Select Prizes and Awards to Members
Susan Alberts (Duke University) received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Ecology and Conservation Biology. Dr. Alberts shares the award with Jeanne Altmann (Princeton University) and Marlene Zuk (University of Minnesota).
Jeanne Altmann (Princeton University) received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Ecology and Conservation Biology. Dr. Altmann shares the award with Susan Alberts (Duke University) and Marlene Zuk (University of Minnesota).
David Baker (University of Washington) received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Biology and Biomedicine. Dr. Baker shares the award with Demis Hassabis (DeepMind) and John Jumper (University of Washington).
Hari Balakrishnan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was awarded the 2023 Marconi Prize.
Carolyn R. Bertozzi (Stanford University) received the 2023 American Association for Cancer Research Award for Outstanding Achievement in Chemistry in Cancer Research.
Timothy J. Besley (London School of Economics) received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics, Finance and Management. Professor Besley shares the award with Torsten Persson (Stockholm University) and Guido Tabellini (Bocconi University).
Alan Blinder (Princeton University) received the 2023 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize from the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Wendy Carlin (University College London) was awarded the Royal Economic Society Medal for Services to the Economics Profession.
Kerwin K. Charles (Yale School of Management) was named the 2023 Sir Arthur Lewis Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Johnnetta B. Cole (National Council of Negro Women, Inc.) is the recipient of a 2021 National Humanities Medal.
Michael Cosmopoulos (University of Missouri–St. Louis) was elected a member of the Academy of Athens.
Donald Darensbourg (Texas A&M University) received the 2023 Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Award.
Ivan Ðikić (Goethe University) was awarded the 2023 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine. Professor Ðikić shares the award with Brenda Schulman (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry).
Elliot Elson (Washington University in St. Louis) was named a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
Gretchen H. Gerzina (University of Massachusetts Amherst) was awarded the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Chancellor’s Medal.
Hanna Holborn Gray (University of Chicago) received the Legend in Leadership Award from the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute.
Michael Greenberg (Harvard Medical School) was awarded the 2023 Brain Prize by the Lundbeck Foundation. Dr. Greenberg shares the award with Christine Holt (University of Cambridge) and Erin Schuman (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research).
Joy Harjo (Tulsa, OK) was awarded the 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry by Yale University and the National Book Critics Circle’s Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award.
Demis Hassabis (DeepMind) received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Biology and Biomedicine. Dr. Hassabis shares the award with David Baker (University of Washington) and John Jumper (University of Washington).
Kelly Lytle Hernández (University of California, Los Angeles) received a 2023 Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy from Columbia University Libraries for Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands (W.W. Norton & Company, 2022).
Gary Horowitz (University of California, Santa Barbara) received the 2023 Einstein Prize from the American Physical Society.
Sherrilyn Ifill (Ford Foundation; formerly, NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund) received the American Constitution Society’s 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Walter Isaacson (Tulane University) is the recipient of a 2021 National Humanities Medal.
Carl H. June (University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine) received the 2023 AACR Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research from the American Association for Cancer Research.
David Kohlstedt (University of Minnesota) was awarded the Vetlesen Prize.
Cato T. Laurencin (University of Connecticut) was awarded the 2023 Priestley Medal, given by the American Chemical Society.
Jennifer Lee (Columbia University) was named the 2023 Samuel Stouffer Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Tania León (Brooklyn College) was awarded the 2023 Michael Ludwig Nemmers Prize in Music Composition by Northwestern University.
Earl Lewis (University of Michigan) is the recipient of a 2021 National Humanities Medal.
Tak W. Mak (University of Toronto) received the 2023 Pezcoller Foundation-American Association for Cancer Research International Award for Extraordinary Achievement in Cancer Research.
Henrietta Mann (Montana State University) is the recipient of a 2021 National Humanities Medal.
Robert Metcalfe (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) received the 2022 ACM A. M. Turing Award.
Nancy Moran (University of Texas at Austin) received the 2023 Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology from the National Academy of Sciences.
Julio M. Ottino (Northwestern University) was awarded the 2023 G. I. Taylor Medal by the Society of Engineering Science.
Jessie Ann Owens (University of California, Davis) received the Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award from the Renaissance Society of America.
Ann Patchett (Parnassus Books) is the recipient of a 2021 National Humanities Medal.
James Pellegrino (University of Illinois Chicago) received the 2023 E. F. Lindquist Award of the American Educational Research Association.
Torsten Persson (Stockholm University) received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics, Finance and Management. Professor Persson shares the award with Timothy J. Besley (London School of Economics) and Guido Tabellini (Bocconi University).
Dianne Pinderhughes (University of Notre Dame) was named the 2023 Eleanor Roosevelt Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Steven Pinker (Harvard University) received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Humanities and Social Sciences. Professor Pinker shares the award with Peter Singer (Princeton University).
Thomas A. Rando (University of California, Los Angeles) received the 2023 ISSCR Achievement Award from the International Society for Stem Cell Research.
Brenda Schulman (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry) was awarded the 2023 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine. Professor Schulman shares the award with Ivan Ðikić (Goethe University).
Pamela Soltis (Florida Museum of Natural History) has been named the 2023 Southeastern Conference Professor of the Year.
Nahum Sonenberg (McGill University) was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.
Bruce Springsteen (Colts Neck, NJ) is the recipient of a 2021 National Medal of Art.
Bryan Stevenson (Equal Justice Initiative) is the recipient of a 2021 National Humanities Medal.
David Strauss (University of Chicago Law School) is the recipient of a 2023 Norman Maclean Faculty Award from the University of Chicago.
Guido Tabellini (Bocconi University) received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics, Finance and Management. Professor Tabellini shares the award with Timothy J. Besley (London School of Economics) and Torsten Persson (Stockholm University).
Mark Trahant (Indian Country Today) was named to the National Native American Hall of Fame.
Michael J. Welsh (University of Iowa) is the recipient of the 2022 Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine and the 2023 Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences.
Brenda Wineapple (New York, NY) was selected as a Fellow of the New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.
Judy Woodruff (PBS NewsHour) received the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism from the Shorenstein Center at Harvard Kennedy School.
James Zachos (University of California, Santa Cruz) received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Climate Change category. Dr. Zachos shares the award with Ellen Thomas (Yale University and Wesleyan University).
Marlene Zuk (University of Minnesota) received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Ecology and Conservation Biology. Dr. Zuk shares the award with Susan Alberts (Duke University) and Jeanne Altmann (Princeton University).
New Appointments
Katherine Baicker (University of Chicago) was appointed Provost of the University of Chicago.
Yasmine Belkaid (National Institutes of Health) was appointed President of the Institut Pasteur.
William R. Brody (Salk Institute for Biological Studies) was appointed a member of the Board of Directors of Sirona Medical.
Constance Cepko (Harvard Medical School) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of Vesigen Therapeutics, Inc.
Philip J. Deloria (Harvard University) was appointed to the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.
Carlos del Rio (Emory University) was appointed Interim Dean of the Emory University School of Medicine.
Katherine Fitzgerald (University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of Vesigen Therapeutics, Inc.
Risa Goluboff (University of Virginia School of Law) was appointed to the Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise.
Hugh Grant (formerly, Monsanto Company) was elected a member of the Board of Directors of Linde plc.
Margaret A. Hamburg (InterAcademy Partnership) was appointed Vice Chair of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board.
Gerald Joyce (Salk Institute for Biological Studies) was named President of the Salk Institute.
Mary E. Klotman (Duke University School of Medicine) was appointed to the Advisory Board of IKS Health.
Pamela Matson (Stanford University) was appointed to the Global Board of Directors of the World Resources Institute.
Trevor W. Morrison (New York University School of Law) was appointed to the Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise.
Eric J. Nestler (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai) was named an Advisor to Ellipsis Health.
Christina H. Paxson (Brown University) was elected to the Board of Directors of the American Council of Education.
Arnold Rampersad (Stanford University) was appointed to the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.
Daniela Rus (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was elected to the Board of Directors of Symbotic Inc.
Anna Deavere Smith (New York University) was appointed to the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.
Michael Witherell (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) was elected to the Leadership Council of the National Academy of Sciences.
Diane P. Wood (U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit) was appointed Director of the American Law Institute.
Pauline Yu (American Council of Learned Societies) was appointed to the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.
Select Publications
Poetry
Henri Cole (Claremont McKenna College). Gravity and Center: Selected Sonnets, 1994–2022. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2023
Fiction
Margaret Atwood (Toronto, Canada). Old Babes in the Wood. Chatto & Windus, July 2023
Tom Hanks (Santa Monica, CA). The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece: A Novel. Knopf, May 2023
Nonfiction
Daron Acemoglu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Simon Johnson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity. PublicAffairs, May 2023
Danielle Allen (Harvard University). Justice by Means of Democracy. University of Chicago Press, April 2023
Ann Beattie (York, ME). More to Say: Essays and Appreciations. Nonpareil Books, February 2023
Mary Ann Caws (CUNY Graduate Center). Mina Loy: Apology of Genius. Reaktion Books, July 2022
Michael Doyle (Columbia University). Cold Peace: Avoiding the New Cold War. Liveright, April 2023
Brent Hayes Edwards (Columbia University) and Henry Threadgill (New York, NY). Easily Slip into Another World: A Life in Music. Knopf, May 2023
Susan Goldin-Meadow (University of Chicago). Thinking with Your Hands: The Surprising Science Behind How Gestures Shape Our Thoughts. Basic Books, June 2023
Temple Grandin (Colorado State University). Autism and Education: The Way I See It: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know. Future Horizons, April 2023
Paul Guyer (Brown University) and Rolf-Peter Horstmann (Humboldt University, Berlin). Idealism in Modern Philosophy. Oxford University Press, June 2023
Stephen L. Hauser (University of California, San Francisco). The Face Laughs While the Brain Cries: The Education of a Doctor. St. Martin’s Press, May 2023
Alan Lightman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science. Pantheon, March 2023
Jonathan B. Losos (Washington University in St. Louis). The Cat’s Meow: How Cats Evolved from the Savanna to Your Sofa. Viking, May 2023
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey (University of Illinois at Chicago). Bettering Humanomics: A New, and Old, Approach to Economic Science. University of Chicago Press, June 2023
Gary Saul Morson (Northwestern University). Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter. Belknap Press, May 2023
Katherine S. Newman (University of California) and Elizabeth S. Jacobs (Urban Institute). Moving the Needle: What Tight Labor Markets Do for the Poor. University of California Press, April 2023
Jane Smiley (Carmel Valley, CA). The Questions That Matter Most: Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of Freedom. Heyday, June 2023
Peter Stansky (Stanford University). The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War. Stanford University Press, January 2023
G. Gabrielle Starr (Pomona College). Just in Time: Temporality, Aesthetic Experience, and Cognitive Neuroscience. MIT Press, June 2023
Darren Walker (Ford Foundation). From Generosity to Justice: A New Gospel of Wealth. Disruption Books, March 2023
Jay Wright (Bradford, VT). Soul and Substance: A Poet’s Examination Papers. Princeton University Press, June 2023
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.