of Young Citizens to Heal Democracy. Belknap Press, September 2020
Juan Enriquez (Excel Venture Management). Right/Wrong: How Technology Transforms Our Ethics. The MIT Press, October 2020
Paul Farmer (Harvard Medical School). Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, November 2020
Saul Friedländer (University of California, Los Angeles). Proustian Uncertainties: On Reading and Rereading “In Search of Lost Time.” Other Press, December 2020
Loren Ghiglione (Northwestern University), Alyssa Karas (Vanity Fair), and Dan Tham (CNN). Genus Americanus: Hitting the Road in Search of America’s Identity. University of Georgia Press, October 2020
Thomas C. Holt (University of Chicago). The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights. Oxford University Press, January 2021
Leonard Lauder (The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.). The Company I Keep: My Life in Beauty. Harper Business, November 2020
Nicholas Lemann (Columbia University), ed. American Democracy: 21 Historic Answers to 5 Urgent Questions. Library of America, October 2020
Alan Lightman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings. Pantheon, February 2021
Avi Loeb (Harvard University). Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, January 2021
Maxine L. Margolis (University of Florida; Columbia University). Women in Fundamentalism: Modesty, Marriage, and Motherhood. Rowman & Littlefield, October 2020
Louis Menand (Harvard University). The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2021
Paul Nurse (The Francis Crick Institute; Rockefeller University). What Is Life? Five Great Ideas in Biology. W.W. Norton, February 2021
Barack Obama (Washington, D.C.). A Promised Land. Crown, November 2020
Robert E. Page, Jr. (Arizona State University; University of California, Davis). The Art of the Bee: Shaping the Environment from Landscapes to Societies. Oxford University Press, August 2020
Jed S. Rakoff (United States District Court for the Southern District of New York). Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free: And Other Paradoxes of Our Broken Legal System. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, February 2021
Claudia Rankine (Yale University). Just Us: An American Conversation. Graywolf Press, September 2020
David Remnick (The New Yorker) and Henry Finder (The New Yorker), eds. The Fragile Earth: Writing from “The New Yorker” on Climate Change. Ecco, October 2020
David M. Rubenstein (The Carlyle Group). How to Lead: Wisdom from the World’s Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers. Simon & Schuster, September 2020
Peter Stansky (Stanford University). Twenty Years On: Views and Reviews of Modern Britain. Pinehill Humanities Press, September 2020
Teresa A. Sullivan (University of Virginia). Census 2020: Understanding the Issues. Springer, February 2020
Rosanna Warren (University of Chicago). Max Jacob: A Life in Arts and Letters. W.W. Norton, October 2020
Frank Wilczek (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality. Penguin Press, January 2021
† Deceased
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