Prestigious Pathway Awards
Prestigious awards are designated by the National Research Council and include both early career awards for research (e.g., National Science Foundation CAREER Award) as well as career achievement awards (e.g., American Academy for the Advancement of Science Fellow). These scholarly awards are classified across the arts and humanities, physical sciences and engineering, social sciences, and life sciences.
| Award Name | Awarding Organization |
| Fulbright Scholar | United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs |
| AAA President's Award | American Anthropological Association |
| AAAS Fellow | American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| AAS CIAC Small Grants | Association for Asian Studies |
| AAS NEAC Japan Studies Grants | Association for Asian Studies |
| Abbott Payson Usher Prize | Society for the History of Technology |
| ACS Award for Creative Invention | American Chemical Society |
| ACS Award in Colloid Chemistry | American Chemical Society |
| ACS Award in Inorganic Chemistry | American Chemical Society |
| ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry | American Chemical Society |
| ACS Award in Pure Chemistry | American Chemical Society |
| ACS Award in the Chemistry of Materials | American Chemical Society |
| ADS/Hancor Soil and Water Engineering Award | American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers |
| ADSA Foundation Scholar Award (Dairy Foods and Production) | American Dairy Science Association |
| Albert Hourani Book Award | Middle East Studies Association |
| Alexander Graham Bell Medal | Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
| Alfred Bader Award in Bioinorganic or Bioorganic Chemistry | American Chemical Society |
| Alfred M Freudenthal Medal | American Society of Civil Engineers |
| Allan P Colburn Award for Excellence in Publications by a Young Member of the Institute | American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) |
| Alpha Chi Sigma Award for Chemical Engineering Research | American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) |
| American Feed Industry Association Award in Nonruminant Nutrition Research | American Society of Animal Science |
| Anatrace Membrane Protein Award | Biophysical Society |
| Andreas Acrivos Award for Professional Progress in Chemical Engineering | American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) |
| Animal Growth and Development Award | American Society of Animal Science |
| Animal Physiology and Endocrinology Award | American Society of Animal Science |
| Annie J Cannon Award in Astronomy | American Astronomical Society |
| APA Fellow | American Psychological Association |
| Archaeology Division-The Patty Jo Watson Distinguished Lecturer | American Anthropological Association |
| Arthur C Cope Award | American Chemical Society |
| Arthur C Cope Scholar Award | American Chemical Society |
| ASA Fellow | American Statistical Association |
| ASBMB-Young Investigator Award | American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
| ASTR Research Fellowship | American Society for Theatre Research |
| Babcock-Hart Award | Institute of Food Technologists |
| Beckman Young Investigators (BYI) | Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation |
| Best Information Science Book | Association for Information Science and Technology |
| Best JASIST Paper Award | Association for Information Science and Technology |
| Bocher Memorial Prize | American Mathematical Society |
| Book Award | Association for Asian American Studies |
| Cardiovascular Section Awards/Clinical Science Young Investigator Award | American Physiological Society |
| Cargill Animal Nutrition Young Scientist Award | American Dairy Science Association |
| Center for Hellenic Studies/CHS Fellowships in Hellenic Studies | Harvard University |
| Central Nervous System Section Awards/Joseph Erlanger Distinguished Lecture | American Physiological Society |
| Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award | American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) |
| Charles Schuchert Award | Paleontological Society |
| Chemical Pioneer Award | American Institute of Chemists |
| Clifford C Clogg Award for Early Career Achievement | Population Association of America |
| Clifford Prize | American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies |
| Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics | American Astronomical Society |
| Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics | American Physical Society |
| Dennis Robert Hoagland Award | American Society of Plant Biologists |
| Diamond Anniversary Book Award | National Communication Association |
| Distinguished Scholar Award | National Communication Association |
| Distinguished Scholarly Book Award | American Sociological Association |
| Distinguished Scientific Award for the Applications of Psychology | American Psychological Association |
| Distinguished Scientist Award | Microscopy Society of America |
| Douglas W Ehninger Distinguished Rhetorical Scholar Award | National Communication Association |
| Early Career Award | American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities |
| EB Wilson Medal | American Society for Cell Biology |
| Edwin H Sutherland Award | American Society of Criminology |
| Einstein Prize | American Physical Society |
| Elaine Bennett Research Prize | Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession |
| Ellis W Hawley Prize | Organization of American Historians |
| ELR Stokstad Award | American Society for Nutrition |
| Eminent Ecologist Award | Ecological Society of America |
| Eric E Sumner Award | Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
| Errol Hill Award | American Society for Theatre Research |
| Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program | National Science Foundation (NSF) |
| FASS-American Feed Industry Association New Frontiers in Animal Nutrition Award | American Dairy Science Association |
| Fellow of ASPB | American Society of Plant Biologists |
| Fellow of the Biophysical Society | Biophysical Society |
| Francis P Garvan - John M Olin Medal | American Chemical Society |
| Frank L and Harriet C Owsley Award | Southern Historical Association |
| Frederic Ives Medal/Quinn Endowment Winners | Optical Society of America, The (OSA) |
| Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellows | American Council of Learned Societies |
| Frederick W Lanchester Prize | Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) |
| Gabor A Somorjai Award for Creative Research in Catalysis | American Chemical Society |
| Gairdner Awards | The Gairdner Foundation |
| George Mercer Award | Ecological Society of America |
| Gold Medal Award | American Institute of Chemists |
| Gruber Foundation Neuroscience Prize | Society for Neuroscience |
| Günter Blobel Early Career Award | American Society for Cell Biology |
| Helen B Warner Prize for Astronomy | American Astronomical Society |
| Herbert Tabor/Journal of Biological Chemistry Lectureship | American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
| Honorary Membership | British Ecological Society |
| Humboldt Research Fellowship | Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation |
| IAS School of Historical Studies/Members | Institute for Advanced Study |
| ICA Fellows Book Award | International Communication Association (ICA) |
| Investigators in Pathogenesis of Infectious Diseases | Burroughs Wellcome Fund |
| Irene B Taeuber Award | Population Association of America |
| J James R Croes Medal | American Society of Civil Engineers |
| James A Rawley Prize | Organization of American Historians |
| James A Winans - Herbert A Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address | National Communication Association |
| James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award | Association for Psychological Science |
| James McKeen Cattell Fund Fellowship | Association for Psychological Science |
| James Willard Hurst Book Prize | Law and Society Association |
| Joel Henry Hildebrand Award in the Theoretical and Experimental Chemistry of Liquids | American Chemical Society |
| John Fritz Medal | American Association of Engineering Societies |
| John Philip Reid Book Award | American Society for Legal History |
| John von Neumann Theory Prize | Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) |
| Karl Spencer Lashley Award | American Philosophical Society |
| Lilla A Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies | National Communication Association |
| Littleton-Griswold Prize in American Law and Society | American Historical Association |
| Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize | American Studies Association |
| Marcel Loncin Research Prize | Institute of Food Technologists |
| Maria Goeppert Mayer Award | American Physical Society |
| Maurice A Biot Medal | American Society of Civil Engineers |
| Max Delbruck Prize in Biological Physics | American Physical Society |
| Mika Saltpeter Lifetime Achievement Award | Society for Neuroscience |
| Moisseiff Award | American Society of Civil Engineers |
| MRS Medal | Materials Research Society |
| Nadai Medal | American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) |
| Nathan M Newmark Medal | American Society of Civil Engineers |
| Neural Control and Autonomic Regulation Section Awards/Postdoctoral and Early Career Research Recognition Award | American Physiological Society |
| New Holland Young Researcher Award | American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers |
| Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy | American Astronomical Society |
| Norman Medal | American Society of Civil Engineers |
| Notable Books for Adults | American Library Association |
| OSA Fellow | Optical Society of America, The (OSA) |
| Outstanding Book Award | International Communication Association (ICA) |
| Outstanding Early-Career Investigator Award | Materials Research Society |
| Outstanding Researcher | Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies |
| Palmer O. Johnson Memorial Award | American Educational Research Association (AERA) |
| PBT Recognition Award in Insect Physiology, Biochemistry and Toxicology | Entomological Society of America |
| Percy L Julian Award | National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers |
| Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences | The Pew Charitable Trusts |
| Photonics Award | Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
| Premio Del Rey Prize | American Historical Association |
| Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) | President of the United States of America |
| Quality of Research Discovery Award | Agricultural and Applied Economics Association |
| R W Wood Prize | The Optical Society of America (OSA) |
| Radcliffe Institute Fellowship | Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study |
| Ralph E Kleinman Prize | Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) |
| Raymond C Reese Research Prize | American Society of Civil Engineers |
| Renal Section Awards/Carl W Gottschalk Distinguished Lecture | American Physiological Society |
| Renal Section Awards/Robert W Berliner Award for Excellence in Renal Physiology | American Physiological Society |
| Research and Development Award | Institute of Food Technologists |
| Research in Information Science | Association for Information Science and Technology |
| Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health | National Academy of Medicine |
| Robert H Herman Memorial Award | American Society for Nutrition |
| Robert H MacArthur Award | Ecological Society of America |
| Roger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry | American Chemical Society |
| Roger Revelle Medal | American Geophysical Union |
| Rome Residency | American Academy in Rome |
| Ronald Breslow Award for Achievement in Biomimetic Chemistry | American Chemical Society |
| Ruth Allen Award | American Phytopathological Society |
| Samuel Cate Prescott Award | Institute of Food Technologists |
| Searle Scholars | Searle Scholars |
| Shortridge Hardesty Award | American Society of Civil Engineers |
| SIAM/ACM Award in Computational Science and Engineering | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
| Simon W Freese Environmental Engineering Award & Lecture | American Society of Civil Engineers |
| Sloan Research Fellowship-Chemistry | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |
| Sloan Research Fellowship-Computational & Evolutionary Molecular Biology | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |
| Sloan Research Fellowship-Economics | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |
| Sloan Research Fellowship-Mathematics | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |
| Sloan Research Fellowship-Neuroscience | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |
| Sloan Research Fellowship-Physics | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |
| Stanford Humanities Center/External Faculty Fellowship | Stanford University |
| Stephen S Chang Award for Lipid Or Flavor Science | Institute of Food Technologists |
| Summer Stipend Award | National Endowment for the Humanities |
| Sustainability Science Award | Ecological Society of America |
| T Y Lin Award | American Society of Civil Engineers |
| The Henry G Houghton Award | American Meteorological Society |
| The Margaret W Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize | History of Science Society |
| The Sverdrup Gold Medal | American Meteorological Society |
| Theodore von Karman Medal | American Society of Civil Engineers |
| Timoshenko Medal | American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) |
| Von Hippel Award | Materials Research Society |
| Walter L Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize | American Society of Civil Engineers |
| Water and Electrolyte Homeostasis Section/New Investigator Award | American Physiological Society |
| Watson. Helen, Miles, and Audrey Davis Prize (best books for general readers) | History of Science Society |
| West Agro, Inc award | American Dairy Science Association |
| William Bowie Medalists | American Geophysical Union |
| William H Walker Award for Excellence in Contributions to Chemical Engineering Literature | American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) |
| William Sanders Scarborough Prize | Modern Language Association |
| Worcester Reed Warner Medal | American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) |
| Young Investigator Award | Society for Neuroscience |
| Young Investigator Program Award (YIP) | Office of Naval Research (ONR) |
| Zoetis Physiology Award | American Dairy Science Association |