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Awards and honors earned by H&S faculty

 

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Monika Schleier-Smith named 2024 Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigator

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Asad L. Asad receives 2023 C. Wright Mills Award

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Eve Clark named 2024 British Academy fellow

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Kathryn Olivarius receives 2024 Dan David Prize

Marcus Feldman receives lifetime achievement award from the Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution

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Steven Chu awarded 2024 AIP Karl Compton Medal

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Grant Rotskoff wins 2024 Scialog Collaborative Innovation Award

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Paul Wender wins Royal Society of Chemistry prize

Andrei Linde awarded 2024 Isaac Pomeranchuk Prize

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Renata Kallosh to receive 2024 Oskar Klein medal

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Seven faculty members awarded 2023-24 H&S dean's teaching awards

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Shelley Correll elected American Sociological Association president

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Wendy Salkin honored with Phi Beta Kappa teaching excellence award

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Richard Meyer receives 2023 Dedalus Foundation Exhibition Catalogue Award

Seven faculty elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Stanford faculty named AAAS Fellows

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Rachel Jean-Baptiste awarded 2024 David H. Pinkney Prize

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Joel Cabrita receives National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences book award

Two Stanford scholars awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

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Steven Boxer receives 2024 Ellis R. Lippincott Award

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Yakov Eliashberg receives 2024 Frontiers of Knowledge Award

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Rodolfo Dirzo receives 2024 Frontiers of Knowledge Award

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Two Stanford physicists win grants for ‘tabletop’ experiments with big implications

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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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