Wilbur Cross Medal

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..."

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
2023 Elizabeth H. Bradley Robert Gooding-Williams James Jones (psychologist) Chi 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