Noteworthy

Select Prizes and Awards to Members
 

Recipients of the National Humanities Medal, 2022
 

Joy Harjo (Tulsa, OK)

Ruth J. Simmons (Harvard University)

Pauline Yu (American Council of Learned Societies)

Recipients of the National Humanities Medal, 2023
 

Roz Chast (The New Yorker)

Robin Wall Kimmerer (SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry)

Dawn Porter (Trilogy Films)

Darren Walker (Ford Foundation)

Recipients of the National Medal of Arts, 2023
 

Mark Bradford (Art + Practice)

Ken Burns (Florentine Films)

Spike Lee (40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks)

Steven Spielberg (Amblin Entertainment, Inc. & DreamWorks SKG)

Recipients of the National Medal of Science, 2025
 

Richard B. Alley (Pennsylvania State University)

Larry Martin Bartels (Vanderbilt University)

Bonnie L. Bassler (Princeton University)

Angela Marie Belcher (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Helen M. Blau (Stanford University)

Emery Neal Brown (Harvard Medical School)

Ingrid Daubechies (Duke University)

Cynthia Dwork (Harvard University)

R. Lawrence Edwards (University of Minnesota)

Wendy L. Freedman (University of Chicago)

Keivan G. Stassun (Vanderbilt University)

G. David Tilman (University of Minnesota)

Teresa Kaye Woodruff (Michigan State University)

Recipients of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, 2025
 

Jennifer A. Doudna (University of California, Berkeley)

Paula T. Hammond (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

David R. Walt (Brigham and Women’s Hospital)

Feng Zhang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Recipients of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2024
 

David Baker (University of Washington)

Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind)

Recipients of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, 2024
 

Daron Acemoglu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

James A. Robinson (University of Chicago)

Recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics, 2024
 

Geoffrey E. Hinton (University of Toronto)

John J. Hopfield (Princeton University)

Recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2024
 

Victor Ambros (UMass Chan Medical School)

Gary Ruvkun (Harvard Medical School)

Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2025
 

Bono (U2)

Ashton Baldwin Carter † (Harvard Kennedy School)

Hillary Rodham Clinton (Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation)

Jane Goodall (Jane Goodall Institute)

David M. Rubenstein (The Carlyle Group)

George Soros (Soros Fund Management)

Denzel Washington (Los Angeles, CA)

Other Prizes and Awards to Members
 

Quarraisha Abdool Karim (Columbia University; Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa) received the 2024 Lasker~Bloomberg Public Service Award, given by the Lasker Foundation. Professor Abdool Karim shares the award with Salim S. Abdool Karim (Columbia University; Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa).

Floyd Abrams (Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP) received the National Coalition Against Censorship’s inaugural Floyd Abrams Award.

Héctor D. Abruña (Cornell University) received the Enrico Fermi Presidential Award, bestowed by the U.S. government. Dr. Abruña shares the award with Paul Alivisatos (University of Chicago) and John H. Nuckolls (formerly, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory).

Paul Alivisatos (University of Chicago) received the Enrico Fermi Presidential Award, bestowed by the U.S. government. Dr. Alivisatos shares the award with Héctor D. Abruña (Cornell University) and John H. Nuckolls (formerly, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory).

Richard Andersen (California Institute of Technology) was awarded the 2024 International Prize for Translational Neurosicence by the Gertrud Reemtsma Foundation.

Carol Anderson (Emory University) received the Freedom Summer of ’64 Award, given by Miami University.

Kwame Anthony Appiah (New York University) was awarded the John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity by the Library of Congress.

Frances Arnold (California Institute of Technology) was awarded the 2025 Priestley Medal, given by the American Chemical Society.

Gilda A. Barabino (Olin College of Engineering) was awarded the 2024 Carnegie Mellon University Dickson Prize in Science.

Richard G. Baraniuk (Rice University) was awarded the 2025 IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal.

Regina Barzilay (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) received the 2025 Frances E. Allen Medal from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Lee C. Bollinger (Columbia University) received the National Coalition Against Censorship’s Judy Blume Lifetime Achievement Award.

Jericho Brown (Emory University) was named a 2024 MacArthur Fellow.

Emily Carter (Princeton University) received the American Chemical Society’s 2024 Marsha I. Lester Award for Exemplary Impact in Physical Chemistry.

Cathy J. Cohen (University of Chicago) received the 2024 Frank J. Goodnow Award from the American Political Science Association.

Jason Cong (University of California, Los Angeles) received the 2024 Phil Kaufman Award from the Electronic System Design Alliance and the Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Nicholas Donofrio (IBM) was named a Fellow of Sigma Xi.

Scott Emr (Cornell University) and Wesley Sundquist (University of Utah) were awarded the 2024 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University.

Ronald Evans (Salk Institute for Biological Studies) is the recipient of the 2025 Kimberly Prize in Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics from the Simpson Querrey Institute for Epigenetics.

Percival Everett (University of Southern California) received the 2024 National Book Award for fiction for his novel James.

Rusty Gage (Salk Institute for Biological Studies) was awarded the 2024 J. Allyn Taylor International Prize in Medicine by Western University. Professor Gage was also awarded the 2024 Ogawa-Yamanaka Stem Cell Prize by Gladstone Institutes.

Miguel García-Garibay (University of California, Los Angeles) received the 2025 James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry from the American Chemical Society.

David D. Ginty (Harvard Medical School) received the Perl-UNC Neuroscience Prize from the UNC School of Medicine.

David Goeddel (The Column Group) received UC San Diego’s 2025 Chancellor’s Medal.

Andrea Goldsmith (Princeton University) was named to the Wireless Hall of Fame.

Jeffrey I. Gordon (Washington University in St. Louis) was awarded the 2024 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest by The Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Fan Chung Graham (University of California, San Diego) was awarded a 2024 Revelle Medal by the University of California, San Diego.

Stephan Haggard (University of California, San Diego) was awarded a 2024 Revelle Medal by the University of California, San Diego.

Naomi J. Halas (Rice University) was awarded the Australian Academy of Science’s 2024 Geoffrey Frew Fellowship.

Sally Haslanger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was named the 2024 recipient of the Philip L. Quinn Prize from the American Philosophical Association.

Barton F. Haynes (Duke University School of Medicine) received the 2024 William G. Anlyan Lifetime Achievement Award, given by the Duke Medical Alumni Association.

Matthias Hentze (European Molecular Biology Laboratory) was awarded the Otto Warburg Medal 2025 of the Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Peter Hotez (Baylor College of Medicine) received the 2024 John P. McGovern Science and Society Award from Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society. Dr. Hotez was also awarded the Villanova University Mendel Medal.

Richard Ivry (University of California, Berkeley) was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Prize in Mind and Brain Sciences by Carnegie Mellon University.

Jainendra Jain (Pennsylvania State University) was elected as a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy.

Sheila Johnson (Salamander Collection) received a People’s Choice Award for Nonfiction, one of the Virginia Literary Awards given by the Library of Virginia, for her book Walk Through Fire: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Triumph.

Johan Anthony Willem Kamp (University of Stuttgart) was awarded the Rolf Schock Prize for Logic and Philosophy by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Takeo Kanade (Carnegie Mellon University) received the 2024 John Scott Award from the Board of Directors of City Trusts. Dr. Kanade shares the award with Vijay Kumar (University of Pennsylvania) and Daniela Rus (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Martin Karplus † (Harvard University) was awarded the Grand Decoration of Honor in Gold with Sash for Services to the Republic of Austria.

Jeffrey Kelly (Scripps Research Institute) received the 2024 Stein & Moore Award from the Protein Society.

Pradeep K. Khosla (University of California, San Diego) was elected as a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy.

Chryssa Kouveliotou (George Washington University) received the 2024 Bodossaki Excellence Award in the field of natural sciences.

Tony Kouzarides (University of Cambridge) was awarded a British Knighthood for services to healthcare innovation and delivery.

Vijay Kumar (University of Pennsylvania) received the 2024 John Scott Award from the Board of Directors of City Trusts. Dr. Kumar shares the award with Takeo Kanade (Carnegie Mellon University) and Daniela Rus (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Lynne Maquat (University of Rochester Medical Center) received the 2024 Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research from Johnson & Johnson.

Michael Marletta (University of California, Berkeley) was named a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

Margaret Martonosi (Prince­ton University) received the Frances E. Allen Award for Outstanding Mentoring from the Association of Computing Machinery.

Michael B. McElroy (Harvard University) was awarded the 2024 William Bowie Medal by the American Geophysical Union.

Julie Mehretu (New York, NY) was awarded the rank of Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture.

Louis Menand (Harvard University; The New Yorker) was awarded the Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism from the Robert B. Silvers Foundation.

Priyamvada Natarajan (Yale University) was awarded the 2025 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics by the American Astronomical Society and the American Institute of Physics.

William D. Nix (Stanford University) was elected to the Royal Society of London as a Foreign Member.

Andre Nussenzweig (National Institutes of Health) received the Bert and Natalie Vallee Award in Biomedical Science from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Elaine Oran (Texas A&M University) was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

Julie Packard (Monterey Bay Aquarium) was awarded the UC Presidential Medal.

Roderic Pettigrew (Texas A&M University) received the 2024 Research Achievement Award from the American Heart Association.

Janet B. Pierrehumbert (University of Oxford) was elected as a member of the Academia Europaea.

Susan Quaggin (Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine) received the 2024 John P. Peters Award, given by the American Society of Nephrology.

Kenneth Ribet (University of California, Berkeley) received the 2025 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research from the American Mathematical Society.

Dorothy Roberts (University of Pennsylvania) was named a 2024 MacArthur Fellow.

Daniela Rus (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) received the 2025 Edison Medal from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Dr. Rus also received the 2024 John Scott Award from the Board of Directors of City Trusts, and she shares that award with Takeo Kanade (Carne­gie Mellon University) and Vijay Kumar (University of Pennsylvania).

Eric Schickler (University of California, Berkeley) received the 2024 Barbara Sinclair Lecture Award from the American Political Science Association.

Joseph Schlessinger (Yale University) received the Herbert Tabor Research Award from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Erin Schuman (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research) was awarded the Körber European Science Prize.

Keivan G. Stassun (Vanderbilt University) was named a 2024 MacArthur Fellow.

Wesley Sundquist (University of Utah) and Scott Emr (Cornell University) were awarded the 2024 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University.

Sarah Tishkoff (University of Pennsylvania) was awarded the 2024 Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science by the Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Peter Ungar (University of Arkansas) received the 2024 OMNI Keeling/Hansen Climate Science Award from the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas.

Carrie Mae Weems (Syracuse, NY) is the recipient of a 2022 National Medal of Arts.

Paul S. Weiss (University of California, Los Angeles) received the 2024 Sigma Xi William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement.

Michael Whitlock (University of British Columbia) is the recipient of the 2024 Molecular Ecology Prize, given by the journal Molecular Ecology.

Omar M. Yaghi (University of California, Berkeley) was awarded the 2024 Tang Prize in Sustainable Development.

Chen Yi (University of Missouri-Kansas City) was elected as an honorary member of the International Society for Contemporary Music.

Jizhong Zhou (University of Oklahoma) received the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Southeastern Universities Research Association.

New Appointments
 

Ann M. Arvin (Stanford University) was appointed to the Board of Directors of Research Bridge Partners.

Ian Baucom (University of Virginia) was named President of Middlebury College.

Stephen Blacklow (Harvard Medical School) was appointed Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of Odyssey Therapeutics, Inc.

Anantha P. Chandrakasan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was appointed to the Board of Trustees of Natcast.

Juan de Pablo (University of Chicago) was named Executive Dean of New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering and the University’s inaugural Executive Vice President for Global Science and Technology.

Benjamin L. Ebert (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Harvard Medical School) was appointed President and CEO of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Julio Frenk (University of Miami) was appointed Chancellor of the University of California, Los Angeles.

William G. Howell (University of Chicago) was named Dean of the School of Government and Policy at Johns Hopkins University.

Sun Hur (Harvard Medical School) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of Odyssey Therapeutics, Inc.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson (University of Pennsylvania) was named to the Communications and Public Engagement Working Group for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee to the Director.

William F. Lee (Wilmer­Hale) was elected to the Board of Directors of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Jeffrey Leiden (Vertex Pharmaceuticals) was appointed as a key advisor to Enlaza Therapeutics.

Lúcia G. Lohmann (Univer­sity of California, Berkeley) was appointed President of the Missouri Botanical Garden.

John F. Manning (Harvard Law School) was appointed Provost of Harvard University.

Dwight A. McBride (Washington University in St. Louis) was named Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity at Washington University in St. Louis.

Ruslan Medzhitov (Yale University School of Medicine) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of Odyssey Therapeutics, Inc.

Melissa Moore (Moderna Therapeutics) was appointed to the Board of Directors of Chroma Medicine, Inc.

Alondra Nelson (Institute for Advanced Study) was elected to the Board of Directors of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Eric Nestler (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai) was appointed to the Science Advisory Board of Sparian Biosciences, Inc.

Jill Pipher (Brown University) was named to the Board of Trustees of the Simons Foundation.

James Rothman (Yale University) was appointed as an Independent Director of the Board of Noscendo GmbH.

Alexander Rudensky (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of Odyssey Therapeutics, Inc.

Michel Sadelain (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) was named Director of the Columbia Initiative in Cell Engineering and Therapy and Director of the Cancer Cell Therapy Initiative in the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

Peter Salovey (Yale University) was elected to the Board of Trustees of Stanford University.

Mariko Silver (Henry Luce Foundation) was appointed President and CEO of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

Ruth Simmons (Rice University; Harvard University) was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

Peter L. Slavin (Massachusetts General Hospital) was named President and CEO of both Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Cedars-Sinai Health System.

Natasha Trethewey (Northwestern University) was elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board.

Steven Wilkinson (Yale University) was named Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale University.

Lewis T. Williams (Ten30 Biosciences) was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of ReAlta Life Sciences, Inc.

Eleanor Wilner (Philadelphia, PA) was elected to the Academy of American Poets’ Board of Chancellors.

Select Publications
 

Poetry
 

Paul Muldoon (Princeton University). Joy in Service on Rue Tagore. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 2024

Carl Phillips (Washington University in St. Louis). Scattered Snows, to the North. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 2024

Fiction
 

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Lagos, Nigeria). Dream Count. Knopf, March 2025

Pedro Almodóvar (El Deseo Production Company). The Last Dream. HarperVia, September 2024

Emma Donoghue (Ontario, Canada). The Paris Express. Summit Books, March 2025

Louise Erdrich (Minneapolis, MN). The Mighty Red. Harper, October 2024

Richard Powers (Stanford, CA). Playground. W. W. Norton, September 2024

James Stavridis (The Carlyle Group). The Restless Wave. Penguin Press, October 2024

Paul Theroux (East Sandwich, MA). The Vanishing Point. Mariner Books, January 2025

Anne Tyler (Baltimore, MD). Three Days in June. Knopf, February 2025
 

Nonfiction
 

Amnon Aharony (Tel Aviv University), Ora Entin-Wohlman (Tel Aviv University), David A. Huse (Prince­ton University), and Leo Radzihovsky (University of Colorado at Boulder), eds. 50 Years of the Renormalization Group: Dedicated to the Memory of Michael E. Fisher. World Scientific Publishing Company, August 2024

Karl Ameriks (University of Notre Dame). Kantian Dignity and Its Difficulties. Oxford University Press, October 2024

Charles R. Beitz (Princeton University). For the People? Democratic Representation in America. Oxford University Press, October 2024

Charles Bernstein (University of Pennsylvania). The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays & Comedies. University of Chicago Press, November 2024

Helen M. Blau (Stanford University). Stem Cells to the Rescue. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, October 2024

Noam Chomsky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Nathan J. Robinson (Current Affairs). The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World. Penguin Press, October 2024

Hillary Rodham Clinton (Chappaqua, NY). Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty. Simon & Schuster, September 2024

Francis S. Collins (Rockville, MD). The Road to Wisdom: On Truth, Science, Faith, and Trust. Little, Brown and Company, September 2024

Doris Kearns Goodwin (Boston, MA). The Leadership Journey: How Four Kids Became President. Simon & Schuster, September 2024

Hahrie Han (Johns Hopkins University). Undivided: The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church. Knopf, September 2024

Robin Wall Kimmerer (SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry). The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World. Scribner, November 2024

Sandra Knapp (Natural History Museum, London). Flower Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Floral Lives. University of Chicago Press, April 2025

Nicholas Lemann (Columbia University). Higher Admissions: The Rise, Decline, and Return of Standardized Testing. Princeton University Press, September 2024

David Levering Lewis (New York University). The Stained Glass Window: A Family History as the American Story, 1790–1958. Penguin Press, February 2025

Greil Marcus (Oakland, CA). What Nails It. Yale University Press, August 2024

Orhan Pamuk (Istanbul, Turkey). Memories of Distant Mountains: Illustrated Notebooks, 2009–2022. Knopf, November 2024

Daniel R. Porterfield (Aspen Institute). Mindset Matters: The Power of College to Activate Lifelong Growth. Johns Hopkins University Press, June 2024

Geoffrey Pullum (Alexandria, VA). The Truth About English Grammar. Polity, September 2024

David M. Rubenstein (The Carlyle Group). The Highest Calling: Conversations on the American Presidency. Simon & Schuster, September 2024

Daniela Rus (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Gregory Mone (Martha’s Vineyard, MA). The Mind’s Mirror: Risk and Reward in the Age of AI. W. W. Norton, August 2024

Laurence Senelick (Tufts University). The Final Curtain: The Art of Dying on Stage. Anthem Press, August 2024

Neil Shubin (University of Chicago). Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future. Dutton, February 2025

Jean Strouse (New York, NY). Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, November 2024