Awards to Our Faculty, Students, and Alumni

Our faculty, students, and alumni are regular recipients of important honors and awards. Some recent examples include the MacArthur "Genius" Award, the National Humanities Medal, the President’s National Medal of Science (the nation’s highest scientific honor), the Baccalaureate College Professor of the Year Award, two George Jean Nathan Awards for Dramatic Criticism, three Pulitzer Prizes, two Bancroft Prizes, the Lincoln Prize, an Academy Award, and six Mayor's Awards for Excellence in Science and Technology. They have also won Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, ASCAP Awards, and Grammy Awards. Moreover, faculty members have achieved high honors with membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. In addition, our faculty actively pursue their research interests, and, over the past five years, they have won hundreds of research grants and fellowships from, among others, the Fulbright Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Science Foundation.