Faculty Honors 2012

Memberships and Fellowships

Faculty honors awarded from January 2011 to July 2012

American Academy of Arts and Letters

Elizabeth Diller, professor of
architecture (2012)

American Academy of Arts
and Sciences

Roland Benabou, the Theodore A.
Wells ’29 Professor of Economics
and Public Affairs (2011)

John Burgess, the John N. Woodhull
Professor of Philosophy (2012)

Stanley Corngold, professor of German
and comparative literature emeritus
(2011)

Edward Felten, professor of computer
science and public affairs (2011)

Carol Greenhouse, the Arthur W.
Marks ’19 Professor of Anthropology
(2012)

Igor Klebanov, the Eugene Higgins
Professor of Physics (2012)

David MacMillan, the James S.
McDonnell Distinguished University
Professor of Chemistry (2012)

William Morgan, the Knox Taylor
Professor of Geology Emeritus (2011)

Athanassios Panagiotopoulos, the Susan
Dod Brown Professor of
Chemical and Biological Engineering (2102)

Thomas Romer, professor of politics
and public affairs (2011)

P. Adams Sitney, professor of visual
arts in the Lewis Center for the Arts (2011)

 

Alejandro Portes, the Howard Harrison
and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of
Sociology (2012)

American Association for the
Advancement of Science

Pablo Debenedetti, the Class of 1950
Professor in Engineering and Applied
Science; vice dean of the School
of Engineering and Applied Science (2011)

Bryan Grenfell, the Kathryn Briger
and Sarah Fenton Professor of Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology and Public Affairs (2011)

William Russel, dean of the Graduate
School and the Arthur W. Marks ’19
Professor of Chemical Engineering (2011)

 

Alexander Smits, the Eugene Higgins
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering (2011)

John Storey, professor of molecular
biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute
for Integrative Genomics (2011)

Ned Wingreen, the Howard A. Prior
Professor in the Life Sciences (2011)

American Philosophical Society

Bonnie Bassler, the Squibb Professor
in Molecular Biology (2012)

Natalie Davis, the Henry Charles Lea
Professor of History Emeritus (2011)

Carol Greenhouse, the Arthur W.
Marks ’19 Professor of Anthropology
(2011)

Paul Krugman, professor of economics
and international affairs (2011)

Brent Shaw, the Andrew Fleming West
Professor in Classics (2012)

Christopher Sims, the John F.
Sherrerd ’52 University Professor of
Economics (2012)

Anne-Marie Slaughter, the Bert G.
Kerstetter ’66 University Professor of
Politics and International Affairs (2011)

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation

Eve Aschheim, lecturer in visual arts
and the Lewis Center for the Arts
(2012)

Michael Gordin, professor of history
(2011)

Laura Landweber, professor of ecology
and evolutionary biology (2012)

Melissa Lane, professor of politics
(2012)

Simon Morrison, professor of music
(2011)

Eldar Shafir, the William Stewart Tod
Professor of Psychology and Public
Affairs (2012)

National Academy of Engineering

Christodoulos Floudas, the Stephen C.
Macaleer ’63 Professor in Engineering
and Applied Science (2011)

Kai Li, the Paul M. Wythes ’55 P86
and Marcia R. Wythes P86 Professor
in Computer Science (2012)

Richard Miles, the Robert Porter
Patterson Professor of Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering (2011)

 

Alexander Smits, the Eugene Higgins
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering (2011)

New York Academy of Medicine

Sara McLanahan, the William S. Tod
Professor of Sociology and Public
Affairs (2012)

American Philosophical Society
Bonnie Bassler, the Squibb Professor
in Molecular Biology (2012)

Natalie Davis, the Henry Charles Lea
Professor of History Emeritus (2011)

Carol Greenhouse, the Arthur W.
Marks ’19 Professor of Anthropology
(2011)

Paul Krugman, professor of economics
and international affairs (2011)

Brent Shaw, the Andrew Fleming West
Professor in Classics (2012)

Christopher Sims, the John F.
Sherrerd ’52 University Professor of
Economics (2012)

Anne-Marie Slaughter, the Bert G.
Kerstetter ’66 University Professor of
Politics and International Affairs (2011)

National Academy of Sciences

William Bialek, the John Archibald
Wheeler/Battelle Professor in
Physics and the Lewis-Sigler Institute
for Integrative Genomics (2012)

Pablo Debenedetti, the Class of 1950
Professor in Engineering and Applied
Science; vice dean of the School of Engineering
and Applied Science (2012)

David Gabai, the Hughes-Rogers
Professor of Mathematics (2011)

John Groves, the Hugh Stott Taylor
Chair of Chemistry (2012)

Sara McLanahan, the William S. Tod
Professor of Sociology and Public
Affairs (2011)

Nai Phuan Ong, the Eugene Higgins
Professor of Physics (2012)

Loren Pfeiffer, senior research scholar,
electrical engineering (2011)

H. Vincent Poor, dean of the School of
Engineering and Applied Science and
the Michael Henry Strater University
Professor of Electrical Engineering
(2011)

Simons Foundation Fellowships

Michael Aizenman, professor of
physics and mathematics (2011)

Steven Gubser, professor of physics
(2011)

Janos Kollar, the Donner Professor of
Science and professor of mathematics
(2011)

Elliot Lieb, the Eugene Higgins
Professor of Physics (2011)

Paul Steinhardt, the Albert Einstein
Professor in Science (2011)

Salvatore Torquato, professor of
chemistry and the Princeton Institute
for the Science and Technology of
Materials (2011)

Society for Industrial and Applied
Mathematics

Philip Holmes, the Eugene Higgins
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering (2011)

Naomi Leonard, the Edwin S. Wilsey
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering (2012)

Robert Vanderbei, professor of
operations research and financial
engineering (2012)

Turing Centenary Research Project

Turing Fellow
Mark Braverman, assistant professor
of computer science (2012)

National Distinctions for
Early-Career Researchers

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research
Fellowship

Gáspár Bakos, assistant professor
of astrophysical sciences (2012)

Sylvain Chassang, professor of
economics and public affairs and Class
of 1934 Preceptor in the Woodrow
Wilson School (2011)

Abigail Doyle, assistant professor of
chemistry (2012)

Michael Freedman, assistant professor
of computer science (2011)

Mala Murthy, assistant professor of
molecular biology and the Princeton
Neuroscience Institute (2011)

Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation
Teacher-Scholar Award

Celeste Nelson, associate professor
of chemical and biological engineering
(2012)

DuPont Young Professor Award

A. James Link, assistant professor
of chemical and biological engineering
(2011)

Human Frontier Science Program
Young Investigator Research Grant

Mala Murthy, assistant professor of
molecular biology and the Princeton
Neuroscience Institute (2011)

McKnight Endowment Fund for
Neuroscience

Mala Murthy, assistant professor of
molecular biology and the Princeton
Neuroscience Institute: McKnight
Scholar (2012)

Samuel Wang, associate professor of
molecular biology and the Princeton
Neuroscience Institute: Technological
Innovations in Neuroscience Award
(2012)

National Geographic Emerging
Explorer

Iain Couzin, assistant professor of
ecology and evolutionary biology
(2012)

National Science Foundation CAREER
Award

Mala Murthy, assistant professor of
molecular biology and the Princeton
Neuroscience Institute (2011)

Rodney Priestley, assistant professor
of chemical and biological engineering
(2011)

Philippe Rigollet, assistant professor
of operations research and financial
engineering (2011)

New York Academy of Sciences
Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists

Bogdan Bernevig, the Eugene and
Mary Wigner Assistant Professor in
Theoretical Physics (2012)

U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific
Research Young Investigator

Rodney Priestley, assistant professor
of chemical and biological engineering
(2012)

U.S. Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency

Andrew Houck, associate professor
of electrical engineering (2011)

Hakan Türeci, assistant professor
of electrical engineering (2011)

U.S. Office of Naval Research Young
Investigator

David Blei, associate professor of
computer science (2011)

William T. Grant Foundation Scholars

Elizabeth Paluck, assistant professor
of psychology and public affairs
and the John Maclean Jr. Presidential
University Preceptor (2012)

Prizes and Distinctions

American Academy of Arts and
Sciences

Daniel Kahneman, the Eugene Higgins
Professor of Psychology Emeritus:
2011 Talcott Parsons Prize

American Association for Cancer
Research

Yibin Kang, the Warner-Lambert/
Parke-Davis Professor of Molecular
Biology: 2012 Award for Outstanding
Achievement in Cancer Research

American Historical Association

Michael Reynolds, associate professor
of Near Eastern studies: 2011 George
Louis Beer Prize

American Institute of Chemical
Engineers

Lynn Loo, professor of chemical and
biological engineering: 2012 Owens
Corning Award

Celeste Nelson, associate professor
of chemical and biological engineering:
2011 Allan P. Colburn Award

American Philosophical Society

William Chester Jordan, the Dayton-
Stockton Professor of History:
2012 Henry Allen Moe Prize

American Physical Society

Robert Cava, the Russell Wellman
Moore Professor of Chemistry:
2012 James C. McGroddy Prize in
New Materials

James Stone, professor of
astrophysical sciences and applied
and computational mathematics:
2011 Aneesur Rahman Prize for
Computational Physics

American Sociological Association

Douglas Massey, the Henry G. Bryant
Professor of Sociology and Public
Affairs: 2012 Award for Public
Understanding of Sociology

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Benjamin Elman, the Gordon Wu ’58
Professor of Chinese Studies and
professor of East Asian studies
and history: 2011 Distinguished
Achievement Award

Astronomical Society of the Pacific

Jeremiah Ostriker, the Charles A.
Young Professor of Astronomy on the
Class of 1897 Foundation Emeritus:
2011 Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold
Medal

Bancroft Prize

Daniel Rodgers, the Henry Charles
Lea Professor of History: Award for
“Age of Fracture” (Harvard University
Press, 2011)

BBVA Foundation Frontiers of
Knowledge Award

Angus Deaton, the Dwight D.
Eisenhower Professor of International
Affairs: 2011 Award in Economics,
Finance and Management

Isaac Held, lecturer with the rank
of professor in geosciences and
atmospheric and oceanic sciences:
2011 Award in Climate Change

Dan David Foundation

David Botstein, the Anthony B.
Evnin ’62 Professor of Genomics:
2012 Laureate, Genome Research

Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Foundation

Chang-rae Lee, professor of creative
writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts:
2011 Prize in Fiction

Gruber Foundation and the
International Astronomical Union
2012 Gruber Cosmology Prize for
Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy
Probe (WMAP) satellite project:

Norman Jarosik, senior research
physicist

Lyman Page Jr., the Henry De Wolf
Smyth Professor of Physics

Kendrick Smith, postdoctoral research
associate, astrophysical sciences

David Spergel, the Charles A. Young
Professor of Astronomy on the Class
of 1897 Foundation

Law and Society Association

Carol Greenhouse, the Arthur W.
Marks ’19 Professor of Anthropology:
2011 Harry J. Kalven Jr. Prize

National Academy of Recording Arts
and Sciences

Steven Mackey, professor of music:
2011 Grammy for Best Small Ensemble
Performance

National Academy of Sciences

Paul Reider, lecturer in chemistry:
2011 Award for Chemistry in Service
to Society

Bonnie Bassler, the Squibb Professor
in Molecular Biology: 2011 Richard
Lounsbery Award

Poets & Writers Inc.

James Richardson, professor of
creative writing in the Lewis Center for
the Arts: 2011 Jackson Poetry Prize

Society for Industrial and Applied
Mathematics

Zeev Dvir, assistant professor of
computer science and mathematics:
2012 Dénes König Prize

International Prizes and
Distinctions

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Robert Cava, the Russell Wellman
Moore Professor of Chemistry:
2012 Humboldt Research Award

Australian Government

Peter Singer, the Ira W. Decamp
Professor of Bioethics in the University
Center for Human Values:
2012 Companion in the General
Division of the Order of Australia

British Academy

Michael Cook, the Class of 1943
University Professor of Near Eastern
Studies: 2011 Corresponding Fellow
Canadian Historical Association

Brent Shaw, the Andrew Fleming West
Professor in Classics: 2012 Wallace
K. Ferguson Prize

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Stephen Chou, the Joseph C. Elgin
Professor of Engineering:
2011 Einstein Professorship

François Morel, the Albert G. Blanke,
Jr., Professor of Geosciences:
2011 Einstein Professorship
International Society for
Computational Biology

Olga Troyanskaya, associate professor
of computer science and the Lewis-
Sigler Institute for Integrative
Genomics: 2011 Overton Prize
Norwegian University of Science
and Technology

George Scherer, the William L.
Knapp ’47 Professor of Civil
Engineering and professor of civil and
environmental engineering and the
Princeton Institute for the Science
and Technology of Materials: 2011 Lars
Onsager Professorship

Royal Society

Bonnie Bassler, the Squibb Professor
in Molecular Biology: 2012 Foreign
Member

David MacMillan, the James S.
McDonnell Distinguished University
Professor of Chemistry: 2012 Fellow
Society for Social Choice and Welfare

Adam Meirowitz, the John Work
Garrett Professor in Politics:
2012 Social Choice and Welfare Prize
Toulouse Mathematics Institute

Manjul Bhargava, the Brandon Fradd,
Class of 1983, Professor of
Mathematics: 2011 Fermat Prize for
Mathematical Research

Igor Rodnianski, professor of
mathematics: 2011 Fermat Prize for
Mathematical Research
World Economic Forum

Lynn Loo, professor of chemical and
biological engineering: 2012 Young
Global Leader