The Wilbur Cross Medal, or Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal for Alumni Achievement, is an award by the
Yale University
Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...
Graduate School Alumni Association to recognize "...distinguished achievements in scholarship, teaching, academic administration, and public service..."
History
Named in honor of
Wilbur Lucius Cross
Wilbur Lucius Cross (April 10, 1862 – October 5, 1948) was an American literary critic who served as the 71st governor of Connecticut from 1931 to 1939.
Biography
Born in 1862 in Mansfield, Connecticut, Cross attended Natchaug School in Wil ...
, 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
2022
Virginia R. Domínguez
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Early life
Virginia Dominguez was ...
Philip Ewell
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Tamer Basar Tamer is a Turkish given name and surname. It means ''Competent soldier'' in Turkish. In Arabic (written as تامر), the name is more closely related to Tamr (as in dates).
Persons Given name
* Tamer Abdel Hamid, Egyptian football player
* Tame ...
Dorceta Taylor
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Veronica Vaida
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Early life and education
Vaida was born in Bucharest. Her parents ...
Urjit Patel
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2018
Elizabeth W. Easton
Kelsey Martin
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Marianne Mithun
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Tan Eng Chye
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2017
Douglas Diamond
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Donna J. Haraway
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Lawrence W. Sherman
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Sherman's use of randomized controlled experiments to study deterrence and crime prevention ...
2016
Arend Lijphart
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Ira Mellman
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Research
Mellman's work has examined the role of endocytosis in cell metabol ...
Arthur Nozik
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Jeremy Jackson
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Career Television
Jackson appeared in 159 episodes of the TV series ''Baywatch' ...
Jonathan Z. Smith
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Eric Fossum
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Edmund Phelps
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Early in his career, he became known for his research at Yale's Cowles Foundation in the first half of ...
2013
Fredric Jameson
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Theodore J. Lowi
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Alfred W. McCoy
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Sarah Grey Thomason
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2011
Stanley Fish
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Fred Greenstein
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Born in the Bronx, New York City, in 1930, Greenstein completed a bachelor's degr ...
Timothy J. Richmond Timothy John Richmond (born October 9, 1948, in Corvallis) is a Swiss/American molecular biologist, biochemist, and biophysicist.
He graduated in 1970 with a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from Purdue University, where his teachers included Lar ...
Paul Wender
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William J. Willis William J. Willis (15 September 1932, Fort Smith, Arkansas – 1 November 2012, Dobbs Ferry, New York)
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2008
Robert Axelrod
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John Suppe
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Biography
He received his B.A. from University of California, Riverside in 1965, and his Ph.D. from Yale ...
2006
Eva Brann
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Brann was born to a Jewish family in Berlin. Sh ...
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He was the father of U.S. Repres ...
Mimi Gardner Gates
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Career
Gates holds a B.A. degree in art histo ...
Richard Rorty
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William Cronon
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Julia Phillips
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Peter Salovey
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Robert D. Putnam
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Charles Yanofsky
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Susan Hockfield
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2002
Linda Gordon
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Sharon R. Long
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David E. Price
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David M. Lee
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He received his bachelor's degree from Illinois Benedictine College and his Ph.D. in 1968 from Cornell University ...
1997
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Biography
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Marie Borroff
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Life
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Miriam Usher Chrisman
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James T. Laney
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Early life and educa ...
Heidi I. Hartmann
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Catharine A. MacKinnon
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1994
Theodore Frederic Cooke Jr.
Vincent Scully
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John Imbrie
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After serving with the 10th Mountain ...
Estella Leopold
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Irving Rouse
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Raymond L. Garthoff
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Judith Rodin
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1991
W. Edwards Deming
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
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Ea ...
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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Giamatti served as Commiss ...
Garry Wills
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Richard S. Westfall
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Life
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Thomas Brennan Nolan
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Harry Rudolph Rudin
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Pols ...
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Richard N. Rosett
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Henry Margenau
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Biography Early life
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Warren Hunting Smith
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Grace Evelyn Pickford
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Phyllis Ann Wallace
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Jacquelyn Mattfeld
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1978
Jaroslav Pelikan
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Early years
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Maynard Mack
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Jacob T. Schwartz
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1976
Josephine P. Bree
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Early life and education
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William G. Moulton
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Early life and education
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Eliot Herman Rodnick
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Constance McLaughlin Green
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1972
Dumas Malone
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Grace Murray Hopper
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1971
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Bernard Knox
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Biography
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1969
George Gaylord Simpson
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1967
Carl Blegen
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George Murdock
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