Ostrom Raff Goldstone

• Elinor Ostrom, Arthur F. Bentley Professor of political science at IU Bloomington, has been named winner of the John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science. She was chosen “for her exceptional contributions to the study of social institutions, research that has greatly advanced our understanding of resource management and the governance of local public economies.” The award includes a medal and a $25,000 prize, which was established by the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. and has been awarded since 1932.

• Rudolf Raff, Distinguished Professor of biology and director of the Indiana Molecular Biology Institute at IUB, has won the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal, including a $15,000 prize, “for creative accomplishments in research, teaching and writing (especially The Shape of Life) which led to the establishment of a new field—evolutionary developmental biology.” The medal has been awarded every four years since 1917.

• Robert Goldstone, professor of psychology at IUB, is co-recipient of the annual Leonard T. Troland Research Award, with Wendy Suzuki of the New York University Center for Neural Science. Each will receive a $50,000 prize. Goldstone was chosen “for novel experimental analyses and elegant modeling that show how perceptual learning dynamically adjusts dimensions and boundaries of categories and concepts in human thought.” IUB psychologist John Kruschke was co-recipient of the Troland Award in 2002, and Goldstone’s award brings to four the number of recipients from the Bloomington department—the most from any single institution—since the award was first conferred in 1984. Cognitive psychologist Robert Nosofsky won the award in 1995, and Joseph Steinmetz won the award in 1996.

The recipients will be honored on April 19 at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., during NAS’s 141st annual meeting.

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