Select Prizes and Awards to Members
Elizabeth Alexander (Andrew W. Mellon Foundation) was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Paul Alivisatos (University of California, Berkeley; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) was awarded the 2021 Priestley Medal, given by the American Chemical Society.
Danielle Allen (Harvard University) was awarded the 2020 John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity.
Marin Alsop (Baltimore Symphony Orchestra) was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Jeanne Altmann (Princeton University) was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Mahzarin Banaji (Harvard University) was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Alexander Beilinson (University of Chicago) was awarded the 2020 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences. He shares the award with David Kazhdan (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).
Mina J. Bissell (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) is the recipient of a 2020 Canada Gairdner International Award.
Roger D. Blandford (Stanford University) was awarded the 2020 Shaw Prize in Astronomy.
Caroline Bruzelius (Duke University) was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Louise H. Bryson (J. Paul Getty Trust) was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Lonnie Bunch III (National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution) was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Joyce Chaplin (Harvard University) was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Cathy J. Cohen (University of Chicago) was named a 2020 Andrew Carnegie Fellow.
Francis Collins (National Institutes of Health) was awarded the 2020 Templeton Prize.
Jennifer Doudna (University of California, Berkeley) was named a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow.
James R. Downing (St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital) is the recipient of the inaugural AACR-St. Baldrick’s Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement in Pediatric Cancer Research.
Cynthia Dwork (Harvard University) was awarded the 2020 Knuth Prize.
Scott Vernon Edwards (Harvard University) was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Hal Foster (Princeton University) received the Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities, given by Princeton University.
Elaine Fuchs (Rockefeller University) is the recipient of a 2020 Canada Gairdner International Award.
Catherine Gallagher (University of California, Berkeley) was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
David Ginsburg (University of Michigan) was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Andrea Goldsmith (Stanford University) was awarded the 2020 Marconi Prize.
Robert Gooding-Williams (Columbia University) was named a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow.
Corey Goodman (venBio) was awarded the 2020 Gruber Neuroscience Prize. He shares the prize with Marc Tessier-Lavigne (Stanford University) and Friedrich Bonhoeffer (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology).
Alison Gopnik (University of California, Berkeley) was named a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow.
Greg Grandin (Yale University) was awarded the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction for The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America.
Jonathan Gruber (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was named a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow.
Anna Grzymala-Busse (Stanford University) was named a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow.
Jacob S. Hacker (Yale University) received the 2020 Robert M. Ball Award for Outstanding Achievements in Social Insurance.
Carla Hayden (Library of Congress) was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Martha P. Haynes (Cornell University) was awarded the 2020 Karl G. Jansky Lectureship by Associated Universities, Inc. and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.
Susan Hubbard (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) was elected to the National Ƶ of Engineering.
David Julius (University of California, San Francisco) was awarded the 2020 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience. He shares the prize with Ardem Patapoutian (Scripps Research Institute).
Carl H. June (University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine) was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Peter J. Katzenstein (Cornell University) was awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science.
David Kazhdan (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) was awarded the 2020 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences. He shares the award with Alexander Beilinson (University of Chicago).
Daphne Koller (Stanford University; Insitro) is the recipient of the ACM–AAAI Allen Newell Award. She shares the prize with Lydia E. Kavraki (Rice University).
Goodwin Liu (California Supreme Court) was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
E.W. “Bert” Meijer (Eindhoven University of Technology) was honored as Commander in the Order of the Netherlands Lion by the King of the Netherlands.
Danesh Moazed (Harvard Medical School) received a UC Santa Cruz Distinguished Graduate Student Alumni Award.
Ernest J. Moniz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Energy Futures Initiative; Nuclear Threat Initiative) was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
James M. Moran (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory; Harvard University) was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Sidney Nagel (University of Chicago) was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Alondra Nelson (Social Science Research Council; Institute for Advanced Study) was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Sigrid Nunez (New York, NY) was named a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow.
Roeland Nusse (Stanford University) is the recipient of a 2020 Canada Gairdner International Award.
Teri Odom (Northwestern University) was awarded the 2020 Centenary Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Monica Olvera de la Cruz (Northwestern University) was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
David W. Oxtoby (American Ƶ of Arts and Sciences) was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Ardem Patapoutian (Scripps Research Institute) was awarded the 2020 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience. He shares the prize with David Julius (University of California, San Francisco).
Nathaniel Persily (Stanford Law School) was named a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow.
Jennifer Anne Richeson (Yale University) was named a 2020 Andrew Carnegie Fellow.
James C. Scott (Yale University) is the recipient of the 2020 Albert O. Hirschman Prize, given by the Social Science Research Council. He was also elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Amita Sehgal (University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine) was awarded the 2020 Switzer Prize.
Sonia Sotomayor (Supreme Court of the United States) was named the 2020 recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law.
Bruce Stillman (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) was awarded the Dr. H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics, given by the Royal Netherlands Ƶ of Arts and Sciences.
Andrew Strominger (Harvard University) was named a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow.
Masatoshi Takeichi (RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research) is the recipient of a 2020 Canada Gairdner International Award.
Eva Tardos (Cornell University) was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Alan Taylor (University of Virginia) was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Marc Tessier-Lavigne (Stanford University) was awarded the 2020 Gruber Neuroscience Prize. He shares the prize with Friedrich Bonhoeffer (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology) and Corey Goodman (venBio).
Tatiana Toro (University of Washington) was awarded the 2020 Blackwell-Tapia Prize, given by the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute.
David Tracy (University of Chicago Divinity School) was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Ewine van Dishoeck (Leiden Observatory, University of Leiden) was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Wang Gungwu (National University of Singapore) was awarded the 2020 Tang Prize in Sinology.
André Watts (Indiana University) was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
David Wellbery (University of Chicago) was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
New Appointments
Marc Benioff (Salesforce) was named to President Trump’s Great American Economic Revival Industry Group.
Jeffrey Bezos (Amazon) was named to President Trump’s Great American Economic Revival Industry Group.
France Córdova (formerly, National Science Foundation) was named Senior Science Advisor for the Science Philanthropy Alliance.
Scott Cowen (Tulane University) was appointed Interim President of Case Western Reserve University.
Michael V. Drake (Ohio State University) was named President of the University of California system.
Drew Faust (Harvard University) was elected a member of the MIT Corporation.
Kenneth Frazier (Merck & Company) was named to President Trump’s Great American Economic Revival Industry Group.
Jacob Frenkel (Group of Thirty) was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics Inc.
Andrea Goldsmith (Stanford University) was appointed Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University.
Marillyn Hewson (Lockheed Martin Corporation) was named to President Trump’s Great American Economic Revival Industry Group.
Abigail Johnson (Fidelity Investments) was named to President Trump’s Great American Economic Revival Industry Group.
E. Patrick Johnson (Northwestern University) was named Dean of the School of Communication at Northwestern University.
Carl June (University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine) was appointed Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of Ziopharm Oncology, Inc.
Pamela Karlan (Stanford Law School) was named to the Oversight Board of Facebook.
Robert Kraft (The Kraft Group) was named to President Trump’s Great American Economic Revival Industry Group.
Renu Malhotra (University of Arizona) was elected Chair of the Council of Institutions of the Universities Space Research Association.
Mitchell McConnell (Stanford Law School) was named Cochair of the Oversight Board of Facebook.
Pedro Noguera (University of California, Los Angeles) was named Dean of the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California.
Indra Nooyi (PreeTara LLC) was elected a member of the MIT Corporation.
Gilbert S. Omenn (University of Michigan) was named to the Board of Directors of Angion Biomedica Corp.
Condoleezza Rice (Hoover Institution, Stanford University) was named Director of the Hoover Institution. She was also named to President Trump’s Great American Economic Revival Industry Group.
Charles Robbins (Cisco Systems) was named to President Trump’s Great American Economic Revival Industry Group.
Gene Robinson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) was appointed Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Donna Shalala (U.S. House of Representatives) was appointed to the Congressional Oversight Commission of the CARES Act.
Jerry Speyer (Tishman Speyer) was named to President Trump’s Great American Economic Revival Industry Group.
Darren Walker (Ford Foundation) was appointed to the Board of Directors of Square, Inc.
David R. Williams (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Teresa K. Woodruff (Northwestern University) was named Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs of Michigan State University.
Mark S. Wrighton (Washington University in St. Louis) was elected a member of the MIT Corporation.
Select Publications
Poetry
Susan Howe (Guilford, CT). Concordance. New Directions, May 2020
Fiction
Sigrid Nunez (New York, NY). What Are You Going Through. Riverhead Books, September 2020
Nonfiction
Peter Brooks (Yale University). Balzac’s Lives. New York Review Books, September 2020
Nancy F. Cott (Harvard University). Fighting Words: The Bold American Journalists Who Brought the World Home Between the Wars. Basic Books, March 2020
Victoria de Grazia (Columbia University). The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini’s Italy. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, August 2020
Robert M. Gates (College of William & Mary). Exercise of Power: American Failures, Successes, and a New Path Forward in the Post–Cold War World. Knopf, June 2020
F.M. Kamm (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey). Almost Over: Aging, Dying, Dead. Oxford University Press, May 2020
Charles Larmore (Brown University). What is Political Philosophy? Princeton University Press, May 2020
Jill Lepore (Harvard University; The New Yorker). If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future. Liveright, September 2020
Daniel Mendelsohn (New York Review of Books). Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate. University of Virginia Press, August 2020
Suzanne Mettler (Cornell University) and Robert C. Lieberman (Johns Hopkins University). Four Threats: The Recurring Crises of American Democracy. St. Martin’s Press, August 2020
Eric A. Posner (University of Chicago Law School). The Demagogue’s Playbook: The Battle for American Democracy from the Founders to Trump. All Points Books, June 2020
Robert D. Putnam (Harvard University) and Shaylyn Romney (New York Times). The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again. Simon & Schuster, October 2020
Robert I. Rotberg (World Peace Foundation; Harvard Kennedy School). Anticorruption. MIT Press, July 2020
Michael J. Sandel (Harvard University). The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 2020
Scott Russell Sanders (Indiana University). The Way of Imagination: Essays. Counterpoint, August 2020
David Simpson (University of California, Davis). States of Terror: History, Theory, Literature. University of Chicago Press, March 2019
Debora L. Spar (Harvard Business School). Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 2020
Cass R. Sunstein (Harvard Law School). Too Much Information: Understanding What You Don’t Want to Know. MIT Press, September 2020
Clifford M. Will (University of Florida) and Nicoláa Yunes (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). Is Einstein Still Right? Black Holes, Gravitational Waves, and the Quest to Verify Einstein’s Greatest Creation. Oxford University Press, October 2020
Edward O. Wilson (Harvard University). Tales from the Ant World. Liveright, August 2020
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