Distinguished Faculty

The American Academy of Arts and Letters fosters and sustains interest in literature, music and the fine arts by identifying and encouraging individual artists.

• David Rakowski
• Yehudi Wyner (emeritus)

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is an independent policy research center that conducts multidisciplinary studies of complex and emerging problems. The academy’s elected members are leaders in the academic disciplines, the arts, business and public affairs.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing science around the world.

The Andrew Carnegie Fellows program awards grants to a select group of extraordinary scholars and writers whose ground-breaking work decodes some of the world's most intractable problems. The stipends support individual research, writing and scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.

• Sarah Lamb

The Canada Gairdner International Award is given to biomedical scientists who have made original contributions to medicine resulting in increased understanding of human biology and disease.

• Michael Rosbash

The Gruber Prize honors individuals in the fields of cosmology, genetics and neuroscience, whose ground-breaking work provides new models that inspire and enable fundamental shifts in knowledge and culture.

• Eve Marder
• Michael Rosbash

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is a nonprofit medical research organization that ranks as one of the nation's largest philanthropies and plays a powerful role in advancing biomedical research and science education in the United States.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators

HHMI urges its researchers to take risks, explore unproven avenues and embrace the unknown — even if it means uncertainty or the chance of failure. They identify and pursue significant biological questions in a rigorous and deep manner. They develop new tools and methods that enable creative experimental approaches to biological questions, when necessary bringing to bear concepts or techniques from other disciplines. They forge links between basic biology and medicine, opening new pathways for disease diagnosis and drug discovery.

• Dorothee Kern
• Christopher Miller (emeritus)
• Michael Rosbash

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professors Program

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professors Program empowers research scientists who can convey the excitement of science to undergraduates. The professors model fundamental reform in the way undergraduate science is taught at research universities through innovative teaching that demonstrates the rigor and value of scientific research. HHMI professors are committed to expanding and enhancing research opportunities for undergraduates and are encouraged to share ideas and collaborate with their peers to improve science education.

• Irving Epstein
• Jané Kondev

Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded to individuals who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.

The Kavli Prizes recognize three scientific areas that are exceptionally exciting in the 21st century and at the brink of remarkable discoveries — astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience. Created to honor, support and recognize scientists whose work have had a profound impact in these areas, the Kavli Prize hopes to raise people's awareness of the benefits of basic science in their own lives.

• Eve Marder

The MacArthur Fellows Program awards unrestricted fellowships to talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction.

• Bernadette Brooten (emerita)
• Gina Turrigiano

The Institute of Medicine produces scientific studies for Congress, federal agencies and independent organizations about national health issues. Its members act as medical advisers to politicians and non-governmental workers and the organization runs forums, roundtables and other activities to promote discussion and discovery in medicine.

• Stuart Altman
• Eve Marder
• Gregory Petsko (emeritus)

ffThe National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a private, nonprofit organization of the country's leading researchers. Scientists are elected by their peers to membership in the NAS for outstanding contributions to research.

Established in 1959 by the U.S. Congress, the National Medal of Science is the highest recognition the nation can bestow on scientists and engineers. The presidential award is given to individuals deserving of special recognition by reason of their outstanding contributions to knowledge in the physical, biological, mathematical, engineering, or social and behavioral sciences, in service to the Nation.

• Eve Marder
• Gregory Petsko (emeritus)

The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm:

• Jeffrey Hall (emeritus)
• Michael Rosbash

American Philosophical Society

This country's first learned society, the American Philosophical Society has played an important role in American cultural and intellectual life for over 250 years by promoting useful knowledge in the sciences and humanities through excellence in scholarly research, professional meetings, publications, library resources and community outreach.

• Gregory Petsko (emeritus)

American Physical Society

The American Physical Society works to advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics through its outstanding research journals, scientific meetings and education, outreach, advocacy and international activities. Members include physicists in academia, national laboratories and industry in the United States and throughout the world.

• Seth Fraden

Franklin Institute, Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics

The Franklin Institute's mission is to inspire an understanding of and passion for science and technology learning. The Franklin Institute's Awards Program has long been recognized as the oldest, and most comprehensive science and technology honor bestowed in the country and around the world.

• Robert Meyer (emeritus)

National Academy of Education

The National Academy of Education (NAEd) advances high-quality research to improve education policy and practice. Founded in 1965, the Academy undertakes research studies to address pressing educational issues and administers professional development fellowship programs to enhance the preparation of the next generation of education scholars.

• Derron Wallace, 2022 NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow

National Academy of Public Administration

The National Academy undertakes its important work on behalf of the public sector by anticipating, evaluating, analyzing and making recommendations on the nation’s most critical and complex public management, governance, policy and operational challenges.

• Carmen Sirianni (emeritus)

The Pulitzer Prize is regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievement and musical composition.

• David Hackett Fischer (emeritus)
• Eileen McNamara (emerita)
• Yehudi Wyner (emeritus)

The Royal Society ranks as one of the oldest scientific institutions in the world. The society's fundamental purpose, reflected in its founding charters of the 1660s, is to recognize, promote and support excellence in science and to encourage the development and use of science for the benefit of humanity.

• Stanley Deser (emeritus)

The title of University Professor is one of Brandeis' most prestigious academic honors. It is awarded to faculty members of surpassing eminence whose work cuts across disciplinary boundaries, who have achieved exceptional scholarly or professional distinction within the academic community and whose appointment will enhance the reputation and prestige of the university.

• Irving Epstein
• David Hackett Fischer (emeritus)
• Anita Hill
• Eve Marder
• Jonathan Sarna