Select Prizes and Awards to Members
Héctor D. Abruña (Cornell University) is the recipient of the 2025 Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences.
Wolfgang Baumeister (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry) was awarded the 2025 Shaw Prize in Life Sciences and Medicine.
Shelly L. Berger (University of Pennsylvania) was recognized by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) with the 2025 AACR-Women in Cancer Research Charlotte Friend Lectureship.
Robin Canup (Southwest Research Institute) received the 2025 Dirk Brouwer Career Award from the American Astronomical Society’s Division on Dynamical Astronomy.
Deborah D. L. Chung (University at Buffalo) received a Distinguished Alumni Award from Caltech.
Jason Cong (University of California, Los Angeles) received the 2024 Charles P. “Chuck” Thacker Breakthrough in Computing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery.
Jennifer Crocker (The Ohio State University) was awarded a 2025 American Psychological Association Presidential Citation.
Reginald DesRoches (Rice University) was elected to the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Percival Everett (University of Southern California) was awarded a 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for James.
M. Temple Grandin (Colorado State University) was named as one of USA Today’s 2025 Women of the Year.
Paul Guyer (Brown University) was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society. He was also awarded the International Kant Prize at the 2024 XIV International Kant Congress in Bonn.
Bernard A. Harris, Jr. (Vesalius Ventures) was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame.
Philip S. Khoury (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) received the Order of Merit from the Republic of Lebanon.
Mary-Claire King (University of Washington) received the 2025 Public Welfare Medal of the National Academy of Sciences.
Jhumpa Lahiri (Barnard College) is the recipient of the 2026 St. Louis Literary Award from Saint Louis University.
Cato L. Laurencin (University of Connecticut) received the Bioactive Materials Lifetime Achievement Award.
John G. Levi (Legal Services Corporation; Sidley Austin, LLP) received the 2025 CLP Award for Professional Excellence, given by the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession.
Goodwin Liu (California Supreme Court) was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Trudy Mackay (Clemson University) received the 2025 Darwin-Wallace Medal of the Linnean Society of London.
Antonios G. Mikos (Rice University) was elected to the European Academy of Sciences.
Mark Nordenberg (University of Pittsburgh) is a recipient of the inaugural Jim Roddey Leadership Award.
Thomas Pollard (Yale University) was awarded the 2025 Connecticut Medal of Science.
Ronald T. Raines (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) received the 2025 AstraZeneca Protein and Peptide Science Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Stuart L. Schreiber (Harvard University; Arena BioWorks) and Peter G. Schultz (Scripps Research Institute) are corecipients of the 2025 Robert A. Welch Award in Chemistry.
F. William Studier (Brookhaven National Laboratory) received a Distinguished Alumni Award from Caltech.
Emilie Townes (Boston University School of Theology) received a 2025 Alumni Award from the University of Chicago.
Mark Trahant (Indian Country Today) is the recipient of the 2025 I. F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence, given by the Nieman Foundation at Harvard.
Donald Truhlar (University of Minnesota) received a Distinguished Alumni Award from Caltech.
New Appointments
Rafi Ahmed (Emory University School of Medicine) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of ModeX Therapeutics Inc.
Marvin Caruthers (University of Colorado Boulder) was appointed to the Advisory Board of Veranova.
Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco (University of Virginia) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of Ascidian Therapeutics.
Oona Hathaway (Yale Law School) was named President-Elect of the American Society of International Law.
Jonathan Holloway (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) was appointed President and CEO of the Henry Luce Foundation.
Charles Isbell Jr. (University of Wisconsin-Madison) was named Chancellor of the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and Vice President of the University of Illinois System.
John List (University of Chicago) was appointed to the Anthropic Economic Advisory Council.
James B. Milliken (University of Texas System) was named President of the University of California.
Roy Parker (University of Colorado Boulder) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of Ascidian Therapeutics.
W. Kimryn Rathmell (National Cancer Institute) was named CEO of The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center–Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute.
James Rothman (Yale University) was appointed to the Board of Directors of Alveo Technologies, Inc.
Greg Sarris (Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria) was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Sundance Institute.
Kenneth Scheve (Yale University) was named the I. A. O’Shaughnessy Dean of the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame.
William F. Tate IV (Louisiana State University) was named President of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
Phillip D. Zamore (University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of TransCode Therapeutics.
Select Publications
Nonfiction
A’Lelia Bundles (Washington, D.C.). Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance. Scribner, June 2025
Geoff Dyer (Venice, CA). Homework: A Memoir. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 2025
Howard W. French (Columbia Journalism School). The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide. Liveright, August 2025
Paul Guyer (Brown University). Kant’s Impact on Moral Philosophy. Oxford University Press, May 2024
Jamaica Kincaid (Harvard University). Putting Myself Together: Writing 1974–. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 2025
John Palfrey (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation) and Eszter Hargittai (University of Zurich). Wired Wisdom: How to Age Better Online. University of Chicago Press, July 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.