Awards

The Gruber Foundation and International Astronomical Union (IAU) has announced that Matias Zaldarriaga, Richard Black Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, is a recipient of the 2021 Gruber Cosmology Prize. Zaldarriaga shares the honor with M...

The National Academy of Sciences has elected 120 new members in 2021, among them nine alumni in the IAS Schools of Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Social Science.

The IAS scholars elected to the academy in 2021 are as follows:

School of...

The American Academy of Arts & Sciences has elected 252 new Fellows, among them nine IAS alumni representing each of the Institute’s four Schools.

“The 2021 election provides an opportunity to recognize extraordinary people who help solve the...

Avi Wigderson of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) was named a recipient of the 2021 Abel Prize, which he shares jointly with László Lovász—a former IAS visiting professor—of Eötvös Loránd University. They are cited by the Abel Committee “for...

Puragra Guhathakurta, Member (1989–92) in the School of Natural Sciences, and Ellen Zweibel, Member (1977–78) in the School, have been named 2021 fellows of the American Astronomical Society (AAS).

Guhathakurta is recognized for "seminal...

Francesca Trivellato, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the School of Historical Studies, has been awarded the 2020 Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History for The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us...

The American Astronomical Society (AAS) has announced the recipients of its 2021 prizes for outstanding achievements in research and education, among them several current and former scholars in the IAS School of Natural Sciences.

Richard Black...

Alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor in the School of Social Science, has been awarded the 2020 Morison Prize in Science, Technology, and Society.

Conferred by MIT, the award recognizes outstanding individuals who combine humanistic values with...

Dor Yosef Minzer, Member in the School of Mathematics, has been awarded the 2019 Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Association for Computing Machinery.

The honor recognizes Minzer’s dissertation “On Monotonicity Testing and the 2-to-2-Games...

James C. Scott, Member (1986–87) in the School of Social Science, has been awarded the 2020 Albert O. Hirshman Prize.

Conferred by the Social Science Research Council, an independent international nonprofit institution headed by Harold F. Linder...