Honors & Awards

  • Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) Named Professorship – Vannevar Bush Professor of Biochemistry – 2019
  • Member, National Research Committee on Next Generation Researchers – 2016-2018
  • Chair, President’s Committee on National Medal of Science committee – 2015-2017
  • Vilas Board of Trustees – 2014-present
  • Member, President’s Committee on National Medal of Science – 2014-2015
  • President’s Committee on National Medal of Science – 2012-2014
  • Chair, ASCB International Affairs Committee – 2013-2014
  • Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan – 2009-2011
  • Council, National Academy of Sciences – 2008-2010
  • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science – 2006
  • President, Society for Developmental Biology – 2004-2005
  • Hilldale Award, Biological Sciences Division, UW-Madison – 2002-2003
  • Elected, American Philosophical Society – 2002
  • Vilas Professor, UW-Madison – 2001-Present
  • President, Genetics Society of America – 2000
  • Elected, National Academy of Sciences – 1995
  • Elected, American Academy of Arts and Sciences – 1995
  • WARF, Mid-Career Award, UW-Madison – 1995-2005
  • Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute – 1994
  • H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship, UW-Madison – 1990-1995
  • Pound Award for Excellence in Research, UW-Madison – 1988
  • NIH Research Career Development Award – 1984-1989
  • NIH Postdoctoral Fellow – 1980-1982
  • Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow – 1978-1980
  • NSF Predoctoral Fellow, U. Colorado, Boulder – 1974-1977
  • Anna Fullam Award, U. Colorado, Boulder – 1973