Four graduates of the Yale School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) were recently awarded the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal for their outstanding achievements and accomplishments.
The Wilbur Cross Medal is awarded annually by the GSAS Alumni Association and recognizes outstanding achievements in scholarship, public service, teaching, and academic administration. This is the highest honor GSAS bestows on its graduates.
This year’s winners are:
- Elizabeth Bradley ’96 Ph.D. (Public Health) Awarded for outstanding scholarship in the field of public health and unwavering commitment to the health and well-being of local and global communities.
- Robert Gooding Williams ’75 ’82 Ph.D. (Philosophy) For significant contributions to the fields of philosophy, political theory, and race theory.
- James M. Jones ’70 Ph.D. (Psychology) For innovative scholarship in the study of race, racism, and diversity over the past 50 years.and
- Chia Wei Choi ’85 Ph.D. The Department of Electrical Engineering is responsible for technological innovations such as miniaturization of integrated circuits and leadership in the semiconductor industry.
The four award winners returned to Yale on October 2 and participated in a series of campus events that concluded with a dinner and awards ceremony.
This medal recognizes achievement and excellence and was established by Dr. Wilbur Lucius Cross. He (1889) served as dean of graduate schools from 1916 to 1930 and as governor of Connecticut from 1930 to 1939.
Here is a brief profile of this year’s winners:
Elizabeth H. BradleyPresident of Vassar College since July 2017, he is an unabashed advocate of liberal arts education and is deeply committed to researching the performance and quality of American higher education institutions. Under her leadership, Ms. Vassar established partnerships to develop models of liberal arts higher education in India, Rwanda, and the United Kingdom. In addition, Vassar collaborated with Columbia University to create a five-year Bachelor of Arts/Master of Public Health program. Bradley has served on the New York State Governor’s Task Force on Reopening the Economy During the Pandemic, the Mid-Hudson Regional Economic Development Council, the Association of American Universities’ Board of Directors, and the Nuvance Health Board of Directors.
Bradley served on the Yale faculty for more than 20 years before transferring to Vassar College. She directed the Health Management Program at the Yale School of Public Health and co-directed the RWJF Clinical Scholars Program. As president of Branford College, she supervised more than 50 of her predoctoral and doctoral fellows and hundreds of undergraduate students at Yale University. The founding director of Yale University’s Global Health Initiative, Bradley helped establish the continent’s first master’s degree program in health administration in collaboration with the Clinton Health Access Initiative and in collaboration with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. and pioneered a model to expand upon it. Most recently, she was the Brady Johnson Professor of Grand Strategy and Dean of the Yale University Institute for Global Health Leadership.
Bradley has published approximately 325 peer-reviewed articles and 35 book chapters, and co-authored three books, including “The American Healthcare Paradox: Why Spending More Is Getting Us Less.” She received the William B. Graham Award for Health Services Research in 2018 and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2017. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Bradley graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in Economics from Harvard University, an MBA from the University of Chicago, and a PhD from the University of Chicago. He received his PhD in health economics from Yale University. Bradley is married to her husband of 37 years, John, with whom she has three adult children.
robert gooding williams He is a professor at Columbia University, a leading figure in contemporary philosophy of race, a leading historian of modern African social and political philosophy, a Du Bois scholar, and a Nietzsche scholar. His writings demonstrate a sophisticated ability to interpret complex social phenomena and parse the subtle interactions of race, class, gender, nationality, and other social positions. Drawing on European and American philosophical traditions, Gooding Williams analyzes inherited racial narratives in order to critique racial injustice and reveal the ideological content of racial expressions. To do. In his work, he addresses topics of pressing social concern and shows how philosophically informed social criticism can contribute to public debate.
He is the author of the book Zarathustra’s Dionysian Modernism (Stanford, 2001).
““Look, Negro!: Philosophical Essays on Race, Culture, and Politics” (Routledge, 2005), and “DuBois’ Shadow: Contemporary African American Political Thought” (Harvard University, 2009). In 2010, In the Shadow of Du Bois won him two book awards. One was awarded by American Magazine’s Race, Ethnicity, and Politics section as the best book on race, ethnicity, and political thought.
Association for Political Science (APSA); second is Honorable Mention for the David Easton Award, awarded by APSA’s Fundamentals of Political Theory Division. In 1998, Gooding-Williams’s seminal essay “Race, Multiculturalism, and Democracy” was included in what the magazine’s editors judged to be the ten best articles published in philosophy journals that year. It was selected for publication in the Philosopher Annual.
Mr. Gooding-Williams was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018. In 2020, Gooding-Williams was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and in 2021 became the inaugural recipient of the Social Philosophy Achievement Award.
He received his bachelor’s degree and Ph.D. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University and is currently the M. Moran Weston/Black Alumni Professor of African American Studies and Professor of Philosophy and African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University. I am serving. During his career, Gooding-Williams also taught at Simmons College, Amherst College, Northwestern University, and the University of Chicago. He will return to Yale as a professor of philosophy in July 2024.
james jones He is Professor Emeritus of the Board of Trustees of Psychology and Brain Sciences, African Studies, and Director of the Center for Diversity Research at the University of Delaware. He is a former Director of the Office of Public Interest and Director of the Minority Fellowship Program of the American Psychological Association.
Jones published Prejudice and Racism in 1972 and a second edition in 1997. In 2014, he published The Psychology of Diversity: Beyond Prejudice and Racism (co-authored with John F. Dovidio and Deborah L. Vietze), currently under revision. Jones co-edited two of her books. “Negotiating Disability: Disclosure and Higher Education” (co-authored with Stephanie L. Kirshbaum and Laura T. Eisenman). and “A Fascinating Interest: A Comparative Review of the Evidence on Racial Dynamics in Higher Education” (co-authored with Mitchell Chan, Daria Witt-Sandis, and Kenji Hakuda).
Jones has also published more than 100 magazine articles and book chapters. His work focuses on culture and systemic racism. In 1973, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to study calypso humor in Trinidad. This leads to his psychocultural TRIOS model (time, rhythm, improvisation, orality, spirituality), and how adopting a TRIOS self can improve the psychological health of African Americans and others. It has been shown to have a positive impact on self-esteem.
Jones served as president of the Association for Experimental Social Psychology and the Association for the Study of Social Problem Psychology. His numerous awards include the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for the Psychological Study of Ethnicity, Culture, and Race; He received the Kurt Lewin Award from the Society for the Study of Social Psychology. He received the Outstanding Psychologist Award from the Association of Black Psychologists. Received the Lifetime Contribution to Psychology Award from the American Psychological Association. Recipient of the Morton German Award for Social Justice from Columbia Teachers College’s Center for International Cooperation and Conflict Resolution. In 2023, Jones was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Jones earned a bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College, a master’s degree from Temple University, and a Ph.D. He received his PhD in social psychology from Yale University. He served on the faculty of Harvard University’s Department of Psychosocial Relations from his 1970 to his 1976 years.
CC way As CEO of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), he has demonstrated a unique ability to connect with knowledgeable customer executives and enthusiastic new employees.
Since joining TSMC, widely regarded as a pillar of the global technology community, in 1998, Mr. Wei has held several positions including Vice President of Southern Site Operations, Senior Vice President of Mainstream Technology Business, and Senior Vice President of Business Development. It has played an increasingly important role. In March 2012, Mr. Wei was named co-chief operating officer, and in November 2013, he became president and co-CEO of the company. He became CEO in 2018.
Prior to joining TSMC, Mr. Wei held leadership positions at technology and semiconductor companies. He was senior vice president of technology at Chartered Semiconductor, logic at STMicroelectronics and senior manager of SRAM technology development. Prior to that, Mr. Wei served as a member of the technical staff in Texas Instruments’ research and development organization. Wei received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from National Chiao Tung University and his Ph.D. He received his PhD in electrical engineering from Yale University.