Faculty Honors 2014-2015

MEMBERSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS

PECASE award winners

Four professors received the 2013 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their research careers.

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

  • Neta Bahcall, the Eugene Higgins, Professor of Astronomy (2014)
  • Charles Cameron, professor of politics and public affairs, Woodrow Wilson School (2014)
  • Janet Currie, the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School (2014)
  • Christopher L. Eisgruber, president of the University and the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Public Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the University Center for Human Values (2014)
  • David Gabai, the Hughes-Rogers Professor of Mathematics (2014)
  • Susan Naquin, professor of history and East Asian studies, emeritus (2014)
  • Robert Socolow, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, emeritus (2014)

American Association for Cancer Research Academy

  • David Botstein, the Anthony B. Evnin ’62 Professor of Genomics (2014)

American Council of Learned Societies

  • Devin Fore, associate professor of German (2014)
  • Robert Kaster, the Kennedy Foundation Professor of Latin Language and Literature (2014)
  • Judith Weisenfeld, the Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor of Religion (2014)

American Geophysical Union

  • Thomas Duffy, professor of geosciences (2013)

American Institute of Chemical Engineers

  • Pablo Debenedetti, dean for research and the Class of 1950 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science (2013)
  • Christodoulos Floudas, the Stephen C. Macaleer ’63 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science (2013)
  • Athanassios Panagiotopoulos, the Susan Dod Brown Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering (2014)
  • William Russel, the Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Chemical Engineering (2014)
Simon Levin

Simon Levin, the George M. Moffett Professor of Biology, was awarded the 2014 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement for bridging ecological research and environmental policy, economics and social science.

American Mathematical Society

  • Robert Vanderbei, professor of operations research and financial engineering (2014)

American Philosophical Society

  • Angus Deaton, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs and professor of economics and International affairs, Woodrow Wilson School (2014)
  • Susan Fiske, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology (2014)

American Physical Society

  • David Gates, principal research physicist, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (2013)
  • Zahid Hasan, professor of physics (2013)
  • James Olsen, professor of physics (2013)
  • Lyman Page, the Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics (2013)
  • Charles Skinner, principal research physicist, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (2013)
  • David Spergel, the Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy on the Class of 1897 Foundation (2013)
  • James Stone, professor of astrophysicalsciences and applied and computational mathematics (2013)

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship

  • Brooke Holmes, professor of classics (2014)

Econometric Society

  • Janet Currie, the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School (2013)

Institute of Medicine

  • Janet Currie, the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School (2013)

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Ying-shih Yu

Ying-shih Yu, the Gordon Wu ’58 Professor of Chinese Studies, Emeritus, was awarded the inaugural Tang Prize in Sinology in 2014.

  • Mung Chiang, the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering (2014)
  • Andrew Cole, professor of English (2014)
  • Devin Fore, associate professor of German (2014)
  • Meghan O’Rourke, lecturer in creative writing and the Lewis Center for the Arts (2014)
  • Serguei Oushakine, associate professor of anthropology and Slavic languages and literatures (2014)
  • Emily Thompson, professor of history (2014)
  • Claire Watkins, visiting assistant professor of creative writing and the Lewis Center for the Arts (2014)

Linguistic Society of America

  • Adele Goldberg, professor of linguistics in the Council of the Humanities (2014)

National Academies Education Fellow in the Life Sciences

  • Rebecca Burdine, associate professor of molecular biology (2013-2014)

National Academy of Engineering

  • Jennifer Rexford, the Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor in Engineering (2014)
  • Robert Schapire, the David M. Siegel ’83 Professor in Computer Science (2014)

National Academy of Inventors

  • Stephen Chou, the Joseph C. Elgin Professor of Engineering (2014)

National Academy of Sciences

  • Howard Stone, the Donald R. Dixon ’69 and Elizabeth W. Dixon Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (2014)
  • Sergio Verdú, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering (2014)

National Bureau of Economic Research

Daniel Kahneman

Daniel Kahneman, the Eugene Higgins Professor of psychology, emeritus, and a Nobel laureate in economics, is one of 16 people who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

  • Myrto Kalouptsidi, assistant professor of economics (2013)
  • Ezra Oberfield, assistant professor of economics (2013)

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship

  • Brooke Holmes, professor of classics (2013)

Open Society Foundations Fellowship

  • Leonard Wantchekon, professor of politics (2014)

Sociological Research Association

  • Matthew Salganik, professor of sociology (2013)

Vallee Foundation Professorship

  • Bonnie Bassler, the Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology 2014

 

NATIONAL DISTINCTIONS FOR EARLY-CAREER RESEARCHERS

Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program Award

  • Amir Ahmadi, assistant professor of operations research and financial engineering (2014)
  • Naveen Verma, associate professor of electrical engineering (2014)
  • David Wentzlaff, assistant professor of electrical engineering (2014)

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship

  • Waseem Bakr, assistant professor of physics (2014)
  • Clifford Brangwynne, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering (2014)
  • Robert Knowles, assistant professor of chemistry (2014)
  • Benoit Pausader, assistant professor of mathematics (2014)
  • Rodney Priestley, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering (2014)
Jill Dolan

Jill Dolan, the Annan Professor in English, professor of theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts, and director of the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, received the 2013 Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Society for Theater Research (ASTR).

Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar Award

  • Rodney Priestley, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering (2014)

David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship for Science and Engineering

  • Mark Braverman, assistant professor of computer science (2013)

Department of Energy Office of Science Early Career Research Program

  • Brian Grierson, staff research physicist, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (2014)

McKnight Foundation’s Endowment Fund for Neuroscience Scholar Award

  • Ilana Witten, assistant professor of psychology and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute (2014)

National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator Award

  • Dorothea Fiedler, assistant professor of chemistry (2013)

National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award

  • Clifford Brangwynne, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering (2013)
  • Paul Cuff, assistant professor of electrical engineering (2014)
  • Sucharit Sarkar, assistant professor of mathematics (2014)

The Pew Charitable Trusts Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences

  • Sabine Petry, assistant professor of molecular biology (2014)
  • Mohammad Seyedsayamdost, assistant professor of chemistry (2014)
Peter Sarnak

Peter Sarnak, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics, was awarded the 2014 Wolf Prize in Mathematics.

Rita Allen Foundation Scholar

  • Dorothea Fiedler, assistant professor of chemistry (2013)

Searle Scholars Program Scholar

  • Mohammad Seyedsayamdost, assistant professor of chemistry (2014)

Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research — Kimmel Scholar Award

  • Sabine Petry, assistant professor of molecular biology (2014)
  • Alexei Korennykh, assistant professor of molecular biology (2014)

 

PRIZES AND DISTINCTIONS

American Academy of Political and Social Science

Janet Currie, the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School: 2014 Eleanor Roosevelt Fellow

American Association for Cancer Research

  • David Botstein, the Anthony B. Evnin ’62 Professor of Genomics: 2014 Irving Weinstein Foundation Distinguished Lectureship

American Astronomical Society

  • David Spergel, the Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy on the Class of 1897 Foundation: 2014 Kavli Foundation Plenary Lectureship

American Council of Learned Societies

  • Sarah McGrath, assistant professor of philosophy: 2014 Charles A. Ryskamp Fellowship

American Institute of Chemical Engineers

  • Pablo Debenedetti, dean for research and the Class of 1950 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science: 2013 Institute Lecturer

American Physical Society

  • Robert Austin, professor of physics: 2014 Max Delbruck Prize in Biological Physics
  • M.V. Ramana, nuclear futures specialist, Woodrow Wilson School: 2014 Leo Szilard Lectureship Award

American Political Science Association

  • David Carter, assistant professor of politics: 2014 Best Paper Award, Conflict Processes
  • Rafaela Dancygier, assistant professor of politics and public and international affairs, Woodrow Wilson School: 2014 Best Article Award, European Politics and Society
  • Tali Mendelberg, professor of politics: 2014 Best Paper Award for Political Psychology
  • Keren Yarhi-Milo, assistant professor of politics and international affairs, Woodrow Wilson School: 2014 Outstanding Article Award in International History and Politics

American Society for Bone and Mineral Research

  • Yibin Kang, the Warner-Lambert/ Parke-Davis Professor of Molecular Biology: 2014 Fuller Albright Award

American Society for Engineering Education

  • Pablo Debenedetti, dean for research and the Class of 1950 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science: 2014 Benjamin Garver Lamme Award

American Society for Legal History

  • Jonathan Levy, associate professor of history: 2013 William Nelson Cromwell Book Prize

American Society for Microbiology

  • Bonnie Bassler, the Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology: 2014 EMD Millipore Alice C. Evans Award

Association for Computing Machinery

  • Thomas Funkhouser, professor of computer science: 2014 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award
  • Larry Peterson, the Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus: 2013 SIGCOMM Award

Association for Women in Mathematics

  • Sophie Morel, professor of mathematics: 2014 AWM-Microsoft Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory
  • Olga Troyanskaya, professor of computer science and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics: 2014 Ira Herskowitz Award

History of Economics Society

  • Jeremy Adelman, the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History: 2014 Joseph J. Spengler Best Book Prize

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

  • Stephen Chou, the Joseph C. Elgin Professor of Engineering: 2014 Pioneer Award in Nanotechnology
  • Shirley M. Tilghman, president emerita of the University and professor of molecular biology and public affairs: 2014 Honorary Member

Law and Society Association

  • Kim Lane Scheppele, the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values: 2014 Harry J. Kalven Jr. Award

Metastasis Research Society

  • Yibin Kang, the Warner- Lambert/Parke-Davis Professor of Molecular Biology: 2014 Fidler Innovation Award

National Academy of Sciences

  • Garnet Chan, the A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Chemistry: 2014 William O. Baker Award for Initiatives in Research

Phi Beta Kappa Society

  • Claudia Johnson, the Murray Professor of English Literature: 2013 Christian Gauss Award

Population Association of America

  • Marta Tienda, the Maurice P. During Professor in Demographic Studies: 2013 Honored Member

Society for Cultural Anthropology

  • Elizabeth Davis, assistant professor of anthropology: 2013 Gregory Bateson Prize

Society for Neuroscience

  • William Bialek, the John Archibald Wheeler/Battelle Professor in Physics and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics: 2013 Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience

Society for Psychological Anthropology

  • John Borneman, professor of anthropology: 2013 Boyer Prize

 

INTERNATIONAL PRIZES AND DISTINCTIONS

Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics

  • James Peebles, the Albert Einstein Professor of Science, Emeritus: 2013 Dirac Medal

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

  • Sankaran Sundaresan, professor of chemical and biological engineering: 2014 Humboldt Research Award

American Academy in Berlin

  • Beatriz Colomina, professor of architecture: 2014 Berlin Prize Fellowship
  • Sean Wilentz, the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History: 2014 Berlin Prize Fellowship

British-Kuwait Friendship Society

  • Muhammad Qasim Zaman, the Robert H. Niehaus ’77 Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Religion: 2013 Book Prize in Middle East Studies

European Geosciences Union

  • Eric Wood, the Susan Dod Brown Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering: 2014 Alfred Wegener Medal  

Hellenic Operational Research Society

  • Christodoulos Floudas, the Stephen C. Macaleer ’63 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science: 2013 National Award and Gold Medal

The Honourable The Irish Society at the City of London Corporation

  • Paul Muldoon, the Howard G.B. Clark ’21 University Professor in the Humanities: 2014 Freedom of the City of London

International Union of Radio Science

  • Vincent Poor, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Michael Henry Strater University Professor of Electrical Engineering: 2014 Booker Medal

Italian Chemistry Society

  • Emily Carter, Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment and professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and applied and computational mathematics: 2013 Sigillo D’Oro

Instituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere

  • Simon Levin, the George M. Moffett Professor of Biology: 2014 Foreign Member

Kiel Institute for the World Economy

  • Yuliy Sannikov, professor of economics: 2014 Excellence Award

National Education Ministry of France

  • Alan Mann, professor of anthropology: 2014 Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques

Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters

  • Yakov Sinai, professor of mathematics: 2014 Abel Prize

Norwegian Parliament

  • Michael Cook, the Class of 1943 University Professor of Near Eastern Studies: 2014 Holberg Prize

Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain

  • Sergio Verdú, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering: 2013 Corresponding Member

Royal Dutch Mathematical Society

  • John Mather, professor of mathematics: 2014 Brouwer Medal

Royal Society

  • Vincent Poor, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Michael Henry Strater University Professor of Electrical Engineering: 2014 Foreign Member

Royal Society of Canada

  • Eric Wood, the Susan Dod Brown Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering: 2013 Fellow

Royal Statistical Society

  • Jianqing Fan, the Frederick L. Moore, Class of 1918, Professor in Finance: 2014 Guy Medal in Silver