Select Prizes and Awards to Members
Anita L. Allen (University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School) was awarded the 2021 Philip L. Quinn Prize of the American Philosophical Association.
C. David Allis (Rockefeller University) was awarded the inaugural Elaine Redding Brinster Prize in Science or Medicine by the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Joshua Angrist (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
David Baltimore (California Institute of Technology) is the recipient of the 2021 Lasker~Koshland Award for Special Achievement in Medical Science.
Jacqueline K. Barton (California Institute of Technology) is the recipient of the Theodore William Richards Medal Award, given by the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society.
Bonnie Bassler (Princeton University) received the 2022 Microbiology Society Prize Medal.
Marlene Belfort (University of Albany) received the 2022 Mid-Career Leadership Award of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Charles L. Bennett (Johns Hopkins University) was awarded the American Academy’s Rumford Prize.
Pamela J. Björkman (California Institute of Technology) is the recipient of the 2021 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, awarded by The Rockefeller University.
Archie Brown (University of Oxford) was awarded the Pushkin House Book Prize 2021 for The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold War.
Theodore L. Brown (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) was awarded the 2021 Alumni Medal of the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Anantha Chandrakasan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was awarded the 2022 IEEE Mildred Dresselhaus Medal.
Francis Collins (National Institutes of Health) received the 2021 Special Recognition Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges.
James Collins (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) received the 2021 Walston Chubb Award for Innovation from Sigma Xi.
Kathleen Collins (University of California, Berkeley) received the 2022 Earl and Thressa Stadtman Distinguished Scientist Award, given by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
George Crabtree (University of Illinois-Chicago; Argonne National Laboratory) received the 2022 Energy Systems Award of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Kimberlé W. Crenshaw (Columbia Law School; UCLA School of Law) received the 2021 AALS Triennial Award for Lifetime Service to Legal Education and the Legal Profession from the Association of American Law Schools.
Thibault Damour (Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques) was awarded a 2021 Balzan Prize.
Peter B. Dervan (California Institute of Technology) was awarded the 2022 Priestley Medal by the American Chemical Society.
Nicholas Donofrio (NMD Consulting) is a recipient of the 2022 International Peace Honors, given by the PeaceTech Lab.
Jennifer A. Doudna (University of California, Berkeley) received the 2021 Award for Excellence in Molecular Diagnostics from the Association for Molecular Pathology.
Anthony Fauci (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) received the 2021 Special Recognition Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Saul Friedländer (University of California, Los Angeles) was awarded a 2021 Balzan Prize.
Elaine Fuchs (Rockefeller University) received the 2022 Bert and Natalie Vallee Award in Biomedical Science, given by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Loren Ghiglione (Northwestern University) is the recipient of the 2021 Carey McWilliams Award, given by the American Political Science Association.
Alison Gopnik (University of California, Berkeley) is the recipient of the 2021 Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization, awarded by Wonderfest.
Jeffrey I. Gordon (Washington University in St. Louis) was awarded a 2021 Balzan Prize.
Annette Gordon-Reed (Harvard University) is among the recipients of the 2021 Massachusetts Governor’s Awards in the Humanities.
Jack D. Griffith (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) received the 2021 Progress Medal from the Photographic Society of America.
Sharon Hammes-Schiffer (Yale University) is the recipient of the 2021 Willard Gibbs Award of the American Chemical Society.
Joseph Heitman (Duke University) was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the German National Academy of Sciences–Leopoldina. He also received the 2021 Distinguished Mycologist Award from the Mycological Society of America.
John P. Holdren (Harvard Kennedy School) received the Arthur M. Bueche Award from the National Academy of Engineering.
Ali Hortaçsu (University of Chicago) is the recipient of the Koç University Rahmi M. Koç Medal of Science.
Peter Hotez (Baylor College of Medicine) received the 2021 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation David E. Rogers Award, given by the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Guido Imbens (Stanford University) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
Robert Jaffe (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) received the 2022 Joseph A. Burton Forum Award from the American Physical Society.
Betsy Jolas (Conservatoire de Paris) has been appointed Commandeur de la Légion d’Honneur by the President of France.
William Jorgensen (Yale University) was selected as a 2021 Citation Laureate by Clarivate.
David Julius (University of California, San Francisco) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Marc Kamionkowski (Johns Hopkins University) was awarded the 2021 Gruber Cosmology Prize. He shares the award with Uroš Seljak (University of California, Berkeley) and Matias Zaldarriaga (Institute for Advanced Study).
Jay Keasling (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; University of California, Berkeley) received the Distinguished Scientist Fellow Award from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science.
Tony Kouzarides (University of Cambridge) was awarded the Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts Excellence Award in the Category of Positive Sciences.
Gloria Ladson-Billings (University of Wisconsin-Madison) was elected as a Corresponding Fellow of The British Academy.
Charles Larmore (Brown University) has been awarded the Gadamer Prize by the Hans-Georg Gadamer Society for Hermeneutic Philosophy.
Cato T. Laurencin (University of Connecticut) is the recipient of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ 2021 Hoover Medal.
Jianguo “Jack” Liu (Michigan State University) received the World Sustainability Award, given by the MDPI Sustainability Foundation. He also received the Gunnerus Award in Sustainability Science by the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
Yo-Yo Ma (Sound Postings) was awarded the 2021 Praemium Imperiale for music.
David W.C. Macmillan (Princeton University) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Nader Masmoudi (New York University) is among the recipients of the King Faisal Prize for Science.
Elizabeth M. McNally (Northwestern University) was named the American Heart Association’s 2021 Distinguished Scientist in Basic Cardiovascular Sciences.
John R. McNeill (Georgetown University) was elected to membership in the Academia Europaea.
Ellen Mosley-Thompson (Ohio State University) was awarded the Mendel Medal by Villanova University.
Pete Nicholas (Boston Scientific Corporation) received the University Medal from Duke University.
Indra Nooyi (PreeTara LLC) is the recipient of the 2022 International Distinguished Entrepreneur Award, given by the Asper School of Business at the University of Manitoba.
Ardem S. Patapoutian (Scripps Research Institute) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (University of California, Santa Cruz) received the 2021 SACNAS Distinguished Mentor Award from the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science.
Sebastião Salgado (Amazonas Images) was awarded the 2021 Praemium Imperiale for painting.
Greg Sarris (Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria; Sonoma State University) is the recipient of the inaugural Arts and Humanities Dean’s Teaching Award of Sonoma State University.
Frederick Schauer (University of Virginia School of Law) received the Hart-Dworkin Award in Legal Philosophy from the Association of American Law Schools.
Roberto Sierra (Cornell University) received a 2021 Latin Grammy Award for best classical contemporary composition for “Sonata Para Guitarra.”
Ruth J. Simmons (Prairie View A&M University) received the 2021 Rosa Parks Award, given by the American Association for Access, Equity, and Diversity.
Jacqueline Stewart (Academy Museum of Motion Pictures; University of Chicago) was awarded a 2021 MacArthur Fellowship.
Geoffrey R. Stone (University of Chicago) received the Norman Maclean Faculty Award, given by the University of Chicago.
Samuel Stupp (Northwestern University) received the 2022 American Chemical Society Ralph F. Hirschmann Award in Peptide Chemistry.
Arthur Sze (Institute of American Indian Arts) received the 2021 Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.
Susan S. Taylor (University of California, San Diego) received the 2022 Herbert Tabor Research Award, given by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Saul Teukolsky (Cornell University) was awarded the International Centre for Theoretical Physics’ 2021 ICTP Dirac Medal and Prize.
Lonnie G. Thompson (Ohio State University) was awarded the Mendel Medal by Villanova University.
Jeremy W. Thorner (University of California, Berkeley) is the recipient of the 2022 Centenary Award from the Biochemical Society of the United Kingdom.
Colm Tóibín (Dublin, Ireland) was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature.
James Turrell (Flagstaff, AZ) was awarded the 2021 Praemium Imperiale for sculpture.
Moshe Vardi (Rice University) is the recipient of the 2021 Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility from IEEE’s Society on the Social Implications of Technology.
Mary Jane West-Eberhard (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) was awarded the 2021 Linnean Medal by the Linnean Society.
Mark Wise (California Institute of Technology) was awarded the 2021 Julius Wess Prize of the KIT Center for Elementary Particle and Astroparticle Physics of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
New Appointments
Members of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)
Frances Arnold, Cochair (California Institute of Technology)
Eric Lander, Cochair (White House Office of Science and Technology Policy)
Maria T. Zuber, Cochair (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Ashton Carter (Harvard University)
William Dally (NVIDIA)
Susan Desmond-Hellmann (formerly, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)
Inez Fung (University of California, Berkeley)
Andrea Goldsmith (Princeton University)
Laura H. Greene (Florida State University)
Paula Hammond (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Eric Horvitz (Microsoft)
Jonathan Levin (Stanford University)
Stephen Pacala (Princeton University)
Saul Perlmutter (University of California, Berkeley)
William Press (University of Texas at Austin)
Penny Pritzker (PSP Capital Partners)
Jennifer Richeson (Yale University)
Lisa T. Su (Advanced Micro Devices)
Kathryn D. Sullivan (KD Sullivan Enterprises)
Terence Tao (University of California, Los Angeles)
Other New Appointments
Rafi Ahmed (Emory University School of Medicine) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of Asylia Therapeutics.
Nancy C. Andrews (Duke University) was named Executive Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of Boston Children’s Hospital.
Catherine Bertini (Syracuse University) was appointed to the Board of Directors of Central New York Community Foundation.
Rebecca M. Blank (University of Wisconsin-Madison) was named President of Northwestern University.
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar (California Supreme Court) was named President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Beverly Davidson (University of Pennsylvania) was appointed Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of Homology Medicines.
Debra M. Elmegreen (Vassar College) was elected President of the International Astronomical Union (IAU).
Debra Fischer (Yale University) was named Director of the National Science Foundation’s Division of Astronomical Sciences.
Paula Hammond (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was appointed to the Board of Directors of The Engine.
Susan Hubbard (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) was named Deputy for Science and Technology at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Carl June (University of Pennsylvania) was appointed Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of Bioheng.
Dan Jurafsky (Stanford University) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of Woebot Health.
Daniel Kammen (University of California, Berkeley) was appointed Senior Advisor for Energy, Climate, and Innovation for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
Mark T. Keating (Alnylam Pharmaceuticals) was appointed Chief Scientific Officer of Yarrow Biotechnology.
Young-Kee Kim (University of Chicago) was elected President of the American Physical Society.
Kent Kresa (Northrop Grumman Corporation) was appointed to the Board of Directors of The Music Center.
Lewis L. Lanier (University of California, San Francisco) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of Innovent Biologics.
Diane Mathis (Harvard Medical School) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of Asylia Therapeutics.
Michael A. McRobbie (Indiana University) was appointed to the Board of Directors of Strategic Education, Inc.
David Nirenberg (University of Chicago) was appointed Director of the Institute for Advanced Study.
Indra Nooyi (PreeTara LLC) was elected to the Board of Trustees of the National Gallery of Art.
David W. Oxtoby (American Academy of Arts and Sciences) was elected to the Board of Trustees of Smith College.
Roderic Pettigrew (Texas A&M University) was appointed the inaugural Dean of the Intercollegiate School of Engineering Medicine at Texas A&M University.
Dianne Pinderhughes (University of Notre Dame) was elected President of the International Political Science Association.
Thomas Rando (Stanford University) was named Director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA.
Claudia Rankine (New York University) was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Jeffrey V. Ravetch (Rockefeller University) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of Asylia Therapeutics.
Peter Reich (University of Minnesota) was named Director of the Institute for Global Change Biology at the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan.
Louise Richardson (University of Oxford) was named President of Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Charles Rotimi (National Institutes of Health) was named Scientific Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI).
David M. Rubenstein (The Carlyle Group) was elected Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Gallery of Art.
Richard Scheller (BridgeBio) was appointed to the Board of Directors of Aarvik Therapeutics.
Stuart Schreiber (Harvard University; Broad Institute) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of Vividion Therapeutics.
David Spergel (Flatiron Institute) was named President of the Simons Foundation.
James H. Stock (Harvard University) was named Vice Provost for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard University.
Christopher Walsh (Stanford University) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of Vividion Therapeutics.
Select Publications
Poetry
Yusef Komunyakaa (New York University). Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth: New and Selected Poems, 2001–2021. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 2021
Carl Phillips (Washington University in St. Louis). Then the War and Selected Poems, 2007–2020. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, February 2022
Kevin Young (National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution). Stones: Poems. Knopf, September 2021
Fiction
Hillary Rodham Clinton (Chappaqua, NY) and Louise Penny (Montreal, Canada). State of Terror. Simon & Schuster/St. Martin’s Press, October 2021
Louise Erdrich (Minneapolis, MN). The Sentence. Harper, November 2021
Gish Jen (Cambridge, MA). Thank You, Mr. Nixon. Knopf, February 2022
Alan Lightman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Olga Pastuchiv (Richmond, ME). Ada and the Galaxies. MIT Kids Press, September 2021
Richard Powers (Great Smoky Mountains). Bewilderment. W.W. Norton, September 2021
Sonia Sotomayor (Supreme Court of the United States). Just Help! How to Build a Better World. Philomel Books, January 2022
Wole Soyinka (Abeokuta, Nigeria). Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth. Pantheon, September 2021
Colm Tóibín (Dublin, Ireland). The Magician. Scribner, September 2021
Nonfiction
Elizabeth Alexander (Andrew W. Mellon Foundation). The Trayvon Generation. Grand Central Publishing, April 2022
Danielle Allen (Harvard University), Rebecca Henderson (Harvard University), Yochai Benkler (Harvard University), Leah Downey (Harvard University), and Josh Simons (Harvard University), eds. A Political Economy of Justice. University of Chicago Press, April 2022
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita (New York University). The Invention of Power: Popes, Kings, and the Birth of the West. PublicAffairs, January 2022
Mary Ann Caws (The Graduate Center, City University of New York). Mina Loy: Apology of Genius. Reaktion Books, June 2022; and Alice Paalen Rahon: Shapeshifter. NYRB Poets, September 2021
Teju Cole (Harvard University). Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time. University of Chicago Press, October 2021
Antonio Damasio (University of Southern California). Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious. Pantheon, October 2021
David Damrosch (Harvard University). Around the World in 80 Books: A Literary Journey. Penguin Press, November 2021
Ronald J. Daniels (Johns Hopkins University). What Universities Owe Democracy. Johns Hopkins University Press, October 2021
E. J. Dionne Jr. (Brookings Institution) and Miles Rapoport (Harvard Kennedy School). 100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting. New Press, March 2022
Johanna Drucker (University of California, Los Angeles). Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present. University of Chicago Press, May 2022
Anthony Fauci (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases). Expect the Unexpected: Ten Lessons on Truth, Service, and the Way Forward. National Geographic, November 2021
Noah Feldman (Harvard University). The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, November 2021
Sander L. Gilman (Emory University) and Zhou Xun (University of Essex). “I Know Who Caused COVID-19”: Pandemics and Xenophobia. Reaktion Books, October 2021
Edward Glaeser (Harvard University) and David Cutler (Harvard University). Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation. Penguin Press, September 2021
Edward Glaeser (Harvard University) and James M. Poterba (Massachusetts Institute of Technology; National Bureau of Economic Research), eds. Economic Analysis and Infrastructure Investment. University of Chicago Press, November 2021
Claudia Goldin (Harvard University). Career & Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity. Princeton University Press, October 2021
Jane Goodall (Jane Goodall Institute) and Douglas Abrams (Idea Architects). Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times. Celadon Books, October 2021
Temple Grandin (Colorado State University) and Debra Moore (Rappahannock County, VA). Navigating Autism: 9 Mindsets for Helping Kids on the Spectrum. W.W. Norton, September 2021
Linda Greenhouse (Yale Law School). Justice on the Brink: The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Rise of Amy Coney Barrett, and Twelve Months that Transformed the Supreme Court. Random House, November 2021
Sanjay Gupta (Cable News Network; Emory University School of Medicine). World War C: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic and How to Prepare for the Next One. Simon & Schuster, October 2021
Nikole Hannah-Jones (Howard University). The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story. One World, November 2021
Joy Harjo (Tulsa, OK). Poet Warrior: A Memoir. W.W. Norton, September 2021
Donald L. Horowitz (Duke University). Constitutional Processes and Democratic Commitment. Yale University Press, August 2021
Martin Indyk (Council on Foreign Relations). Master of the Game: Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy. Knopf, October 2021
Eric Kandel (Columbia University). There Is Life After the Nobel Prize. Columbia University Press, December 2021
Michael Kazin (Georgetown University). What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, March 2022
Randall Kennedy (Harvard Law School). Say It Loud: On Race, Law, History, and Culture. Pantheon, September 2021
Henry A. Kissinger (Kissinger Associates), Eric Schmidt (Schmidt Futures), and Daniel Huttenlocher (MIT Schwarzman College of Computing). The Age of AI: And Our Human Future. Little Brown and Company, November 2021
Julia Kristeva (Université de Paris VII). Dostoyevsky, or the Flood of Language. Columbia University Press, December 2021
Mark Mazower (Columbia University). The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe. Penguin Press, November 2021
Paul McCartney (Sussex, England). The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present. Liveright, November 2021
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey (University of Illinois at Chicago). Beyond Positivism, Behaviorism, and Neo-Institutionalism in Economics. University of Chicago Press, June 2022
Jerome McGann (University of Virginia). Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes: The Unsettled Records of American Settlement. University of Chicago Press, May 2022
Raymond T. Pierrehumbert (University of Oxford). Planetary Systems: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, February 2022
Steven Pinker (Harvard University). Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters. Viking Press, September 2021
Richard Rose (University of Strathclyde). How Sick Is British Democracy? A Clinical Analysis. Palgrave Macmillan, June 2021
David M. Rubenstein (The Carlyle Group). The American Experiment: Dialogues on a Dream. Simon & Schuster, September 2021
Eric L. Santner (University of Chicago). Untying Things Together: Philosophy, Literature, and a Life in Theory. University of Chicago Press, April 2022
Amartya Sen (Harvard University). Home in the World: A Memoir. Liveright, January 2022
Anne-Marie Slaughter (New America). Renewal: From Crisis to Transformation in Our Lives, Work, and Politics. Princeton University Press, September 2021
Paul M. Sniderman (Stanford University) and Elisabeth Ivarsflaten (University of Bergen). The Struggle for Inclusion: Muslim Minorities and the Democratic Ethos. University of Chicago Press, January 2022
Thomas J. Sugrue (New York University) and Caitlin Zaloom (New York University), eds. The Long Year: A 2020 Reader. Columbia University Press, January 2022
Gordon S. Wood (Brown University). Power and Liberty: Constitutionalism in the American Revolution. Oxford University Press, September 2021
James Wright (Dartmouth College). War and American Life: Reflections on Those Who Serve and Sacrifice. Brandeis University Press, May 2022
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.