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Ato Quayson, professor of African and African American Studies and English, points out a photo to colleague Gavin Jones, professor of English, at the opening of the Urban Ghana Photography Exhibition, curated by Katie Dieter, director of advanced studies and community-engaged learning in the Department of African and African American Studies. The exhibition features photos from students who participated in a Bing Overseas Studies Program global seminar in Ghana taught by Quayson. Learn more .

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Faculty Awards

Awards and honors earned by H&S faculty

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Steven Kivelson receives 2025 American Physical Society prize

Jeongwan Haah receives 2025 Quantum Computing Award

Risa Wechsler and Susan Clark and KIPAC team awarded $5M to study the Milky Way

Jorge Ramos named California Academy of Sciences fellow

Dafna Zur receives Korean Order of Culture Merit

Steven Chu elected inaugural fellow of Asian American Academy of Science and Engineering

Adrien Bilal receives 2024 Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs

Christopher O. Barnes receives Biophysical Society early career award

Jay McClelland receives 2024 Golden Goose Award

Tony Heinz receives national award from the American Chemical Society

Rachel Jean-Baptiste receives National Endowment for the Humanities grant

Monika Schleier-Smith named 2024 Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigator

Asad L. Asad receives 2023 C. Wright Mills Award

Eve Clark named 2024 British Academy fellow

Kathryn Olivarius receives 2024 Dan David Prize

Marcus Feldman receives lifetime achievement award from the Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution

Steven chu awarded 2024 aip karl compton medal.

Grant Rotskoff wins 2024 Scialog Collaborative Innovation Award

Paul Wender wins Royal Society of Chemistry prize

Andrei Linde awarded 2024 Isaac Pomeranchuk Prize

Renata Kallosh to receive 2024 Oskar Klein medal

Seven faculty members awarded 2023-24 H&S dean's teaching awards

Shelley Correll elected American Sociological Association president

Wendy Salkin honored with Phi Beta Kappa teaching excellence award

Richard Meyer receives 2023 Dedalus Foundation Exhibition Catalogue Award

Seven faculty elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Stanford faculty named AAAS Fellows

Rachel Jean-Baptiste awarded 2024 David H. Pinkney Prize

Joel Cabrita receives National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences book award

Two Stanford scholars awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

Steven Boxer receives 2024 Ellis R. Lippincott Award

Yakov Eliashberg receives 2024 Frontiers of Knowledge Award

Rodolfo Dirzo receives 2024 Frontiers of Knowledge Award

Two Stanford physicists win grants for ‘tabletop’ experiments with big implications

Martha Cyert named a fellow of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Peter Stansky wins 2023 Peter Davison Award

Josiah Ober receives 2023 Barry Prize

Clayborne Carson honored with 2023 Freedom Award

Surya Ganguli named to 2023 Schmidt Science Polymaths Program cohort

Shelley Fisher Fishkin receives 2023 American Studies Association lifetime achievement award

Physicist Harold Hwang wins McGroddy Prize for New Materials

Kathryn Olivarius awarded AHA Prize in American History

Kristy Red-Horse elected to the National Academy of Medicine

Steven Banik named 2023 Moore Inventor Fellow

Stephen Shenker and Leonard Susskind awarded 2023 Dirac Medal

Stanford-led collaboration to explore electrodynamics of neutron stars and black holes receives $8M in funding from Simons Foundation

Russell Poldrack named 2023 British Academy fellow

Steven Banik and Christopher O. Barnes named 2023 Pew Biomedical Scholars

Gordon H. Chang awarded 2023-24 research fellowship from The Huntington

Lauren O’Connell receives 2023 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award

Aron Rodrigue made honorary citizen of Greek city of Didymoteicho

David O. Siegmund awarded 2023 C.R. and Bhargavi Rao Prize

Gretchen Daily receives 2023 Eminent Ecologist Award

Kathryn Gin Lum wins 2023 Merle Curti Intellectual History Award

Kathryn olivarius receives 2023 frederick jackson turner award.

Carolyn Bertozzi receives 2023 American Association for Cancer Research award

R. Lanier Anderson elected board chair of American Philosophical Association

Monika Schleier-Smith honored with 2023 Benjamin Franklin NextGen Award

Richard Zare awarded a 2023 Benjamin Franklin Medal

Matthew Sommer awarded $60,000 grant from NEH

Richard Roberts elected honorary fellow of American Society for Legal History

Rowan Dorin awarded 2022 Mary L. Dudziak Digital Legal History Prize

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