Five Women Research Scientists Honored by the Fred Hutch Cancer Center

The honorees are Rachael Chanin at Stanford University, Amy C. Fan at the University of Caliofornia, San Francisco, Simone Park at the University of Pennsylvania, Carolina Rodriguez Tirado at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in The Bronx, New York, and Madeline Rollins at the University of Chicago.

A Trio of Women Scholars Who Have Been Awarded for Their New Books

The women who have recently received awards for their new books are Julia Elliott of the University of South Carolina, Min Kyung Lee of Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, and Anne E. Marshall at Mississippi State University.

Janet Currie Honored for Lifetime Contributions to Health Economics

Dr. Currie, an endowed professor at Yale University, is known as a pioneer in the economics of child development. Her work has significant advanced the understanding of how family, social, environmental, and healthcare factors impact children's longterm outcomes.

Eva Y. Andrei Receives the 2026 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience

Dr. Andrei, a distinguished professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey, was honored for her foundational work that established the field of twistronics, an emerging scientific discipline based on the method of combining and twisting two or more atomically thin layers stacked on top of each other.

Serena Mayeri Honored for New Book on American Marital Law

Dr. Mayeri's award-winning book, Marital Privilege: Marriage, Inequality, and the Transformation of American Law, examines how the privileged legal status of marriage survived decades of constitutional struggle and social change.

Susan Solomon Is the 2026 Tang Prize Laureate in Sustainable Development

Dr. Solomon has taught environmental studies at MIT since 2012. She is known for her seminal work on ozone layer depletion, CO₂ emissions, and climate change, which has greatly influenced global climate negotiations.

Nancy Cartwright Receives the Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Humanities

Dr. Cartwright, a distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, was awarded for her contributions to the philosophy of science in practice, which have reshaped the scholarly understanding of scientific evidence, causality, and objectivity.

Londa Schiebinger Wins the 2026 Harvard Centennial Medal

Dr. Schiebinger is a leading authority on sex and gender in the history of science and the study of women scientists in the eighteenth century. She has been a faculty member at Stanford University for more than two decades.

University of Maryland’s Anny Gaul Earns Book Award From the James Beard Foundation

Dr. Gaul is a cultural historian whose research and teaching interests lie at the intersections of food, gender, and culture in the Arabic-speaking world. She was honored for her book Nile Nightshade: An Egyptian Culinary History of the Tomato.

Cornell’s Isabel M. Perera Receives International Recognition for New Book on Mental Health Care

Dr. Perera's new book on the variations in mental health care services in affluent democracies has been honored by both the International Political Sciences Association and the Council for European Studies.

Karen Corcoran Awarded for Excellence in Psychiatric Nursing Education

Dr. Corcoran, an associate professor at the University of Saint Joseph in Connecticut, has received the Award for Excellence in Education from the American Psychiatric Nurses Association. Her academic research centers on graduate nursing education specifically related to simulation, telehealth, and wellness.

Two Women Professors Recognized as Trailblazers in Legal Education

The Association of American Law Schools has recently presented its Deborah L. Rhode Award to Joanna Grossman of the Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law and Kimberly Mutcherson of Rutgers Law School. The professors were honored for their contibutions to legal education and the legal profession.