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| Name | Year | Field |
| Camara Jones ’76 Biography |
2018 |
Family Physician & Epidemiologist,
National Public Health Expert,
Champion of Racial & Economic Health Equity
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| Nergis Mavalvala ’90 Biography |
2018 |
Quantum Astrophysicist
Outstanding Communicator, Leader, & Innovator of Science
Inspirational Professor
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| Elyse Cherry ’75 Biography |
2017 |
Entrepreneur, Financy & Social Activist
|
| Kwan Kew Lai ’74 Biography |
2017 | Infectious Disease Physician, Disaster Relief Volunteer |
| Lorraine O'Grady ’55 Biography |
2017 | Conceptual Artist, Cultural Critic |
| Maria Morris Hambourg Barlow '71 Biography |
2016 | Photography Champion, Preeminent Art Scholar, Curator |
| Marian Burros '54 Biography |
2016 | Transformational Food and Lifestyle Journalist |
| Debra Knopman '75 Biography |
2016 | Engineer, Complex Problem Solver, PolicymakerHERE2 |
| Suzanne Ciani '68 Biography |
2015 | Electronic Music Pioneer, Composer, Recording Artist |
| Jean Kilbourne '64 Biography |
2015 | Media Activist, Filmmaker, Author |
| Nancy Kornblith Kopp '65 Biography |
2015 | Effective Politician, Distinguished Public Servant |
| Eva Sommaripa Biography |
2014 | Organic Farmer, Champion of Sustainable Living |
| C. Tracy Orleans Biography |
2014 | Behavioral Scientist, Public Health Advocate |
| Callie Crossley '73 Biography |
2013 | Journalist, Producer, Commentator |
| Diana Farmer '77 Biography |
2013 | Pediatric-Fetal Surgeon, Teacher, Mentor |
| Barbara Lubin Goldsmith '53 Biography |
2013 | Author, Preservationist, Philanthropist |
| Marilyn Koenick Yalom '54 Biography |
2013 | Feminist Scholar, Cultural Historian |
| Mary Jeanne Kreek '58 Biography |
2012 | Physician-Scientist, Pioneer in Addiction Research |
| Wendy Gillespie '72 Biography |
2012 | Early Music Virtuosa, Inspirational Teacher |
| Susan McGee Bailey '63 Biography |
2012 | Champion for Gender Equity, Collaborative Leader |
| Marilyn Crandall Jones '70 Biography |
2011 | Physician, Geneticist, Healer of Children |
| Sarah Milledge Nelson '53 Biography |
2011 | Archaeologist, Scholar, Feminist |
| Reena Raggi '73 Biography |
2011 | Courageous Jurist, Generous Teacher |
| Susan Wunsch Rice '67 CBE Biography |
2011 | Socially Conscious Banker, Arts Advocate |
| Alvia Wardlaw '69 Biography |
2010 | Art Historian, Museum Director, Advocate |
| Janet Parker Whitla '52 Biography |
2010 | Nonprofit Leader, Education Innovator |
| Enriqueta Bond '61 Biography |
2009 | Biologist and Science Policy Expert |
| Helen Hays '53 Biography |
2009 | Ornithologist and Environmentalist |
| Barbara Lea '51 Biography |
2009 | Jazz Singer, Foremost interpreter of “The American Song Book ” |
| Ophelia Dahl DS’94 Biography |
2008 | Global Public Health Activist |
| Mary Rosenthal Lefkowitz '57 Biography |
2008 | Professor of Classical Studies |
| Katherine Marshall ’67 Biography |
2008 | Leader in Global Development |
| Diana Chapman Walsh ’66 Biography |
2008 | College President |
| JudyAnn Bigby '73 Biography |
2007 | Physician |
| Judith Perlman Martin '59 Biography |
2007 | Author |
| In-ho Lee '60 Biography |
2007 | Professor |
| Persis Drell '77 Biography |
2006 | Particle Physicist |
| Nora Ephron '62 Biography |
2006 | Screenwriter Director |
| Pamela Melroy '83 Biography |
2006 | Astronaut Scientist |
| Carole Beebe Tarantelli '64 Biography |
2005 | Educator Psychoanalyst Italian Parliament Member Antiterrorist activist Women’s-rights advocate |
| Ellen Jacobson Levine '64 Biography |
2005 | Editor-in-chief, Good Housekeeping |
| Lois Juliber '71 Biography |
2005 | Business Leader |
| Louise Dolan '71 Biography |
2004 |
Mathematical Physicist |
| Judith Goslin Hall '61 Biography |
2004 | Clinical Geneticist Pediatrician |
| Carol R. Johnson '51 Biography |
2004 | Landscape Architect |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton '69 Biography |
2003 |
U.S. Senator |
| Barbara Loomis Jackson '50 Biography |
2003 |
Educator |
| Niramol Bulakul Suriyasat '54 Biography |
2003 |
Business Executive |
| Luella Gross Goldberg '58 Biography |
2002 |
Corporate and Civic Leader |
| Nayantara Pandit Sahgal '47 Biography |
2002 |
Author |
| Patricia J. Williams '73 Biography |
2002 |
Legal Scholar |
| Frances Daly Fergusson '65 Biography |
2001 |
President of Vassar College |
| E. Story Cleland Landis '67 Biography |
2001 |
Scientific Director of the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke |
| Ellen Marram '68 Biography |
2001 |
General Partner of North Castle Partners |
| Nancy Hayes Van de Vate Smith '52 Biography |
2001 |
Contemporary composer and performer |
|
Nancy Davidson '75 |
2000 |
Oncologist |
| Ann Hartman '47 Biography |
2000 |
Social Worker |
| Nora Manella '72 Biography |
2000 |
U.S. District Court Judge, Central District of California |
| Ann Beha '72 Biography |
1999 |
Architect |
| Carol Lyons Meyers '64 Biography |
1999 |
Biblical Scholar |
| Alice Tepper-Marlin '66 Biography |
1999 |
Social Economist |
| Patricia Lauber Frost '45 Biography |
1998 |
Author of juvenile science and fiction |
| Martha McClintock '69 Biography |
1998 |
Psychobiologist |
| Krishna Roy Riboud '49 Biography |
1998 |
Textile Conservator |
| Hilda Crosby Standish '24 Biography |
1998 |
Physician |
| Cigdem Cizakca Kagiticibasi '61 Biography |
1997 |
Social Psychologist in Family Dynamics |
| Sandra L. Lynch '68 Biography |
1997 |
Federal Judge, First Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Anna McCann Taggart '54 Biography |
1997 |
Classical Underwater Archaeologist |
| Barbara Swan Fink '43 Biography |
1996 |
Portraitist |
| Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz '63 Biography |
1996 |
Professor of History |
| Olivia Hood Parker '63 Biography |
1996 |
Photographic Artist |
| Sharon Whelan Weiss '66 Biography |
1996 |
Professor of Pathology |
| Carolyn Pratt Brock '68 Biography |
1995 |
Chemist |
|
Felice D. Gaer '68 |
1995 |
International Human-rights Activist |
| Martha P. Haynes '73 Biography |
1995 |
Astronomer |
| Anne Cohen Heller '41 Biography |
1994 |
Endocrinologist |
| Anna Faith Johnson Jones '54 Biography |
1994 |
Foundation President |
| Nannerl Overholser Keohane '61 Biography |
1994 |
University President |
| Geneva Overholser '70 Biography |
1994 |
Newspaper Editor |
| Margaret Crissman Funkhouser '52 Biography |
1993 |
Public-education Activist |
| Diana Hadden Gale '63 Biography |
1993 |
Public Administrator |
| Carol Ann Newman Gluck '62 Biography |
1993 |
Professor of Japanese History |
| Vivian W. Pinn '62 Biography |
1993 |
Pathologist Educator |
| Madeleine Korbel Albright '59 Biography |
1992 |
U.S. Secretary of State |
| Anne L. Davis '45 Biography |
1992 |
Physician |
| Louise Gilman Hutchins '32 Biography |
1992 |
Pediatrician |
| Diane Sawyer '67 Biography |
1991 |
Broadcast Journalist |
| Claudine B. Malone '63 Biography |
1991 |
Management Consultant |
| Gwendolyn Gunter Morgan '47 Biography |
1991 |
Daycare Policy Analyst and Advocate |
| Laurel Cutler '46 Biography |
1990 |
Advertising and Marketing Executive |
| Erna Schneider Hoover '48 Biography |
1990 |
Inventor |
| Florence Marshall '44 Biography |
1990 |
Pediatrician |
| Alicia Haydock Munnell '64 Biography |
1989 |
Economist |
| Diane Silvers Ravitch '60 Biography |
1989 |
Educator |
| Elizabeth Barlow Rogers '57 Biography |
1989 |
Urban Planner |
| Virginia Rogers Ferris '49 Biography |
1988 |
Ecologist |
| Eleanor M. Garvey '40 Biography |
1988 |
Curator |
| Lynn Sherr '63 Biography |
1988 |
Print and Broadcast Journalist |
| Christine Durham '67 Biography |
1987 |
Judge, Utah State Supreme Court |
|
Donna R. Ecton '69 |
1987 |
Corporate Executive |
| Leticia Ramos Shahani '51 Biography |
1987 |
Diplomat |
| Anne Pyne Cowley '59 Biography |
1986 |
Astronomer |
| Emily Browning Visher '40 Biography |
1986 |
Psychologist |
| Shirley Young '55 Biography |
1986 |
Advertising and Marketing Executive |
| Muriel Morris Gardiner '22 Biography |
1985 |
Activist |
| Terri Grodzicker '63 Biography |
1985 |
Molecular Geneticist |
| Cokie Boggs Roberts '64 Biography |
1985 |
Broadcast Journalist |
| Linda Cozby Wertheimer '65 Biography |
1985 |
Radio Journalist |
| Carolyn G. Heilbrun '47 Biography |
1984 |
Author |
| Renate Pflaum Mayntz '50 Biography |
1984 |
Sociologist |
| Susan Margulies Sheehan '58 Biography |
1984 |
Journalist |
| Ruth Morris Bakwin '19 Biography |
1983 |
Pediatrician |
| Virginia Foster Durr '25 Biography |
1983 |
Civil-rights Activist |
| Dorothy Walcott Weeks '16 Biography |
1983 |
Women's Educator |
| Andrea Kundsin Dupree '60 Biography |
1982 |
Astrophysicist |
| Eleanor Raymond '09 Biography |
1982 |
Architect |
| Helen M. Wallace '33 Biography |
1982 |
Public Health Advocate |
| Genevieve Young '52 Biography |
1982 |
Editor |
| Jane Fay Desforges '42 Biography |
1981 |
Hematologist |
| Amalya L. Kearse '59 Biography |
1981 |
Judge, US Court of Appeals |
| Judith Rothschild '43 Biography |
1981 |
Abstract Artist |
| Colette Flesch '60 Biography |
1980 |
Director General, European Commission |
| Helen Bohen O'Bannon '61 Biography |
1980 |
Economist |
| Bertha S. Adkins '28 Biography |
1979 |
Undersecretary of Health, Education, and Welfare |
| Harriet L. Hardy '28 Biography |
1979 |
Physician |
| Yukiko Domoto Maki '24 Biography |
1979 |
Educator |
| Phyllis Shapiro Sewell '52 Biography |
1979 |
Management Executive |
| Harriet Stratemeyer Adams '14 Biography |
1978 |
Author of Nancy Drew series, pen name Carolyn Keene |
| Lorna Cooke de Varon '42 Biography |
1978 |
Musician |
| Margaret Connors Driscoll '35 Biography |
1978 |
Chief Justice, Juvenile Court of Connecticut |
| 1977 |
Author |
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| Marjory Stoneman Douglas '12 Biography |
1977 | Environmental Activist Author |
| Ann Haymond Zwinger '46 Biography |
1977 |
Illustrator |
| Ruth J. Dean '22 Biography |
1976 |
Anglo-Norman Scholar |
| Phyllis Williams Lehmann '34 Biography |
1976 |
Archaeologist |
| Carroll McCarty Gunderson '24 Biography |
1975 |
Leader of the League of Women Voters |
| Jean Trepp McKelvey '29 Biography |
1975 |
President, National Academy of Arbitrators |
| Barbara Scott Preiskel '45 Biography |
1975 |
Vice President, Motion Picture Association of America |
| Carol Rhodes Sibley '23 Biography |
1975 |
Educator |
| Dorothea Jameson '42 Biography |
1974 |
Professor of Psychology |
| Virginia Goldman Miles '36 Biography |
1974 |
Marketing Executive |
| Lila Manfield Sapinsley '44 Biography |
1974 |
Rhode Island State Senator |
| Elizabeth Brenner Drew '57 Biography |
1973 |
Writer |
| Joan Richman '61 Biography |
1973 |
Television Producer, CBS and NBC News |
| Marion Klein Sanders '25 Biography |
1973 |
Journalist |
| Odette Alarcon '53 Biography |
1972 |
Physician |
| Anna M. Baetjer '20 Biography |
1972 |
Professor |
| Rebecca Craighill Lancefield '16 Biography |
1972 |
Bacteriologist |
| Phyllis Curtin '43 (Phyllis Smith Cook) Biography |
1971 |
Opera Singer |
|
Santha Rama Rau Wattles '45 |
1971 |
Novelist |
| Patricia Zipprodt '46 Biography |
1971 |
Costume Designer |
| Jocelyn R. Gill '38 Biography |
1970 |
Astronomer |
| Elisabeth Luce Moore '24 Biography |
1970 |
Public Servant |