Newest American Academy of Arts and Sciences members
Nine Stanford faculty have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the country’s oldest and most prestigious honorary learned societies.
Quenton Bubb, Esther Elonga, and Tania Fabo have been named members of the 2022 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, which supports the graduate education of U.S. immigrants and children of immigrants.
The Neuroscience: Translate grant program funds researchers across the university whose projects include devices, medications and VR for the treatment of autism, depression, Parkinson’s disease and more.
Matthew O. Jackson receives the 2021 Frontiers of Knowledge Award
Matthew O. Jackson, professor of economics, receives the Frontiers of Knowledge Award for research that reveals the role of networks in economic and social life.
Elizabeth A. Hadly receives the Richard W. Lyman Award
Biology Professor Elizabeth A. Hadly will receive the 2021 Richard W. Lyman Award, which is presented annually to an outstanding faculty member for extraordinary service to Stanford.
Stanford faculty elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Stanford Earth faculty member Louis Durlofsky and School of Engineering faculty members Thomas Kenny, Marc Levoy and Stephen Monismith, have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, which is one of the highest professional distinctions accorded engineers.
Kevin Fan Hsu, a Stanford alumnus and lecturer at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, has won a 2022 Gates Cambridge Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Cambridge in England.
Stanford chemistry Professor Carolyn Bertozzi is a recipient of the 2022 Wolf Prize in Chemistry. The Wolf Prize is a prestigious international award given to disciplines in science and art.
Carolyn Bertozzi, professor of chemistry and director of Stanford ChEM-H, has been awarded the Lifetime Mentor Award that recognizes significant contributions to mentorship and to increasing diversity in STEM fields.
Dan Jurafsky receives 2022 Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences
Stanford's Dan Jurafsky, professor of linguistics and of computer science, has received the 2022 Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences.
David Lobell honored with 2022 NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences
The award recognizes research by a mid-career scientist who has made an extraordinary contribution to agriculture or to the understanding of the biology of a species fundamentally important to agriculture or food production.
Zhenan Bao is awarded the VinFuture Prize for female innovators
The chair of the School of Engineering’s Department of Chemical Engineering received the award for her innovations in bio-interfacing wearable health monitoring devices.
John Hennessy receives the Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering
Hennessy, president emeritus at Stanford University, is recognized for his contributions to the invention, development and implementation of RISC chips.
Second cohort of CZ Biohub Investigators includes 33 Stanford faculty
The second cohort of CZ Biohub Investigators includes awardees from a broad range of disciplines, with fresh approaches to biological and medical problems.
Two faculty named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors
Two Stanford faculty members have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors, the highest professional distinction awarded to academic inventors.
Four Stanford students who have been named Schwarzman Scholars will spend the 2022-23 academic year at Tsinghua University in Beijing, where they will earn a one-year master’s degree in global affairs and participate in a leadership program.
Four professors elected to the National Academy of Medicine
Professors Maximilian Diehn, Mary Hawn, Michelle Monje and Carla Pugh of the School of Medicine are among the 100 members elected this year to the National Academy of Medicine.
