Awards

Students recognized for promoting civic engagement and dialogue

Two Stanford students receive the ePluribus Stanford Award for their work advancing civil discourse on campus.

2 H&S instructors earn teaching excellence award

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Emmanuel Candès wins Shaw Prize in math

Stanford Campus

H&S announces 2025-26 Dean's Teaching Award winners

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Zhi-Xun Shen elected to Royal Society

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3 earn Phi Beta Kappa teaching honor

Stanford researchers receive special Keck Foundation funding

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Londa Schiebinger receives Harvard Centennial Medal

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Laura Dassama wins ACS Early Career Award

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Judith Fan awarded Gleitman Prize

Adam Bonica named a 2026 Andrew Carnegie Fellow

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Jessica Riskin elected to American Philosophical Society

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Grant Rotskoff named Camille Dreyfus Teacher–Scholar

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Aracelis Girmay wins PEN America poetry prize

Four H&S scholars named 2026 Guggenheim Fellows

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Laura Dassama honored with Protein Science Young Investigator Award

Adrien Bilal in the Stanford arcade

Adrien Bilal receives 2026 Best Young Economist Prize

Matthew Morrison in the Stanford arcade

Matthew D. Morrison wins Woody Guthrie, Irving Lowens book awards

Hazel Markus in the Stanford arcade

Hazel Rose Markus wins 2026 Sage-CASBS Award

Thomas Mullaney

Thomas Mullaney named UNESCO chair

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Tony Heinz wins 2026 Optica award

Caroline Winterer

Caroline Winterer receives 2026 Lyman award

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Carolyn Bertozzi named Royal Society of Chemistry Honorary Fellow

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John Chowning receives Technical Grammy

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Jonathan Gienapp wins Order of the Coif book award

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Fang Liu wins Scialog awards

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Barnabas Daru receives International Biogeography Society award

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John R. Rickford receives lifetime service award

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Benjamin Good wins APS Early Career Award

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Jonathan Luk receives American Mathematical Society award

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Stephen Hinton named Berlin Prize Fellow

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Three H&S faculty become American Academy of Sciences and Letters members

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Jeff Wine receives honor from Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

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Matthew Sommer awarded American Historical Association prize

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Christopher O. Barnes named HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar

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Brian Lantz named American Physical Society Fellow

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Bianxiao Cui receives NIH High-Risk, High-Reward grant

Stanford Nobel Laureates reflect on winning the prize

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Joel Cabrita wins Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize

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H&S recognizes Paul Sniderman with inaugural faculty mentorship award

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Philip Bucksbaum receives NSF/UKRI quantum chemistry award

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Richard Schoen wins World Laureates Association Prize

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Josiah Ober awarded 2025 Balzan Prize

Nicholas Jenkins wins Northern California Book Award

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Duana Fullwiley wins C. Wright Mills book award

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Stanford-led team shares honor for ‘revolutionizing’ the study of the universe’s high-energy phenomena

Peter Michelson receives European Physical Society award

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Seven faculty members awarded 2024-25 H&S dean's teaching awards

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Stanford historian's book on immigration wins PEN America nonfiction award

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Susan Clark, Grant Rotskoff win NSF CAREER awards

Lerone A .Martin wins James W. C. Pennington Award

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Jonthan Rodden named 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellow

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Stanford researchers honored with 2025 Breakthrough prizes

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Paul N. Edwards receives 2025 Society for Social Studies of Science award

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Gretchen Daily named American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow

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Nicholas Jenkins wins Warren-Brooks Award

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Mark Applebaum receives American Academy of Arts and Letters award

Portrait of Chang-rae Lee

Chang-rae Lee elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters

Trithep Devakul named 2025 Sloan Research Fellow

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Barnabas Daru named 2025 Sloan Research Fellow

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Mark Duggan receives Stanford's 2025 Roland volunteer service prize

Kabir Peay elected to the American Academy of Microbiology

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Leonard Susskind wins 2025 Galileo Medal

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Stanford physicist aims to create materials for next-generation superconductors

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Steven Block wins 2025 Benjamin Franklin Medal

Four H&S scientists named 2025 PECASE winners

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Liqun Luo wins National Academy of Sciences neuroscience award

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Early-career Stanford researchers honored for their cutting-edge studies in physics and social economics

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Susan Clark receives American Astronomical Society prize

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Margaret Cohen receives National Endowment for the Humanities grant

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Terry Karl receives inaugural human rights award

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Benjamin Good receives inaugural biological physics prize

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James Gross receives 2025 Grawemeyer Award in Psychology

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Debra Satz awarded Romanell-Phi Beta Kappa Professorship

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Steven Chu receives inaugural lifetime achievement award

Portrait of Arun Chandrasekhar

Arun Chandrasekhar wins 2024 Infosys Prize in Economics

Vedika Khemani wins 2024 Infosys Prize in Physical Sciences

Russell Poldrack

Russell Poldrack receives 2024 KFJ Award

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Jeongwan Haah receives 2025 Quantum Computing Award

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Steven Kivelson receives 2025 American Physical Society prize

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Risa Wechsler and Susan Clark and KIPAC team awarded $5M to study the Milky Way

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Jorge Ramos named California Academy of Sciences fellow

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Dafna Zur receives Korean Order of Culture Merit

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Adrien Bilal receives 2024 Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs

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Steven Chu elected inaugural fellow of Asian American Academy of Science and Engineering

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Christopher O. Barnes receives Biophysical Society early career award

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Jay McClelland receives 2024 Golden Goose Award

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Rachel Jean-Baptiste receives National Endowment for the Humanities grant

Tony Heinz receives national award from the American Chemical Society

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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

Richard Meyer stands with his arms crossed wearing a mauve blazer over a dark purple shirt.

Richard Meyer receives 2023 Dedalus Foundation Exhibition Catalogue Award

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2024 cohort of Stanford Science Fellows named

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

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Steven Boxer receives 2024 Ellis R. Lippincott Award

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Yakov Eliashberg receives 2024 Frontiers of Knowledge Award

Rodolfo Dirzo stands in a field site in Oaxaca, Mexico.

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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Physicist Harold Hwang wins McGroddy Prize for New Materials

Kathryn Olivarius awarded AHA Prize in American History