Select Prizes and Awards to Members
Richard Alley (Pennsylvania State University) was awarded the 2017 Wollaston Medal by the Geological Society of London.
James P. Allison (University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center) was awarded the inaugural Sjöberg Prize for Cancer Research. He shares the award with Tony Hunter (Salk Institute for Biological Studies).
Margaret Atwood (Toronto, Canada) received the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award.
Eric Becklin (University of California, Los Angeles) is the recipient of the 2017 Henry Norris Russell Lectureship Award, given by the American Astronomical Society.
Tim Berners-Lee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) received the Association for Computing Machinery A.M. Turing Award.
Mark A. Cane (Columbia University) was awarded the 2017 Vetlesen Prize for achievement in earth sciences. He shares the award with S. George Philander (Princeton University).
Tobias Colding (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was named a 2017 Simons Fellow in Mathematics.
Jennifer Doudna (University of California, Berkeley) was awarded the 2017 Japan Prize by the Japan Prize Foundation. She shares the award with Emmanuelle Charpentier (Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin).
Catherine Dulac (Harvard University) is the recipient of the 2017 Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience, awarded by the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT.
Cynthia Dwork (Harvard University; Microsoft Research) was awarded the 2017 Gödel Prize. She shares the award with Frank McSherry (San Francisco, California), Kobbi Nissim (Ben-Gurion University), and Adam Smith (Pennsylvania State University).
Marian Wright Edelman (Children’s Defense Fund) has been awarded the 2017 Inamori Ethics Prize.
Louise Erdrich (Minneapolis, Minnesota) is the recipient of a National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.
Charles Fefferman (Princeton University) has been awarded a 2017 Wolf Prize in Mathematics. He shares this prize with Richard Schoen (University of California, Irvine).
Nancy Foner (Hunter College, City University of New York) was awarded a 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Joachim Frank (Columbia University) was awarded a 2017 Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences. He shares the award with Richard Henderson (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology) and Marin van Heel (Institute of Biology Leiden).
Elaine Fuchs (Rockefeller University) is the recipient of the 2017 McEwen Award for Innovation, given by the International Society for Stem Cell Research.
Temple Grandin (Colorado State University) has been named to the National Women’s Hall of Fame.
Geoffrey Hinton (University of Toronto) received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Information and Communication Technologies.
Tony Hunter (Salk Institute for Biological Studies) was awarded the inaugural Sjöberg Prize for Cancer Research. He shares the award with James P. Allison (University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center).
Lily Jan (University of California, San Francisco) and Yuh-Nung Jan (University of California, San Francisco) have received the 2017 Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science.
Jennifer A. Lewis (Harvard University) has been elected to the National Ƶ of Engineering.
John Lithgow (Los Angeles, California) was awarded a 2017 Harvard Arts Medal. He also received a Screen Actors Guild Award for “The Crown.”
Jane Lubchenco (Oregon State University) was awarded the 2017 Public Welfare Medal by the National Ƶ of Sciences.
Ulrike Malmendier (University of California, Berkeley) was awarded a 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Hazel Markus (Stanford University) was named a 2017 William James Fellow by the Association for Psychological Science.
Yves Meyer (L’École Normale Supérieure de Cachan) was awarded a 2017 Abel Prize.
Tomasz Mrowka (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was named a 2017 Simons Fellow in Mathematics.
Indra Nooyi (PepsiCo) was awarded a 2017 Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
Lynn Nottage (Columbia University) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
S. George Philander (Princeton University) was awarded the 2017 Vetlesen Prize for achievement in earth sciences. He shares the award with Mark A. Cane (Columbia University).
E. Ward Plummer (Louisiana State University) received the Award for International Scientific Cooperation from the Chinese Ƶ of Sciences.
Barry Posen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is the recipient of the International Studies Association’s International Security Studies Section 2017 Distinguished Scholar Award.
Lisa Randall (Harvard University) was named a 2017 Simons Fellow in Theoretical Physics.
Jeffrey V. Ravetch (Rockefeller University) is the recipient of the 2017 Ross Prize in Molecular Medicine, given by the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research.
Scott D. Sagan (Stanford University) received the Susan Strange Award from the International Studies Association.
Richard Schoen (University of California, Irvine) has been awarded a 2017 Wolf Prize in Mathematics. He shares this prize with Charles Fefferman (Princeton University).
Stephen Sondheim (New York, New York) has been awarded the 2017 PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award.
Gigliola Staffilani (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was named a 2017 Simons Fellow in Mathematics and awarded a 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Eva Tardos (Cornell University) is the 2017 recipient of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science Award.
Alice Waters (Chez Panisse) was awarded a Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Citizen Leadership.
William Julius Wilson (Harvard University) is the 2017 recipient of the SAGE-CASBS Award.
Maciej Zworski (University of California, Berkeley) was named a 2017 Simons Fellow in Mathematics.
New Appointments
Pedro Almodóvar (El Deseo Production Company) has been named president of the Cannes Film Festival Jury.
Mary Beckerle (University of Utah) has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Johnson & Johnson.
Carolyn Bertozzi (Stanford University) has been elected to the Board of Directors of Eli Lilly and Company.
Herbert Boyer (University of California, San Francisco) has been appointed to the Board of the Scripps Research Institute.
Russel Caflisch (University of California, Los Angeles) has been named director of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University.
Ashton Carter (Harvard Kennedy School) has been named director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School.
Gerald Chan (The Morningside Group) has been appointed to the Board of the Scripps Research Institute.
Chi Van Dang (University of Pennsylvania) was appointed scientific director of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research.
Ernest J. Moniz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has been named chief executive officer and co-chairman of the Board of Directors of the Nuclear Threat Initiative.
Penny Pritzker (PSP Capital Partners) has been named to the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Stanley B. Prusiner (University of California, San Francisco) has been appointed Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of Alzheon, Inc.
Anjana Rao (La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology) has been named to the Scientific Advisory Board of Cambridge Epigenetix.
David St. John (University of Southern California) has been named a Chancellor of the Ƶ of American Poets.
Christopher T. Walsh (Harvard Medical School) has been appointed to the Board of the Scripps Research Institute.
Kevin Young (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture) has been named poetry editor of The New Yorker.
Select Publications
Poetry
Jorie Graham (Harvard University). Fast: Poems. Ecco, May 2017
Susan Stewart (Princeton University). Cinder: New and Selected Poems. Graywolf Press, February 2017
Fiction
Margaret Atwood (Toronto, Canada). A Trio of Tolerable Tales. Groundwood Books, March 2017
Paul Theroux (East Sandwich, Massachusetts). Mother Land. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, May 2017
Colm Tóibín (Columbia University). House of Names. Scribner, May 2017
Nonfiction
Alan Alda (New York, New York). If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face? My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating. Random House, June 2017
Peter Brooks (Princeton University). Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris: The Story of a Friendship, a Novel, and a Terrible Year. Basic Books, April 2017
Joan Didion (New York, New York). South and West: From a Notebook. Knopf, March 2017
Jennifer A. Doudna (University of California, Berkeley) and Samuel H. Sternberg (Caribou Biosciences). A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, June 2017
Eric Foner (Columbia University). Battles for Freedom: The Use and Abuse of American History. I.B. Tauris, April 2017
William V. Harris (Columbia University). Roman Power: A Thousand Years of Empire. Cambridge University Press, August 2016
Gish Jen (Cambridge, Massachusetts). The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap. Knopf, March 2017
Charles Larmore (Brown University). Das Selbst in seinem Verhältnis zu sich und zu anderen. Klostermann Verlag, March 2017
Ira M. Millstein (Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP). The Activist Director: Lessons from the Boardroom and the Future of the Corporation. Columbia University Press, January 2017
Condoleezza Rice (Stanford University). Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom. Twelve, May 2017
James Stavridis (Tufts University). Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of the World’s Oceans. Penguin Press, June 2017
Geoffrey R. Stone (University of Chicago). Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion, and Law from America’s Origins to the Twenty-First Century. Liveright, March 2017
Calvin Trillin (The New Yorker). Killings. Random House, April 2017
James Wright (Dartmouth College). Enduring Vietnam: An American Generation and Its War. Thomas Dunne Books, April 2017
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