As of press time, several Fellows of the Ƶ, listed below, had been nominated or appointed to key positions in the Obama administration:
Akhil Amar (Yale University) was nominated as a member of the Na-tional Council on the Humanities.
Elizabeth H. Blackburn (University of California, San Francisco) was appointed a member of the President’s Committee on the Na-tional Medal of Science.
Edward Felten (Princeton University) was named Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Timothy J. Ley (Washington University School of Medicine) was appointed to the National Cancer Advisory Board.
Rebecca Richards-Kortum (Rice University) was appointed a member of the President’s Committee on the National Medal of Science.
Andrew Viterbi (The Viterbi Group) was appointed a member of the President’s Committee on the National Medal of Science.
Select Prizes and Awards to Members
El Anatsui (Nsukka, Nigeria) received the Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement, awarded by the Venice Biennale.
Bonnie Bassler (Princeton University) received the 2015 Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine. She shares the prize with E. Peter Greenberg (University of Washington).
Adelaide Cromwell (Boston University) received a 2015 Massachusetts Historical Commission Historic Preservation Award.
Mahlon DeLong (Emory University School of Medicine) is the recipient of the 2015 Taubman Prize for Excellence in Translational Medical Science.
Harold Demsetz (University of California, Los Angeles) received the Elinor Ostrom Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society of New Institutional Economics.
Michael Gellert (Windcrest Partners) received a 2015 Harvard Medal from the Harvard Alumni Association.
E. Peter Greenberg (University of Washington) received the 2015 Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine. He shares the prize with Bonnie Bassler (Princeton University).
Stephen C. Harrison (Harvard Medical School) received the 2015 Welch Award in Chemistry from the Welch Foundation.
Henryk Iwaniec (Rutgers University) received the 2015 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences. He shares the prize with Gerd Faltings (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Germany).
Tyler Jacks (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) received the James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award from MIT.
Daniel Kahneman (Princeton University) and Anne Treisman (Princeton University) were honored with a gift to Princeton University to establish the Kahneman and Treisman Center for Behavioral Science and Public Policy at Princeton.
Hiroo Kanamori (California Institute of Technology) is the recipient of the Marcus Milling Legendary Geoscientist Medal, given by the American Geosciences Institute.
Thomas W. Lentz Jr. (Harvard University) received a 2015 Harvard Medal from the Harvard Alumni Association.
Douglas N.C. Lin (University of California, Santa Cruz) is the 2015 recipient of the Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal, given by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
Robert L. Nussbaum (University of California, San Francisco) received the 2015 Award for Excellence in Human Genetics Education. He shares the award with Huntington Willard (Marine Biological Laboratory) and Roderick R. McInnes (McGill University).
Roberta Cooper Ramo (Modrall Sperling) received the inaugural Award for Professional Excellence from the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession. She also received the ABA Medal from the American Bar Association.
Robert D. Reischauer (Urban Institute) received a 2015 Harvard Medal from the Harvard Alumni Association.
Mark J. Roe (Harvard Law School) received the 2015 Allen & Overy Working Paper Prize from the European Corporate Governance Institute.
Helmut Schwarz (Technische Universität Berlin; Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) received the ENI Foundation Award for 2015 for New Frontiers of Hydrocarbon Research.
Laurence Senelick (Tufts University) has been named a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.
Diana Wall (Colorado State University) has been awarded the U-lysses Medal from the University College of Dublin.
Christopher Wheeldon (London, United Kingdom) received the 2015 Tony Award for Best Choreography for An American in Paris.
Huntington Willard (Marine Biological Laboratory) received the 2015 Award for Excellence in Human Genetics Education. He shares the award with Robert L. Nussbaum (University of California, San Francisco) and Roderick R. McInnes (McGill University).
Chi-huey Wong (Scripps Research Institute; Academia Sinica) is the recipient of the 2015 Robert Robinson Award for Contributions to the Advancement of Organic Chemistry, given by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
New Appointments
Mary Beckerle (University of Utah) has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Johnson & Johnson.
William J. Burns (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) has been appointed Senior Advisor to Blackstone.
Jonathan Epstein (University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine) has been named Executive Vice Dean and Chief Scientific Officer for Penn Medicine.
Paula T. Hammond (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has been named the head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Charles O. Holliday, Jr. (Bank of America) has been appointed Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell plc.
Talmadge E. King, Jr. (University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine) has been appointed Dean of the School of Medicine and Vice Chancellor for Medical Affairs at the University of California, San Francisco.
Robert Kirshner (The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation) has been named Chief Program Officer for Science at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Reynold Levy (Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts) has been elected to the Board of Directors of the National Book Foundation.
Jane McAuliffe (Library of Congress) has been named Director of National and International Outreach at the Library of Congress.
Maurice Obstfeld (University of California, Berkeley) has been appointed as the economic counselor and director of the International Monetary Fund’s Research Department.
Ariel Pakes (Harvard University) has been appointed Senior Advisor to Cornerstone Research.
Henri Termeer (Genzyme) has been named a key advisor to Sarepta Therapeutics Inc.
Luis A. Ubiñas (New York, New York) has been appointed President of the Board of Trustees of the Pan American Development Foundation.
Select Publications
Poetry
John Ashbery (Bard College). Breezeway. Ecco, May 2015
Nonfiction
Peter Ackroyd (London, United Kingdom). Wilkie Collins: A Brief Life. Doubleday/Talese, October 2015
George A. Akerlof (Georgetown University) and Robert J. Shiller (Yale University). Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception. Princeton University Press, September 2015
Guido Calabresi (United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit). The Future of Law and Economics: Essays in Reform and Recollection. Yale University Press, January 2016
Jonathan Culler (Cornell University). Theory of the Lyric. Harvard University Press, June 2015
Leo Damrosch (Harvard University). Eternity’s Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake. Yale University Press, October 2015
Stanley Fish (Florida International University). Think Again: Contrarian Reflections on Life, Culture, Politics, Religion, Law, and Education. Princeton University Press, November 2015
Sheila Fitzpatrick (University of Sydney). On Stalin’s Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics. Princeton University Press, October 2015
Nancy Foner (City University of New York, Hunter College and The Graduate Center) and Richard Alba (City University of New York, The Graduate Center). Strangers No More: Immigration and the Challenges of Integration in North America and Western Europe. Princeton University Press, May 2015
Harry G. Frankfurt (Princeton University). On Inequality. Princeton University Press, October 2015
Robert J. Gordon (Northwestern University). The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War. Princeton University Press, January 2016
Jürgen Kocka (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin). Capitalism: A Short History. Princeton University Press, October 2015
Thomas W. Laqueur (University of California, Berkeley). The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains. Princeton University Press, October 2015
Joseph LeDoux (New York University). Anxious: Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety. Viking, July 2015
Neil Levine (Harvard University). The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright. Princeton University Press, November 2015
Sanford Levinson (University of Texas at Austin). An Argument Open to All: Reading “The Federalist” in the 21st Century. Yale University Press, November 2015
Helen V. Milner (Princeton University) and Dustin Tingley (Harvard University). Sailing the Water’s Edge: The Domestic Politics of American Foreign Policy. Princeton University Press, October 2015
Richard E. Nisbett (University of Michigan). Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 2015
Gordon Orians (University of Washington). Snakes, Sunrises, and Shakespeare: How Evolution Shapes Our Loves and Fears. University of Chicago Press, April 2015
Francine Prose (New York, New York). Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern. Yale University Press, September 2015
Matt Ridley (Newcastle, United Kingdom). The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge. Harper, November 2015
Robert J. Shiller (Yale University) and George A. Akerlof (Georgetown University). Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception. Princeton University Press, September 2015
Frank Wilczek (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design. Penguin Press, July 2015
Robert Wuthnow (Princeton University). In the Blood: Understanding America’s Farm Families. Princeton University Press, September 2015
Ruth Bernard Yeazell (Yale University). Picture Titles: How and Why Western Paintings Acquired Their Names. Princeton University Press, October 2015
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