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..."[1] 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.
[2] Anne C. Ferguson-Smith John D. Guillory Kai Li James C. Scott 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