Select Prizes and Awards to Members
Anant Agarwal (Massachusetts Institute of Technology; edX) was awarded the Yidan Prize for Education Development.
C. David Allis (The Rockefeller University) received the 2018 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award. He shares the prize with Michael Grunstein (University of California, Los Angeles).
James P. Allison (University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center) was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He shares the prize with Tasuku Honjo (Kyoto University).
Angelika Amon (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was awarded a 2019 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
Frances Arnold (California Institute of Technology) was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. She shares the prize with George P. Smith (University of Missouri) and Gregory P. Winter (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology).
James Arthur (University of Toronto) was named a Companion of the Order of Canada.
Jacqueline Barton (California Institute of Technology) received the 2019 National Academy of Sciences Award in Chemical Sciences.
Adriaan Bax (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases) is the recipient of the 2018 Robert A. Welch Award in Chemistry.
Mary Beard (University of Cambridge) was awarded a 2019 J. Paul Getty Medal.
Charles Bernstein (University of Pennsylvania) was awarded the 2019 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry.
Emery N. Brown (Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Harvard Medical School; Massachusetts General Hospital) was awarded the 2018 Dickson Prize in Science, given by Carnegie Mellon University.
Lonnie G. Bunch III (Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture) is the recipient of the Phi Beta Kappa Society’s Award for Distinguished Service to the Humanities.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell (University of Oxford; The Royal Society of Edinburgh) was awarded the 2018 Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
Federico Capasso (Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences) was awarded the 2018 Enrico Fermi Prize of the Italian Physical Society. He was also elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
John Carlson (Yale University) received the Arthur Kornberg and Paul Berg Lifetime Achievement Award in Biomedical Sciences.
Jeff Cheeger (New York University) was awarded the 2019 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement by the American Mathematical Society.
Kenneth Chenault (General Catalyst) is the recipient of a W.E.B. Du Bois Medal given by the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University.
Ta-Nehisi Coates (New York University) was awarded the 2018 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for nonfiction for We Were Eight Years in Power.
J.M. Coetzee (University of Adelaide, Australia) received the Mahindra Award for Global Distinction in the Humanities from Harvard University.
Kenneth A. Dill (Stony Brook University) was awarded the 2019 Max Delbrück Prize in Biological Physics by the American Physical Society.
Rita Dove (University of Virginia) received the 2018 Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement.
Carol Dweck (Stanford University) is the recipient of the 2018 SAGE-CASBS Award, given by Sage Publishing and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
Felton Earls (Harvard University) received the 2018 Leon Eisenberg Award from Boston Children’s Hospital and the Frances Bonner Award from Massachusetts General Hospital.
Deborah Estrin (Cornell Tech) was awarded a 2018 MacArthur fellowship, by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Amy Finkelstein (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was awarded a 2018 MacArthur fellowship, by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
David D. Ginty (Harvard Medical School) was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Philip Glass (New York, NY) was named a 2018 Kennedy Center honoree.
Thelma Golden (The Studio Museum in Harlem) was awarded a 2018 J. Paul Getty Medal.
Jeffrey I. Gordon (Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis) received a 2018 Luminary Award from the Precision Medicine World Conference.
Annette Gordon-Reed (Harvard University) received the 2018 Ruth Ratner Miller Award for Excellence in American History.
Jorie Graham (Harvard University) was awarded the 2018 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry.
Michael Grunstein (University of California, Los Angeles) received the 2018 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award. He shares the prize with C. David Allis (The Rockefeller University).
Agnes Gund (Museum of Modern Art) was awarded a 2018 J. Paul Getty Medal.
Naomi Halas (Rice University) was awarded the 2019 ACS Award in Colloid Chemistry by the American Chemical Society.
Stephen C. Harrison (Harvard Medical School) received the 48th Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research.
Timothy Heckman (Johns Hopkins University) was awarded the 2018 Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
Larry V. Hedges (Northwestern University) was awarded the Yidan Prize for Education Research.
Stephen Heintz (Rockefeller Brothers Fund) received the 2018 Distinguished Service Award from the Council on Foundations.
Geoffrey Hinton (University of Toronto) was named a Companion of the Order of Canada.
Shirley Ann Jackson (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) is the recipient of a W.E.B. Du Bois Medal given by the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University.
Paula A. Johnson (Wellesley College) received the 2018 Social Justice Award, given by Eastern Bank.
Carl June (University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine) is the recipient of the 2018 Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research.
Thomas Kailath (Stanford University) received the Simon Ramo Founders Award, given by the National Academy of Engineering.
Robert Kraft (The Kraft Group) was awarded the 2019 Genesis Prize.
Adrian R. Krainer (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) was awarded a 2019 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
Kurt Lambeck (Australian National University) was awarded the 2018 Australian Prime Minister’s Prize for Science.
Gregory Lawler (University of Chicago) was awarded the 2019 Wolf Prize in Mathematics. He shares the prize with Jean-François Le Gall (Université Paris-Sud).
Lewis Lockwood (Harvard University) was elected an Honorary Member of the Verein Beethoven-Haus in Bonn.
Trudy Mackay (Clemson University) was awarded the 2018 Dawson Prize in Genetics.
M. Cristina Marchetti (University of California, Santa Barbara) was awarded the inaugural Leo P. Kadanoff Prize by the American Physical Society.
Eve Marder (Brandeis University) is the recipient of the 2019 National Academy of Sciences Award in the Neurosciences.
N. Scott Momaday (University of Arizona) is the recipient of the 2019 Ken Burns American Heritage Prize.
Toshiko Mori (Toshiko Mori Architect) was awarded the 2019 AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Edu-cation.
Toni Morrison (Princeton University) received a Lifetime of Excellence in Fiction honor from the Center for Fiction.
Venkatesh Narayanamurti (Harvard University) received the Arthur M. Bueche Award, given by the National Academy of Engineering.
William D. Nordhaus (Yale University) was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. He shares the prize with Paul M. Romer (New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business).
Sigrid Nunez (New York, NY) received the 2018 National Book Award for the novel The Friend.
Martha C. Nussbaum (University of Chicago) was awarded the 2018 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy & Culture.
Eugene Parker (University of Chicago) was honored by NASA. The Parker Solar Probe is named after Dr. Parker and is the first NASA spacecraft that is named for a living person.
James Peacock (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is among the recipients of the 2018 William Richardson Davie Award, given by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Board of Trustees.
Nicholas A. Peppas (University of Texas at Austin) is the recipient of the 2018 Distinguished Pharmaceutical Scientist Award, given by the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists.
Robert D. Putnam (Harvard University) has been chosen as one of the 2018 – 2019 Faculty Fellows of the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study at Texas a&m University.
Rebecca Richards-Kortum (Rice University) was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
Gene Robinson (Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois) was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
Paul M. Romer (New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business) was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. He shares the prize with William D. Nordhaus (Yale University).
Ed Ruscha (Los Angeles, CA) was awarded a 2019 J. Paul Getty Medal.
Helmut Schwarz (Technische Universität Berlin) was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays by the Government of Japan.
Richard Serra (New York, NY) was awarded a 2018 J. Paul Getty Medal.
Thomas Shenk (Princeton University) was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
Wayne Shorter (University of California, Los Angeles) was named a 2018 Kennedy Center honoree.
Lorna Simpson (Lorna Simpson Studio) was awarded a 2019 J. Paul Getty Medal.
Jorge Soberón (University of Kansas) received the Distinguished Mexicans Award, presented by the Consulate of Mexico in Kansas City, Missouri.
Joan Steitz (Yale School of Medicine) is the recipient of the 2018 Lasker-Koshland Award for Special Achievement in Medical Science.
Bryan Stevenson (Equal Justice Initiative) is the recipient of a W.E.B. Du Bois Medal given by the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University.
Natasha Trethewey (Northwestern University) was named a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
Darren Walker (The Ford Foundation) received the 2018 Director’s Award of the National Design Awards.
David Walt (Harvard Medical School; Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Wyss Institute at Harvard) was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
Isiah Warner (Louisiana State University) received the Nature Award for Mentoring in Science from Nature.
Warren M. Washington (National Center for Atmospheric Research) was awarded the 2019 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. He shares the award with Michael E. Mann (Penn State University).
Michael Waterman (University of Southern California) was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
Xiaowei Zhuang (Harvard University) was awarded a 2019 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
New Appointments
Nadine Aubry (Northeastern University) has been named Provost and Senior Vice President at Tufts University.
Bonnie Bassler (Princeton University) has been appointed to the Board of Director of Kaleido Biosciences.
James Berger (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine) has been named Director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences.
Steven Berry (Yale University) was named Director of the Tobin Center for Economic Policy at Yale.
Martin Blaser (New York University School of Medicine) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of uBiome.
Lawrence D. Bobo (Harvard University) has been named Dean of Social Science at Harvard University.
Thomas P. Campbell (formerly, Metropolitan Museum of Art) was named Director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Marvin H. Caruthers (University of Colorado) has been appointed to the Board of Directors of ArcherDX, Inc.
Fred Cohen (Vida Ventures) has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Intellia Therapeutics, Inc.
Juan de Pablo (University of Chicago) has been appointed Vice President for National Laboratories at the University of Chicago.
Joseph DeRisi (University of California, San Francisco) was appointed to the Board of Directors of uBiome.
Michael J. Donoghue (Yale University) has been named Director of the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies.
Gita Gopinath (Harvard University) has been appointed Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund.
Glenn Hutchins (North Island; Silver Lake) was elected Cochair of the Brookings Institution’s Board of Trustees.
Paul E. Jacobs (XCOM) has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Heal.
Philip S. Khoury (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was elected to the Underwriters Laboratories’ Board of Trustees.
Elizabeth Magill (Stanford Law School) was appointed Executive Vice President and Provost for the University of Virginia.
Andrew Read (Pennsylvania State University) has been named Director of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences at Pennsylvania State University.
John W. Rogers, Jr. (Ariel Investments) has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Nike, Inc.
Esa-Pekka Salonen (Philharmonia Orchestra) was named Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony.
Richard Scheller (23andMe) was appointed to the Board of Directors of Alector.
Stuart Schreiber (Broad Institute) was appointed to the Board of Directors of Jnana Therapeutics.
David J. Skorton (Smithsonian Institution) has been named President and Chief Executive Officer of the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Katepalli R. Sreenivasan (New York University) has been appointed an external scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research.
David Walt (Harvard Medical School; Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Wyss Institute at Harvard) joined the Scientific Advisory Board of NuProbe Global.
Select Publications
Poetry
Charles Bernstein (University of Pennsylvania). Near/Miss. University of Chicago Press, October 2018
Terrance Hayes (University of Pittsburgh). American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin. Penguin Books, June 2018
A. E. Stallings (Athens, Greece). Like: Poems. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 2018
Natasha Trethewey (Northwestern University). Monument: Poems New and Selected. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, November 2018
Nonfiction
Amnon Aharony (Ben Gurion University of the Negev; Tel Aviv University) and Ora Entin-Wohlman (Ben Gurion University of the Negev; Tel Aviv University). Introduction to Solid State Physics. World Scientific Publishing, October 2018
Kathryn A. Bard (Boston University) and Rodolfo Fattovich† (University of Naples “L’Orientale”). Seafaring Expeditions to Punt in the Middle Kingdom: Excavations at Mersa/Wadi Gawasis, Egypt. Brill, October 2018
David W. Blight (Yale University). Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom. Simon & Schuster, October 2018
Alan P. Boss (Carnegie Institution for Science). Universal Life: An Inside Look Behind the Race to Discover Life Beyond Earth. Oxford University Press, January 2019
David Cannadine (The British Academy), ed. Churchill: The Statesman as Artist. Continuum, November 2018
Andrew Delbanco (Columbia University). The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War. Penguin Press, November 2018
Ora Entin-Wohlman (Ben Gurion University of the Negev; Tel Aviv University) and Amnon Aharony (Ben Gurion University of the Negev; Tel Aviv University). Introduction to Solid State Physics. World Scientific Publishing, October 2018
Sally Field (Beverly Hill, CA). In Pieces. Grand Central Publishing, September 2018
Paula Fredriksen (Hebrew University). When Christians Were Jews: The First Generation. Yale University Press, October 2018
John L. Hennessy (Stanford University). Leading Matters: Lessons from My Journey. Stanford Business Books, September 2018
Ha Jin (Boston University). The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai. Pantheon, January 2019
Jill Lepore (Harvard University; The New Yorker). These Truths: A History of the United States. W.W. Norton, September 2018
Wendy Lesser (The Threepenny Review). Jerome Robbins: A Life in Dance. Yale University Press, October 2018
Lawrence Lessig (Harvard Law School). America, Compromised. University of Chicago Press, November 2018
David Levering Lewis (New York University). The Improbable Wendell Willkie: The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and His Country, and Conceived a New World Order. Liveright, September 2018
Toni Morrison (Princeton University). The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations. Knopf, February 2019
Elaine Pagels (Princeton University). Why Religion? A Personal Story. Ecco, November 2018
Robert B. Pippin (University of Chicago). Hegel’s Realm of Shadows: Logic as Metaphysics in “The Science of Logic.” University of Chicago Press, November 2018
Martin Rees (University of Cambridge). On the Future: Prospects for Humanity. Princeton University Press, October 2018
Dana L. Robert (Boston University), ed. African Christian Biography: Stories, Lives, and Challenges. Cluster Publications, October 2018
Jeffrey D. Sachs (Columbia University). A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism. Columbia University Press, October 2018
Joan Wallach Scott (Institute for Advanced Study). Knowledge, Power, and Academic Freedom. Columbia University Press, January 2019
Sonia Sotomayor (Supreme Court of the United States). The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor. Delacorte Books, September 2018
Sonia Sotomayor (Supreme Court of the United States). Turning Page: My Life Story. Philomel Books, September 2018
Cass R. Sunstein (Harvard Law School). On Freedom. Princeton University Press, February 2019
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg (George Washington University), Gerald B. Kauvar (George Washington University), and E. Gordon Gee (West Virginia University), eds. Leading Colleges and Universities: Lessons from Higher Education Leaders. Johns Hopkins University Press, April 2018
Stephen M. Walt (Harvard Kennedy School). The Hell of Good Intentions: America’s Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 2018
Richard Wrangham (Harvard University). The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution. Pantheon, January 2019
† Deceased
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