Select Prizes and Awards to Members
Recipients of the National Medal of Science, 2022
Huda Akil (University of Michigan)
Barry C. Barish (California Institute of Technology)
Eve E. Marder (Brandeis University)
Gregory A. Petsko (Harvard Medical School; Brigham & Women’s Hospital)
Subra Suresh (Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Brown University)
Shelley E. Taylor (University of California, Los Angeles)
Sheldon Weinbaum (The City University of New York)
Other Prizes and Awards to Members
Kenneth S. Abraham (University of Virginia School of Law) received the 2024 Prosser Award from the Association of American Law Schools.
José Alvarez (New York University School of Law) is the 2024 recipient of the Manley O. Hudson Medal, given by the American Society of International Law.
Guillermo A. Ameer (Northwestern University) was elected a Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering by the International Union of Societies for Biomaterials Science and Engineering. Dr. Ameer was also awarded the Biomedical Engineering Society’s Athanasiou Medal of Excellence in Translational Bioengineering and the 2023 Excellence in Biomaterials Science Award from the Surfaces in Biomaterials Foundation.
R. Douglas Arnold (Princeton University) received the 2023 Gladys M. Kammerer Award from the American Political Science Association.
Nadine Aubry (Tufts University) was elected to the Royal Ƶ of Engineering.
Michele Barry (Stanford University) received the Consortium of Universities in Global Health Distinguished Leader Award.
Jacqueline K. Barton (California Institute of Technology) received the 2023 Welch Award in Chemistry.
Bonnie L. Bassler (Princeton University) received the 2023 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research. Dr. Bassler shares the award with Jeffrey Gordon (Washington University in St. Louis) and E. Peter Greenberg (University of Washington).
Bonnie L. Bassler (Princeton University) was awarded the 2023 Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research. Dr. Bassler shares the prize with Jeffrey Gordon (Washington University in St. Louis) and Dennis L. Kasper (Havard Medical School; Brigham and Women’s Hospital).
Moungi G. Bawendi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Dr. Bawendi shares the prize with Louis E. Brus (Columbia University) and Alexei I. Ekimov (Nanocrystals Technology).
Squire J. Booker (Pennsylvania State University) received the 2023 Percy L. Julian Award from the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers.
Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier (The Ohio State University) received the 2023 Frank J. Goodnow Award from the American Political Science Association.
Haïm Brezis (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI; Rutgers University) was awarded the 2024 Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement by the American Mathematical Society.
Louis E. Brus (Columbia University) was awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Dr. Brus shares the prize with Moungi G. Bawendi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Alexei I. Ekimov (Nanocrystals Technology).
José A. Cabranes (United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit) is the 2023 recipient of the Edward J. Devitt Distinguished Service to Justice Award.
María Magdalena Campos-Pons (Vanderbilt University) was awarded a 2023 MacArthur Fellowship.
Dana Carroll (University of Utah School of Medicine) received the University of Utah’s 2023 Rosenblatt Prize for Excellence.
Emily A. Carter (Princeton University) was awarded the William H. Nichols Medal by the American Chemical Society.
Raj Chetty (Harvard University) was awarded Harvard University’s George Ledlie Prize. Professor Chetty shares the prize with Michael Springer (Harvard Medical School).
Michelene Chi (Arizona State University) was awarded the 2023 Yidan Prize for Education Research.
César Conde (NBCUniversal News Group) received the 2023 Hispanic Heritage Media Award, given by the Hispanic Heritage Foundation.
Joy Connolly (American Council of Learned Societies) is the 2023 recipient of the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences Advocacy Award.
Neta Crawford (University of Oxford) is the recipient of the 2024 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.
Michael C. Dawson (University of Chicago) received the 2023 Charles E. Merriam Award from the American Political Science Association.
Caroline Dean (John Innes Centre) was awarded the Barbara McClintock Prize for Plant Genetics and Genome Studies by the Maize Genetics Executive Committee.
Edward P. Djerejian (Harvard Kennedy School) received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Armenian National Committee of America—Western Region.
Jennifer Doudna (University of California, Berkeley) was awarded the Kimberly Prize in Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics by the Simpson Querrey Institute for Epigenetics.
Rita Dove (University of Virginia) received the 2023 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation.
James G. Fujimoto (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was awarded a National Medal of Technology and Innovation 2022 Team Award. Dr. Fujimoto shares the award with Eric Swanson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and David Huang (Oregon Health & Science University).
Herbert Gleiter (Institute of Nanotechnology, Germany) was elected a Fellow of the Core Ƶ.
Thelma Golden (The Studio Museum in Harlem) was awarded the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize.
Claudia Goldin (Harvard University) was awarded the 2023 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Ananda Goldrath (Allen Institute for Immunology) is the recipient of the 2023 Frederick W. Alt Award for New Discoveries in Immunology, given by the Cancer Research Institute.
Robert Gooding-Williams (Columbia University) was awarded the Wilbur Cross Medal by the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Alumni Association.
Jeffrey Gordon (Washington University in St. Louis) received the 2023 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research. Dr. Gordon shares the award with Bonnie L. Bassler (Princeton University) and E. Peter Greenberg (University of Washington).
Jeffrey Gordon (Washington University in St. Louis) was awarded the 2023 Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research. Dr. Gordon shares the prize with Bonnie L. Bassler (Princeton University) and Dennis L. Kasper (Havard Medical School; Brigham and Women’s Hospital).
E. Peter Greenberg (University of Washington) received the 2023 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research. Dr. Greenberg shares the award with Bonnie L. Bassler (Princeton University) and Jeffrey Gordon (Washington University in St. Louis).
Naomi Halas (Rice University) was awarded the 2024 Mildred Dresselhaus Prize for Nanoscience/Nanomaterials by the American Physical Society.
Mellody Hobson (Ariel Investments) received the 2023 ELC Achievement Award from the Executive Leadership Council.
Peter Hotez (Baylor College of Medicine) was awarded the 2023 Anthony Cerami Award in Translational Medicine. Dr. Hotez was also awarded the inaugural Infectious Diseases Society of America Anthony Fauci Courage in Leadership Award.
Vincent Hutchings (University of Michigan) received the 2023 Hanes Walton, Jr. Career Award from the American Political Science Association.
Major Jackson (Vanderbilt University) was awarded a 2023 Ƶ of American Poets Fellowship.
Lily Jan (University of California, San Francisco) received the 2023 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize. Dr. Jan shares the award with Eve Marder (Brandeis University).
Peter A. Jones (Van Andel Institute) received an Outstanding Investigator Award from the National Cancer Institute.
William Jorgensen (Yale University) is the recipient of the American Chemical Society’s 2024 Arthur C. Cope Award.
Katalin Karikó (Szeged University; University of Pennsylvania) was awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Dr. Karikó shares the prize with Drew Weissman (University of Pennsylvania).
Shana Kelley (Northwestern University) was named a 2023 Fellow of the National Ƶ of Inventors.
Marta Kutas (University of California, San Diego) is among the recipients of the 2023 Revelle Medal from the University of California, San Diego.
Eve Marder (Brandeis University) received the 2023 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize. Dr. Marder shares the award with Lily Jan (University of California, San Francisco).
Ann Masten (University of Minnesota) is the recipient of the 2024 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Psychology.
Scott Miller (Yale University) received the 2022 Ira Remsen Award of the American Chemical Society.
Tirin Moore (Stanford University) is the recipient of the Andrew Carnegie Prize in Mind and Brain Sciences.
Eric J. Nestler (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai) is the 2023 recipient of the Peter Seeburg Integrative Neuroscience Prize, awarded by the Society for Neuroscience and the Schaller-Nikolich Foundation.
Christos Papadimitriou (Columbia University) was awarded the John von Neumann Theory Prize. Dr. Papadimitriou shares the award with Mihalis Yannakakis (Columbia University).
Richard H. Pildes (New York University School of Law) received the John Hart Ely Prize in the Law of Democracy from the Association of American Law Schools.
Theodore M. Porter (University of California, Los Angeles) was awarded the 2023 Sarton Medal by the History of Science Society.
Marcia Rieke (University of Arizona) was awarded the Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
Sebastião Salgado (Amazonas Images) received the Sony World Photography Awards Outstanding Contribution to Photography.
J. Marshall Shepherd (University of Georgia) is the recipient of the 2023 Environmental Achievement Award, presented by the Environmental Law Institute.
Ruth J. Simmons (Harvard University) was named the 2023 Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Theda Skocpol (Harvard University) received the 2023 James Madison Award from the American Political Science Association.
Larry Smarr (University of California, San Diego) is among the recipients of the 2023 Revelle Medal from the University of California, San Diego.
Robert Socolow (Princeton University) received the 2023 John Scott Award. Professor Socolow shares the award with Michael E. Mann (University of Pennsylvania).
Deepak Srivastava (Gladstone Institutes) received the American Heart Association’s Distinguished Scientist Award.
Bruce Stillman (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) received the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology’s Earl and Thressa Stadtman Distinguished Scientist Award.
Ashvin Vishwanath (Harvard University) received the 2024 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize from the American Physical Society.
Kay WalkingStick (Cornell University) received the Benjamin West Clinedinst Memorial Medal, awarded by The Artists’ Fellowship, Inc.; the Pratt Institute 2023 Legend Award; and the New York Historical Society History Makers Award.
Paul Weiss (University of California, Los Angeles) was named a 2023 Fellow of the National Ƶ of Inventors.
Drew Weissman (University of Pennsylvania) was awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Dr. Weissman shares the prize with Katalin Karikó (Szeged University; University of Pennsylvania).
Nieng Yan (Tsinghua University) was elected a member of the Chinese Ƶ of Sciences.
Mihalis Yannakakis (Columbia University) was awarded the John von Neumann Theory Prize. Dr. Yannakakis shares the award with Christos Papadimitriou (Columbia University).
Phillip D. Zamore (University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School) was elected a member of both the National Ƶ of Sciences and the National Ƶ of Medicine.
New Appointments
Danielle Allen (Harvard University) was appointed a member of the Board of the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education.
Jelani Cobb (Columbia Journalism School) was appointed to the Board of Directors of the American Journalism Project.
Deborah Cohen (Northwestern University) was named Interim Executive Director of the Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs at Northwestern University.
Joan Conaway (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center) was named President-Elect of the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Michele Dougherty (Imperial College London) was elected President of the Institute of Physics.
Helene D. Gayle (Spelman College) was appointed a member of the President’s Advisory Council on African Diaspora Engagement in the United States.
Risa Goluboff (University of Virginia School of Law) was named Chair of the Advisory Board of the UVA Karsh Institute of Democracy.
Kay Bailey Hutchison (Dallas, Texas) was appointed to the External Advisory Board of the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study at Texas A&M University.
David Henry Hwang (Columbia University) joined the Board of Directors of the Dramatists Guild Foundation.
C. Kirabo Jackson (Northwestern University) was appointed a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers.
Sheila Johnson (Salamander Collection) was elected to the PBS Foundation Board of Directors.
Dina Katabi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was appointed to the Board of Directors of Cyclerion Therapeutics.
Paula A. Kerger (Public Broadcasting Service) was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Dana Foundation.
Larry Kramer (William and Flora Hewlett Foundation) was appointed President and Vice Chancellor of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Jacob J. Lew (Lindsay Goldberg LLC) was confirmed as U.S. Ambassador to Israel.
Nadya Mason (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) was appointed Dean of the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago.
Alondra Nelson (Institute for Advanced Study) was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Mozilla Foundation. Dr. Nelson was also elected to the Board of Directors of the Innocence Project.
Angela Olinto (University of Chicago) was named Provost of Columbia University.
Penny Pritzker (PSP Capital Partners) was appointed Special Representative for Ukraine’s Economic Recovery.
John Quelch (University of Miami) was named Executive Vice Chancellor of Duke Kunshan University in China.
W. Kimryn Rathmell (Vanderbilt University School of Medicine) was appointed Director of the National Cancer Institute.
Donna E. Shalala (University of Miami) was named Interim President of The New School.
Margaret Sullivan (Duke University) was named Executive Director of the Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security at Columbia Journalism School.
Kevin Young (Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture) was appointed a member of the President’s Advisory Council on African Diaspora Engagement in the United States.
Daniel Ziblatt (Harvard University) was named Director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University.
Select Publications
Poetry
Jane Hirshfield (Mill Valley, California). The Asking: New and Selected Poems. Knopf, September 2023
Major Jackson (Vanderbilt University). Razzle Dazzle: New and Selected Poems, 2002–2022. W. W. Norton & Company, September 2023
Fiction
Roz Chast (The New Yorker). I Must Be Dreaming. Bloomsbury Publishing, October 2023
Teju Cole (Harvard University). Tremor. Random House, October 2023
Michael Cunningham (Yale University). Day: A Novel. Random House, November 2023
Sigrid Nunez (New York, New York). The Vulnerables. Riverhead, November 2023
Zadie Smith (London, United Kingdom). The Fraud. Penguin Press, September 2023
James Stavridis (The Carlyle Group; U.S. Navy, ret.) and Elliot Ackerman (formerly, U.S. Marine Corps). 2054. Penguin Press, March 2024
Paul Theroux (East Sandwich, Massachusetts). Burma Sahib: A Novel. Mariner Books, February 2024
Nonfiction
Robert Alter (University of California, Berkeley). Amos Oz: Writer, Activist, Icon. Yale University Press, September 2023
Elizabeth Anderson (University of Michigan). Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic Against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back. Cambridge University Press, September 2023
Edward L. Ayers (University of Richmond). American Visions: The United States, 1800–1860. W. W. Norton & Company, October 2023
Victor Brombert (Princeton University). The Pensive Citadel. University of Chicago Press, October 2023
Lorraine Daston (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science). Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate. Columbia Global Reports, October 2023
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University). Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa. Harvard University Press, December 2023
Temple Grandin (Colorado State University). Different Kinds of Minds: A Guide to Your Brain. Philomel Books, November 2023
Walter Isaacson (Tulane University). Elon Musk. Simon & Schuster, September 2023
Katalin Karikó (University of Pennsylvania). Breaking Through: My Life in Science. Crown Publishing Group, October 2023
Linda Katehi (University of California, Davis). Higher Ground: My American Dreams and Nightmares in the Hidden Halls of Academia. Amplify Publishing, August 2023
Michèle Lamont (Harvard University). Seeing Others: How Recognition Works—and How It Can Heal a Divided World. Atria/One Signal Publishers, September 2023
Jill Lepore (Harvard University). The Deadline: Essays. Liveright, August 2023
Michael Lewis (Berkeley, California). Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon. W. W. Norton & Company, October 2023
Fei-Fei Li (Stanford University). The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI. Flatiron Books, November 2023
Michael Mann (University of California, Los Angeles). On Wars. Yale University Press, August 2023
Carl Nathan (Weill Cornell Medicine). An Arrow’s Arc: Journey of a Physician-Scientist. Paul Dry Books, February 2024
Viet Thanh Nguyen (University of Southern California). A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial. Grove Press, October 2023
Heather Cox Richardson (Boston College). Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America. Viking Press, September 2023
Lynne Sharon Schwartz (New York, New York). My Life at the Wheel. Delphinium Press, January 2024
Laurence Senelick (Tufts University). The Crooked Mirror: Plays from a Modernist Russian Cabaret. Northwestern University Press, August 2023
Rajiv Shah (Rockefeller Foundation). Big Bets: How Large-Scale Change Really Happens. Simon Element, October 2023
Ruth J. Simmons (Harvard University). Up Home: One Girl’s Journey. Random House, September 2023
Cass R. Sunstein (Harvard Law School) and Tali Sharot (University College London). Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There. Atria/One Signal Publishers, February 2024
Kip Thorne (California Institute of Technology). The Warped Side of Our Universe: An Odyssey Through Black Holes, Wormholes, Time Travel, and Gravitational Waves. Liveright, October 2023
Judith Tick (Northeastern University). Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song. W. W. Norton & Company, December 2023
Calvin Trillin (The New Yorker). The Lede: Dispatches from a Life in the Press. Random House, February 2024
Neil deGrasse Tyson (American Museum of Natural History) and Lindsey Nyx Walker (StarTalk). To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery. National Geographic, September 2023
J. Craig Venter (J. Craig Venter Institute) and David Ewing Duncan (University of California, Berkeley). The Voyage of Sorcerer II: The Expedition that Unlocked the Secrets of the Ocean’s Microbiome. Belknap Press, September 2023
Oprah Winfrey (Harpo, Inc.) and Arthur C. Brooks (Harvard Kennedy School). Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier. Portfolio, September 2023
Albums and Exhibitions
Chandrika Tandon (Tandon Capital Associates). Ammu’s Treasures. Soul Chants Music, September 2023
Kay WalkingStick (Cornell University). “Kay WalkingStick/Hudson River School” at the New York Historical Society, through April 7, 2024
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.