Select Prizes and Awards to Members
Bruce Alberts (University of California, San Francisco) is the recipient of the 2020 John Edward Porter Legacy Award, given by Research!America.
Elizabeth Anderson (University of Michigan) was named a 2019 MacArthur Foundation Fellow.
Margaret Atwood (Toronto, Canada) was awarded the 2019 Booker Prize. She shares the prize with Bernardine Evaristo (Brunel University London).
Martin Baron (The Washington Post) received the 2020 William Allen White Foundation National Citation.
Kevin Campbell (University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine) is the recipient of the Herbert Tabor Research Award from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Lewis C. Cantley (Weill Cornell Medicine) is the recipient of the Red Door Award for Advances in Cancer Research, given by Gilda’s Club New York City.
Clare Cavanagh (Northwestern University) won the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets for her translation of Asymmetry by Adam Zagajewski.
F. Stuart Chapin III (University of Alaska Fairbanks) was awarded the 2019 Volvo Environment Prize.
Michael Cook (Princeton University) was awarded the 2019 Balzan Prize for Islamic Studies.
Max D. Cooper (Emory University School of Medicine) was awarded the 2019 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award. He shares the award with Jacques Miller (The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research).
Veena Das (Johns Hopkins University) was elected a Fellow of The British Academy.
Pablo Debenedetti (Princeton University) is the recipient of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ Alpha Chi Sigma Award for Chemical Engineering Research.
Peter B. Dervan (California Institute of Technology) has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
Jennifer Doudna (University of California, Berkeley) received the 2019 Life Sciences Leadership Award from the California Life Sciences Association.
Rita Dove (University of Virginia) received the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. She also received the Hurston/Wright Foundation’s 2019 North Star Award.
Esther Duflo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics. She shares the prize with Abhijit Banerjee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Michael Kremer (Harvard University).
Cynthia Dwork (Harvard University) was awarded the Richard W. Hamming Medal from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Alex Eskin (University of Chicago) was awarded a 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics.
Sally Field (Beverly Hills, California) is a 2019 Kennedy Center Honoree.
Daniel Z. Freedman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Stanford University) was awarded the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. He shares the prize with Sergio Ferrara (CERN) and Peter van Nieuwenhuizen (Stony Brook University).
Jeffrey Friedman (Rockefeller University) was awarded a 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Supreme Court of the United States) was awarded the 2019 Berggruen Prize for Culture and Philosophy.
Herbert Gleiter (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) was recognized by the International Association of Advanced Materials as the Advanced Materials Laureate 2019.
Laura Greene (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory; Florida State University) is the recipient of the 2019 Gold Medal from the Tallahassee Scientific Society.
Franz-Ulrich Hartl (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry) was awarded a 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. He shares the prize with Arthur L. Horwich (Yale School of Medicine).
Terrance Hayes (New York University) received the Hurston/Wright Foundation’s Legacy Award for Poetry for American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin.
Martha P. Haynes (Cornell University) is the recipient of the 2019 Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
Mellody Hobson (Ariel Investment) was awarded a 2019 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy.
Mary Jane Irwin (Pennsylvania State University) received the 2019 Phil Kaufman Award for Distinguished Contributions to Electronic System Design.
Barbara Jacak (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) received a 2019 Distinguished Scientist Fellow Award from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science.
Maria Jasin (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) was awarded the Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine.
Svetlana Jitomirskaya (University of California, Irvine) was awarded the 2020 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics.
David Julius (University of California, San Francisco) was awarded a 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. He is also the corecipient of the 49th Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research.
Barbara B. Kahn (Harvard Medical School; Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) received the 2019 Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology Excellence in Science Award.
Susan M. Kidwell (University of Chicago) received a 2019 Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal from the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Marie-Josée Kravis (Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Foundation) was awarded a 2019 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy.
Michael Kremer (Harvard University) was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics. He shares the prize with Abhijit Banerjee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Esther Duflo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
Robert Langer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was awarded the 2019 Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences.
David Lee (Texas A&M University) was named the country’s 2019 Physicist of the Year.
Virginia Man-Yee Lee (University of Pennsylvania) was awarded a 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
George E. Lewis (Columbia University) is the recipient of a 2019 Doris Duke Artist Award. He was also awarded a commission by the Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation.
George Lucas (George Lucas Family Foundation; Skywalker Properties) was awarded a 2019 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy.
Morton L. Mandel † (Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation) was awarded a 2019 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy.
Tobin J. Marks (Northwestern University) was elected a Foreign Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences.
Michel Mayor (University of Geneva) was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics. He shares the prize with James Peebles (Princeton University) and Didier Queloz (University of Geneva; University of Cambridge).
Ruth Garrett Millikan (University of Connecticut) received a 2019 Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal from the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Toshiko Mori (Toshiko Mori Architect; Harvard University Graduate School of Design) is among the winners of Architectural Record’s 2019 Women in Architecture Awards.
Gary J. Nabel (Sanofi) is the corecipient of the 2020 Geoffrey Beene Foundation Builders of Science Award, given by Research!America.
Paul Offit (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania) is the corecipient of the 2020 Geoffrey Beene Foundation Builders of Science Award, given by Research!America.
Jeffrey Palmer (Indiana University) received the President’s Medal for Excellence from Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie.
Dinshaw Patel (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) is the recipient of the inaugural C.C. Tan Life Science International Collaboration Award.
James Peebles (Princeton University) was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics. He shares the prize with Michel Mayor (University of Geneva) and Didier Queloz (University of Geneva; University of Cambridge).
Robert Plomin (King’s College London) is the recipient of the 2020 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Psychology.
Peter J. Ratcliffe (University of Oxford) was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He shares the prize with William G. Kaelin, Jr. (Harvard Medical School) and Gregg L. Semenza (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine).
Sharon Percy Rockefeller (WETA) was awarded the National Medal of Arts.
Jesse Roth (Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research) was honored by D-Cure for his lifelong achievements in diabetes research.
Myriam Sarachik (City College of New York) is the recipient of the 2020 American Physical Society Medal for Exceptional Achievement in Research.
Peter Sarnak (Princeton University) was awarded the Sylvester Medal by the Royal Society.
Laurence Senelick (Tufts University) received the 2019 Oscar Brockett Award for Outstanding Teaching of Theatre in Higher Education from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.
Vera Serganova (University of California, Berkeley) received the 2019 George Gamov Award. She shares the award with Valery Fokin (University of Southern California).
Paul Simon (New York, New York) was awarded a Great Americans Medal by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
Anna Skalka (Fox Chase Cancer Center) was awarded the 2018 William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement by Sigma Xi.
Howard Stone (Princeton University) has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
Kathryn D. Sullivan (Potomac Institute for Policy Studies) was awarded the 2020 Desert Research Institute Nevada Medal of Science.
Arthur Sze (Institute of American Indian Arts) won the 2019 National Book Award for Poetry for Sight Lines.
Samuel O. Thier (Harvard Medical School; Massachusetts General Hospital) was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Michael Tilson Thomas (San Francisco Symphony; New World Symphony) is a 2019 Kennedy Center Honoree.
Craig Tracy (University of California, Davis) was awarded the 2020 Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research in Analysis/Probability Theory. He shares the prize with Harold Widom (University of California, Santa Cruz).
Axel Ullrich (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry) was awarded the 2019 Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award. He shares the award with H. Michael Shepard (BetterOutcomes4Cancer) and Dennis J. Slamon (University of California, Los Angeles).
Harold Widom (University of California, Santa Cruz) was awarded the 2020 Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research in Analysis/Probability Theory. He shares the prize with Craig Tracy (University of California, Davis).
Ellen Williams (University of Maryland) received a Distinguished Alumni Award from Michigan State University.
New Appointments
Francis H. Arnold (California Institute of Technology) has been appointed to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
Barry Bergdoll (Columbia University) has been appointed to the Pritzker Architecture Prize Jury.
John Seely Brown (University of Southern California; Deloitte’s Center for the Edge) has been appointed to the Advisory Board of Sunverge.
Mary Schmidt Campbell (Spelman College) has been appointed to the Board of Trustees of the J. Paul Getty Trust.
Stephen Ceci (Cornell University) was elected President of the Society for Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Science.
Daniel Diermeier (University of Chicago) was elected Chancellor of Vanderbilt University.
Harvey V. Fineberg (Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation) has been named Board Chair of the Science Philanthropy Alliance.
Renée Fleming (New York, New York) was named Co-director of Aspen Opera Theater and VocalArts.
Joshua Frieman (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory; University of Chicago) has been elected President of the Aspen Center for Physics.
Roland Greene (Stanford University) has been named Director of the Stanford Humanities Center.
Alice Kaplan (Yale University) was named Director of the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University.
Mary-Claire King (University of Washington) was appointed Senior Associate Core Member of the New York Genome Center.
Steven Knapp (George Washington University) was named President of Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.
Ruth Lehmann (New York University) has been elected Director of the Whitehead Institute.
John T. Potts (Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School) has been appointed to the Board of Directors of SmartPharm Therapeutics.
Steven Salzberg (Johns Hopkins University) was appointed to the Scientific and Clinical Advisory Board of Biotia.
Phillip Sharp (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has been appointed Special Advisor to the Scientific Advisory Board of Skyhawk Therapeutics, Inc.
Debora Spar (Harvard Business School) has been elected to the Board of Directors of Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
Teresa A. Sullivan (University of Virginia) has been named Interim Provost of Michigan State University.
Luis Ubiñas (New York, New York) has been elected to the Board of Directors of Aura.
Darren Walker (Ford Foundation) was elected to the Board of Trustees of the National Gallery of Art.
K. Birgitta Whaley (University of California, Berkeley) has been appointed to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).
Select Publications
Poetry
John Lithgow (Los Angeles, California). Dumpty: The Age of Trump in Verse. Chronicle Prism, October 2019
Paul Muldoon (Princeton University). Frolic and Detour. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, November 2019
Carl Phillips (Washington University in St. Louis). Pale Colors in a Tall Field. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, March 2020
Fiction
Margaret Atwood (Toronto, Canada). The Testaments. Nan A. Talese, September 2019
Emma Donoghue (Ontario, Canada). Akin. Little, Brown and Company, September 2019
Ariel Dorfman (Duke University), illus. by Chris Riddell (Brighton, England). The Rabbits’ Rebellion. Triangle Square, January 2020
Louise Erdrich (Minneapolis, Minnesota). The Night Watchman. Harper, March 2020
Gish Jen (Cambridge, Massachusetts). The Resisters: A Novel. Knopf, February 2020
Thomas Keneally (Manly, Australia). The Book of Science and Antiquities: A Novel. Atria Books, December 2019
Alan Lightman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Three Flames. Counterpoint, September 2019
James McBride (New York University). Deacon King Kong: A Novel. Riverhead Books, March 2020
Ian McEwan (London, United Kingdom). The Cockroach. Anchor Books, October 2019
Sonia Sotomayor (Supreme Court of the United States), illus. by Rafael López (San Diego, California). Just Ask! Be Different, Be Brave, Be You. Philomel Books, September 2019
Nonfiction
Kathleen Bachynski (Muhlenberg College; Academy Visiting Scholar, 2016 – 2017). No Game for Boys to Play: The History of Youth Football and the Origins of a Public Health Crisis. University of North Carolina Press, November 2019
William F. Baker (Fordham University; IESE Business School, Barcelona) and Michael O’Malley (Pearl Meyer; Yale University School of Medicine). Organizations for People: Caring Cultures, Basic Needs, and Better Lives. Stanford University Press, October 2019
Tom Brokaw (New York, New York). The Fall of Richard Nixon: A Reporter Remembers Watergate. Random House, November 2019
Lonnie G. Bunch III (Smithsonian Institution). A Fool’s Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump. Smithsonian Books, September 2019
Ken Burns (Florentine Films) and Dayton Duncan (Walpole, New Hampshire). Country Music: An Illustrated History. Knopf, September 2019
Judith Butler (University of California, Berkeley). The Force of Nonviolence: The Ethical in the Political. Verso, February 2020
E.J. Dionne Jr. (The Washington Post; Brookings Institution). Code Red: How Progressives and Moderates Can Unite to Save Our Country. St. Martin’s Press, February 2020
Stanley Fish (Florida International University). The First: How to Think About Hate Speech, Campus Speech, Religious Speech, Fake News, Post-Truth, and Donald Trump. One Signal Publishers, November 2019
Philip Gingerich (University of Michigan). Rates of Evolution: A Quantitative Synthesis. Cambridge University Press, June 2019
Rebecca Henderson (Harvard Business School). Reimaging Capitalism in a World on Fire. PublicAffairs, April 2020
Robert Iger (Walt Disney Company). The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company. Random House, September 2019
Nicholas D. Kristof (The New York Times) and Sheryl WuDunn (Mid-Market Securities). Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope. Knopf, January 2020
Joseph LeDoux (New York University). The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains. Viking, August 2019
Nicholas Lemann (Columbia University). Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 2019
Lawrence Lessig (Harvard Law School). They Don’t Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy. Dey Street Books, November 2019
Robert Jay Lifton (Columbia University). Losing Reality: On Cults, Cultism, and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry. New Press, October 2019
Daniel Mendelsohn (New York, New York). Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones. New York Review Books, October 2019
Martha Minow (Harvard Law School). When Should Law Forgive? W. W. Norton, September 2019
Mark Morris (Mark Morris Dance Group) and Wesley Stace (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). Out Loud: A Memoir. Penguin Press, October 2019
Mary Beth Norton (Cornell University). 1774: The Long Year of Revolution. Knopf, February 2020
Naomi Oreskes (Harvard University). Why Trust Science? Princeton University Press, October 2019
Diane Ravitch (New York University). Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America’s Public Schools. Knopf, January 2020
David M. Rubenstein (The Carlyle Group). The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians. Simon & Schuster, October 2019
James Shapiro (Columbia University). Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future. Penguin Random House, March 2020
Neil Shubin (University of Chicago). Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA. Pantheon, March 2020
Thomas M. Siebel (C3.ai). Digital Transformation: Survive and Thrive in an Era of Mass Extinction. RosettaBooks, July 2019
Anna Marie Skalka (Fox Chase Cancer Center). Discovering Retroviruses: Beacons in the Biosphere. Harvard University Press, October 2019
Marshall S. Smith (Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching) and Jennifer O’Day (American Institutes for Research). Opportunity For All: A Framework for Quality and Equality in Education. Harvard Education Press, August 2019
Kathryn D. Sullivan (Potomac Institute for Policy Studies). Handprints on Hubble: An Astronaut’s Story of Invention. MIT Press, November 2019
Christoph Wolff (Harvard University). Bach’s Musical Universe: The Composer and His Work. W.W. Norton, March 2020
† Deceased
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