Select Prizes and Awards to Members
Alfred Aho (Columbia University) is the recipient of the 2020 ACM A.M. Turing Award. He shares the award with Jeffrey Ullman (Stanford University).
Frances Arnold (California Institute of Technology) was elected a Fellow of the American Association for Cancer Research Academy.
Barbara Baird (Cornell University) has been named one of the Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering for 2021 by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.
Shelley L. Berger (University of Pennsylvania) was elected a Fellow of the American Association for Cancer Research Academy.
Mark Bradford (Art + Practice) was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Federico Capasso (Harvard University) was awarded the 2021 Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus W. Quinn Prize by the Optical Society.
Don W. Cleveland (University of California, San Diego) was elected a Fellow of the American Association for Cancer Research Academy.
Catherine Dulac (Harvard University) received the NOMIS Distinguished Scientist and Scholar Award.
Richard H. Fallon, Jr. (Harvard Law School) received the 2021 Daniel J. Meltzer Award from the Association of American Law Schools.
Anthony S. Fauci (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) was awarded a 2021 Dan David Prize. He also received the 2021 Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences, the Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Social Courage from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the Legend in Leadership Award of the Yale School of Management’s Chief Executive Leadership Institute.
Joshua Frieman (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and University of Chicago) was awarded an American Astronomical Society Fellowship.
Jonathan Galassi (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) received the 2021 Leadership Award from the Academy of American Poets.
Theaster Gates (Rebuild Foundation) was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Robert Giles (Harvard University) was awarded the 2021 Bill Montgomery Literary Service Award by the National Writers Series.
Andrew Hamilton (New York University) is the recipient of the Legend in Leadership Award from the Yale School of Management’s Chief Executive Leadership Institute.
Philip C. Hanawalt (Stanford University) was elected a Fellow of the American Association for Cancer Research Academy.
Joy Harjo (Tulsa, Oklahoma) was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Michael Heizer (Heizer Studio) was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Nancy H. Hopkins (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was elected a Fellow of the American Association for Cancer Research Academy.
Carl June (Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania) was awarded a 2021 Dan David Prize. He shares the prize with Steven Rosenberg (National Cancer Institute) and Zelig Eshhar (Weizmann Institute of Science).
Cynthia Kenyon (University of California, San Francisco; Calico Life Sciences, LLC) was awarded the 2021 Dickson Prize in Medicine by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Adrian R. Krainer (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) was awarded a 2021 Wolf Prize in Medicine. He shares the award with Lynne E. Maquat (University of Rochester School of Medicine) and Joan A. Steitz (Yale School of Medicine).
Spike Lee (40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks) was elected an American honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Glenn Ligon (Ligon Studios) was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Guillermina Lozano (University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center) was elected a Fellow of the American Association for Cancer Research Academy.
Lynne E. Maquat (University of Rochester School of Medicine) was awarded a 2021 Wolf Prize in Medicine. She shares the award with Joan A. Steitz (Yale School of Medicine) and Adrian R. Krainer (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).
Gary S. May (University of California, Davis) received the 2021 Lifetime Mentor Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Sigrid Nunez (New York, New York) was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Martha C. Nussbaum (University of Chicago) was awarded the 2021 Holberg Prize.
Katharine Park (Harvard University) was awarded a 2021 Dan David Prize. She shares the award with Alison Bashford (University of New South Wales) and Keith Wailoo (Princeton University).
Rob Phillips (California Institute of Technology) was awarded the Richard P. Feynman Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Caltech.
Faith Ringgold (University of California, San Diego) was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Martine Roussel (St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital) was elected a Fellow of the American Association for Cancer Research Academy.
Maria Schneider (Maria Schneider Orchestra) has won Le Grand Prix de l’Académie du Jazz for her album Data Lords.
Roberto Sierra (Cornell University) was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
M. Celeste Simon (University of Pennsylvania) was elected a Fellow of the American Association for Cancer Research Academy.
Lorna Simpson (Simpson Studio) was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Joan A. Steitz (Yale School of Medicine) was awarded a 2021 Wolf Prize in Medicine. She shares the award with Lynne E. Maquat (University of Rochester School of Medicine) and Adrian R. Krainer (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).
Jeremy Thorner (University of California, Berkeley) is the recipient of the 2022 Centenary Award from The Biochemical Society.
Jeffrey Ullman (Stanford University) is the recipient of the 2020 ACM A.M. Turing Award. He shares the award with Alfred Aho (Columbia University).
Bert Vogelstein (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine) was awarded the 2021 Japan Prize in Medical Science and Medicinal Science. He shares the award with Robert A. Weinberg (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
Robert A. Weinberg (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was awarded the 2021 Japan Prize in Medical Science and Medicinal Science. He shares the award with Bert Vogelstein (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine).
Mark Westoby (Macquarie University) received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Ecology and Conservation Biology. He shares the award with Sandra Díaz (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba) and Sandra Lavorel (Laboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine).
Avi Wigderson (Institute for Advanced Study) was awarded the 2021 Abel Prize. He shares the award with László Lovász (Eötvös Loránd University).
Kevin Young (National Muse-um of African American History and Culture) was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Pauline Yu (American Council of Learned Societies) received the 2020 Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession from the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages/Modern Language Association.
New Appointments
Abul K. Abbas (University of California, San Francisco) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of Cue Biopharma, Inc.
Linda Abriola (Brown University) has been named to the Board of Trustees of Union College.
Paul Alivisatos (University of California, Berkeley) has been named President of the University of Chicago.
Nancy C. Andrews (Duke University School of Medicine) was appointed to the Board of Directors of Maze Therapeutics.
Frances H. Arnold (California Institute of Technology) was appointed Cochair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).
Alan Ashworth (University of California, San Francisco) was appointed to the Advisory Board of Phoenix Molecular Designs as a Scientific Advisor.
Anthony Bebbington (Clark University) was appointed International Director of the Natural Resources and Climate Change program at the Ford Foundation.
Martin J. Blaser (Rutgers University) has joined Micronoma Inc. as Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board.
Michael Bloomberg (Bloomberg LP) was ap-pointed UN Special Envoy on Climate Ambition and Solutions.
Ursula Burns (Xerox; VEON Ltd.) was appointed to the Board of Advisors of Icertis.
Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. (TIAA) was named to the Board of Directors of Corning Incorporated.
Merrick Garland (U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit) was confirmed as the 86th Attorney General of the United States.
Katherine High (Spark Therapeutics; Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania) was named President for Therapeutics and a member of the Board of Directors of Asklepios BioPharmaceutical, Inc.
Donald Ingber (Harvard University) was appointed to the Board of Directors of Emulate, Inc.
Andrew Jassy (Amazon Web Services) was named CEO of Amazon.
Carl June (Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of Poseida Therapeutics, Inc.
William G. Kaelin Jr. (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Harvard Medical School) was appointed to the Board of Directors of LifeMine Therapeutics Inc.
Pamela Karlan (Stanford Law School) has joined the U.S. Department of Justice as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division.
Tony Kouzarides (University of Cambridge) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of EpiVario, Inc.
Eric Lander (Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard) was named Presidential Science Adviser and nominated as Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).
Jeffrey Leiden (Vertex Pharmaceuticals) was appointed Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Tmunity Therapeutics, Inc.
Tania León (Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York) was named to the Board of Directors of The ASCAP Foundation.
Jane Lubchenco (Oregon State University) has been appointed to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy as Deputy Director for Climate and the Environment.
Robert C. Malenka (Stanford University) was named Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of Mind Medicine Inc.
Alondra Nelson (Social Science Research Council) was appointed Deputy Director for Science and Society in the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the White House.
Eric Nestler (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of EpiVario, Inc.
Roger M. Perlmutter (Merck Research Laboratories) has been appointed Science Partner and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of CBC Group.
Timothy Wu (Columbia Law School) has been appointed to the National Economic Council as Special Assistant to the President for Technology and Competition Policy.
Janet Yellen (Brookings Institution) was confirmed as the 78th Secretary of the Treasury of the United States.
Maria Zuber (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was appointed Cochair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).
Select Publications
Poetry
Charles Bernstein (University of Pennsylvania). Topsy-Turvy. University of Chicago Press, April 2021
Yusef Komunyakaa (New York University). Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth: New and Selected Poems. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 2021
Arthur Sze (Institute of American Indian Arts). The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems. Copper Canyon Press, April 2021
Fiction
Francisco Goldman (Mexico City, Mexico). Monkey Boy. Grove Press, May 2021
Kazuo Ishiguro (London, England). Klara and the Sun: A Novel. Knopf, March 2021
Jeri Laber (Human Rights Watch). The Russian Key: A Novel. Arcade, May 2021
Paul Theroux (East Sandwich, Massachusetts). Under the Wave at Waimea. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, April 2021
Nonfiction
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Lagos, Nigeria). Notes on Grief. Knopf, May 2021
Bill Gates (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation). How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need. Knopf, February 2021
Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Harvard University). The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song. Penguin Press, February 2021
Jeff Immelt (General Electric Company). Hot Seat: What I Learned Leading a Great American Company. Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, February 2021
Walter Isaacson (Tulane University). The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race. Simon & Schuster, March 2021
Daniel Kahneman (Princeton University), Olivier Sibony (HEC Paris), and Cass R. Sunstein (Harvard Law School). Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment. Little, Brown Spark, May 2021
Hermione Lee (University of Oxford). Tom Stoppard: A Life. Knopf, February 2021
Robert J. Lefkowitz (Duke University) with Randy Hall (Emory University School of Medicine). A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Stockholm: The Adrenaline-Fueled Adventures of an Accidental Scientist. Pegasus Books, February 2021
Martha C. Nussbaum (University of Chicago). Citadels of Pride: Sexual Assault, Accountability, and Reconciliation. W.W. Norton, May 2021
Cass R. Sunstein (Harvard Law School). Liars: Falsehoods and Free Speech in an Age of Deception. Oxford University Press, March 2021
Cass R. Sunstein (Harvard Law School), Daniel Kahneman (Princeton University), and Olivier Sibony (HEC Paris). Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment. Little, Brown Spark, May 2021
Sherry Turkle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). The Empathy Diaries. Penguin Press, March 2021
Neil deGrasse Tyson (American Museum of Natural History) and James Trefil (George Mason University). Cosmic Queries: StarTalk’s Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going. National Geographic, March 2021
Gabriel Winant (University of Chicago; Academy Visiting Scholar, 2018–2019). The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America. Harvard University Press, March 2021
We invite all Fellows and International Honorary Members to send notices about their recent and forthcoming publications, new appointments, exhibitions and performances, films and documentaries, and honors and prizes to bulletin@amacad.org.