Honors & Awards
CALS Distinguished Alumni Award - 2009
Brian D. Howell Innovation Award, Madison, WI - 2005
Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Milwaukee, WI - 2004
Fellow, Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters - 2002
Robert G. F. and Hazel T. Spitze Land Grant Faculty Award for Excellence,
UW-Madison - 1998
The Kilby Award - Dallas, TX - 1997
The Nevada Medal - Desert Research Institute - 1996
Fellow, American Institute of Nutrition - 1996
First Hans Fisher Visiting Professor - Rutgers University - 1993
SmithKline Beecham Clinical Assay Award - 1993
Hilldale Award in the Physical Sciences, UW-Madison - 1993
Foreign Adjunct Professor, Karolinska Institute, Sweden - 1992
Member of the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Sciences - 1992
Member of the National Task Force on the NIH Strategic Plan - 1992
Chair, UIR University Committee - 1991
The Rank Prize, London - 1988
Spencer Award, American Chemical Society, Kansas City Section - 1987
Distinguished Alumni Award, UW-Madison - 1987
Ray and Robert Kroc Lecturer, Harvard Medical School - 1986
Distinguished Achievement Award from the Milwaukee Academy of Medicine - 1986
Pfizer Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA - 1986
Reilly Lectureship, Notre Dame, Indiana - 1985
William F. Neuman Award from The American Society for Bone and Mineral Research - 1985
Honorary Degree Doctor of Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden - 1985
Bolton L. Corson Medal of The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, PA - 1985
Roger J. Williams Award in Preventive Nutrition, Fort Worth, TX - 1984
Bristol-Myers Squibb/Mead Johnson Award for Distinguished Achievement in Nutrition Research - 1983
3M Life Sciences Award of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology - 1983
Burroughs Wellcome Visiting Professor - 1982
Sandoz Lectureship, Canadian Society of Endocrinology, Quebec City - 1982
William C. Rose Award, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - 1982
R. A. Morton Lecturer of The Biochemical Society - 1981
Honorary Degree Doctor of Science, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,WI - 1980
Harvey Lecturer, Rockefeller University, New York - 1980
William Rose Lectureship, The Nutrition Foundation, Coronado, CA - 1980
A. O. Atwater Memorial Lecture, Dallas, TX - 1979
National Academy of Sciences - 1979
American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1978
Plenary Lecturer, Fifth International Congress on Hormonal Steroids, New Delhi - 1978
Distinguished Lecturer of Medical Science, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN - 1978
Lenore Richards Visiting Professor, Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis, MN - 1977
Royal College Lecturer of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada - 1977
A. William and Austin Friend Memorial Visiting Professor - 1975
Dixon Medal (Sir Thomas and Lady Edith Dixon Orator) from the Irish Medical Council - 1975
Gairdner Foundation Award (Canada) - 1974
Roussel Prize of France - 1974
Honorary Degree Doctor of Science, University of Colorado-Boulder - 1975
General Session Lecturer of the FASEB - 1974
Eli Lilly Lecturer of The Endocrine Society - 1973
Osborne and Mendel Award of The American Institute of Nutrition - 1973
Nicolas Andry Award from The Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons - 1971
Andre Lichtwitz Prize from the French Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale - 1969
Meade Johnson Award of The American Institute of Nutrition - 1968
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1965
Harry Steenbock Research Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison - 1965