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Martha Cyert named a fellow of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Peter Stansky wins 2023 Peter Davison Award

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Josiah Ober receives 2023 Barry Prize

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Clayborne Carson honored with 2023 Freedom Award

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Surya Ganguli named to 2023 Schmidt Science Polymaths Program cohort

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Shelley Fisher Fishkin receives 2023 American Studies Association lifetime achievement award

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Physicist Harold Hwang wins McGroddy Prize for New Materials

Kathryn Olivarius awarded AHA Prize in American History

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Kristy Red-Horse elected to the National Academy of Medicine

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Steven Banik named 2023 Moore Inventor Fellow

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Stephen Shenker and Leonard Susskind awarded 2023 Dirac Medal

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Stanford-led collaboration to explore electrodynamics of neutron stars and black holes receives $8M in funding from Simons Foundation

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Russell Poldrack named 2023 British Academy fellow

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Steven Banik and Christopher O. Barnes named 2023 Pew Biomedical Scholars

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Gordon H. Chang awarded 2023-24 research fellowship from The Huntington

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Lauren O’Connell receives 2023 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award

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Aron Rodrigue made honorary citizen of Greek city of Didymoteicho

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David O. Siegmund awarded 2023 C.R. and Bhargavi Rao Prize

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Gretchen Daily receives 2023 Eminent Ecologist Award

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Kathryn Gin Lum wins 2023 Merle Curti Intellectual History Award

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Kathryn Olivarius receives 2023 Frederick Jackson Turner Award

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Carolyn Bertozzi receives 2023 American Association for Cancer Research award

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R. Lanier Anderson elected board chair of American Philosophical Association

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Monika Schleier-Smith honored with 2023 Benjamin Franklin NextGen Award

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Richard Zare awarded a 2023 Benjamin Franklin Medal

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Matthew Sommer awarded $60,000 grant from NEH

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Richard Roberts elected honorary fellow of American Society for Legal History

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Rowan Dorin awarded 2022 Mary L. Dudziak Digital Legal History Prize

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