Wilbur Cross Medal

The Wilbur Cross Medal, or Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal, is an award by the Yale Alumni Association for "distinguished achievements in scholarship, teaching, academic administration, and public service". The award is made to a small number (up to six) of individuals annually, and was first awarded in 1966.

The award is named after Wilbur Lucius Cross, who was a Yale University dean, and also a noted scholar, editor, literary critic, author and governor of the state of Connecticut.

Recipients include:

2013
Fredric Jameson
Alan M. 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

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