Select Prizes and Awards
Bruce Alberts (University of California, San Francisco) was awarded a 2014 Centennial Medal from Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Victor Ambros (University of Massachusetts Medical School) received the 2014 Gruber Genetics Prize. He shares the prize with Gary Ruvkun (Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School) and David Baulcombe (University of Cambridge).
Mark Aronoff (Stony Brook University, State University of New York) received a 2014 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.
Jacqueline K. Barton (California Institute of Technology) received the 2015 Priestley Medal from the American Chemical Society.
Bonnie Bassler (Princeton University) received a Phi Beta Kappa Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
Kamaljit Bawa (Ashoka Trust; University of Massachusetts) received a Doctor of Science honorary degree from the University of Alberta.
Anthony Bebbington (Clark University) received a 2014 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.
Timothy Berners-Lee (World Wide Web Consortium; Massachusetts Institute of Technology) received a Doctor of Engineering and Technology honorary degree from Yale University.
Michael Blackwood (Michael Blackwood Productions) received a 2014 Arts and Letters Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Michael Bloomberg (Bloomberg LP) received a Doctor of Laws honorary degree from Harvard University. He was also awarded an inaugural Genesis Prize.
Rodney Brooks (Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Rethink Robotics, Inc.) is the recipient of the 2014 Engelberger Award for Leadership.
Emery N. Brown (Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School) was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
John Seely Brown (University of Southern California; Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation) received a Doctor of Science honorary degree from Bates College.
Stephen L. Buchwald (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is the recipient of the 2014 Linus Pauling Medal Award from the American Chemical Society.
Hal Caswell (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) received the 2014 Mindel C. Sheps Award from the Population Association of America.
Shu Chien (University of California, San Diego) received the 2014 Roger Revelle Medal, given by the University of California, San Diego.
Sallie Chisholm (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was named the 2014 recipient of the James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award, given by MIT.
Keith Christiansen (Metropolitan Museum of Art) was awarded a 2014 Centennial Medal from Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Scott Cowen (Tulane University) received the TIAA-CREF Theodore M. Hesburgh Award for Leadership Excellence in Higher Education.
Thomas Crow (New York University) received a 2014 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.
Daniel Diermeier (Northwestern University) received a 2014 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.
Rita Dove (University of Virginia) received a Doctor of Letters honorary degree from Yale University.
William A. Eaton (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health) received a Distinguished Graduate Award from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
Wendy Freedman (Carnegie Institution for Science) received a Doctor of Science honorary degree from the University of Chicago.
Susan Gal (University of Chicago) received a Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring from the University of Chicago.
Gary Glatzmaier (University of California, Santa Cruz) was awarded the 2014 John Adam Fleming Medal from the American Geophysical Union.
Jeffrey I. Gordon (Washington University in St. Louis) is the recipient of the 2014 Passsano Foundation Award. He also received a Doctor of Science honorary degree from the University of Chicago.
Robert J. Gordon (Northwestern University) has been named a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association.
Peter Gourevitch (University of California, San Diego) received the 2014 Roger Revelle Medal, given by the University of California, San Diego.
Adolf Grünbaum (University of Pittsburgh) received the Great Federal Merit Cross from the German government. He was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of Cologne.
Alan H. Guth (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was awarded a 2014 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics. He shares the prize with Andrei D. Linde (Stanford University) and Alexei A. Starobinsky (Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences).
Ray A. Hammond (Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church) received a Doctor of Humane Letters honorary degree from the University of Notre Dame.
Herbie Hancock (Los Angeles, California) received the Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Award from the Jazz Journalists Association.
Larry Hedges (Northwestern University) received the AERA Presidential Citation for Research Excellence from the American Education Research Association.
Michael J. Hopkins (Harvard University) is the recipient of the 2014 Frederic Esser Nemmers Prize in Mathematics.
Anthony Ives (University of Wisconsin-Madison) received a Kellett Mid-Career Award from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Thomas Jessell (Columbia University) received the 2014 Gruber Neuroscience Prize.
Daniel Kahneman (Princeton University) received a Doctor of Social Science honorary degree from Yale University.
Andrew H. Knoll (Harvard University) received a Doctor of Science honorary degree from the University of Chicago.
Jon A. Krosnick (Stanford University) received the 2014 AAPOR Award from the American Association of Public Opinion Research.
Thorne Lay (University of California, Santa Cruz) was awarded the 2014 Inge Lehmann Medal from the American Geophysical Union.
Jill Lepore (Harvard University; The New Yorker) received a 2014 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.
Jonathan Levin (Stanford University) received a 2014 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.
Andrei D. Linde (Stanford University) was awarded a 2014 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics. He shares the prize with Alan H. Guth (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Alexei A. Starobinsky (Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences).
George Lusztig (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was awarded the 2014 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences.
Penelope Maddy (University of California, Irvine) has been named Phi Beta Kappa Romanell Professor.
Grigoriy Margulis (Yale University) received a Doctor of Science honorary degree from the University of Chicago.
Tobin Marks (Northwestern University) is the 2014 recipient of the Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Carolyn “Biddy” Martin (Amherst College) received a Doctor of Laws honorary degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Leo Marx (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was awarded a 2014 Centennial Medal from Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Susan K. McConnell (Stanford University) has been named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor.
Jerrold Meinwald (Cornell University) was awarded the 2014 Nakanishi Prize by the Chemical Society of Japan.
H. Jay Melosh (Purdue University) is the 2014 recipient of the Herbert Newby McCoy Award, given by Purdue University.
Elliot M. Meyerowitz (California Institute of Technology) received a Doctor of Science honorary degree from Yale University.
Brenda Milner (McGill University) was awarded a 2014 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience. She shares the prize with John O’Keefe (University College London) and Marcus E. Raichle (Washington University in St. Louis).
Jeffrey S. Moore (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) has been named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor.
Richard G. M. Morris (University of Edinburgh) was awarded the 2013 Fondation Ipsen Prize for Neuronal Plasticity; was elected to the European Molecular Biology Organization; and received the Royal Medal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Andrew Murray (Harvard University) has been named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor.
Barbara Partee (University of Massachusetts) received a Doctor of Humane Letters honorary degree from the University of Chicago.
John B. Pendry (Imperial College London) was awarded a 2014 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience. He shares the prize with Thomas W. Ebbesen (Université de Strasbourg, France) and Stefan W. Hell (Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany).
Marjorie Perloff (Stanford University) is the 2014 recipient of Washington University’s International Humanities Medal.
Monika Piazzesi (Stanford University) received a 2014 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.
Joseph Polchinski (University of California, Santa Barbara) was named the 59th Annual Faculty Research Lecturer at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Joseph W. Polisi (The Juilliard School) received a Doctor of Music honorary degree from Yale University.
Emily Rauh Pulitzer (The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts) received a 2014 Harvard Medal from the Harvard Alumni Association.
Marcus E. Raichle (Washington University in St. Louis) was awarded a 2014 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience. He shares the prize with Brenda Milner (McGill University) and John O’Keefe (University College London).
Peter Raven (Missouri Botanical Garden; Washington University in St. Louis) received a Doctor of Science honorary degree from Harvard University.
Alfred G. Redfield (Brandeis University) is the recipient of the 2015 Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award, given by the Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh.
Giacomo Rizzolatti (Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy) was awarded the 2014 Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Prize. He shares the prize with Stanislas Dehaene (Collège de France, Paris) and Trevor Robbins (University of Cambridge).
Richard Rosenberg (Bank of America) received a 2014 UCSF Medal for Advancing Health Worldwide.
Philip Roth (New York, New York) received a Yaddo Artist Medal.
Gary Ruvkun (Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School) received the 2014 Gruber Genetics Prize. He shares the prize with Victor Ambros (University of Massachusetts Medical School) and David Baulcombe (University of Cambridge).
Haun Saussy (University of Chicago) received a 2014 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.
Anne Firor Scott (Duke University) received a Doctor of Humane Letters honorary degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
David N. Seidman (Northwestern University) was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; was awarded a 2014 AIME-TMS Honorary Membership; and is the 2015 ASM International Edward DeMille Campbell Memorial Lecturer.
Richard B. Silverman (Northwestern University) received the Northwestern University Trustee Medal for Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Charles Simic (University of New Hampshire) received the 2014 Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award.
Paul Simon (New York, New York) received a 2014 NYU Steinhardt Vision Award.
Seymour Slive (Harvard University) received a Doctor of Arts honorary degree from Harvard University.
David L. Spector (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) was elected to the European Molecular Biology Organization.
Ralph Stanley (Coeburn, Virginia) received a Doctor of Music honorary degree from Yale University.
Donald F. Steiner (University of Chicago) is the recipient of a 2014 University of Chicago Alumni Medal.
Susan Stewart (Princeton University) received the Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities, given by Princeton University.
Bruce Stillman (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) is the recipient of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology’s Herbert Tabor Research Award.
Galen Stucky (University of California, Santa Barbara) received the 2014 Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research.
David F. Swensen (Yale University) received a Doctor of Humane Letters honorary degree from Yale University.
Terence Tao (University of California, Los Angeles) was awarded a Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics.
Richard Taylor (Institute for Advanced Study) was awarded a Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics.
Eugene Ulrich (University of Notre Dame) was awarded a NEH Fellowship.
Alexander Varshavsky (California Institute of Technology) is the recipient of the 2014 Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research.
David Walt (Tufts University) received the Esselen Award for Chemistry in Public Interest from the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society.
Peter Walter (University of California, San Francisco) was awarded the 2014 Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine. He shares the prize with Kazutoshi Mori (Kyoto University, Japan).
Hayden V. White (University of California, San Cruz) received a Doctor of Humane Letters honorary degree from Wesleyan University.
Fred Wudl (University of California, Santa Barbara) received the 2014 Spiers Memorial Award, given by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Richard Zeckhauser (Harvard University) has been named a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association.
Ahmed H. Zewail (California Institute of Technology) received a Doctor of Science honorary degree from Yale University.
New Appointments
Danielle Allen (Institute for Advanced Study) has been elected Chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board.
Susan Athey (Stanford University) was named to the Board of Directors of Ripple Labs.
Dean Baquet (The New York Times) was named Executive Editor of The New York Times.
Rodney Brooks (Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Rethink Robotics, Inc.) has been appointed to the Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Lord Browne of Madingley (Royal Academy of Engineering) has been reappointed Chairman of the Tate Gallery’s Board of Trustees.
Edward G. Carmines (Indiana University) has been appointed President of the Midwest Political Science Association.
Thomas D. Cook (Northwestern University) was appointed to Mathematica Policy Research as a Senior Fellow.
France Córdova (National Science Foundation) was confirmed as Director of the National Science Foundation.
Pierre Corvol (Collège de France) was appointed Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of Quantum Genomics.
Daniel Diermeier (Northwestern University) has been appointed Dean of the Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago.
Persis Drell (Stanford University) has been named Dean of the Stanford University School of Engineering.
Stanley Fischer (U.S. Federal Reserve System) has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as Vice Chairman at the Federal Reserve.
Joseph S. Francisco (Purdue University) has been named Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Alice Gast (Lehigh University) has been named President of Imperial College London.
Laura Greene (University of Illinois) has been elected to the presidential line of the American Physical Society and will serve successive one-year terms as vice president, president-elect, president, and past president.
Bryan Grenfell (Princeton University) has been appointed to the Board of Governors of the Wellcome Trust.
Mark Groudine (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) has been named Interim President and Director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
Robert M. Groves (Georgetown University) has been named to the National Science Board of the National Science Foundation.
Frances Hellman (University of California, Berkeley) has been appointed Dean of the Division of Mathematical and Physical Sciences in the College of Letters and Science at the University of California, Berkeley.
James Jackson (University of Michigan) has been named to the National Science Board of the National Science Foundation.
William Chester Jordan (Princeton University) has been elected President of the Medieval Academy of America.
Margaret Levi (Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University) has been appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Advanced Study.
Jane Lubchenco (Oregon State University) has been elected to Harvard University’s Board of Overseers.
John Maunsell (University of Chicago) has been appointed inaugural Director of the Grossman Institute for Neuroscience, Quantitative Biology, and Human Behavior at the University of Chicago.
Sabeeha Merchant (University of California, Los Angeles) has been appointed Director of the UCLA-Department of Energy (UCLA-DOE) Institute.
Cherry Murray (Harvard University) was named to the Board of Directors of Newport Corporation.
Maurice Obstfeld (University of California, Berkeley) has been named to the White House Council of Economic Advisors.
Jerrold Olefsky (University of California, San Diego) has been appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of AntriaBio, Inc.
Eric Olson (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center) has been named Director of the Hamon Center for Regenerative Science and Medicine.
Edward Penhoet (Alta Partners) has been appointed to the Board of Directors of aTyr Pharma.
Peter Rossky (University of Texas at Austin) has been named Dean of Rice University’s Wiess School of Natural Sciences.
Ruth Simmons (Brown University) was elected to the Board of Trustees of Rice University.
Michael Sipser (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has been named Dean of the School of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Rogers Smith (University of Pennsylvania) has been appointed Associate Dean for the Social Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.
Twyla Tharp (Twyla Tharp Dance Company) has been appointed to the Board of Trustees of Barnard College.
Elizabeth Thompson (University of Washington) has been elected President-Elect of the International Biometric Society.
Shirley Tilghman (Princeton University) has been appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Advanced Study.
J. Craig Venter (J. Craig Venter Institute) has been appointed to the Board of Directors of MYOS Corporation.
Clifford M. Will (University of Florida) has been appointed to a second term as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity.
Select Publications
Fiction
James Carroll (Boston, Massachusetts). Warburg in Rome: A Novel. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, July 2014
Jane Smiley (New York, New York). Some Luck. Knopf, October 2014
Paul Theroux (East Sandwich, Massachusetts). Mr. Bones: Twenty Stories. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, September 2014
Nonfiction
Robert B. Brandom (University of Pittsburgh). From Empiricism to Expressivism. Harvard University Press, December 2014
Ken Burns (Florentine Films) and Geoffrey C. Ward (New York, New York). The Roosevelts: An Intimate History. Knopf, September 2014
David Card (University of California, Berkeley) and Steven Raphael (University of California, Berkeley), eds. Immigration, Poverty, and Socioeconomic Inequality. Russell Sage Foundation, July 2013
Hillary Rodham Clinton (Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation). Hard Choices. Simon & Schuster, June 2014
Scott Cowen (Tulane University). The Inevitable City: The Resurgence of New Orleans and the Future of Urban America. Palgrave Macmillan, June 2014
Thomas Crow (New York University). The Long March of Pop: Art, Music, and Design, 1930–1995. Yale University Press, October 2014
Robert Darnton (Harvard University). Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature. W.W. Norton, September 2014
Jenny Davidson (Columbia University; Visiting Scholar, 2005–2006). Reading Style: A Life in Sentences. Columbia University Press, June 2014
Ruth DeFries (Columbia University). The Big Ratchet: How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis. Basic Books, September 2014
Richard S. Dunn (University of Pennsylvania). A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia. Harvard University Press, November 2014
Barry Eichengreen (University of California, Berkeley), Wonhyuk Lim (Korean Development Institute), Yung Chul Park (Korea University), and Dwight H. Perkins (Harvard University). The Korean Economy: From a Miraculous Past to a Sustainable Future. Harvard University Press, December 2014
Renée C. Fox (University of Pennsylvania). Doctors Without Borders: Humanitarian Quests, Impossible Dreams of Médecins Sans Frontières. Johns Hopkins University Press, April 2014
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Harvard University) and David Bindman (University College London), eds. The Image of the Black in Western Art: The Twentieth Century: The Rise of Black Artists. Harvard University Press, October 2014
Owen Gingerich (Harvard University). God’s Planet. Harvard University Press, October 2014
Peter R. Grant (Princeton University) and B. Rosemary Grant (Princeton University). 40 Years of Evolution: Darwin’s Finches on Daphne Major Island. Princeton University Press, April 2014
Ellen T. Harris (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). George Frideric Handel: A Life with Friends. W.W. Norton, September 2014
Frances Kamm (Harvard University). Bioethical Prescriptions: To Create, End, Choose, and Improve Lives. Oxford University Press, November 2013
George Kateb (Princeton University). Lincoln’s Political Thought. Harvard University Press, December 2014
Philip Kitcher (Columbia University). Life After Faith: The Case for Secular Humanism. Yale University Press, October 2014
A. A. Long (University of California, Berkeley). Greek Models of Mind and Self. Harvard University Press, November 2014
Jerome McGann (University of Virginia). The Poet Edgar Allan Poe: Alien Angel. Harvard University Press, October 2014
Bernard McGinn (University of Chicago Divinity School). Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae: A Biography. Princeton University Press, June 2014
James M. McPherson (Princeton University). Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief. Penguin Press, October 2014
Jessye Norman (New York, New York). Stand Up Straight and Sing! Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, May 2014
Orlando Patterson (Harvard University), ed. The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth. Harvard University Press, January 2015
Carl Phillips (Washington University in St. Louis). The Art of Daring: Risk, Restlessness, Imagination. Graywolf Press, August 2014
Steven Pinker (Harvard University). The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century. Viking, September 2014
Sheldon Pollock (Columbia University), Benjamin A. Elman (Princeton University), and Ku-ming Kevin Chang (Academia Sinica), eds. World Philology. Harvard University Press, December 2014
Richard Rose (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow). Learning about Politics in Time and Space: A Memoir. ECPR Press, January 2014
Frederick Schauer (University of Virginia). The Force of Law. Harvard University Press, January 2015
Ian Shapiro (Yale University) and Jane E. Calvert (University of Kentucky), eds. Selected Writings of Thomas Paine. Yale University Press, September 2014
Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. (Harvard University) and Melissa Renn (Harvard University). American Paintings at Harvard: Volume 1: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826. Harvard Art Museums/Yale University Press, December 2014
Steve J. Stern (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Scott Straus (University of Wisconsin-Madison), eds. The Human Rights Paradox: Universality and its Discontents. University of Wisconsin Press, April 2014
Elizabeth Warren (U.S. Senate). A Fighting Chance. Metropolitan Books, April 2014
Clifford M. Will (University of Florida) and Eric Poisson (University of Guelph). Gravity: Newtonian, Post-Newtonian, Relativistic. Cambridge University Press, May 2014
Edward O. Wilson (Harvard University). The Meaning of Human Existence. W.W. Norton/Liveright, October 2014
Allen W. Wood (Indiana University) and Dieter Schönecker (Universität Siegen). Immanuel Kant’s Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals. Harvard University Press, December 2014
Robert Wuthnow (Princeton University). Rough Country: How Texas Became America’s Most Powerful Bible-Belt State. Princeton University Press, August 2014
Jan M. Ziolkowski (Harvard University), ed. Dante and the Greeks. Harvard University Press, December 2014
Exhibitions
Jeff Koons (New York, New York). Jeff Koons: A Retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, June 27-October 19, 2014
Bill Viola (Bill Viola Studio). Exhibit at the Grand Palais in Paris, March 5-July 21, 2014.
Films
Ken Burns (Florentine Films). The Roosevelts: An Intimate History. PBS, September 2014
We invite all Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members to send notices about their recent and forthcoming publications, scientific findings, exhibitions and performances, and honors and prizes to bulletin@amacad.org.