As of press time, several Fellows of the Academy, listed below, had been nominated or appointed to key positions in the Obama administration:
Stanley Fischer (Bank of Israel) was nominated as Vice Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve.
Shirley Ann Jackson (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) was appointed
a Member of the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership Steering
Committee 2.0.
Marc Kastner (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was nominated to head the Department of Energy’s Office of Science.
Janet Yellen (United States Federal Reserve) was confirmed as Chairwoman of the United States Federal Reserve.
Select Prizes and Awards to Members
Nobel Prizes, 2013
Chemistry
Martin Karplus (Harvard University)
Michael Levitt (Stanford University School of Medicine)
Economic Sciences
Eugene Fama (University of Chicago)
Lars Peter Hansen (University of Chicago)
Robert J. Shiller (Yale University)
Literature
Alice Munro (Clinton, Ontario, Canada)
Physiology or Medicine
James E. Rothman (Yale University)
Randy W. Schekman (University of California, Berkeley)
Thomas C. Südhof (Stanford University)
Wolf Prizes, 2014
Chemistry
Chi-huey Wong (Scripps Research Institute; Academia Sinica)
Medicine
Victor Ambros (University of Massachusetts Medical School)
Gary Ruvkun (Harvard Medical School; Massachusetts General Hospital)
Nahum Sonenberg (McGill University)
Presidential Medal of Freedom
William Clinton (Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation)
Daniel Kahneman (Princeton University)
Richard Lugar (Lugar Center)
Patricia M. Wald (Washington, D.C.)
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
Mahlon R. DeLong (Emory University)
Robert S. Langer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Richard P. Lifton (Yale University)
Alexander Varshavsky (California Institute of Technology)
Breakthrough Prize in Physics
John H. Schwarz (California Institute of Technology)
Other Awards
Shirley S. Abrahamson (Wisconsin Supreme Court) received a Distinguished Alumni Service Award from Indiana University.
Edward Adelson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has been named a 2013 Fellow of the Massachusetts Academy of Sciences.
Pedro Almodovar (El Deseo Production Company) is the recipient of the European Achievement in World Cinema from the European Film Academy.
Roger Angell (The New Yorker) was elected the 2014 winner of the J.G. Taylor Spink Award by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America.
Martina Arroyo (Indiana University) received a 2013 Kennedy Center Honor.
Wendell Berry (Port Royal, Kentucky) received the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award from the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation.
Robert J. Birgeneau (University of California, Berkeley) is the recipient of the 2013 Chief Executive Officer Leadership Award from District VII of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).
Nicholas Bloom (Stanford University) was awarded the 2014 Ewing Marion Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship, given by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
Richard H. Brodhead (Duke University) is the recipient of a 2013 Academic Leadership Award from Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Colin Camerer (California Institute of Technology) was named a 2013 MacArthur Fellow.
Herman Chernoff (Harvard University) received the 2013 Rao Prize.
David DeRosier (Brandeis University) received the Microscopy Society of America’s Distinguished Scientist Award.
E. L. Doctorow (New York University) was awarded the National Book Foundation’s 2013 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
James Dumesic (University of Wisconsin-Madison) was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
Greg J. Duncan (University of California, Irvine) is the recipient of the 2013 Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize.
Claire Fagin (New York, New York) received an Award for Distinguished Service from the New York Academy of Medicine and the Lillian Wald Award from the Visiting Nurse Service of New York.
Drew Gilpin Faust (Harvard University) received the 2013 Ruth Ratner Miller Award for Excellence in American History.
David Frohnmayer (University of Oregon) received the James B. Conant Award of Merit in Education from Delta Upsilon International Fraternity.
James Fujimoto (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) received the 2014 IEEE Photonics Award.
Melinda Gates (The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) and William Gates (Microsoft Corporation; The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) received the Lasker-Bloomberg Public Service Award.
Philip Glass (New York, New York) is among the winners of the Praemium Imperiale given by the Japan Art Association.
Shafi Goldwasser (Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Weizmann Institute of Science) has been named a 2013 Fellow of the Massachusetts Academy of Sciences.
Herbie Hancock (Los Angeles, California) received a 2013 Kennedy Center Honor.
Larry V. Hedges (Northwestern University; NORC at the University of Chicago) has been named the 2013–2014 Statistician of the Year by the Chicago Chapter of the American Statistical Association.
John L. Hennessy (Stanford University) is the recipient of a 2013 Academic Leadership Award from Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Katherine A. High (The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia) received the 2013 E. Donnall Thomas Prize from the American Society of Hematology.
James Hynes (University of Colorado) has been named a Fellow of the American Chemical Society.
Tony Kushner (Heat and Light Company) is among the recipients of the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal given by Harvard University.
Spike Lee (40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks; New York University) received the 20th Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize.
Tom Leighton (Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Akamai Technologies) has been named a 2013 Fellow of the Massachusetts Academy of Sciences.
Marsha Lester (University of Pennsylvania) was awarded the Francis P. Garvan-John M. Olin Medal.
Philip Levine (New York University) has been awarded the Academy of American Poets’ Wallace Stevens Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Charles M. Lieber (Harvard University) received the first Nano Research Award, established by Tsinghua University Press, Springer, and the journal Nano Research.
Stephen J. Lippard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) received the 2014 Priestley Medal from the American Chemical Society.
Barbara Liskov (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has been named a 2013 Fellow of the Massachusetts Academy of Sciences.
Tanya Luhrmann (Stanford University) received the 2014 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion.
Thomas Mallouk (Pennsylvania State University) has been selected as a Fellow of the American Chemical Society.
Lynne E. Maquat (University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry) is the recipient of the 2014 Athena Award, given by the Women’s Council of the Rochester Business Alliance.
Robert C. Merton (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) received the 2013 WFE Award for Excellence. He shares the prize with Myron Scholes (Stamos Partners; Stanford University; Platinum Grove Asset Management).
Ellen Mosley-Thompson (Ohio State University) and Lonnie Thompson (Ohio State University) are the recipients of the Joseph Sullivant Medal, awarded by Ohio State University.
Bert O’Malley (Baylor College of Medicine) received the 2014 Dale Medal from the Society for Endocrinology.
Menahem Pressler (Indiana University) received the University Medal from Indiana University.
Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research) received the Bharat Ratna, awarded by the Government of India.
Hunter R. Rawlings III (Association of American Universities) was awarded the James Madison Medal by Princeton University.
Deborah L. Rhode (Stanford Law School) is the recipient of the 2014 Outstanding Scholar Award from the American Bar Foundation.
John W. Rowe (Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health) is the recipient of the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine 2013–2014 Humanism in Aging Leadership Award.
John G. Ruggie (Harvard Kennedy School) is the recipient of the 2014 Global Environment Award by the International Association for Impact Assessment.
Maxine Savitz (National Academy of Engineering; Honeywell, Inc.) received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the U.S. Clean Energy Education and Empowerment (C3E) program.
Richard H. Scheller (Genentech, Inc.) received the 2013 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award. He shares the award with Thomas C. Südhof (Stanford University).
Myron Scholes (Stamos Partners; Stanford University; Platinum Grove Asset Management) received the 2013 WFE Award for Excellence. He shares the prize with Robert C. Merton (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
James Simons (Euclidean Capital LLC) and Marilyn Simons (Simons Foundation) are among the recipients of the 2013 Andrew Carnegie Medals of Philanthropy.
Larry Squire (University of California, San Diego) received a 2014 Memory and Cognitive Disorder Award from the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience.
Thomas C. Südhof (Stanford University) received the 2013 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award. He shares the award with Richard H. Scheller (Genentech, Inc.).
Subra Suresh (Carnegie Mellon University) has been elected a member of the Institute of Medicine and a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Patricia M. Wald (Washington, D.C.) is the recipient of the 2014 Outstanding Service Award from the American Bar Foundation.
Ernest J. Wilson III (University of Southern California) has been selected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.
Junying Yuan (Harvard University) received an Agilent Thought Leader Award from Agilent Technologies Inc.
New Appointments
Jared L. Cohon (Carnegie Mellon University) has been named to the Carnegie Corporation of New York Board of Trustees.
Susan Desmond-Hellmann (University of California, San Francisco) has been named Chief Executive Officer of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Brian J. Druker (Oregon Health & Science University) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of Cell Therapeutics, Inc.
Stephen Fienberg (Carnegie Mellon University) has been named to the National Commission on Forensic Science.
Margaret Levi (University of Washington) has been appointed Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
Stephen G. Nichols (Johns Hopkins University) has been appointed Distinguished Presidential Fellow of the Council on Library and Information Resources.
William Nordhaus (Yale University) was named Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
Robert E. Page, Jr. (Arizona State University) has been appointed University Provost at Arizona State University.
Thomas F. Rosenbaum (University of Chicago) has been named President of the California Institute of Technology.
Robert I. Rotberg (Harvard Kennedy School; World Peace Foundation) was appointed a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation.
Vicki Ruiz (University of California, Irvine) has been named President-Elect of the American Historical Association.
Marjorie M. Scardino (Pearson) was appointed to the Board of Directors of Twitter.
Inder M. Verma (The Salk Institute) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of Kite Pharma Inc.
Judy Woodruff (PBS NewsHour) has been named to the Carnegie Corporation of New York Board of Trustees.
Select Publications
Poetry
Renato Rosaldo (New York University). The Day of Shelly’s Death: The Poetry and Ethnography of Grief. Duke University Press, January 2014
Fiction
Jerry Pinkney (Jerry Pinkney Studio). The Tortoise & the Hare. Little, Brown Books, October 2013
Anna Quindlen (New York, New York). Still Life with Bread Crumbs. Random House, January 2014
Nonfiction
Bruce Ackerman (Yale University). We the People, Volume 3: The Civil Rights Revolution. Harvard University Press, March 2014
Kwame Anthony Appiah (New York University). Lines of Descent: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity. Harvard University Press, February 2014
David Bromwich (Yale University). The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke. Harvard University Press, May 2014
Peter Brooks (Princeton University) and Hilary Jewett (Princeton University). The Humanities and Public Life. Fordham University Press, March 2014
Jonathan Brown (New York University). In the Shadow of Velázquez: A Life in Art History. Yale University Press, June 2014
John Browne (Royal Academy of Engineering). Seven Elements That Changed the World: An Adventure of Ingenuity and Discovery. Pegasus Books, February 2014
Caroline Bruzelius (Duke University). Preaching, Building, and Burying: Friars in the Medieval City. Yale University Press, June 2014
Lawrence Buell (Harvard University). The Dream of the Great American Novel. Harvard University Press, February 2014
Gerhard Casper (Stanford University). The Winds of Freedom: Addressing Challenges to the University. Yale University Press, February 2014
Keith Christiansen (Metropolitan Museum of Art). Piero della Francesca: Personal Encounters. Yale University Press, February 2014
Sheldon Danziger (University of Michigan) and Martha J. Bailey (University of Michigan), eds. Legacies of the War on Poverty. Russell Sage, July 2013
Veena Das (Johns Hopkins University), Arthur Kleinman (Harvard University), Michael Jackson (Harvard Divinity School), and Bhrigupati Singh (King’s College London). The Ground Between: Anthropologists Engage Philosophy. Duke University Press, May 2014
David Brion Davis (Yale University). The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation. Knopf, February 2014
Denis Donoghue (New York University). Metaphor. Harvard University Press, April 2014
John Dunn (King’s College, Cambridge). Breaking Democracy’s Spell. Yale University Press, July 2014
Robert A. Ferguson (Columbia University). Inferno: An Anatomy of American Punishment. Harvard University Press, March 2014
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Harvard University) and David Bindman (University College London), eds. The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The Twentieth Century, Part 1: The Impact of Africa. Harvard University Press, February 2014
Greg Grandin (New York University). The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World. Metropolitan Books, January 2014
Christopher P. Jones (Harvard University). Between Pagan and Christian. Harvard University Press, March 2014
George Kateb (Princeton University). Human Dignity. Harvard University Press, March 2014
Arthur Kleinman (Harvard University), Veena Das (Johns Hopkins University), Michael Jackson (Harvard Divinity School), and Bhrigupati Singh (King’s College London). The Ground Between: Anthropologists Engage Philosophy. Duke University Press, May 2014
Stephen M. Kosslyn (The Minerva Project) and G. Wayne Miller (The Providence Journal). Top Brain, Bottom Brain: Surprising Insights into How You Think. Simon & Schuster, November 2013
Madeleine M. Kunin (University of Vermont) and Jennifer Baumgardner (The Feminist Press at CUNY), eds. We Do! American Leaders Who Believe in Marriage Equality. Akashic Books, November 2013
Bruno Latour (Institut d’Etudes Politiques). An Inquiry into Modes of Existence: An Anthropology of the Moderns. Harvard University Press, July 2013
Alan Lightman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew. Pantheon, January 2014
Lawrence Manley (Yale University) and Sally-Beth MacLean (University of Toronto). Lord Strange’s Men and Their Plays. Yale University Press, April 2014
Jerome McGann (University of Virginia). A New Republic of Letters: Memory and Scholarship in the Age of Digital Reproduction. Harvard University Press, March 2014
Svante Pääbo (Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie). Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes. Basic Books, February 2014
Charles Parsons (Harvard University). Philosophy of Mathematics in the Twentieth Century. Harvard University Press, March 2014
Henry Petroski (Duke University). The House with Sixteen Handmade Doors: A Tale of Architectural Choice and Craftsmanship. W.W. Norton, May 2014
Robert C. Post (Yale Law School). Citizens Divided: Campaign Finance Reform and the Constitution. Harvard University Press, June 2014
Stanley B. Prusiner (University of California, San Francisco). Madness and Memory: The Discovery of Prions–A New Biological Principle of Disease. Yale University Press, April 2014
Ingrid D. Rowland (University of Notre Dame). From Pompeii: The Afterlife of a Roman Town. Harvard University Press, March 2014
Elaine Scarry (Harvard University). Thermonuclear Monarchy: Choosing Between Democracy and Doom. W.W. Norton, February 2014
Laurence Senelick (Tufts University) and Sergei Ostrovsky (Tabakov Theater-Studio). The Soviet Theater: A Documentary History. Yale University Press, June 2014
Ian Shapiro (Yale University) and Joseph Lampert (Portland State University). Charter of the United Nations: Together with Scholarly Commentaries and Essential Historical Documents. Yale University Press, April 2014
Werner Sollors (Harvard University). The Temptation of Despair: Tales of the 1940s. Harvard University Press, April 2014
Charles Taylor (McGill University). Dilemmas and Connections. Harvard University Press, April 2014
Billie Tsien (Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, LLC) and Tod Williams (Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, LLC). Wunderkammer. Yale University Press, December 2013
James Wei (Princeton University). Great Inventions that Changed the World. John Wiley Company, July 2012
Tod Williams (Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, LLC) and Billie Tsien (Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, LLC). Wunderkammer. Yale University Press, December 2013
Garry Wills (Northwestern University). Making Make-Believe Real: Politics as Theater in Shakespeare’s Time. Yale University Press, June 2014
We invite all Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members to send notices about their recent and forthcoming publications, scientific findings, exhibitions and performances, and honors and prizes to bulletin@amacad.org.