Awards and Honors

Recent Winners

• Alan Alda to Receive Public Welfare Medal, Academy's Most Prestigious Award
• NAS Honoring Outstanding Achievement in Science
• Telecommunications Pioneer and Worcester Polytechnic Institute Educators Win Engineering's Highest Honors for 2016
• National Academy of Medicine Awards 2015 Sarnat Prize in Mental Health to Kay Jamison and Kenneth Kendler
• National Academy of Medicine Awards 2015 Lienhard Award to Robert L. Brent for Research and Counseling on Environmental Risk Factors for Birth Defects
• NAM Honors Members for Outstanding Service
• Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education
• Inventors of Cochlear Implant Win 2015 Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize

List of Awards and Honors

The Academies present a number of awards to recognize outstanding individual achievements in science, medicine, engineering, and more. Links to information about our awards are below.

• National Academy of Sciences Awards Homepage
• National Academy of Medicine Awards and Honors Homepage
• Transportation Research Board Awards Homepage
• National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Communication Awards  
• Fellowships & Postdocs