An applied microeconomist, Dr. Goldberg, former chief economist of the World Bank Group, has fundamentally shaped the empirical study of global trade and development. She has been a faculty member in the department of economics and the Jackson School of Global Affairs at Yale University of the past 25 years.
Vanderbilt University's Shatema Threadcraft received two book awards from the American Political Science Association. Lisa Messeri of Yale University was honored by the Society for Cultural Anthropology and Fiona Cunningham of the University of Pennsylvania was honored by Cornell University.
"Done well, simulation doesn't just teach skills. It shapes safer, more thoughtful clinicians," said Dr. Fogg, an associate professor and assistant dean at the Texas Woman's University College of Nursing. "When it's interprofessional, it prepares them to work as part of the collaborative healthcare teams patients depend on."
Andrea J. Liu of the University of Pennsylvania, Zhenan Bao of Stanford University, and Xiaowei Zhuang of Harvard University are among the nine inaugural recipients of the International Congress of Basic Science Medals.
Dr. Guerinot, an endowed professor at Dartmouth College, was recently recognized for advancing research on Arabidopsis thaliana, a small weed that has become the standard model for plant biology.
The University of Georgia Libraries has honored Dr. Blain, professor of history and Africana studies at Brown University, for her latest book, Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights, an examination of the pivotal contributions of Black women at the forefront of national and international movements for civil and human rights.
Presented every four years by the International Mathematical Union, the Fields Medal is considered the highest honor in the field of mathematics. Dr. Wang has been recognized for her recent resolution of the Kakeya conjecture, a central problem in harmonic analysis and geometry that had been unsolved for more than a century.
Dr. Falleti is an endowed professor in political science at the University of Pennsylvania. Her 2010 book Decentralization and Subnational Politics in Latin America was recently recognized by the American Political Science Association as a lasting achievement in federalism and intergovernmental relations scholarship.
As the 2026 recipient of the Vanderbilt University Literary Prize, Huffman's new poetry collection, Dilemma, will be published by Vanderbilt University Press in 2027. Huffman, an instructor at Warren Wilson College, is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in English and literary arts at the University of Denver.
A faculty member with the University of Pennsylvania for nearly three decades, Professor Allen is an internationally renowned expert on philosophical and social justice dimensions of privacy and data protection law.
Dr. Sandwell is an assistant professor of history at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Her award-winning book, National Liberation and the Political Life of Exile: Sex, Gender, and Nation in the Struggle Against Apartheid examines the role of women in South Africa's liberation movements, particularly within the African National Congress during its years in exile.
The International Council for Small Business recently honored Florida State University's Juliana Binote for advancing entrepreneurship education through creativity, innovation, and measurable impact.
