Each year, our distinguished Advisory Panel reviews 100 nominations and recommends 20 Fellowship awards for approval by the Foundation’s Board of Trustees.
Current Advisory Panel Members
Richard Alley, Chair
Pennsylvania State University
Kristi S. Anseth
University of Colorado Boulder
Martin Gruebele
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

Erich D. Jarvis
Rockefeller University
Celeste NelsonÂ
Princeton University
Andrei Y. Okounkov
Columbia University
Franklin M. (Lynn) Orr,
Jr.
Stanford University
Stephen R. Quake
Stanford University
Robert J. Schoelkopf
Yale University
Christopher W. Stubbs
Harvard University
Eva Tardos
Cornell University
Sarah A. Tishkoff
University of Pennsylvania
Former Panelists
Frances Arnold
California Institute of Technology
2007-2022
Allan Bromley
Yale University
1988-2005
Thomas Cech
University of Colorado
1988-1997
Jennifer A. Doudna
University of California, Berkeley
2005-2018
Millie Dresselhaus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1988-2013
David Goodstein
California Institute of Technology
1988-2012
Phillip Griffiths
Institute for Advance Study
1988-2014
John E. Hopcroft
Cornell University
1991-2015
Cynthia Kenyon
University of California, San Francisco
2015-2017
William Press
University of Texas
1988-2014
Stuart A. Rice
University of Chicago
1991-2015
Allan Spradling
Carnegie Institution of Washington
1989-2014
L. E. “Skip” Scriven
University of Minnesota
1991-2006
William Schowalter
Princeton University
1988-2014
Susan S. Taylor
University of California, San Diego
1998-2016