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 | Discipline/Unit |
| 5 Under 35 Prize | National Book Foundation | English |
| A.M. Turing Award | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | Computer Science and Engineering |
| Academic Leadership Award | Carnegie Corporation of New York | President's Office |
| Achievement Award | American Meat Science Association | Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness |
| Acta Biomaterialia Gold Metal | Acta Materialia, Inc. | Biological and Agricultural Engineering |
| ADS/Hancor Soil and Water Engineering Award | American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers | Biological and Agricultural Engineering |
| Advanced Environmental Solutions Prize | Eni-Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi | Environmental Sciences |
| AGFD Award for the Advancement of Application of Agricultural and Food Chemistry | American Chemical Society | Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness |
| Agnes Fay Morgan Research Award | IOTA SIGMA PI | Chemistry |
| Alfred Bader Award in Bioinorganic or Bioorganic Chemistry | American Chemical Society | Chemistry |
| Alfred M. Freudenthal Medal | American Society of Civil Engineers | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| American Book Award | Before Columbus Foundation | English or History |
| Anatrace Membrane Protein Award | Biophysical Society | Biological Sciences |
| Andrew Carnegie Fellow | Carnegie Corporation of New York | Social Sciences, Political Science, or History |
| Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction | American Library Association | Library and Information Science |
| Andrew Oliver Research Fellowship | Massachusetts Historical Society | History |
| Animal Physiology and Endocrinology Award | American Society of Animal Science | Veterinary Clinical Sciences |
| Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, Nonfiction | Cleveland Foundation | African and African American Studies |
| Annie J Cannon Award in Astronomy | American Astronomical Society | Physics and Astronomy |
| ANYL Award in Spectrochemical Analysis | American Chemical Society | Chemistry |
| ANYL The Roland F. Hirsch Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Analytical Chemistry | American Chemical Society | Chemistry |
| Applied Mechanics Division (AMD)/Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Award | American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) | Mechanical Engineering |
| Arab American Book Awards | Arab American National Museum | English |
| Aristotle Award | Semiconductor Research Corporation | Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| Art Omi Residency: Writers | Omi International Arts Center | Art |
| Arthur B. McDonald Fellowship | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Arthur C Cope Award | American Chemical Society | Chemistry |
| Arthur C Cope Scholar Award | American Chemical Society | Chemistry |
| Arthur L Day Medal | The Geological Society of America | Geography and Anthropology |
| Arts and Letters Awards | American Academy of Arts and Letters | Art |
| Asian Pacific American Award for Literature - Adult Fiction | Asian Pacific American Librarians Association | Library and Information Science |
| Atmospheric Sciences Section/Jacob Bjerknes Lecture | American Geophysical Union | Geography and Anthropology |
| Atmospheric Sciences Section/Jule Gregory Charney Lecture | American Geophysical Union | Geography and Anthropology |
| Augustus Love Medal | European Geosciences Union | Geography and Anthropology |
| Award for Affordable Green Chemistry | American Chemical Society | Chemistry |
| Award for Creative Invention | American Chemical Society | Chemistry |
| Award for Excellence in Social Sciences | Association of American Publishers | English |
| Award for Outstanding Contribution to Public Understanding of the Geosciences | American Geosciences Institute | Geography and Anthropology |
| Award in Applied Polymer Science | American Chemical Society | Chemistry |
| Award in Colloid Chemistry | American Chemical Society | Chemistry |
| Award in Polymer Chemistry | American Chemical Society | Chemistry |
| Award in Pure Chemistry | American Chemical Society | Chemistry |
| Award in the Chemistry of Materials | American Chemical Society | Chemistry |
| Babcock-Hart Award | Institute of Food Technologists | Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness |
| Bakerian Lecture | The Royal Society | Physics and Astronomy |
| Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award | Poets & Writers | English |
| Baron Book Prize | American Academy for Jewish Research | Geography and Anthropology |
| Beckman Young Investigators (BYI) | Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation | Science |
| Bellagio Center Residence | The Rockefeller Foundation | Multidisciplinary |
| Benjamin H. Danks Award | American Academy of Arts and Letters | Multidisciplinary |
| Berlin Prize Fellow | American Academy in Berlin | Multidisciplinary |
| Best Information Science Book | Association for Information Science and Technology | Computer Science and Engineering |
| Best JASIST Paper Award | Association for Information Science and Technology | Information Studies |
| Best NASKO Papers | International Society for Knowledge Organization | Information Studies |
| Best of Young American Novelests | Granta Magazine | English |
| Blaise Pascal Medals | European Academy of Sciences | Science and Engineering |
| Bocher Memorial Prize | American Mathematical Society | Mathematics |
| Bogliasco Fellowship | Bogliasco Foundation | Architecture |
| Bolton-Cutter Award | Western History Association | History |
| Book Award | Association for Asian American Studies | History |
| Cargill Animal Nutrition Young Scientist Award | American Dairy Science Association | Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness |
| Center for Hellenic Studies/CHS Fellowships in Hellenic Studies | Harvard University | History |
| Central Nervous System Section Awards/Joseph Erlanger Distinguished Lecture | American Physiological Society | Kinesiology |
| Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award | American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) | Mechanical Engineering |
| Charles Schuchert Award | Paleontological Society | Geography and Anthropology |
| Chemical Pioneer Award | American Institute of Chemists | Chemistry |
| CIAC Small Grants | Association for Asian Studies | Geography and Anthropology |
| Clifford Prize | American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies | History |
| Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics | American Astronomical Society | Physics and Astronomy |
| David and Betty Hamburg Award for Science Diplomacy | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | Science or Engineering |
| Diamond Anniversary Book Award | National Communication Association | English |
| Distinguished Scholar Award | National Communication Association | Communication Studies |
| Douglas W Ehninger Distinguished Rhetorical Scholar Award | National Communication Association | Communication Studies |
| Elaine Bennett Research Prize | Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession | Economics |
| Errol Hill Award | American Society for Theatre Research | Theatre |
| Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Science or Engineering |
| Fellow | American Psychological Association | Psychology |
| Fellow | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | Science or Engineering |
| Fellow of ASPB | American Society of Plant Biologists | Plant, Environmental and Soil Sciences |
| Fellow of the Biophysical Society | Biophysical Society | Biological Sciences |
| Frank L and Harriet C Owsley Award | Southern Historical Association | History |
| Frederic Ives Medal/Quinn Endowment Winners | Optical Society of America, The (OSA) | Art |
| Frederick W Lanchester Prize | Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) | Management |
| Fulbright Scholar | United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs | Multidisciplinary |
| Gairdner Awards | The Gairdner Foundation | Biological and Agricultural Engineering |
| Geobiology and Geomicrobiology Division, Distinguished Career Award | The Geological Society of America | Geology and Geophysics |
| Gold Medal Award | American Institute of Chemists | Chemistry |
| Gruber Foundation Neuroscience Prize | Society for Neuroscience | Psychology |
| Günter Blobel Early Career Award | American Society for Cell Biology | Biological Sciences |
| Helen B Warner Prize for Astronomy | American Astronomical Society | Physics and Astronomy |
| Herbert Tabor/Journal of Biological Chemistry Lectureship | American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | Biological Sciences |
| Humboldt Research Fellowship | Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation | Science or Engineering |
| IAS School of Historical Studies/Members | Institute for Advanced Study | History |
| ICA Fellows Book Award | International Communication Association (ICA) | Communication Sciences and Disorders |
| James A Winans - Herbert A Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address | National Communication Association | Communication Sciences and Disorders |
| John von Neumann Theory Prize | Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) | Science or Engineering |
| Karl Spencer Lashley Award | American Philosophical Society | Philosophy and Religious Studies |
| Lilla A Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies | National Communication Association | Theatre |
| Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize | American Studies Association | Sociology |
| Marcel Loncin Research Prize | Institute of Food Technologists | Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness |
| Maria Goeppert Mayer Award | American Physical Society | Physics and Astronomy |
| Mika Saltpeter Lifetime Achievement Award | Society for Neuroscience | Psychology |
| Nathan M Newmark Medal | American Society of Civil Engineers | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy | American Astronomical Society | Physics and Astronomy |
| Notable Books for Adults | American Library Association | English |
| OSA Fellow | Optical Society of America, The (OSA) | Physics and Astronomy |
| Outstanding Book Award | International Communication Association (ICA) | Communication Studies |
| Outstanding Early-Career Investigator Award | Materials Research Society | Mechanical Engineering |
| Palmer O. Johnson Memorial Award | American Educational Research Association (AERA) | Education |
| PBT Recognition Award in Insect Physiology, Biochemistry and Toxicology | Entomological Society of America | Entomology |
| Percy L Julian Award | National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers | Chemistry or Chemical Engineering |
| Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences | The Pew Charitable Trusts | Comparative Biomedical Sciences |
| Photonics Award | Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) | President of the United States of America | Science or Engineering |
| R W Wood Prize | The Optical Society of America (OSA) | Physics and Astronomy |
| Radcliffe Institute Fellowship | Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study | HSS |
| Ralph E Kleinman Prize | Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) | Mathematics |
| Renal Section Awards/Carl W Gottschalk Distinguished Lecture | American Physiological Society | Kinesiology |
| Renal Section Awards/Robert W Berliner Award for Excellence in Renal Physiology | American Physiological Society | Kinesiology |
| Research and Development Award | Institute of Food Technologists | Nutrition and Food Sciences |
| Research in Information Science | Association for Information Science and Technology | Psychology |
| Roger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry | American Chemical Society | Chemistry |
| Roger Revelle Medal | American Geophysical Union | Geology and Geophysics |
| Ruth Allen Award | American Phytopathological Society | Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology |
| Samuel Cate Prescott Award | Institute of Food Technologists | Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness |
| Searle Scholars | Searle Scholars | Science |
| Sloan Research Fellowship-Chemistry | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation | Chemistry |
| Sloan Research Fellowship-Economics | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation | Economics |
| Sloan Research Fellowship-Mathematics | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation | Mathematics |
| Sloan Research Fellowship-Neuroscience | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation | Psychology |
| Sloan Research Fellowship-Physics | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation | Physics and Astronomy |
| Stanford Humanities Center/External Faculty Fellowship | Stanford University | HSS |
| Stephen S Chang Award for Lipid Or Flavor Science | Institute of Food Technologists | Biological Sciences |
| Summer Stipend Award | National Endowment for the Humanities | Humanities |
| The Henry G Houghton Award | American Meteorological Society | Oceanography and Coastal Sciences |
| Theodore von Karman Medal | American Society of Civil Engineers | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Von Hippel Award | Materials Research Society | Mechanical Engineering |
| Walter L Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize | American Society of Civil Engineers | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Water and Electrolyte Homeostasis Section/New Investigator Award | American Physiological Society | Nutrition and Food Sciences |
| William Bowie Medalists | American Geophysical Union | Geology and Geophysics |
| Young Investigator Program Award (YIP) | Office of Naval Research (ONR) | Science |
| Zoetis Physiology Award | American Dairy Science Association | Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness |