Select Prizes and Awards
Danielle Allen (Institute for Advanced Study) is the recipient of a 2013 PROSE Award from the Association of American Publishers.
C. David Allis (Rockefeller University) has been awarded the 2014 Japan Prize in Life Sciences.
Frederick M. Ausubel (Harvard Medical School; Massachusetts General Hospital) has been awarded the Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal from the Genetics Society of America.
John Banville (Dublin, Ireland) was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Wendell Berry (Port Royal, Kentucky) was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Jeffrey A. Bluestone (University of California, San Francisco) was elected a member of the Institute of Medicine.
Dale L. Boger (Scripps Research Institute) received the AACR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Chemistry in Cancer Research from the American Association for Cancer Research.
Lewis M. Branscomb (Harvard University) received the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s 2014 Philip Hauge Abelson Prize.
Ronald Breslow (Columbia University) has been awarded the 2014 American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal.
Dorothy L. Cheney (University of Pennsylvania) received an honorary degree from the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
John A. Clements (University of California, San Francisco) is the recipient of the Mary Ellen Avery Neonatal Research Award, given by the American Pediatrics Society and the Society for Pediatric Research.
Michael Cook (Princeton University) received the Holberg Prize from the Norwegian Parliament.
Stanley Crouch (New York Daily News) is the recipient of a 2013 PROSE Award from the Association of American Publishers.
Titia de Lange (Rockefeller University) is the recipient of a 2014 Canada Gairdner International Award.
Jennifer Doudna (University of California, Berkeley) was awarded the Lurie Prize in the Biomedical Sciences.
Gideon Dreyfuss (Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania) was elected a member of the Institute of Medicine.
Richard A. Epstein (University of Chicago) received the Norman Maclean Faculty Award from the University of Chicago.
Joseph Fins (Weill Cornell Medical College) was elected an Academico de Honor of the Real Academia National de Medicina de España (Royal National Academy of Medicine of Spain).
Marye Anne Fox (University of California, San Diego) is the recipient of the 2014 Clark Kerr Award for Distinguished Leadership in Higher Education.
Saul Friedländer (University of California, Los Angeles) is the recipient of a 2014 Dan David Prize.
Elaine Fuchs (Rockefeller University) received the 2014 Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Cancer Research from the American Association for Cancer Research.
Naomi Halas (Rice University) was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Ann Hamilton (Ohio State University) was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Siegfried Hecker (Stanford University) received the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s 2014 Award for Science Diplomacy.
Martin Hellwig (Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von Gemeinschaftsgütern) is the recipient of a 2013 PROSE Award from the Association of American Publishers.
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy (Winters, California) is the recipient of the National Academy of Sciences’ 2014 Award for Scientific Reviewing.
Toyo Ito (Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects) was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Ha Jin (Boston University) was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Ira Katznelson (Social Science Research Council; Columbia University) was awarded a 2014 Bancroft Prize for Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time.
Robert Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) has received the James Craig Watson Medal of the National Academy of Sciences.
Richard D. Kolodner (University of California, San Diego) was elected a member of the Institute of Medicine.
Phyllis Lambert (The Canadian Centre for Architecture) is the recipient of a 2013 PROSE Award from the Association of American Publishers.
Simon Levin (Princeton University) was awarded the 2014 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement.
Eve Marder (Brandeis University) received an Alumni Achievement Award from Brandeis University. She was also elected a member of the Institute of Medicine.
Daniel Mendelsohn (New York, New York) is the recipient of the 2014 Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Brenda Milner (McGill University) is the recipient of a 2014 Dan David Prize.
Franco Moretti (Stanford University) won a National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism for Distant Reading.
Eric Nestler (Mount Sinai School of Medicine) is the recipient of a 2013 PROSE Award from the Association of American Publishers.
William Nordhaus (Yale University) is the recipient of a 2013 PROSE Award from the Association of American Publishers.
Jessye Norman (New York, New York) received the 2014 Bob Marley Award from the American Foundation for the University of the West Indies.
Moshe Oren (Weizmann Institute of Science) was elected a foreign associate of the Institute of Medicine.
Helen Piwnica-Worms (University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center) was elected a member of the Institute of Medicine.
H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University) was inducted into the State of Alabama Engineering Hall of Fame.
Danny Reinberg (New York University School of Medicine) was elected a member of the Institute of Medicine.
Jennifer Rexford (Princeton University) was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
Jeremy Sabloff (Santa Fe Institute) is the recipient of the Society for American Archaeology’s 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Esa-Pekka Salonen (Philharmonia Orchestra) was awarded the Michael Ludwig Nemmers Prize in Music Composition.
Peter Salovey (Yale University) was elected a member of the Institute of Medicine.
Robert D. Schreiber (Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine) received the AACR-CRI Lloyd J. Old Award in Cancer Immunology from the American Association for Cancer Research and the Cancer Research Institute.
Robert Seyfarth (University of Pennsylvania) received an honorary degree from the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Yakov Sinai (Princeton University) was awarded the 2014 Abel Prize by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
Donald Steiner (University of Chicago) received an Alumni Medal from the University of Chicago.
Gerald Stern (Drew University) is the 2014 recipient of the Frost Medal of the Poetry Society of America.
Steven Strogatz (Cornell University) received the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s 2014 Award for Public Engagement with Science.
Subra Suresh (Carnegie Mellon University) was elected a member of the Institute of Medicine.
Richard Tapia (Rice University) received the 2014 Vannevar Bush Award from the National Science Board.
Roger Unger (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center) received the 2014 Rolf Luft Award from the Karolinska Institutet.
Alice Waters (Chez Panisse Foundation/Chez Panisse) was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Brenda Wineapple (New York, New York) received an Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Tobias Wolff (Stanford University) was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Eli Yablonovitch (University of California, Berkeley) was awarded the 2014 Rank Prize.
New Appointments
Gordon M. Binder (Coastview Capital, LLC) will lead One Global Mediation’s Biotech/Pharmaceutical and Patent sectors.
Kenneth I. Chenault (American Express Company) has been elected a member of the Harvard Corporation.
Mary Sue Coleman (University of Michigan) has been elected to the Board of Directors of The Kavli Foundation.
James J. Collins (Boston University) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of Agilis Biotherapeutics, LLC.
Karen S. Cook (Stanford University) has been elected to the Council of the National Academy of Sciences.
Peter B. Dervan (California Institute of Technology) has been appointed a Trustee of the Yale Corporation.
Michael V. Drake (University of California, Irvine) has been named President of The Ohio State University.
Victor J. Dzau (Duke University) has been named President of the Institute of Medicine.
John G. Hildebrand (University of Arizona) has been elected Foreign Secretary of the National Academy of Sciences.
Madeleine M. Kunin (University of Vermont) was named Chair of the Board of Directors of Emerge Vermont.
Richard C. Levin (Yale University) was named Chief Executive Officer of Coursera.
Joseph Loscalzo (Harvard Medical School; Brigham & Women’s Hospital) has been elected to the Board of Directors of Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Richard A. Meserve (Carnegie Institution for Science) has been elected to the Board of Directors of The Kavli Foundation.
Nancy A. Moran (University of Texas, Austin) has been elected to the Council of the National Academy of Sciences.
Margaret M. Murnane (University of Colorado) has been elected to the Council of the National Academy of Sciences.
Stanley B. Prusiner (University of California, San Francisco) has been appointed to the Board of Overseers of Weill Cornell Medical College.
Richard Revesz (New York University School of Law) has been named Director of the American Law Institute.
Geraldine Richmond (University of Oregon) has been named President-Elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Sharon Percy Rockefeller (WETA) has been named Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Gallery of Art.
Randy Schekman (University of California, Berkeley) has been elected to the Council of the National Academy of Sciences.
James Shapiro (Columbia University) was elected as Co-Vice President of the Authors Guild.
David J. Skorton (Cornell University) has been named Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
Lawrence Summers (Harvard University) has been named Board Chair of the Center for Global Development.
Terence Tao (University of California, Los Angeles) has been named Patron of the International Mathematical Olympiad Foundation.
Anne Tatlock (Fiduciary Trust Company International) has been named to the Board of Trustees of Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Phyllis M. Wise (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Select Publications
Poetry
J. D. McClatchy (Yale University). Plundered Hearts: New and Selected Poems. Knopf, April 2014
Fiction
Peter Ackroyd (London Times). Three Brothers: A Novel. Doubleday/Nan Talese, April 2014
Aharon Appelfeld (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel). Suddenly, Love. Schocken, May 2014
Russell Banks (Princeton University). A Permanent Member of the Family. Ecco, November 2013
Roz Chast (The New Yorker). Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? A Memoir. Bloomsbury, May 2014
Jim Lehrer (The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer). Top Down: A Novel of the Kennedy Assassination. Random House, October 2013
Frank Lentricchia (Duke University). The Dog Killer of Utica. Melville International Crime, April 2014
John Lithgow (Los Angeles, California). Never Play Music Right Next to the Zoo. Simon & Schuster, October 2013
Francine Prose (New York, New York). Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932. Harper, May 2014
Lore Segal (New York, New York). Half the Kingdom. Melville House, October 2013
Nonfiction
Simon Blackburn (University of Cambridge). Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love. Princeton University Press, March 2014
Martin J. Blaser (New York University School of Medicine). Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues. Henry Holt & Co., April 2014
Archie Brown (University of Oxford). The Myth of the Strong Leader: Political Leadership in the Modern Age. Basic Books, April 2014
Antoine Compagnon (Columbia University). Un Été Avec Montaigne. Éditions des Équateurs, May 2013
Wendy Doniger (University of Chicago Divinity School). On Hinduism. Oxford University Press, March 2014
Greg J. Duncan (University of California, Irvine) and Richard J. Murnane (Harvard Graduate School of Education). Restoring Opportunity: The Crisis of Inequality and the Challenge for American Education. Russell Sage and Harvard Education Press, January 2014
Louis Dupré (Yale University). The Quest of the Absolute: Birth and Decline of European Romanticism. University of Notre Dame Press, September 2013
Paul R. Ehrlich (Stanford University) and Michael Charles Tobias (Dancing Star Foundation). Hope on Earth: A Conversation. University of Chicago Press, April 2014
Kelly Sims Gallagher (Senior Scholar in Residence, 2011–2012; Tufts University). The Globalization of Clean Energy Technology: Lessons from China. MIT Press, April 2014
Rebecca Goldstein (Harvard University). Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away. Pantheon, March 2014
Michael Hechter (Arizona State University). Alien Rule. Cambridge University Press, October 2013
Bernd Heinrich (University of Vermont). The Homing Instinct: Meaning & Mystery in Animal Migration. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, April 2014
Anjelica Huston (Gray Angel Productions). A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London, and New York. Scribner, November 2013
Richard J. Murnane (Harvard Graduate School of Education) and Greg J. Duncan (University of California, Irvine). Restoring Opportunity: The Crisis of Inequality and the Challenge for American Education. Russell Sage and Harvard Education Press, January 2014
Diana C. Mutz (University of Pennsylvania) and Seth K. Goldman (University of Massachusetts, Amherst). The Obama Effect: How the 2008 Campaign Changed White Racial Attitudes. Russell Sage, April 2014
Martha C. Nussbaum (University of Chicago Law School). Political Emotions: Why Love Matters for Justice. Harvard University Press, October 2013
Simon Schama (Columbia University). The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 1000 BCE–1492 CE. Ecco, March 2014
Alfred Stepan (Columbia University) and Charles Taylor (McGill University), eds. Boundaries of Toleration. Columbia University Press, February 2014
Charles Taylor (McGill University) and Alfred Stepan (Columbia University), eds. Boundaries of Toleration. Columbia University Press, February 2014
J. Craig Venter (J. Craig Venter Institute). Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life. Viking, November 2013
Edward O. Wilson (Harvard University). A Window on Eternity: A Biologist’s Walk Through Gorongosa National Park. Simon & Schuster, May 2014
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