Select Prizes and Awards to Members
Frances Arnold (California Institute of Technology) was awarded the 2016 Millennium Technology Prize.
Mary Beard (University of Cambridge) is the recipient of the 2016 Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences.
Arup K. Chakraborty (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
David Clary (University of Oxford) has been knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to international science.
Bruno Coppi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was awarded the 2016 Antonio Feltrinelli Prize, by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.
Ingrid Daubechies (Duke University) has been selected as a 2016 Simons Investigator.
William Theodore de Bary (Columbia University) was awarded a 2016 Tang Prize in Sinology.
Elizabeth Diller (Diller Scofidio + Renfro Architects; Princeton University) is the recipient of the 2016 ACADIA Lifetime Achievement Award, given by the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture.
Jennifer Doudna (University of California, Berkeley) was awarded a 2016 Tang Prize in Biopharmaceutical Science.
Ronald Drever (California Institute of Technology) was awarded the 2016 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2016 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics. He shares both prizes with Kip Thorne (California Institute of Technology) and Rainer Weiss (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
Ray Hilborn (University of Washington) was awarded the 2016 International Fisheries Science Prize.
Eric Lander (Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT) is the recipient of the 2016–2017 James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
John Levi (Legal Services Corporation; Sidley Austin, LLP) is the recipient of the Sargent Shriver Equal Justice Award, given by the Sargent Shriver Center on Poverty Law.
Eve Marder (Brandeis University) was awarded the 2016 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience. She shares the prize with Carla Shatz (Stanford University) and Michael Merzenich (University of California, San Francisco).
Sarah Maza (Northwestern University) has been awarded the Dorothy Ann and Clarence L. Ver Steeg Distinguished Research Fellowship Award.
Martha Minow (Harvard Law School) is the recipient of the Sargent Shriver Equal Justice Award, given by the Sargent Shriver Center on Poverty Law.
Michael J. Murrin (University of Chicago) is the recipient of the Norman Maclean Faculty Award, given by the Alumni Association of the University of Chicago.
Michel C. Nussenzweig (Rockefeller University) is the recipient of the 2016 Robert Koch Award.
Bjorn Poonen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has been selected as a 2016 Simons Investigator.
Ellen Rosand (Yale University) was awarded the William Clyde DeVane Medal, given by Yale University.
Carla Shatz (Stanford University) was awarded the 2016 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience. She shares the prize with Eve Marder (Brandeis University) and Michael Merzenich (University of California, San Francisco).
Michelle Simmons (University of New South Wales) has been awarded the Foresight Institute Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology.
Peter J. Stang (University of Utah) is the recipient of the 2015 International Science and Technology Cooperation Award of the People’s Republic of China.
Joan Steitz (Yale University) was awarded the William Clyde DeVane Medal, given by Yale University.
Madhu Sudan (Harvard University) has been selected as a 2016 Simons Investigator.
Kip Thorne (California Institute of Technology) was awarded the 2016 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2016 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics. He shares both prizes with Ronald Drever (California Institute of Technology) and Rainer Weiss (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
Rainer Weiss (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was awarded the 2016 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2016 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics. He shares both prizes with Ronald Drever (California Institute of Technology) and Kip Thorne (California Institute of Technology).
Edward Witten (Institute for Advanced Study) is the recipient of the 2016 Albert Einstein World Award of Science, given by the World Cultural Council.
Mark Yudof (University of California, Berkeley School of Law) is the recipient of the 2016 Maimonides Award from Hillel International.
New Appointments
Carolyn Bertozzi (Stanford University) has been appointed a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Symic.
Martin J. Blaser (New York University) was appointed Chair of the Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria.
David E. Clapham (Harvard Medical School; Children’s Hospital Boston) has been elected Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Christopher B. Field (Carnegie Institution for Science; Stanford University) has been named Director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.
Richard Huganir (Johns Hopkins University) has been appointed President of the Society for Neuroscience.
Jonathan Levin (Stanford University) was named Dean of Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Barry Posen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has been appointed Henry A. Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Library of Congress John W. Kluge Center.
Anne Walters Robertson (University of Chicago) has been named Interim Dean of the Division of the Humanities at the University of Chicago.
Paul Romer (New York University) has been appointed Chief Economist of the World Bank Group.
David Rubenstein (The Carlyle Group) was elected to the Harvard Corporation.
Maria Zuber (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was elected Chair of the National Science Board.
Select Publications
Poetry
Calvin Trillin (New Yorker). No Fair! No Fair! And Other Jolly Poems of Childhood. Illus. by Roz Chast (New Yorker). Orchard Books, September 2016
Rosanna Warren (University of Chicago). Earthworks: Selected Poems. American Philosophical Society, June 2016
Nonfiction
Jane Alexander (New York, NY). Wild Things, Wild Places: Adventurous Tales of Wildlife and Conservation on Planet Earth. Knopf, September 2016
Alain Berthoz (Collège de France). The Vicarious Brain, Creator of Worlds. Harvard University Press, January 2017
R. Howard Bloch (Yale University). One Toss of the Dice: The Incredible Story of How a Poem Made Us Modern. Liveright, November 2016
A.S. Byatt (London, United Kingdom). Peacock & Vine: On William Morris and Mariano Fortuny. Knopf, August 2016
Harvey Cox (Harvard University). The Market as God. Harvard University Press, September 2016
Lawrence M. Friedman (Stanford Law School). Impact: How Law Affects Behavior. Harvard University Press, September 2016
Donald K. Grayson (University of Washington). Giant Sloths and Sabertooth Cats: Extinct Mammals and the Archaeology of the Ice Age Great Basin. University of Utah Press, May 2016
Siegfried S. Hecker (Stanford University). Doomed to Cooperate: How American and Russian Scientists Joined Forces to Avert Some of the Greatest Post–Cold War Nuclear Dangers. Bathtub Row Press, June 2016
E. D. Hirsch, Jr. (University of Virginia; Core Knowledge Foundation). Why Knowledge Matters: Rescuing Our Children from Failed Educational Theories. Harvard Education Press, September 2016
Alice Kaplan (Yale University). Looking for “The Stranger”: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic. University of Chicago Press, October 2016
James T. Kloppenberg (Harvard University). Toward Democracy: The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought. Oxford University Press, June 2016
Joseph Loscalzo (Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Harvard Medical School), Albert-László Barabási (Northeastern University), and Edwin K. Silverman (Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Harvard Medical School), eds. Network Medicine: Complex Systems in Human Disease and Therapeutics. Harvard University Press, February 2017
Charles S. Maier (Harvard University). Once Within Borders: Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging since 1500. Harvard University Press, October 2016
Joel Mokyr (Northwestern University). A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy. Princeton University Press, October 2016
Venkatesh Narayanamurti (Harvard University) and Toluwalogo Odumosu (University of Virginia). Cycles of Invention and Discovery: Rethinking the Endless Frontier. Harvard University Press, October 2016
Dale Purves (Duke University). Music as Biology: The Tones We Like and Why. Harvard University Press, February 2017
Matthew Rubery (Queen Mary University of London; Visiting Scholar, 2011–2012). The Untold Story of the Talking Book. Harvard University Press, November 2016
Amartya Sen (Harvard University). Collective Choice and Social Welfare. Harvard University Press, November 2016
David Shulman (Hebrew University). Tamil. Harvard University Press, September 2016
Peter Stansky (Stanford University). Edward Upward: Art & Life. Enitharmon Press, June 2016
Alan Taylor (University of Virginia). American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750–1804. W. W. Norton, September 2016
Adrian Vermeule (Harvard Law School). Law’s Abnegation: From Law’s Empire to the Administrative State. Harvard University Press, November 2016
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