Elting E. Morison Professor of Political Science Stephen Ansolabehere and Professor of Political Science and Department Head Charles Stewart III received major grants from the Pew and JEHT Foundations to help improve elections in the United States.

Class of 1941 Professor of Economics Olivier Blanchard has been inducted into the Ordre National de la Legion d’Honneur, the highest honor in France.

Nazli Choucri, Professor of Political Science, has been re-elected Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the UNESCO program on the Management of Social Transformation.

Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics Esther Duflo has been named the inaugural holder of the Knowledge Against Poverty chair at the College de France.

Gilberte Furstenberg, Senior Lecturer in Foreign Languages and Literatures, won the ACTFL/FDP-Houghton Mifflin Award in 2007 for Excellence in Foreign Language Instruction using technology.

David Jones, Leo Marx Career Development Associate Professor of the History of Science, received an Investigator Award for Health Policy Research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Associate Professor of the History of Science David Kaiser’s book, Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics, was awarded the Pfizer Award from the History of Science Society in 2007 for the best book in the field.

Keeril Makan, Assistant Professor of Music, has received the Rome Prize, and will take up residence this fall at the American Academy in Rome, often considered America’s leading overseas center for advanced research in the arts and humanities.

Franco Modigliani Professor of Finance and Economics Stephen Ross has been awarded the 2007 Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize for outstanding work that combines theoretical and applied economics.

Ruth Perry, MacVicar Faculty Fellow and Professor of Literature, was awarded a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Edinburgh.

MacVicar Faculty Fellow and Professor of Literature David Thorburn was awarded a Senior Fulbright Lectureship to Utrecht University in 2007.