Select Prizes and Awards to Members
Laurence F. Abbott (Columbia University) was awarded the 2024 Brain Prize. Professor Abbott shares the prize with Haim Sompolinsky (Harvard University) and Terrence Sejnowski (Salk Institute for Biological Studies).
Terence Blanchard (New Orleans, LA) was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Kristin Bowman-James (University of Kansas) received the Joseph G. Danek Award, given by the EPSCoR/IDeA Foundation.
Mary C. Boyce (Columbia University) was awarded the 2024 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Mechanical Engineering by the Franklin Institute.
Ronald Breaker (Yale University) was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.
María Magdalena Campos-Pons (Vanderbilt University) received the 2024 SEC Faculty Achievement Award.
Deborah Duen Ling Chung (University at Buffalo) received the UB President’s Medal from the University at Buffalo.
Titia de Lange (Rockefeller University) received the 2024 Pezcoller Foundation–American Association for Cancer Research International Award for Extraordinary Achievement in Cancer Research.
Michel Devoret (Yale University) was awarded the Comstock Prize in Physics, given by the National Academy of Sciences. Professor Devoret shares the award with Robert Schoelkopf (Yale University).
Aaron Dworkin (University of Michigan) received the President’s Award for National and State Leadership from the University of Michigan.
Andrea Ghez (University of California, Los Angeles) received an Alumni Medal from the University of Chicago.
Claudia Golden (Harvard University) received an Alumni Medal from the University of Chicago. She was also named a TIME Woman of the Year for 2024.
Jeffrey I. Gordon (Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis) received the 2024 Mechthild Esser Nemmers Prize in Medical Science from Northwestern University.
Joy Harjo (Tulsa, OK) received the Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America.
Nancy Hopkins (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was awarded the 2024 Public Welfare Medal by the National Academy of Sciences.
William Kaelin Jr. (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Harvard Medical School) received the Stanley P. Reimann Honor Award from the Fox Chase Cancer Center.
Sandra Knapp (Natural History Museum, London) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, awarded an OBE in the King’s New Year Honors in 2023, and received the Engler Medal in Gold from the International Association for Plant Taxonomy.
Gary Koretzky (Weill Cornell Medicine) received the American Association of Immunologists’ Lifetime Achievement Award.
Robert Landick (University of Wisconsin–Madison) received a 2024 Hilldale Award from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Luciano Marraffini (Rockefeller University) received the 2024 Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science from the Vilcek Foundation.
Tracey Meares (Yale Law School) was named a 2024 Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Richard A. Meserve (Carnegie Institution for Science) received the Lauristan S. Taylor Medal from the National Council of Radiation Protection and Measurements.
Peter Narins (University of California, Los Angeles) received the 2023 Hugh Knowles Prize for Distinguished Achievement from Northwestern University.
Priyamvada Natarajan (Yale University) was elected a Fellow of the American Astronomical Society.
David Nirenberg (Institute for Advanced Study) was awarded the 2024 Leopold Lucas Prize from the University of Tübingen’s Faculty of Protestant Theology.
Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago) received the 2024 Norman Maclean Faculty Award from the University of Chicago.
Julio M. Ottino (Northwestern University) was elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering’s College of Fellows.
Kimberly Prather (University of California, San Diego) received the 2024 NAS Award in Chemical Sciences, given by the National Academy of Sciences.
Thomas Rando (University of California, Los Angeles) was elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering’s College of Fellows.
Charles Ray (Los Angeles, CA) was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Dietram Scheufele (University of Wisconsin–Madison) received a 2024 Hilldale Award from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Robert Schoelkopf (Yale University) was awarded the Comstock Prize in Physics, given by the National Academy of Sciences. Professor Schoelkopf shares the award with Michel Devoret (Yale University).
Terrence Sejnowski (Salk Institute for Biological Studies) was awarded the 2024 Brain Prize. Professor Sejnowski shares the prize with Laurence F. Abbott (Columbia University) and Haim Sompolinsky (Harvard University).
Paul Simon (New York, NY) received the PEN/Audible Literary Service Award.
Haim Sompolinsky (Harvard University) was awarded the 2024 Brain Prize. Professor Sompolinsky shares the prize with Laurence F. Abbott (Columbia University) and Terrence Sejnowski (Salk Institute for Biological Studies).
Jacqueline Stewart (Academy Museum of Motion Pictures) received the Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ Distinguished Career Achievement Award.
Teresa A. Sullivan (University of Virginia) received a Professional Achievement Award from the University of Chicago.
Arthur Sze’s (Institute of American Indian Arts) The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems (Copper Canyon Press) was selected by the National Book Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation as a 2024 selected title of the Science + Literature program.
Rosemarie Trockel (Brandenburg, Germany) was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
E. John Wherry (University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine) was named a 2024 Fellow of the American Association for Cancer Research Academy.
Avi Wigderson (Institute for Advanced Study) is the recipient of the 2023 A.M. Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery.
John Williams (Burbank, CA) was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Hao Wu (Harvard Medical School) was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.
Kevin Young (National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution) was awarded the 2024 Harvard Arts Medal.
New Appointments
Danielle Allen (Harvard University) was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation.
Lawrence D. Bobo (Harvard University) was elected as Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Institutes for Research.
Karl Eikenberry (Stimson Center) was appointed a member of the National Security Education Board.
Richard A. Epstein (New York University School of Law) was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Liberty Justice Center.
Scott Fraser (University of Southern California) was named Vice President of Science Grant Programs at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
Kenneth C. Frazier (Merck & Co.) was elected a member of the Harvard Corporation.
Elena Fuentes-Afflick (University of California, San Francisco) was named Chief Scientific Officer of the Association of American Medical Colleges.
David Grain (Grain Management) was elected a member of the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College. Mr. Grain was also appointed a member of the National Infrastructure Advisory Council.
Stephen Heintz (Rockefeller Brothers Fund) was appointed as Chair of the Governing Board of the Quincy Institute.
Kaye Husbands Fealing (Georgia Institute of Technology) was selected to lead the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences at the National Science Foundation.
Erika Lee (Harvard University) was appointed as the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Faculty Director at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute’s Schlesinger Library.
David Leebron (Rice University) was named President and Chief Executive Officer of Texas 2036.
Jonathan Levin (Stanford Graduate School of Business) was appointed President of Stanford University.
John F. Manning (Harvard Law School) was named Interim Provost of Harvard University.
Jennifer J. Raab (Hunter College) was named President and Chief Executive Officer of the New York Stem Cell Foundation.
Thomas Rando (University of California, Los Angeles) was elected President of the Board of Directors of the American Federation for Aging Research.
Andrew Read (Pennsylvania State University) was named Senior Vice President for Research at Pennsylvania State University.
Beth Shapiro (University of California, Santa Cruz) was named Chief Science Officer of Colossal Biosciences.
J. Marshall Shepherd (University of Georgia) was appointed to the Board of Directors of the National Center for Science Education.
Ruth Simmons (Harvard University; Rice University) was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation.
James Spudich (Stanford University School of Medicine) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of Quince Therapeutics, Inc.
George Triantis (Stanford University) was named Dean of Stanford Law School.
Dawn Wright (Environmental Systems Research Institute) was selected to serve as a 2024 U.S. Science Envoy.
Select Publications
Fiction
Anna Quindlen (New York, NY). After Annie. Random House, March 2024
Jane Smiley (Carmel Valley, CA). Lucky. Knopf, April 2024
Colm Tóibín (Dublin, Ireland). Long Island. Scribner, May 2024
Joy Williams (Tucson, AZ). Concerning the Future of Souls. Tin House Books, July 2024
Nonfiction
Derek Bok (Harvard University). Attacking the Elites: What Critics Get Wrong–and Right–About America’s Leading Universities. Yale University Press, February 2024
Lawrence Buell (Harvard University). Henry David Thoreau: Thinking Disobediently. Oxford University Press, October 2023
Judith Butler (University of California, Berkeley). Who’s Afraid of Gender? Farrar, Straus and Giroux, March 2024
David Clary (University of Oxford). The Lost Scientists of World War II. World Scientific, February 2024
Judi Dench (London, United Kingdom) with Brendan O’Hea (Shakespeare’s Globe). Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent. St. Martin’s Press, April 2024
Nicholas B. Dirks (New York Academy of Sciences). City of Intellect: The Uses and Abuses of the University. Cambridge University Press, February 2024
Anthony S. Fauci (Georgetown University). On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service. Viking, June 2024
Renée Fleming (McLean, VA), ed. Music and Mind: Harnessing the Arts for Health and Wellness. Viking, April 2024
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Harvard University). The Black Box: Writing the Race. Penguin Press, March 2024
Doris Kearns Goodwin (Boston, MA). An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s. Simon & Schuster, April 2024
Stephen Greenblatt (Harvard University) and Adam Phillips (University of York). Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud. Yale University Press, May 2024
Jonathan Haidt (New York University). The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness. Penguin Press, March 2024
Mary Dana Hinton (Hollins University). Leading from the Margins: College Leadership from Unexpected Places. Johns Hopkins University Press, February 2024
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy (Winters, CA). Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies. Princeton University Press, May 2024
Sandra Knapp (Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom). In the Name of Plants. University of Chicago Press, November 2022
Christof Koch (Allen Institute for Brain Science). Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It. Basic Books, May 2024
Nicholas D. Kristof (Yamhill, OR). Chasing Hope: A Reporter’s Life. Knopf, May 2024
Michele Norris (The Washington Post). Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity. Simon & Schuster, January 2024
Nell Irvin Painter (Princeton University). I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays. Doubleday, April 2024
Sonny Rollins (West Hurley, NY) with Sam V. H. Reese (York St John University), ed. The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins. New York Review Books, April 2024
Daniela Rus (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Gregory Mone (Popular Science). The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots. W. W. Norton & Company, March 2024
James Shapiro (Columbia University). The Playbook: The Story of Theater, Democracy, and the Making of a Culture War. Penguin Press, May 2024
Cass R. Sunstein (Harvard Law School). How to Become Famous: Lost Einsteins, Forgotten Superstars, and How the Beatles Came to Be. Harvard Business Review Press, May 2024
David S. Tatel (United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit). Vision: A Memoir of Blindness and Justice. Little, Brown and Company, June 2024
Natasha Trethewey (Northwestern University). The House of Being. Yale University Press, April 2024
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.