As of press time, several Fellows of the Academy, listed below, had been nominated or appointed to key positions in the Obama administration:
Hyman Bass (University of Michigan) was appointed Member of the President’s Committee on the National Medal of Science.
Joseph S. Francisco (Purdue University) was appointed Member of the President’s Committee on the National Medal of Science.
Ernest Moniz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was confirmed as the 13th U.S. Secretary of Energy.
Penny Pritzker (PSP Capital Partners and Pritzker Realty Group) was nominated as U.S. Secretary of Commerce.
Select Prizes and Awards to Members
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellows, 2013
Elizabeth S. Anderson (University of Michigan)
Philip Bohlman (University of Chicago)
Lee Epstein (University of Southern California)
Lynn Garafola (Barnard College)
Scott Page (University of Michigan)
Ann Taves (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Other Awards
Alan Alda (New York, New York) received the 2013 Common Wealth Award for Dramatic Arts.
Christopher Benfey (Mount Holyoke College) received the 2013 Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Bonnie Berger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) received an Alumni Achievement Award from Brandeis University.
Eli Broad (Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation) and Edythe Broad (Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation) are the 2013 recipients of the William E. Simon Prize for Philanthropic Leadership, given by the Philanthropy Roundtable.
Angus Burgin (Johns Hopkins University; Visiting Scholar, 2009–2010) is the recipient of the 2013 Merle Curti Award, given by the Organization of American Historians.
Pierre Deligne (Institute for Advanced Study) was awarded the 2013 Abel Prize by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
Edward Feigenbaum (Stanford University) received the IEEE Computer Society’s 2013 Computer Pioneer Award.
Shafi Goldwasser (Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Weizmann Institute of Science) is the recipient of the 2012 ACM A.M. Turing Award. She shares the prize with Silvio Micali (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
Vartan Gregorian (Carnegie Corporation of New York) received the 2013 Distinguished Service Award from the Council on Foundations.
Nick Holonyak, Jr. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) has been elected a charter Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
Toyo Ito (Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects) is the recipient of the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize.
Deborah Jin (National Institute of Standards & Technology) is the 2013 North American Laureate of the L’Oreal-UNESCO Award in the Physical Sciences.
Robert Kraft (The Kraft Group) received the Carnegie Hall Medal of Excellence for Outstanding Leadership in Business and Philanthropy.
Neal Lane (Rice University) is the 2013 recipient of the Vannevar Bush Award, given by the National Science Board.
David McCullough (West Tisbury, Massachusetts) received the 2013 Common Wealth Award for Literature.
Silvio Micali (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is the recipient of the 2012 ACM A.M. Turing Award. He shares the prize with Shafi Goldwasser (Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Weizmann Institute of Science).
J. Anthony Movshon (New York University) is the recipient of the 2013 Karl Spencer Lashley Award, given by the American Philosophical Society.
Jeremy Nathans (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine) has been named a Gilman Scholar at Johns Hopkins University.
Bruno Nettl (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) was awarded the Charles Homer Haskin Prize by the American Council of Learned Societies.
Sharon Olds (New York University) was awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Laurie Olin (Olin Partnership) was awarded the 2013 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture.
Eric Olson (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center) was awarded the 2013 March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology.
Svante Pääbo (Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie) was awarded the 2013 Gruber Genetics Prize.
James Salter (Bridgehampton, New York) is among the recipients of the Windham Campbell Prize, given by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.
Eric Selker (University of Oregon) was named the 2013 Outstanding Scientist of the Oregon Academy of Science.
Joan Steitz (Yale University) is the recipient of the 2013 EMD Millipore Alice C. Evans Award, given by the American Society for Microbiology.
Eva Tardos (Cornell University) is among the recipients of the 2013 Technical Achievement Awards given by the IEEE Computer Society.
Susan Wessler (University of California, Riverside) has been named a Fellow of the American Society of Plant Biologists.
Robert J. Zimmer (University of Chicago) received an Alumni Achievement Award from Brandeis University.
New Appointments
Frances H. Arnold (California Institute of Technology) has been appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of Genomatica.
Mary Cunningham Boyce (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has been appointed Dean of the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University.
Edward Kolb (University of Chicago) has been appointed Dean of the Physical Sciences Division at the University of Chicago.
Stephen M. Kosslyn (Stanford University) has been appointed the Founding Dean of the University of the Minerva Project.
Reynold Levy (Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts) has been elected to the Board of Directors of First Republic Bank.
Marcia McNutt (U.S. Geological Survey) has been named Editor-in-Chief of Science.
Richard Murnane (Harvard University) has been appointed Acting Dean of the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University.
David W. Oxtoby (Pomona College) has been elected President of the Harvard University Board of Overseers.
Judith Shapiro (Barnard College) has been named President of the Teagle Foundation.
Anne-Marie Slaughter (Princeton University) has been named President of the New America Foundation.
Katepalli R. Sreenivasan (New York University) has been appointed President of the Polytechnic Institute of New York University.
Patty Stonesifer (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) was named President and Chief Executive Officer of Martha’s Table.
Thomas J. Sugrue (University of Pennsylvania) has been elected President of the Urban History Association.
Select Publications
Poetry
Carl Phillips (Washington University in St. Louis). Silverchest. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, April 2013
Robert Pinsky (Boston University) and David Lehman (New School University), eds. The Best of the Best American Poetry. Scribner, April 2013
Charles Simic (University of New Hampshire). New and Selected Poems, 1962–2012. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, March 2013
Fiction
Anne Carson (McGill University). Red Doc>. Knopf, March 2013
Sidney Poitier (Los Angeles, California). Montaro Caine. Spiegel & Grau, May 2013
Nonfiction
Svetlana Alpers (New York University). Roof Life. Yale University Press, August 2013
Jagdish Bhagwati (Columbia University) and Arvind Panagariya (Columbia University). Why Growth Matters: How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries. PublicAffairs, April 2013
David Blight (Yale University), Robert Harms (Yale University), and Bernard K. Freamon (Seton Hall Law School), eds. Indian Ocean Slavery in the Age of Abolition. Yale University Press, December 2013
Alan S. Blinder (Princeton University), Andrew W. Lo (AlphaSimplex, LLC; Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and Robert M. Solow (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), eds. Rethinking the Financial Crisis. Russell Sage, December 2012
Jonathan Brown (New York University) and Luisa Elena Alcala (Universidad Autónoma of Madrid). Painting in Latin America, 1550–1820: From Conquest to Independence. Yale University Press, October 2013
T. J. Clark (University of California, Berkeley). Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to “Guernica.” Princeton University Press, June 2013
J. M. Coetzee (University of Adelaide, Australia) and Herman Parret (Leuven University, Belgium). Cripplewood: Berlinde De Bruyckere at the Biennale di Venezia. Yale University Press, October 2013
Dawn Coleman (University of Tennessee; Visiting Scholar, 2009–2010). Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel. Ohio State University Press, January 2013
Daniel C. Dennett (Tufts University). Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking. Norton, May 2013
Russell F. Doolittle (University of California, San Diego). The Evolution of Vertebrate Blood Clotting. University Science Books, August 2012
Richard B. Freeman (Harvard University), Joseph R. Blasi (Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations), and Douglas L. Kruse (Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations). The Citizen’s Share: Putting Ownership Back into Democracy. Yale University Press, November 2013
Jack Fuller (Tribune Publishing Co.), ed. Restoring Justice: The Speeches of Attorney General Edward H. Levi. University of Chicago Press, May 2013
Howard Gardner (Harvard University) and Katie Davis (University of Washington). The App Generation: How Today’s Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in a Digital World. Yale University Press, October 2013
Al Gore (Generation Investment Management U.S. LLP). The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change. Random House, January 2013
Kurt J. Isselbacher (Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School). Don’t Call Me Cookie: A Memoir. Ricbac Books, July 2012
Jerome Kagan (Harvard University). The Human Spark: The Science of Human Development. Basic Books, June 2013
Richard C. Levin (Yale University). The Worth of the University. Yale University Press, May 2013
Herbert Lindenberger (Stanford University). One Family’s Shoah: Victimization, Resistance, Survival in Nazi Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, July 2013
Andrew W. Lo (AlphaSimplex, LLC; Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Alan S. Blinder (Princeton University), and Robert M. Solow (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), eds. Rethinking the Financial Crisis. Russell Sage, December 2012
Victor S. Navasky (The Nation; Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism). The Art of Controversy: Political Cartoons and their Enduring Power. Knopf, April 2013
William Nordhaus (Yale University). The Climate Casino: Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World. Yale University Press, October 2013
Joseph S. Nye, Jr. (Harvard Kennedy School). Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era. Princeton University Press, June 2013
Robert M. Solow (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Alan S. Blinder (Princeton University), and Andrew W. Lo (AlphaSimplex, LLC; Massachusetts Institute of Technology), eds. Rethinking the Financial Crisis. Russell Sage, December 2012
Billie Tsien (Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, LLP) and Tod Williams (Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, LLP). Wunderkammer. Yale University Press, November 2013
Brian Vickers (University of London), Gilles Monsarrat (Université de Dijon), and R. J. C. Watt (University of Dundee), eds. The Collected Works of John Ford, volume 1. Oxford University Press, December 2011
Rowan Williams (University of Cambridge). Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral. Bloomsbury Academic, May 2013
Tod Williams (Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, LLP) and Billie Tsien (Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, LLP). Wunderkammer. Yale University Press, November 2013
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.