Wilbur Cross Medal

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The Wilbur Cross Medal, or Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal for Alumni Achievement, is an award by the for "distinguished achievements in scholarship, teaching, academic administration, and public service".[1][2] The award is made to a small number of individuals (up to six) annually, and was first awarded in 1966.

The award is named after Wilbur Lucius Cross, who was a Yale University dean, and also a noted scholar, editor, literary critic, author and governor of the state of Connecticut.[3]

Recipients include:

2018[4]
Elizabeth W. Easton
Kelsey C. Martin
Marianne Mithun
Tan Eng Chye

2017
Douglas Diamond
Donna J. Haraway
Eric J. Nestler
Lawrence W. Sherman

2016
Arend Lijphart
Ira Mellman
Arthur Nozik
Eleanor Sterling

2015
Carol S. Dweck
Philip C. Hanawalt
Jeremy Bradford Cook Jackson
Jonathan Z. Smith
Thomas D. Pollard

2014
Eric R. Fossum
Thomas C. Holt
Kristin Luker
Edmund Phelps

2013[5]
Fredric Jameson
Alan M. Lambowitz
Theodore J. Lowi
Annette Thomas

2012
John D. Aber[6]
Alfred W. McCoy[6]
Jonathan M. Rothberg[6]
Sarah Grey Thomason[6]

2011[7]
Stanley Fish
Leslie F. Greengard
Bernice A. Pescosolido
Huntington F. Willard

2010
Stephen Greenblatt
Fred Greenstein
Timothy J. Richmond
Paul Wender
Jon Butler

2009
Laura L. Kiessling
Michael S. Levine
Richard J. Powell
William J. Willis

2008[8]
Robert Axelrod
Stephen G. Emerson
Yoriko Kawaguchi
David M. Kennedy

2007
Carol T. Christ

Anne Walters Robertson
John Suppe

2006
Eva Brann
Richard Brodhead
Mimi Gardner Gates
Lewis E. Kay
Richard A. Young

2005
Lincoln Pierson Brower
Peter B. Dervan
Jennifer L. Hochschild
Richard Rorty
Eric F. Wieschaus

2004
William Cronon
Hong Koo Lee
Julia Phillips
Peter Salovey
Barbara Schaal
Philip Zimbardo

2003
Edward L. Ayers
Gerald Brown
John Fenn
Robert D. Putnam
Charles Yanofsky
Susan Hockfield

2002
Linda Gordon
Sharon R. Long
Julia M. McNamara
David E. Price

2001
Elliot M. Meyerowitz
Stephen Owen
Roger N. Shepard
Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León

2000
James G. Arthur
Evelyn Boyd Granville
Ruth Barcan Marcus
Shelley E. Taylor

1999
Francis S. Collins
William N. Fenton
Allen L. Sessoms
Rosemary A. Stevens
Geerat J. Vermeij

1998

George A. Lindbeck
Peter Demetz
David M. Lee
Thomas Appelquist

1997
Alvin M. Liberman
Francis C. Oakley

Janet L. Yellen
Anne M. Briscoe
William Louis Gaines

1996
David C. McClelland
Marie Borroff
Miriam Usher Chrisman
James Thomas Laney
Heidi I. Hartmann

1995
Alfred Edward Kahn
Gordon Howard Bower
Jennifer L. Kelsey

Catharine A. MacKinnon

1994


Vincent Joseph Scully, Jr.
John Imbrie
Jerome John McGann
Thomas Eugene Lovejoy III

1993

Estella Bergère Leopold
Marcia L. Colish
Richard Charles Levin
Jaime Serra Puche

1992
Irving B. Rouse (sic)
Frances K. Graham
Raymond L. Garthoff
Gerald R. Fink

Judith Rodin

1991
W. Edwards Deming

Maxine Singer


1990

Adolph Grünbaum
Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
A. Bartlett Giamatti

1989
Pauline Newman

Garry Leo Wills
Mary Lou Pardue

1988


Joseph G. Gall

Richard S. Westfall
Thomas Kaehao Seung

1987
Thomas Brennan Nolan


Richard David Ellmann

Nannerl Overholser Keohane

1986
Robert Alan Dahl


Robert Joseph Birgeneau
Keith Stewart Thomson

1985

Peter Tyrell Flawn
Victor Henri Brombert

Nelson Woolf Polsby

1984

George Alexander Kubler


Margaret Walsh Rossiter

1983

Floyd Glenn Lounsbury
Barbara Illingworth Brown
Daniel Berg
Morton H. Halperin

1982
Mary Ellen Jones

Theodore Joseph Ziolkowski

1981
Henry Margenau


Jerome Kagan
Grace Evelyn Pickford

1980


Phyllis Ann Wallace

1979


Jacquelyn Anderson Mattfeld

1978
Jaroslav Pelikan
Thomas Goddard Bergin
Maynard Mack

1977
Gordon Sherman Haight
Mary Rosamund Haas

1976

James Henry Wakelin Jr.
William G. Moulton
George Heard Hamilton
Laura Anna Bornholdt

1975
Robert Phelan Langlands
Ralph Henry Gabriel


Orville Gilbert Brim, Jr.

1974
Milton Harris
Amos Niven Wilder
Constance McLaughlin Green
Alvin Bernard Kernan

1973

George Wilson Pierson
Marshall Hall
Eleanor Jack Gibson
Preston E. Cloud

1972
Dumas Malone

Grace Murray Hopper
Lars Onsager

1971[9]


Jane Marion Oppenheimer

John Robert Silber

1970
Roland Herbert Bainton
Bertrand Harris Bronson
Leona Baumgartner
Melvin Spencer Newman

1969
George Gaylord Simpson
Murray Barnson Emeneau

James Patrick Shannon
John Perry Miller
Joshua Lederberg

1968
Filmer S. C. Northrop
James Bliss Austin
William Martin Fairbank
James Gardner March

1967
Carl William Blegen

Wallace Notestein
Marjorie Hope Nicolson
George Peter Murdock

Neal Elgar Miller

1966

Notes[]

  1. ^ "Wilbur Cross Medal", Yale University Retrieved 04 October 2014
  2. ^ From the Hill Albertus Magnus College Alumni Association 2002
  3. ^ "Wilbur Lucius Cross". Connecticut State Library. Retrieved December 16, 2012.
  4. ^ "List of Past Wilbur Cross Recipients: 1966...-Present". gsas.yale.edu. Yale Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved June 17, 2019.
  5. ^ "Four Alumni to Join the Distinguished Ranks of Wilbur Cross Medalists". www.yale.edu. Yale Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
  6. ^ a b c d "Graduate School Honors Four Alumni with Wilbur Cross Medals". gsas.yale.edu. Yale University. November 12, 2012. Retrieved August 16, 2015.
  7. ^ "Winners of this year's Wilbur Cross Medal to discuss their work". Insurance Technology Industry News. 30 September 2011. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
  8. ^ Roman, Caitlin. “Kennedy, once on Woodbridge shortlist, returns to receive Cross medal” Yale Daily News 8 October 2008
  9. ^ Saxon, Wolfgang. “Jane Oppenheimer Dies at 84; Expert on Embryos and Space” New York Times. 23 March 1996

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