Recognition of Current and Past Faculty

Washington University’s faculty are distinguished both for their teaching and for their research and creative activities. Virtually all of the full-time teaching faculty hold the doctorate or final professional degree in their fields, and the same professors often teach both undergraduate and graduate courses. Twenty-three Nobel laureates have been associated with Washington University, nine doing the major part of their pioneering research here.

Faculty have received many honors, including major literary prizes; national and international fellowships; major awards for teaching, research and service; and honors from governments of other nations. Current faculty serve on editorial boards of more than 250 professional and scholarly journals. Instructional faculty in all schools totals 3,415 — including both full-time and adjunct faculty..

• Pulitzer Prize — 3
• Poet Laureate of the United States — 2
• National Book Award — 2
• National Book Critics Circle Awards — 4
• National Medal of Science — 12
• National Medal of Arts — 2
• National Academy of Sciences— 34
• Institute of Medicine — 36
• American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering — 10
• National Academy of Engineering — 4
• American Association for the Advancement of Science — 81
• American Association for the Advancement of Medicine — 2
• American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters — 3
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences — 39
• American Philosophical Society — 3
• MacArthur Prize Fellowships — 4
• David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowships in Science and Engineering — 5
• American Institute of Architects — 8
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers — 22
• American Law Institute — 16

Past faculty includes emeritus faculty, those who are no longer at Washington University and those who are deceased.

Nobel laureates — 23 [includes both faculty and alumni]; 9 did the major part of their pioneering research here, including 2 current faculty:

• 1 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
• 1 Nobel Prize in Chemistry