Select Prizes and Awards to Members
A. Paul Alivisatos (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) has been elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Danielle S. Allen (Institute for Advanced Study; Harvard University) has been elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Frederick Alt (Harvard Medical School; Boston Children’s Hospital) has been awarded the 2015 Szent-Györgyi Prize for Progress in Cancer Research by the National Foundation for Cancer Research.
David Baltimore (California Institute of Technology) has been awarded the AACR-Irving Weinstein Foundation Distinguished Lectureship.
Larry M. Bartels (Vanderbilt University) was named a 2015 Andrew Carnegie Fellow.
Sangeeta Bhatia (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) received the Heinz Award for Technology, the Economy & Employment.
James Bjorken (Stanford University) was awarded the 2015 Wolf Prize in Physics. He shares the prize with Robert P. Kirshner (Harvard University).
David E. Bloom (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) was named a 2015 Andrew Carnegie Fellow.
Michael Bloomberg (Bloomberg L.P.) has been elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Robert Brandom (University of Pittsburgh) received an Anneliese Maier Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Foundation.
Emery N. Brown (Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Harvard Medical School; Massachusetts General Hospital) was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. He was also named a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow.
Peter R. Brown (Princeton University) was awarded a 2015 Dan David Prize, given by the Dan David Foundation.
Linda Buck (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) has been elected to the Royal Society.
Robert Campbell (Cambridge, Massachusetts) received the Lifetime Achievement Award at AD20/21: Art & Design of the 20th & 21st Centuries during Boston Design Week 2015.
Lewis C. Cantley (Weill Cornell Medical College) was awarded the 2015 AACR Princess Takamatsu Memorial Lectureship.
Mario R. Capecchi (University of Utah) is the recipient of the AACR Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research.
Roz Chast (The New Yorker) received a 2015 Heinz Award for the Arts and Humanities. She also received a National Book Critics Circle Award for Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
Joanne Chory (The Salk Institute) has been elected to the American Philosophical Society.
David Brion Davis (Yale University) won a National Book Critics Circle Award for The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation.
Stephen Elledge (Harvard Medical School) received the Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences from the Wiley Foundation. He shares the prize with Evelyn Witkin (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey).
Jonathan F. Fanton (American Academy of Arts and Sciences) has been elected to the American Philosophical Society.
John V. Fleming (Princeton University) has been elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Elaine Fuchs (The Rockefeller University) has received the E.B. Wilson Medal from the American Society for Cell Biology.
Thomas W. Gaehtgens (Getty Research Institute) has been awarded the 2015 Prix Mondial Cino Del Duca.
Michael S. Gazzaniga (University of California, Santa Barbara) is the recipient of a 2015 William James Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science.
Charles D. Gilbert (The Rockefeller University) was awarded the 2015 Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience from the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT.
Claudia Goldin (Harvard University) has been elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Susan Goldin-Meadow (University of Chicago) is the recipient of a 2015 William James Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science.
Jeffrey I. Gordon (Washington University in St. Louis) has been awarded the King Faisal International Prize in Medicine by the King Faisal Foundation.
Linda Gordon (New York University) has been elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Greg Grandin (New York University) was awarded the Bancroft Prize for The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World.
Harry Gray (California Institute of Technology) has been awarded the Theodore William Richards Medal from the American Chemical Society.
Donald P. Green (Columbia University) was named a 2015 Andrew Carnegie Fellow.
Amy Gutmann (University of Pennsylvania) received the 2015 Reginald Wilson Diversity Leadership Award from the American Council on Education.
Naomi Halas (Rice University) was awarded the 2015 R.W. Wood Prize by the Optical Society. She shares the prize with Peter Nordlander (Rice University).
Jeffrey Hamburger (Harvard University) is the recipient of an Anneliese Maier Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Foundation.
Fiona A. Harrison (California Institute of Technology) has been awarded the 2015 Rossi Prize from the American Astronomical Society.
David Haussler (University of California, Santa Cruz) was awarded a 2015 Dan David Prize, given by the Dan David Foundation.
John P. Holdren (Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President) has been elected to the American Philosophical Society.
A. J. Hudspeth (Rockefeller University) has been elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Gwen Ifill (WETA) is the 43rd recipient of the Fourth Estate Award, given by the National Press Club. She has also been named the 2015 Hunter B. Andrews Distinguished Fellow in American Politics at the College of William and Mary.
Carl June (University of Pennsylvania) was awarded the 2015 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize. He shares the prize with James P. Allison (University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center). Dr. June also received the AACR-CRI Lloyd J. Old Award in Cancer Immunology.
Marc Kamionkowski (Johns Hopkins University) was awarded the 2015 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics. He shares the prize with David Spergel (Princeton University).
David I. Kertzer (Brown University) won a Pulitzer Prize for Biography for The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe.
Robert P. Kirshner (Harvard University) was awarded the 2015 Wolf Prize in Physics. He shares the prize with James Bjorken (Stanford University).
Peter T. Kirstein (University College London) was awarded the 2015 Marconi Prize.
William E. Kirwan (University System of Maryland) received the 2015 Circle of Discovery Award from the University of Maryland’s College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences.
Sergiu Klainerman (Princeton University) was named a 2015 Simons Fellow in Mathematics.
Nancy Kopell (Boston University) has been awarded the Mathematical Neuroscience Prize from Israel Brain Technologies.
Laurence Kotlikoff (Boston University) has been named one of the most influential economists by The Economist magazine.
Nicolai Krylov (University of Minnesota) was named a 2015 Simons Fellow in Mathematics.
Thomas W. Laqueur (University of California, Berkeley) has been elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Joseph LeDoux (New York University) is the recipient of a 2015 William James Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science.
Patrick Lee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was named a 2015 Simons Fellow in Theoretical Physics.
Arthur Levine (Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation) received New Jersey SEEDS’ Leading Change Award.
Stephen J. Lippard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is the recipient of the 2015 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry.
David Luban (Georgetown University) received the 2015 PROSE Award from the American Publishers Association.
Arthur Lupia (University of Michigan) was named a 2015 Andrew Carnegie Fellow.
Lynne E. Maquat (University of Rochester Medical Center) received the 2015 Gairdner International Award.
Philippa Marrack (National Jewish Health) received the 2015 Wolf Prize in Medicine. She shares the prize with Jeffrey V. Ravetch (The Rockefeller University) and John Kappler (National Jewish Health).
N. David Mermin (Cornell University) has been elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Malcolm Morley (Bellport, New York) received a 2015 Francis J. Greenburger Award.
Toni Morrison (Princeton University) received a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Critics Circle.
Glenn Most (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) has been elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Margaret Murnane (University of Colorado) has been elected to the American Philosophical Society.
William Nordhaus (Yale University) received the Thomas C. Schelling Award from the Harvard Kennedy School.
J. Tinsley Oden (University of Texas at Austin) has been named to the Louisiana State University Alumni Association Hall of Distinction.
Bjorn Poonen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was named a 2015 Simons Fellow in Mathematics.
Marcus E. Raichle (Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine) has been named an honorary member of the American Society of Neuroradiology.
Jeffrey V. Ravetch (The Rockefeller University) received the 2015 Wolf Prize in Medicine. He shares the prize with Philippa Marrack (National Jewish Health) and John Kappler (National Jewish Health).
Anne Walters Robertson (University of Chicago) has been elected to the American Philosophical Society.
David Robertson (Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra) won a Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra of John Adams’ composition City Noir.
Marilynne Robinson (University of Iowa) received a National Book Critics Circle Award for Lila.
Alex Ross (The New Yorker) was awarded a 2015 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship.
Stephen A. Ross (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) received the Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics from the Center for Financial Studies.
Helmut Schwarz (Technische Universität Berlin; Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) was awarded the 2015 Schrödinger Medal by the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists. He is also the 2015 recipient of the Karl Ziegler Award of the German Chemical Society.
John Sexton (New York University) is the recipient of the 2015 TIAA-CREF Theodore M. Hesburgh Award for Leadership Excellence. He also received the Award for Individual Achievement from the Arab American Institute.
Phillip Sharp (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) received the 2015 Othmer Gold Medal from the Chemical Heritage Foundation.
Thomas Eugene Shenk (Princeton University) has been elected to the American Philosophical Society.
David Dean Shulman (Hebrew University) has been elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Asif Siddiqi (Fordham University; Academy Visiting Scholar, 2004–2005) was awarded a 2015 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship.
Barry Simon (California Institute of Technology) has been awarded the International János Bolyai Prize of Mathematics by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Michael Sorkin (Michael Sorkin Studio; City College of New York) was awarded a 2015 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship.
David Spergel (Princeton University) was awarded the 2015 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics. He shares the prize with Marc Kamionkowski (Johns Hopkins University).
Joan A. Steitz (Yale University) is the recipient of the 2015 Connecticut Medal of Science, given by the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering.
Nicholas Stern (London School of Economics and Political Science; The British Academy) has been elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Michael Stonebraker (Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Tamr) is the recipient of the 2014 A.M. Turing Award, given by the Association for Computing Machinery.
Steven Strogatz (Cornell University) was awarded the 2015 Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science by The Rockefeller University. He shares the prize with Ian Stewart (The University of Warwick; Gresham College).
Thomas J. Sugrue (University of Pennsylvania) was named a 2015 Andrew Carnegie Fellow.
Philip E. Tetlock (University of Pennsylvania) was named a 2015 Andrew Carnegie Fellow.
Twyla Tharp (Twyla Tharp Dance Company) has been elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Moshe Vardi (Rice University) has been named a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
Jeremy James Waldron (New York University School of Law) has been elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Peter Walter (University of California, San Francisco) was awarded the 2015 Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science.
Rosanna Warren (University of Chicago) has been elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Michael Waterman (University of Southern California) was awarded a 2015 Dan David Prize, given by the Dan David Foundation.
Timothy D. Wilson (University of Virginia) is the recipient of a 2015 William James Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science.
Evelyn Witkin (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) received the Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences from the Wiley Foundation. She shares the prize with Stephen Elledge (Harvard Medical School).
Owen N. Witte (University of California, Los Angeles) received the AACR G.H.A. Clowes Memorial Award.
W. Hugh Woodin (Harvard University) was named a 2015 Simons Fellow in Mathematics.
New Appointments
Marlene Belfort (University of Albany, State University of New York) has been named an Editor-in-Chief of Mobile DNA.
Ben S. Bernanke (Brookings Institution) is a senior advisor to Pimco.
Mary Schmidt Campbell (New York University) has been named President of Spelman College.
Ashton B. Carter (U.S. Department of Defense) was confirmed as the 25th U.S. Secretary of Defense.
Jennifer Doudna (University of California, Berkeley) has joined Intellia Therapeutics as a Founding Member and Scientific Advisor.
Persis Drell (Stanford University) has been named to the Board of Directors of NVIDIA.
Julio Frenk (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) has been named President of the University of Miami. He has also been elected to the Board of Trustees of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Andrew Hamilton (University of Oxford) has been named President of New York University.
Marc Kastner (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has been named President of the Science Philanthropy Alliance.
Haig Kazazian (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine) has been named an Editor-in-Chief of Mobile DNA.
Silvio Micali (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has been named Associate Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.
James Plummer (Stanford University) has been named to the Board of Trustees at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering.
Richard H. Scheller (Genentech) has been appointed Chief Science Officer and Head of Therapeutics of 23andMe. He has also been appointed to the Board of Directors of Xenon Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Paul Schimmel (Scripps Research Institute) has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Tocagen Inc.
John Sexton (New York University) has been appointed to the Board of Directors of OvaScience.
Donna Shalala (University of Miami) has been named President and Chief Executive Officer of the Clinton Foundation.
Sanford I. Weill (SIWeill) was named President of Carnegie Hall.
Mark S. Wrighton (Washington University in St. Louis) has been elected to the Board of Directors of Akermin, Inc.
Yehudi Wyner (Brandeis University) has been elected President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Select Publications
Fiction
Jonathan Galassi (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Muse: A Novel. Knopf, June 2015
Milan Kundera (Paris, France). The Festival of Insignificance. Harper, June 2015
Nonfiction
Emery N. Brown (Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Harvard Medical School; Massachusetts General Hospital), Robert E. Kass (Carnegie Mellon University), and Uri Eden (Boston University). Analysis of Neural Data. Springer-Verlag, March 2014
Peter Brown (Princeton University). The Ransom of the Soul: Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity. Harvard University Press, April 2015
Harvey Cox (Harvard Divinity School). How to Read the Bible. HarperOne, April 2015
David M. Culver (Alcan Aluminum) and Alan Freeman (Globe and Mail). Expect Miracles: Recollections of a Lucky Life. McGill-Queen’s University Press, April 2014
Freeman Dyson (Institute for Advanced Study). Dreams of Earth and Sky. New York Review Books, April 2015
Philip Glass (New York, New York). Words Without Music. Norton/Liveright, April 2015
James S. House (University of Michigan). Beyond Obamacare: Life, Death, and Social Policy. Russell Sage Foundation, May 2015
Oliver Sacks (Columbia University). On the Move: A Life. Knopf, May 2015
John R. Searle (University of California, Berkeley). Seeing Things as They Are: A Theory of Perception. Oxford University Press, February 2015
David Sehat (Georgia State University; Academy Visiting Scholar, 2007–2008). The Jefferson Rule: How the Founding Fathers Became Infallible and Our Politics Inflexible. Simon & Schuster, May 2015
Helen Vendler (Harvard University). The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar: Essays on Poets and Poetry. Harvard University Press, May 2015
James Wood (Harvard University; The New Yorker). The Nearest Thing to Life. The Mandel Lectures in the Humanities, Brandeis University, April 2015
Daniel Yankelovich (Viewpoint Learning). Wicked Problems, Workable Solutions. Rowman & Littlefield, December 2014
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