Jané Kondev, Professor of Physics and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor

Distinguished Faculty

Exceptional faculty win exceptional distinctions.

Among the top awards and honors we count: Nobel Prize winners; fellowship in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; membership in the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine; Pulitzer Prizes; MacArthur Foundation "genius grants"; and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigatorships. These kudos help our faculty keep their eyes on the prize: moving their fields forward.

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American Academy of Arts and Letters

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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.

American Association for the Advancement of Science

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

Andrew Carnegie Fellow

Gairdner Award

Gruber Prize

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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.

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.

John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships

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

Kavli Prize

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

MacArthur Fellows

National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine)

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.

National Academy of Sciences

The 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.

Nobel Prize

Other Academies

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)

Pulitzer Prize

Royal Society

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)

University Professors

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.

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Brandeis Professors Michael Rosbash and Jeffrey Hall win Nobel Prize

Michael Rosbash, the Peter Gruber Endowed Chair in Neuroscience and professor of biology, and Jeffrey Hall, professor emeritus of biology, were awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries of the molecular mechanisms controlling circadian rhythms, the inner biological clock that regulates almost all life on the planet.

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