Paramjit Arora (Chemistry)
Awarded the 2005 Whitehead Fellowship for Junior Faculty in Biomedical and Biological Sciences. (September 2005)
Zlatco Bacic (Chemistry)
Named a Fullbright Scholar for 2005-2006 (January 2006)
Ned Block (Philosophy)
Received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (March 2006)
Edward Berenson (Institute of French Studies)
Awarded the Order of Knight in the National Order of Merit for eminent services rendered to France. (September 2005)
Herrick Chapman (History, Institute of French Studies)
Named a Knight in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques (Order of Academic Palms) by the French Ministry of Education for services rendered to French culture. (November 2005)
Vivek Chibber (Sociology)
Received theBarringtonMoore Prize for the Best Book in Comparative and Historical Sociology. (September 2005)
Lila Davachi (Psychology)
Awarded the 2005 Whitehead Fellowship for Junior Faculty in Biomedical and Biological Sciences. (September 2005)
E.L. Doctorow (English)
Awarded the PEN/Faulkner award for his book The March. (March 2006)
Troy Duster (Sociology)
Gave the Presidential Address at the American Sociological Association’s 2005 Dissertation Awards. (September 2005)
Patrick Eichenberger (Biology)
Awarded the 2005 Whitehead Fellowship for Junior Faculty in Biomedical and Biological Sciences. (September 2005)
Sibylle Fischer (Spanish & Portuguese)
Awarded the 2006 Bryce Wood Award for Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution. (February 2006)Received the Katherine Singer Kovacs Award for Outstanding book in Spanish and Latin American Literatures and Cultures 2005 (Modern Language Association) for Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution. (February 2006)Awarded the Frantz Fanon Prize 2005 (Caribbean Philosophical Association) for Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution (February 2006)
Leslie Greengard (Mathematics)
Elected to the National Academy of Engineering in recognition of his pioneering development of algorithms and software for fast multipole methods. (February 2006)
Joseph LeDoux (Center for Neural Science)
Named a Fellow of theNew YorkAcademy of Sciences. (September 2005)
Received the Fyssen Foundation’s 2005 International Prize. (February 2006)
Lawrence Mead (Politics)
Co-Winner of the 2005 Louis Brownlow Book Award, given by the National Academy of Public Administration for the book Government Matters: Welfare Reform in Wisconsin. (December 2005)
Ann J. Morning (Sociology)
Co-winner of the American Sociological Association’s 2005 Dissertation Award. (September 2005)
Thomas Nagel (Philosophy and Law)
Recipient of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Distinguished Achievement Award. (November 2005)
Caroline Hodges-Persell (Sociology)
Received the American Sociological Association’s Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award. (September 2005)
Carol Shoshkes Reiss (Biology)
Named a Fellow of theNew YorkAcademy of Sciences (September 2005)
Thomas Sargent (Economics)
Named president-elect of the American Economic Association. (March 2006)
Nadrian C. Seeman (Chemistry)
Received a MERIT Award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health. (December 2005)
Named winner of the 2005 World Technology Award for Biotechnology by the World Technology Network (WTN). (February 2006)
