Select Prizes and Awards to Members
Members Elected to the American Philosophical Society
Michael M. Crow (Arizona State University)
Gerald Early (Washington University in St. Louis)
John E. Echohawk (Native American Rights Fund)
Daniel T. Gilbert (Harvard University)
Sharon Hammes-Schiffer (Princeton University)
Wick C. Haxton (University of California, Berkeley)
William G. Kaelin (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Harvard Medical School)
Katalin Karikó (Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania)
Jon Kleinberg (Cornell University)
Michèle Lamont (Harvard University)
Jonathan B. Losos (Washington University in St. Louis)
Eve Marder (Brandeis University)
David Nirenberg (Institute for Advanced Study)
Carol J. Oja (Harvard University)
Fintan O’Toole (The Irish Times)
Dolph Schluter (University of British Columbia)
Ruth Scodel (University of Michigan)
Christine Edry Seidman (Harvard Medical School; Brigham & Women’s Hospital)
G. Gabrielle Starr (Pomona College)
Bryan Stevenson (Equal Justice Initiative)
Jill Cornell Tarter (SETI Institute)
Drew Weissman (Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania)
Deborah Willis (New York University)
Members Elected to the Royal Society
Kwame Anthony Appiah (New York University)
Adriaan Bax (National Institutes of Health)
Rene Bernards (The Netherlands Cancer Institute)
Donna Blackmond (Scripps Research)
Helen Blau (Stanford University School of Medicine)
Emily A. Carter (Princeton University)
Emmanuelle Charpentier (Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens)
Ingrid Daubechies (Duke University)
Anthony Fauci (Georgetown University School of Medicine)
Nigel Goldenfeld (University of California, San Diego)
Thomas Henzinger (Institute of Science and Technology Austria)
Ruth Lehmann (Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research)
Susana A. Magallón Puebla (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
J. Anthony Movshon (New York University)
William Nix (Stanford University)
Kyoko Nozaki (University of Tokyo)
Sarah Otto (University of British Columbia)
Ares Rosakis (California Institute of Technology)
Erin Schuman (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research)
Yang Shi (University of Oxford)
Lorraine Symington (Columbia University)
Mark Thiemens (University of California, San Diego)
Other Prizes and Awards
Armand Paul Alivisatos (University of Chicago) was awarded the 2024 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience. President Alivisatos shares the prize with Robert S. Langer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Chad A. Mirkin (Northwestern University).
Danielle Allen (Harvard University) was awarded the Joseph B. and Toby Gittler Prize by Brandeis University.
José E. Alvarez (New York University School of Law) was awarded the Manley Hudson Medal by the American Society of International Law.
Carol Anderson (Emory University) received the Freedom Summer of ’64 Award from Miami University.
Moungi Bawendi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) received the Nano Research Award from the journal Nano Research, Tsinghua University Press, and Springer Nature. Professor Bawendi shares the award with Louis E. Brus (Columbia University).
P. Dee Boersma (University of Washington) received the 2024 Godman-Salvin Prize from the British Ornithological Union.
Steven Boxer (Stanford University) received the Ellis R. Lippincott Award, given by Optica, Advancing Optics and Photonics Worldwide; the Coblentz Society; and the Society for Applied Spectroscopy.
Louis E. Brus (Columbia University) received the Nano Research Award from the journal Nano Research, Tsinghua University Press, and Springer Nature. Professor Brus shares the award with Moungi Bawendi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
David Charbonneau (Harvard University) was awarded the 2024 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics. Professor Charbonneau shares the prize with Sara Seager (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
Patricia Hill Collins (University of Maryland) is the 2023 recipient of the Berggruen Prize in Philosophy and Culture.
Jeffrey M. Friedman (Rockefeller University) received the 2024 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research.
Naomi Halas (Rice University) received the C.E.K. Mees Medal from Optica, Advancing Optics and Photonics Worldwide. Professor Halas was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Danish Çï¿ûÊÓƵ of Sciences and Letters.
Peter Hotez (Baylor College of Medicine) was named to Time’s Inaugural TIME100 Health List of the 100 Most Influential People in Global Health.
Akiko Iwasaki (Yale School of Medicine) received the 2024 Nakaakira Tsukahara Memorial Award from the Brain Science Foundation of Japan. Dr. Iwasaki was also named to Time’s Inaugural TIME100 Health List of the 100 Most Influential People in Global Health.
John Joannopoulos (MassÂachusetts Institute of Technology) received the 2024–2025 James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Jacqueline Jones (University of Texas at Austin) was awarded a 2024 Pulitzer Prize in History for No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era.
Johan Anthony Willem Kamp (University of Stuttgart) was awarded the Rolf Schock Prize by the Royal Swedish Çï¿ûÊÓƵ of Sciences. Professor Kamp shares the prize with Irene Heim (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
Nancy Kanwisher (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was awarded the 2024 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience. Professor Kanwisher shares the prize with Winrich Freiwald (Rockefeller University) and Doris Ying Tsao (University of California, Berkeley).
Jamaica Kincaid (Harvard University) received the 2024 St. Louis Literary Award.
Shinobu Kitayama (University of Michigan) received the William James Award from the Association for Psychological Science.
Michèle Lamont (Harvard University) was awarded the 2024 Kohli Prize for Sociology by the Kohli Foundation for Sociology.
Robert Landick (University of Wisconsin–Madison) received the Hilldale Award from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Robert S. Langer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was awarded the 2024 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience. Professor Langer shares the prize with Armand Paul Alivisatos (University of Chicago) and Chad A. Mirkin (Northwestern University).
Robert Levin (Harvard University) received the Golden Mozart Medal from the International Mozarteum Foundation.
Maja J. Matarić (University of Southern California) received the ACM Athena Lecturer Award.
Chad A. Mirkin (Northwestern University) was awarded the 2024 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience. Professor Mirkin shares the prize with Armand Paul Alivisatos (University of Chicago) and Robert S. Langer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
Julie Packard (Monterey Bay Aquarium) received the Robert R. Hermann World Ecology Award from the Whitney R. Harris World Ecology Center at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.
Peter Sarnak (Princeton University) was awarded the 2024 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences.
Helmut Schwarz (Technische Universität Berlin) was elected an Honorary Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Çï¿ûÊÓƵ of Sciences.
Sara Seager (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was awarded the 2024 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics. Professor Seager shares the prize with David Charbonneau (Harvard University).
Sonia M. Sotomayor (Supreme Court of the United States) was awarded the 2024 Radcliffe Medal by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
Pol Spanos (Rice University) was awarded the 2024 Blaise Pascal Medal in Engineering by the European Çï¿ûÊÓƵ of Sciences.
Sarah Stillman (The New Yorker) was awarded a 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting.
Frederick William Studier (Brookhaven National Laboratory) received the 2024 Richard N. Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology.
Lisa Su (Advanced Micro Devices) was named 2024 Chief Executive of the Year by Chief Executive magazine.
Henry Wellman (University of Michigan) received the William James Award from the Association for Psychological Science. Professor Wellman was also elected to the National Çï¿ûÊÓƵ of Sciences.
Michael Woodford (Columbia University) received the 2024 Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics.
New Appointments
Benjamin F. Cravatt (Scripps Research) was appointed to the Board of Directors of Actio Biosciences.
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) was appointed to President Biden’s Intelligence Advisory Board.
Nicholas Donofrio (IBM) was appointed to the Board of Trustees of Natcast.
Tyler Jacks (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was elected Vice Chair of the Harvard University Board of Overseers’ Executive Committee.
Michael I. Jordan (University of California, Berkeley) was appointed to the Advisory Board of Jibo Inc.
Santa J. Ono (University of Michigan) was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the United States–Japan Foundation.
Sonya T. Smith (Howard University) was appointed Executive Director of Howard University’s Research Institute for Tactical Autonomy.
Subra Suresh (Brown University) was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology.
Jennifer M. Welsh (McGill University) was named Director of McGill UniverÂsity’s Max Bell School of Public Policy.
Bruce Western (Columbia University) was named President of the Russell Sage Foundation.
Select Publications
Poetry
Percival Everett (University of Southern California). Sonnets for a Missing Key. Red Hen Press, August 2024
Fiction
Walter Mosley (New York, NY). Farewell, Amethystine. Mulholland Books, June 2024
Nonfiction
José E. Alvarez (NYU School of Law) and Judith Bauder (European University Institute). Women’s Property Rights Under CEDAW. Oxford University Press, March 2024
Thomas R. Cech (University of Colorado Boulder). The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life’s Deepest Secrets. W.W. Norton, June 2024
Jonathan R. Cole (Columbia University). Smoother Pebbles: Essays in the Sociology of Science. Columbia University Press, April 2024
Nicholas Donofrio (IBM). If Nothing Changes, Nothing Changes. Houndstooth Publishing, Scribe Media, May 2022
B. Rosemary Grant (PrinceÂton University). One Step Sideways, Three Steps Forward: One Woman’s Path to Becoming a Biologist. Princeton University Press, June 2024
Phillip Lopate (Columbia University). My Affair with Art House Cinema: Essays and Reviews. Columbia University Press, July 2024
Glenn C. Loury (Brown University). Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative. W.W. Norton, May 2024
Francine Prose (Bard College). 1974: A Personal History. Harper, June 2024
Laurence Ralph (Princeton University). Sito: An American Teenager and the City that Failed Him. Grand Central Publishing, February 2024
Salman Rushdie (New York, NY). Knife: Mediations After an Attempted Murder. Random House, April 2024
Colm TóibÃn (Columbia University). On James Baldwin. Brandeis University Press, August 2024