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Robbert Dijkgraaf, IAS Director and Leon Levy Professor (2012–22), was sworn in by King Willem-Alexander on January 10, 2022, as Minister of Education, Culture and Science, joining the fourth cabinet of Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of the Netherlands.

Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, has been elected to the Medieval Academy of America’s Fellows Class of 2022. The highest honor granted by the academy, it is bestowed upon scholars “who have made notable lifelong contributions to Medieval Studies through their scholarship, teaching, and service.”

Professor Emeritus Arnold J. Levine has received a 2021 ASPIRE Award from the Mark Foundation for his work on breast cancer research. Along with past Institute Member Steven Altschuler (1992-93) and Benjamin Greenbaum (2008-13, 2017-21), Levine enters a class of twenty-five researchers who are recognized across cancer research disciplines for their innovative solutions and feasible applications.

Iris Montero-Sobrevilla, current Member in the School of Historical Studies, has won the 2021 Robert F. Heizer Article Award for “The Disguise of the Hummingbird: On the Natural History of Huitzilopochtli in the Florentine Codex” (Ethnohistory, Volume 67, Number 3). 

A new state of matter, known as quantum spin liquid (QSL), was observed for the first time by IAS and Harvard University researchers. The results were published today in the journal Science in a paper co-authored by Subir Sachdev, Maureen and John Hendricks Distinguished Visiting Professor in the School of Natural Sciences.

Elliott H. Lieb, current Visitor in the School of Natural Sciences, has received the 2022 American Physical Society Medal for Exceptional Achievement in Research, the highest honor granted by the Society.

The 2021 Shaw Prize in Mathematics has been awarded to Jean-Michel Bismut (1984, 1994) and Jeff Cheeger (1972, 1977–78, 1995), former Members in the School of Mathematics. The pair shares the award for their “remarkable insights that have...

Explore 1,000 years of world history in the exhibit Hidden Stories: Books Along the Silk Roads. The exhibit, co-curated by Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Filiz Çak?r Phillip, opens on October 9, 2021 and will run through February 27, 2022, at the Aga...

IAS and the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA hosted an international forum on the antiquities discovered at Venizelos station in Thessaloniki, featuring Angelos Chaniotis and former Member Sharon Gerstel.

Watch the panel discussion here.

The 2021–22 Edward T. Cone Concert Series, curated by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang, will provide an exploration of mastery, meaning, and experience, complemented by immersive post-performance talks connected by the overarching theme...