Faculty External Honors
Multidisciplinary
Columns in the table can be sorted alphabetically. The National Research Council considers certain awards as Highly Prestigious or Prestigious. The default table is sorted by NRC status. Use the search tool to find specific Multidisciplinary awards.
Name & Hyperlink | NRC Status | Agency Name | Estimated Deadline Month | Description | Sub-field |
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Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities or Sciences | Highly Prestigious | Franklin Institute | Continuous | Awarded annually and span seven disciplines of science and engineering: chemistry, civil and mechanical engineering, computer and cognitive science, earth and environmental science, electrical engineering, life science, and physics. | Multidisciplinary |
Member | Highly Prestigious | MacArthur Foundation | Continuous | Awarding unrestricted fellowships to talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction. | Multidisciplinary |
Member | Highly Prestigious | National Academy of Medicine | Continuous | Recognizes distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. | Multidisciplinary |
Benjamin Franklin Medal | Highly Prestigious | American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Continuous | Academy members are world leaders in the arts and sciences, business, philanthropy, and public affairs. | Multidisciplinary |
Crafoord Prize | Highly Prestigious | American Philosophical Society | Continuous | The medal is the Society's highest award for distinguished public service and the sciences. | Multidisciplinary |
Guggenheim Fellowship | Highly Prestigious | Guggenheim Partners | Continuous | Guggenheim Fellowships are intended for individuals who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. | Multidisciplinary |
Kyoto Prize | Highly Prestigious | American Philosophical Society | Continuous | Recognizes the best book published by the Society in a given year. | Multidisciplinary |
MacArthur Fellows | Highly Prestigious | MacArthur Foundation | Continuous | Presented to individuals who have made significant contributions in the fields of science and technology, as well as the arts and philosophy. | Multidisciplinary |
Members/Foreign Associates | Highly Prestigious | National Academy of Education | Continuous | The National Academy of Education is an honorific society consisting of U.S. members and international associates who are elected on the basis of outstanding scholarship related to education. | Multidisciplinary |
National Medal of Science | Highly Prestigious | National Academy of Science | Continuous | Members are elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. | Multidisciplinary |
Pulitzer Prize | Highly Prestigious | Nobel Foundation | Continuous | Awarded to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses. | Multidisciplinary |
The Rumford Prize | Highly Prestigious | American Philosophical Society | Continuous | A gold medal to be awarded from time to time under prescribed terms, to the author of the best discovery or most useful invention relating to navigation, astronomy, or natural philosophy (mere natural history only excepted). | Multidisciplinary |
Thomas Jefferson Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences | Highly Prestigious | American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Continuous | Recognizes contributions to the fields of heat and light, broadly interpreted. | Multidisciplinary |
Vannevar Bush Award | Highly Prestigious | American Philosophical Society | Continuous | The medal is the Society's highest award for the arts, humanities, and social sciences. | Multidisciplinary |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Member | Highly Prestigious | American Academy of Arts and Sciences | January | The Academy sponsors three fellowship programs: the Visiting Scholars Program for the humanities and social sciences, the Hellman Fellowship in Science and Technology Policy, and the Morton L. Mandel Presidential Fellowship. | Multidisciplinary |
Franklin Medal | Highly Prestigious | Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences | January | Awarded in Mathematics and Astronomy, Biosciences, Geosciences or Polyarthritis research. | Multidisciplinary |
The Magellanic Premium of the American Philosophical Society | Highly Prestigious | Pulitzer Board, The | January | There are 21 categories across journalism, books, drama and music that a Pulitzer Prize may be awarded. | Multidisciplinary |
Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award | Highly Prestigious | Lasker Foundation | February | Awarded for research accomplishments and scientific statesmanship that engender the deepest feelings of awe and respect. | Multidisciplinary |
Albert Lasker Clinical Medical Research Award | Highly Prestigious | Lasker Foundation | February | Awarded for a fundamental discovery that opens up a new area of biomedical science. | Multidisciplinary |
American Academy of Arts & Sciences Fellow | Highly Prestigious | Lasker Foundation | February | Awarded for a major advance that improves the lives of many thousands of people. | Multidisciplinary |
John Frederick Lewis Award | Highly Prestigious | Science and Technology Foundation of Japan, The | February | Awarded annually to scientists and engineers from around the world who have made significant contributions to the advancement of science and technology, thereby furthering the cause of peace and prosperity of mankind. | Multidisciplinary |
National Medal of Technology and Innovation | Highly Prestigious | National Science and Technology Medals Foundation | April | Recognizes outstanding contributions to knowledge in the physical, biological, mathematical, engineering sciences, or social and behavioral sciences. | Multidisciplinary |
AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize | Highly Prestigious | American Association for the Advancement of Science, The | June | Awarded to the author or authors of an outstanding paper published in the Research Articles or Reports sections of Science. | Multidisciplinary |
Alan T Waterman Award | Highly Prestigious | American Association for the Advancement of Science, The | August | Awarded to someone who has "made signal contributions to the advancement of science in the United States". | Multidisciplinary |
Harvard Society Senior Fellows | Highly Prestigious | Harvard Society of Fellows | August | The purpose of the Society is to give men and women at an early stage of their scholarly careers an opportunity to pursue their studies in any department of the University, free from formal requirements. | Multidisciplinary |
Japan Prize Laureates | Highly Prestigious | Harvard Society of Fellows | August | The purpose of the Society is to give men and women at an early stage of their scholarly careers an opportunity to pursue their studies in any department of the University, free from formal requirements. | Multidisciplinary |
Harvard Society Junior Fellows | Highly Prestigious | Guggenheim Fellowships | September | Guggenheim Fellowships are intended for individuals who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. | Multidisciplinary |
Wolf Prize | Highly Prestigious | National Science Foundation | September | Honors exceptional service to the nation in science and technology. | Multidisciplinary |
AAAS Fellow | Highly Prestigious | Wolf Foundation, The | September | Given to renowned scientists and artists for a unique contribution "for humanity and for friendship between peoples, regardless of citizenship, race, color, religion, gender or political outlook." | Multidisciplinary |
Albert Lasker Award for Special Acheivement in Medical Science | Highly Prestigious | National Science Foundation | October | Recognizes an outstanding young researcher in any field of science or engineering supported by the National Science Foundation. | Multidisciplinary |
ASEEES Distinguished Contributions to Slavic Studies Award | Prestigious | American Association for the Advancement of Science, The | April | A member whose efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications are scientifically or socially distinguished and who has been a continuous member for the four year period leading up to the year of nomination, may, by virtue of such meritorious contribution be elected a Fellow. | Multidisciplinary |
Barbara Jelavich Book Prize | Prestigious | American Association for the Advancement of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies | April | Honors eminent members of the profession who have made major contributions to the field through scholarship of the highest quality, mentoring, leadership, and/or service to the profession. | Multidisciplinary |
Traditional Fulbright Scholarship | Prestigious | American Association for the Advancement of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies | April | Awarded annually for a distinguished monograph published on any aspect of Southeast European or Habsburg studies since 1600, or nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ottoman or Russian diplomatic history in the previous calendar year. | Multidisciplinary |
Women of Distinction Awards | Prestigious | Council for International Exchange of Scholars | September | Opportunities are available for college and university faculty and administrators as well as for professionals, artists, journalists, scientists, lawyers, independent scholars and many others. | Multidisciplinary |
AAAS-Lemelson Invention Ambassador | Prestigious | American Association for University Women | TBD | The women highlighted are leaders in their fields, innovators of unique programs and services, and prime examples of lifelong commitments to promoting equity for women and girls everywhere. | Multidisciplinary |
Excellence in College and University Teaching in the Food and Agricultural Sciences/National Teaching Award | - | American Association for the Advancement of Science, The | March | Designed to showcase the modern faces and voices in invention that are addressing the grand challenges facing humanity. | Multidisciplinary |
Ford Foundation Fellowships/Dissertaton | - | US Department of Agriculture | April | Recognizes outstanding college faculty in agriculture, natural resources, veterinary and human sciences. | Multidisciplinary |
Promising Scholar/Early Career Award | - | Institute of Mathematical Statistics | July | Recognizes academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society. | Multidisciplinary |
Rhodes Scholar | - | American Society for Engineering Education | July | Given for a significant body of scholarship, a single extraordinary research achievement by a higher education scholar, or recognition of a potential for future research. | Multidisciplinary |
Mani L. Bhaumik Award for Public Engagement with Science | - | American Association for the Advancement of Science | August | Recognizes scientists and engineers who demonstrate excellence in their contribution to public engagement with science. | Multidisciplinary |
Fulbright Distinguished Chair Program | - | Council for International Exchange of Scholars | August | Fulbright Distinguished Chair Awards are viewed as among the most prestigious appointments in the Fulbright Scholar Program. | Multidisciplinary |
Sony Research Award Program | - | Sony Corporation of America | September | The Sony Research Award Program provides funding for cutting-edge academic research and helps build a collaborative relationship between faculty and Sony researchers. | Multidisciplinary |
Mabel Lee Award | - | National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine | October | The JSF is open to tenured, or similarly ranked, faculty from U.S. institutions of higher learning who are U.S. citizens. | Multidisciplinary |
NAI Fellow | - | Society of Health and Physical Educators (SHAPE America) | October | Recognizes younger members who have demonstrated outstanding potential in scholarship, teaching, and/or professional leadership. | Multidisciplinary |
Schachterle Prize | - | National Council on Measurement in Education | October | Rhodes Scholars come from all corners of the world and are engaged with all fields of study. | Multidisciplinary |
Ford Foundation Fellowships/Postdoctoral | - | National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine | December | Seeks to increase the diversity of the nation??s college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students. | Multidisciplinary |
Ford Foundation Fellowships/Predoctoral | - | National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine | December | Seeks to increase the diversity of the nation??s college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students. | Multidisciplinary |
Jefferson Science Fellowship | - | National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine | December | Seeks to increase the diversity of the nation??s college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students. | Multidisciplinary |
Humboldt Research Award | - | Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation | TBD | The award is granted in recognition of a researcher's entire achievements to date to academics. | Multidisciplinary |