Select Prizes and Awards to Members
Dolores Albarracín (University of Pennsylvania) received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Social Sciences. Professor Albarracín shares this award with Icek Ajzen (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Mahzarin Banaji (Harvard University), Anthony Greenwald (University of Washington), and Richard Petty (Ohio State University).
Mahzarin Banaji (Harvard University) received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Social Sciences. Professor Banaji shares this award with Icek Ajzen (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Dolores Albarracín (University of Pennsylvania), Anthony Greenwald (University of Washington), and Richard Petty (Ohio State University).
Jeremy Berg (University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine) was named a Fellow of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Marsha Berger (Flatiron Institute) was awarded the 2025 John von Neumann Prize by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
Pamela J. Björkman (California Institute of Technology) received the 2025 Wolf Prize in Medicine.
Olivier Blanchard (Paris School of Economics; MIT) received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics, Finance, and Management. Professor Blanchard shares this award with Jordi Galí (Pompeu Fabra University) and Michael Woodford (Columbia University).
Eduardo Brondízio (Indiana University-Bloomington) was awarded the 2025 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. Professor Brondízio shares this award with Sandra Díaz (Universidad Nacional de Cordoba).
Marianne Bronner (California Institute of Technology) was awarded the 2025 Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science.
Sandra Díaz (Universidad Nacional de Cordoba) was awarded the 2025 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. Professor Díaz shares this award with Eduardo Brondízio (Indiana University-Bloomington).
Martin Gellert (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases) was named a Fellow of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Anthony Greenwald (University of Washington) received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Social Sciences. Professor Greenwald shares this award with Icek Ajzen (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Dolores Albarracín (University of Pennsylvania), Mahzarin Banaji (Harvard University), and Richard Petty (Ohio State University).
Naomi Halas (Rice University) was awarded the 2025 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry.
Gordon Hammes (Duke University) was named a Fellow of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
John Hartwig (University of California, Berkeley) received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences. Professor Hartwig shares this award with Avelino Corma (Institute of Chemical Technology) and Helmut Schwarz (Technische Universität Berlin).
Stephen L. Hauser (University of California, San Francisco) is among the recipients of the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
Jainendra K. Jain (Pennsylvania State University) received the 2025 Wolf Prize in Physics.
Jonathan Jansen (Stellenbosch University) received the 2025 Division B Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Educational Research Association.
Judith Klinman (University of California, Berkeley) was named a Fellow of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Jennifer A. Lewis (Harvard University) was awarded the 2025 James Prize in Science and Technology Integration by the National Academy of Sciences.
Steven McKnight (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center) was named a Fellow of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Sigrid Nunez (New York, NY) was awarded a 2025 Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction.
Gregory Petsko (Brigham & Women’s Hospital; Harvard Medical School) was named a Fellow of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Richard Petty (Ohio State University) received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Social Sciences. Professor Petty shares this award with Icek Ajzen (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Dolores Albarracín (University of Pennsylvania), Mahzarin Banaji (Harvard University), and Anthony Greenwald (University of Washington).
Suzanne Pfeffer (Stanford University School of Medicine) was named a Fellow of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (University of California, Santa Cruz) received the Research Corporation for Science Advancement’s 2025 Robert Holland Jr. Award.
David M. Rubenstein (The Carlyle Group) was awarded the Dwight D. Eisenhower Medal for Leadership and Service by Eisenhower Fellowships.
Henry Samueli (Broadcom Inc.) was awarded the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ 2025 IEEE Medal of Honor.
Helmut Schwarz (Technische Universität Berlin) was awarded the 2025 Wolf Prize in Chemistry. Professor Schwarz was also elected as an Honorary Member of both the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the European Academy of Sciences.
Helmut Schwarz (Technische Universität Berlin) received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences. Professor Schwarz shares this award with Avelino Corma (Institute of Chemical Technology) and John Hartwig (University of California, Berkeley).
Gurindar Sohi (University of Wisconsin–Madison) received the 2025 IEEE CS Computer Pioneer Award in Honor of the Women of ENIAC. Professor Sohi shares the award with Moshe Y. Vardi (Rice University).
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Columbia University) was awarded the 2025 Holberg Prize.
Alicia Elsbeth Stallings (Athens, Greece) was awarded the Lord Byron Medal by the Society for Hellenism and Philhellenism. Professor Stallings shares this award with Victoria Hislop (Royal Society of Literature).
Chandrika Tandon (Tandon Capital Associates) won a Grammy Award for Best New Age, Ambient or Chant Album for her album Trivendi. Ms. Tandon shares this award with her collaborators flautist Wouter Kellerman and cellist Eru Matsumoto.
Anne M. Thompson (NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center) was elected as an Honorary Member of the American Meteorological Society.
Gerard ’t Hooft (Utrecht University) was awarded the 2025 Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
Moshe Y. Vardi (Rice University) received the 2025 IEEE CS Computer Pioneer Award in Honor of the Women of ENIAC. Professor Vardi shares the award with Gurindar Sohi (University of Wisconsin–Madison).
Jonathan Wendel (Iowa State University) is the recipient of the 2024 Cotton Genetics Research Award.
Michael Woodford (Columbia University) received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics, Finance, and Management. Professor Woodford shares this award with Jordi Galí (Pompeu Fabra University) and Olivier Blanchard (Paris School of Economics; MIT).
Teresa Woodruff (Michigan State University) is the recipient of the Women’s Health Visionary Award from the Society for Women’s Health Research.
Hao Wu (Harvard Medical School) was named a Fellow of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
New Appointments
Adam F. Falk (Alfred P. Sloan Foundation) has been named President and CEO of the Wildlife Conservation Society.
JoAnn Falletta (Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra) has been appointed Principal Guest Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Omaha Symphony.
Andrea Goldsmith (Princeton University) has been named President of Stony Brook University.
Greg Hirth (Brown University) has been appointed Vice President for Research at Brown University.
J. Larry Jameson (University of Pennsylvania) has been appointed President of the University of Pennsylvania.
Robert J. Jones (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) has been named President of the University of Washington.
Richard P. Lifton (The Rockefeller University) was elected to the Harvard Corporation.
John A. List (University of Chicago) has been appointed Director of the University of Chicago’s Becker Friedman Institute for Economics.
Michael A. McRobbie (Indiana University) was elected to the Board of Directors of the Council on International Educational Exchange.
Dambisa Moyo (Versaca Investments) was appointed to the National Geographic Society’s Board of Trustees.
Marina Picciotto (Yale University) has been elected President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Robert Rosner (University of Chicago) has been appointed Editor in Chief of the American Physical Society.
Select Publications
Fiction
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Lagos, Nigeria). Dream Count. Knopf, March 2025
Ariel Dorfman (Duke University). Allegro. Other Press, March 2025
Nonfiction
Rachel Elise Barkow (New York University School of Law). Justice Abandoned: How the Supreme Court Ignored the Constitution and Enabled Mass Incarceration. Harvard University Press, March 2025
David Clary (University of Oxford). Walter Kohn: From Kindertransport and Internment to DFT and the Nobel Prize. World Scientific Publishing, January 2025
J. M. Coetzee (University of Adelaide) and Mariana Dimópulos (University of Saarland; University of Halle). Speaking in Tongues. Liveright, May 2025
Agustín Fuentes (Princeton University). Sex Is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary. Princeton University Press, May 2025
Greg Grandin (Yale University). America, América: A New History of the New World. Penguin Press, April 2025
Joy Harjo (Tulsa, Oklahoma). For a Girl Becoming, illus. by Adriana M. Garcia (San Antonio, Texas). Norton, April 2025
Viet Thanh Nguyen (University of Southern California). To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other. Belknap Press, April 2025
Mary Beth Norton (Cornell University). “I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer”: Letters on Love and Marriage from the World’s First Personal Advice Column. Princeton University Press, April 2025
Elaine Pagels (Princeton University). Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus. Doubleday, April 2025
Neil L. Rudenstine (ARTstor). Our Contentious Universities: A Personal History. American Philosophical Press, March 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.