Dartmouth Arts and Sciences faculty regularly win prestigious awards and grants for their innovative research and creative projects, including major fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation, Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, W.M. Keck Foundation, and Mellon Foundation, among other eminent institutions.

• Arts and Sciences faculty attracted more than $38 million in sponsored research in fiscal year 2024.
• Eighteen Dartmouth faculty are current, active fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Since 1875, 76 Dartmouth faculty have held this distinction.
• Three faculty are members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest honorary societies in the United States (John Carey, Brendan Nyhan, and Heidi Williams ’03).
• Economist Heidi Williams ’03 is a recipient of the coveted MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship.
• Biological sciences professor Mary Lou Guerinot belongs to the prestigious National Academy of Science and also serves on its governing board.
• In the arts, Dartmouth faculty have been awarded major awards such as the Kleban Prize for Musical Theatre (César Alvarez), the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry (Vievee Francis), the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome (Ash Fure, Peter Orner, Enrico Riley ’95, and Tricia Treacy), and the Paul Engle Prize (Alexander Chee). Composer Ash Fure’s work Bound to the Bow was named a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Music.
• Theoretical physicist Marcelo Gleiser is the recipient of the prestigious Templeton Prize, which serves as a philanthropic catalyst for “discoveries relating to the deepest and most perplexing questions facing humankind.”
• Psychological and brain sciences professor Luke Chang and engineering professor Hélène Seroussi  are recipients of the Presidential Early-Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on researchers at the outset of their careers in STEM fields.
• Biological sciences professor Michael Hoppa received a $1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to develop groundbreaking neural imaging technology.
• Books by our faculty have won major awards, including the Jacques Barzun Prize (Darrin McMahon), Society for U.S. Intellectual History Annual Book Prize (Leslie Butler, Keidrick Roy), and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, a national juried prize for literature that confronts racism and explores diversity (Matthew Delmont). Our faculty also often win awards for their published work from the Modern Language Association.
• A number of Dartmouth economists have held important economic policy positions, including Robert Staiger, who was appointed to a two-year term as chief economist for the World Trade Organization, beginning in 2026; David Blanchflower, who served on the Monetary Policy Committee, Bank of England, from 2006 to 2009; Doug Irwin, who also worked on the Council of Economic Advisors staff, during the Reagan administration, and later served as an economist for the Division of International Finance, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; and Andrew Levin, who worked for the Federal Reserve Board from 1992 to 2012, including as special adviser to the Board on monetary policy, strategy, and communication from 2010 to 2012.
• Our faculty serve as editors of some of the most prestigious scholarly journals in the world, including the American Economic Review, the flagship journal of the American Economic Association (Erzo Luttmer), and Theatre Journal (Laura Edmondson).
• Professor Emeritus of Economics William Fischel was awarded the 2025 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize, one of the most prestigious honors in property law scholarship.

In 2019, Dartmouth became a member of the Association of American Universities, a consortium of 65 of America’s leading research universities that help shape higher education policy and drive innovation. Dartmouth is also designated in the highly coveted R1 tier of the Carnegie Classification system, by virtue of its high research activity.

In 2024, former Dartmouth biological sciences professor and Geisel School of Medicine geneticist Victor Ambros won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for helping to discover microRNA.