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."
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.
2024<br> Anne C. Ferguson-Smith <br> John D. Guillory <br> Kai Li <br> James C. Scott <br>
2023<br> Elizabeth H. Bradley<br> Robert Gooding-Williams<br> James Jones<br> Che Chia-wei<br>
2022<br> Virginia R. DomÃÂnguez<br> Philip Ewell<br> Kirk Johnson<br> Sarah Tishkoff<br>
2021<br> Anat Admati<br> Tamer Basar<br> Donald Ingber<br> Mary Miller<br>
2020<br> Matthew State<br> Brenda Elaine Stevenson<br> Dorceta Taylor<br> Veronica Vaida<br>
2019<br> Ruth Garrett Millikan<br> Douglas R. Green<br> Susan M. Kidwell<br> Urjit Patel<br>
2018<br> Elizabeth W. Easton<br> Kelsey Martin<br> Marianne Mithun<br> Tan Eng Chye<br>
2017<br> Douglas Diamond<br> Donna J. Haraway<br> Eric J. Nestler<br> Lawrence W. Sherman<br>
2016<br> Arend Lijphart<br> Ira Mellman<br> Arthur Nozik<br> Eleanor Sterling<br>
2015<br> Carol S. Dweck<br> Philip Hanawalt<br> Jeremy Jackson<br> Jonathan Z. Smith<br> Thomas D. Pollard<br>
2014<br> Eric Fossum<br> Thomas C. Holt<br> Kristin Luker<br> Edmund Phelps<br>
2013<br> Fredric Jameson<br> Alan Lambowitz<br> Theodore J. Lowi<br> Annette Thomas<br>
2012<br> John D. Aber<br> Alfred W. McCoy<br> Jonathan M. Rothberg<br> Sarah Grey Thomason<br>
2011<br> Stanley Fish<br> Leslie F. Greengard<br> Bernice A. Pescosolido<br> Huntington F. Willard<br>
2010<br> Stephen Greenblatt<br> Fred Greenstein<br> Timothy J. Richmond<br> Paul Wender<br> Jon Butler<br>
2009<br> Laura L. Kiessling<br> Michael S. Levine<br> Richard J. Powell<br> William J. Willis
2008<br> Robert Axelrod<br> Stephen G. Emerson<br> Yoriko Kawaguchi<br> David M. Kennedy
2007<br> Carol T. Christ<br> Paul Friedrich<br> Anne Walters Robertson<br> John Suppe<br>
2006<br> Eva Brann<br> Richard Brodhead<br> Mimi Gardner Gates<br> Lewis E. Kay<br> Richard A. Young<br>
2005<br> Lincoln Pierson Brower<br> Peter B. Dervan<br> Jennifer L. Hochschild<br> Richard Rorty<br> Eric F. Wieschaus<br>
2004<br> William Cronon<br> Hong Koo Lee<br> Julia Phillips<br> Peter Salovey <br> Barbara Schaal<br> Philip Zimbardo<br>
2003<br> Edward L. Ayers<br> Gerald E. Brown<br> John Fenn <br> Robert D. Putnam<br> Charles Yanofsky<br> Susan Hockfield<br>
2002<br> Linda Gordon<br> Sharon R. Long<br> Julia M. McNamara<br> David E. Price<br>
2001<br> Elliot M. Meyerowitz<br> Stephen Owen<br> Roger N. Shepard<br> Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León<br>
2000<br> James G. Arthur<br> Evelyn Boyd Granville<br> Ruth Barcan Marcus<br> Shelley E. Taylor<br>
1999<br> Francis S. Collins<br> William N. Fenton<br> Allen L. Sessoms<br> Rosemary A. Stevens<br> Geerat J. Vermeij
1998<br> Helen Murphy Tepperman<br> George A. Lindbeck<br> Peter Demetz<br> David M. Lee<br> Thomas Appelquist<br>
1997<br> Alvin M. Liberman<br> Francis C. Oakley<br> G. Virginia Upton<br> Janet L. Yellen<br> Anne M. Briscoe<br> William Louis Gaines<br>
1996<br> David C. McClelland<br> Marie Borroff<br> Miriam Usher Chrisman<br> James T. Laney<br> Heidi I. Hartmann<br>
1995<br> Alfred Edward Kahn<br> Gordon H. Bower<br> Jennifer L. Kelsey<br> Mark E. Neely Jr.<br> Catharine A. MacKinnon<br>
1994<br> Theodore Frederic Cooke Jr.<br> Vincent Scully<br> John Imbrie<br> Jerome John McGann<br> Thomas Eugene Lovejoy III<br> Zunyi Yang<br>
1993<br> Walles T. Edmondson<br> Estella Leopold<br> Marcia L. Colish<br> Richard Charles Levin<br> Jaime Serra Puche<br>
1992<br> Irving Rouse<br> Frances K. Graham<br> Raymond L. Garthoff<br> Gerald R. Fink<br> J. Dennis Huston<br> Judith Rodin<br>
1991<br> W. Edwards Deming<br> Aubrey L. Williams<br> Maxine Singer<br> Joseph P. Allen<br> Russell G. Hamilton<br> Jerome J. Pollitt<br>
1990<br> Franklin LeVan Baumer<br> Adolph Grünbaum<br> Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr.<br> Eleanor Holmes Norton<br> A. Bartlett Giamatti<br>
1989<br> Pauline Newman<br> Paul Webster MacAvoy<br> Garry Wills<br> Mary Lou Pardue<br> Menno Boldt<br>
1988<br> Ellis Crossman Maxcy<br> Charles Allen Walker<br> Joseph G. Gall<br> Gérard Lepoutre<br> Richard S. Westfall<br> Thomas Kaehao Seung<br>
1987<br> Thomas Brennan Nolan<br> Harry Rudolph Rudin<br> Julian M. Sturtevant<br> Richard David Ellmann<br> Barbara Ann Feinn<br> Nannerl Overholser Keohane<br>
1986<br> Robert Alan Dahl<br> A. Dwight Culler<br> Richard Derecktor Schwartz<br> Robert Joseph Birgeneau<br> Keith Stewart Thomson<br>
1985<br> Eugene Mersereau Waith<br> Peter T. Flawn<br> Victor Brombert<br> John Paul Schiffer<br> Nelson Woolf Polsby<br>
1984<br> Louis L. Martz<br> George Alexander Kubler<br> Homer D. Babbidge Jr.<br> Burton Edelson<br> Margaret W. Rossiter<br>
1983<br> George Harry Ford<br> Floyd Lounsbury<br> Barbara Illingworth Brown<br> Daniel Berg<br> Morton H. Halperin<br>
1982<br> Mary Ellen Jones<br> Richard N. Rosett<br> Theodore Ziolkowski<br>
1981<br> Henry Margenau<br> Warren Hunting Smith<br> Bernard Nicholas Schilling<br> Jerome Kagan<br> Grace Evelyn Pickford<br>
1980<br> Bingham Johnson Humphrey<br> Maurice Mandelbaum<br> Phyllis Ann Wallace<br> Wendell Garner<br>
1979<br> Richard B. Sewall<br> Elizabeth Read Foster<br> Jacquelyn Mattfeld<br>
1978<br> Jaroslav Pelikan<br> Thomas G. Bergin<br> Maynard Mack<br> Stephen Hopkins Spurr<br>
1977<br> Gordon Sherman Haight<br> Mary Rosamund Haas<br> Joseph Austin Ranney<br> Jacob T. Schwartz<br>
1976<br> Josephine P. Bree<br> James H. Wakelin Jr.<br> William G. Moulton<br> George Heard Hamilton<br> Laura Anna Bornholdt<br>
1975<br> Robert Phelan Langlands<br> Ralph Henry Gabriel<br> Eliot Herman Rodnick<br> George Berkeley Young<br> Orville Gilbert Brim, Jr.<br> Donald Wayne Taylor<br>
1974<br> Milton Harris<br> Amos Niven Wilder<br> Constance McLaughlin Green<br> Alvin Bernard Kernan
1973<br> Samuel Miller Brownell<br> George Wilson Pierson<br> Marshall Hall<br> Eleanor Jack Gibson<br> Preston E. Cloud<br>
1972<br> Dumas Malone<br> John Collins Pope<br> Grace Murray Hopper<br> Lars Onsager<br>
1971<br> Gladden Whetstone Baker<br> Ernest Hilgard<br> Jane Marion Oppenheimer<br> Bernard Knox<br> John Robert Silber<br>
1970<br> Roland Herbert Bainton<br> Bertrand Harris Bronson<br> Leona Baumgartner<br> Melvin Spencer Newman<br> Lucian Pye<br>
1969<br> George Gaylord Simpson<br> Murray Barnson Emeneau<br> Allan Murray Cartter<br> James Patrick Shannon<br> John Perry Miller<br> Joshua Lederberg<br>
1968<br> James Bliss Austin<br> William M. Fairbank<br> James G. March<br> F. S. C. Northrop<br>
1967<br> Carl Blegen<br> Robert W. Buchheim<br> Neal E. Miller<br> George Murdock<br> Marjorie Hope Nicolson<br> Wallace Notestein<br> Frederick A. Pottle<br> Luther A. Weigle<br>
1966<br> Edgar S. Furniss<br>