The Wilbur Cross Medal, or Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal for Alumni Achievement, is an award by the Yale University Graduate School Alumni Association to recognize "distinguished achievements in scholarship, teaching, academic administration, and public service."Robert Hubbard and Kathleen Hubbard (2019). Hidden History of New Haven. Charleston, South Carolina: The History Press.
History Named in honor of Wilbur Lucius Cross, the medal is given to a small group of individuals (up to six) annually, and was first awarded in 1966 to Edgar S. Furniss.
Recipients 2024 Anne C. Ferguson-Smith John D. Guillory Kai Li James C. Scott
2023 Elizabeth H. Bradley Robert Gooding-Williams James Jones Che Chia-wei
2022 Virginia R. Domínguez Philip Ewell Kirk Johnson Sarah Tishkoff
2021 Anat Admati Tamer Basar Donald Ingber Mary Miller
2020 Matthew State Brenda Elaine Stevenson Dorceta Taylor Veronica Vaida
2019 Ruth Garrett Millikan Douglas R. Green Susan M. Kidwell Urjit Patel
2018 Elizabeth W. Easton Kelsey 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 Hanawalt Jeremy Jackson Jonathan Z. Smith Thomas D. Pollard
2014 Eric Fossum Thomas C. Holt Kristin Luker Edmund Phelps
2013 Fredric Jameson Alan Lambowitz Theodore J. Lowi Annette Thomas
2012 John D. Aber Alfred W. McCoy Jonathan M. Rothberg Sarah Grey Thomason
2011 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 Robert Axelrod Stephen G. Emerson Yoriko Kawaguchi David M. Kennedy
2007 Carol T. Christ Paul Friedrich 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 E. 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 Helen Murphy Tepperman George A. Lindbeck Peter Demetz David M. Lee Thomas Appelquist
1997 Alvin M. Liberman Francis C. Oakley G. Virginia Upton Janet L. Yellen Anne M. Briscoe William Louis Gaines
1996 David C. McClelland Marie Borroff Miriam Usher Chrisman James T. Laney Heidi I. Hartmann
1995 Alfred Edward Kahn Gordon H. Bower Jennifer L. Kelsey Mark E. Neely Jr. Catharine A. MacKinnon
1994 Theodore Frederic Cooke Jr. Vincent Scully John Imbrie Jerome John McGann Thomas Eugene Lovejoy III Zunyi Yang
1993 Walles T. Edmondson Estella Leopold Marcia L. Colish Richard Charles Levin Jaime Serra Puche
1992 Irving Rouse Frances K. Graham Raymond L. Garthoff Gerald R. Fink J. Dennis Huston Judith Rodin
1991 W. Edwards Deming Aubrey L. Williams Maxine Singer Joseph P. Allen Russell G. Hamilton Jerome J. Pollitt
1990 Franklin LeVan Baumer Adolph Grünbaum Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. Eleanor Holmes Norton A. Bartlett Giamatti
1989 Pauline Newman Paul Webster MacAvoy Garry Wills Mary Lou Pardue Menno Boldt
1988 Ellis Crossman Maxcy Charles Allen Walker Joseph G. Gall Gérard Lepoutre Richard S. Westfall Thomas Kaehao Seung
1987 Thomas Brennan Nolan Harry Rudolph Rudin Julian M. Sturtevant Richard David Ellmann Barbara Ann Feinn Nannerl Overholser Keohane
1986 Robert Alan Dahl A. Dwight Culler Richard Derecktor Schwartz Robert Joseph Birgeneau Keith Stewart Thomson
1985 Eugene Mersereau Waith Peter T. Flawn Victor Brombert John Paul Schiffer Nelson Woolf Polsby
1984 Louis L. Martz George Alexander Kubler Homer D. Babbidge Jr. Burton Edelson Margaret W. Rossiter
1983 George Harry Ford Floyd Lounsbury Barbara Illingworth Brown Daniel Berg Morton H. Halperin
1982 Mary Ellen Jones Richard N. Rosett Theodore Ziolkowski
1981 Henry Margenau Warren Hunting Smith Bernard Nicholas Schilling Jerome Kagan Grace Evelyn Pickford
1980 Bingham Johnson Humphrey Maurice Mandelbaum Phyllis Ann Wallace Wendell Garner
1979 Richard B. Sewall Elizabeth Read Foster Jacquelyn Mattfeld
1978 Jaroslav Pelikan Thomas G. Bergin Maynard Mack Stephen Hopkins Spurr
1977 Gordon Sherman Haight Mary Rosamund Haas Joseph Austin Ranney Jacob T. Schwartz
1976 Josephine P. Bree James H. Wakelin Jr. William G. Moulton George Heard Hamilton Laura Anna Bornholdt
1975 Robert Phelan Langlands Ralph Henry Gabriel Eliot Herman Rodnick George Berkeley Young Orville Gilbert Brim, Jr. Donald Wayne Taylor
1974 Milton Harris Amos Niven Wilder Constance McLaughlin Green Alvin Bernard Kernan
1973 Samuel Miller Brownell George Wilson Pierson Marshall Hall Eleanor Jack Gibson Preston E. Cloud
1972 Dumas Malone John Collins Pope Grace Murray Hopper Lars Onsager
1971 Gladden Whetstone Baker Ernest Hilgard Jane Marion Oppenheimer Bernard Knox John Robert Silber
1970 Roland Herbert Bainton Bertrand Harris Bronson Leona Baumgartner Melvin Spencer Newman Lucian Pye
1969 George Gaylord Simpson Murray Barnson Emeneau Allan Murray Cartter James Patrick Shannon John Perry Miller Joshua Lederberg
1968 James Bliss Austin William M. Fairbank James G. March F. S. C. Northrop
1967 Carl Blegen Robert W. Buchheim Neal E. Miller George Murdock Marjorie Hope Nicolson Wallace Notestein Frederick A. Pottle Luther A. Weigle
1966 Edgar S. Furniss
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