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The Wilbur Cross Medal

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The Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal is an honor presented each year by the Graduate School Alumni Association to a small number of outstanding alumni. The medal recognizes distinguished achievements in scholarship, teaching, academic administration, and public service–all areas in which the legendary Dean Cross excelled.

Wilbur Lucius Cross himself was a scholar of distinction in English literature. He taught at the Sheffield Scientific School, the precursor to Yale's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and served as Dean during the Graduate School's reorganization into its present form. He rejuvenated the Yale Review as its editor.

Recent Recipients

2008 Recipients (bios)
Robert Axelrod '69 PhD (Political Science)
Stephen G. Emerson '80 MD, '80 Ph.D. (Cell Biology)
Yoriko Kawaguchi '72 MPhil (Economics)
David M. Kennedy '68 PhD (American Studies)
Laura L. Kiessling '89 PhD* (Chemistry)
   * presentation delayed until 2009

2007 Recipients (bios)
Carol T. Christ '70 PhD (English)
Paul Friedrich '57 PhD (Anthropology)
Anne Walters Robertson '84 PhD (Music)
John Suppe '69 PhD (Geology and Geophysics)

2006 Recipients (bios)
Eva Brann '56 PhD
Richard Brodhead '68 BA, '72 PhD
Mimi Gardner Gates '81 PhD
Lewis E. Kay '88 PhD
Richard A. Young '79 PhD

2005 Recipients (bios)
Lincoln Pierson Brower ’57 PhD
Peter B. Dervan ’72 PhD
Jennifer L. Hochschild ’79 PhD
Richard Rorty ’56 PhD
Eric F. Wieschaus ’74 PhD

2004 Recipients (bios)
William Cronon ’90 PhD
Hong Koo Lee ’68 PhD
Julia Phillips ’81 PhD
Peter Salovey ’86 PhD
Barbara Schaal ’74 PhD
Philip Zimbardo ’59 PhD

2003 Recipients (bios)
Edward L. Ayers ’80 PhD
Gerald Brown ’50 PhD
John Fenn ’40 PhD
Robert D. Putnam ’70 PhD
Charles Yanofsky ’51 PhD, ’81 ScDH
Susan Hockfield

2002 Recipients (bios)
Linda Gordon '70 PhD
Sharon Long '79 PhD
Julia McNamara '80 PhD
David Price '64, '69 PhD

2001 Recipients (bios)
Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León '81 PhD
Elliot M. Meyerowitz '77 PhD
Stephen Owen '68, '72 PhD
Roger N. Shepard '55 PhD

2000 Recipients (bios)
James G. Arthur '70 PhD
Evelyn Boyd Granville '49 PhD
Ruth Barcan Marcus '46 PhD
Shelley E. Taylor '72 PhD

1999 Recipients (bios)
Francis Sellers Collins '72, '74 PhD
William N. Fenton '37 PhD
Allen Lee Sessoms '71, '72 PhD
Rosemary A. Stevens '63, '68 PhD
Geerat Jacobus Vermeij '70, '71 PhD