Honors
In 1981, she delivered the Gibbs Lecture of The American Mathematical Society, and in 1982 presented an Invited Address at a meeting of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. She is a professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU, where she served as director from 1984 to 1988, becoming the first woman ever to be director of a mathematics institute in the United States. In 1998 she was awarded the National Medal of Science. In 2004 she received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement. In 2006 she won the George David Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics.
Morawetz is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences. In 1995, she became the second woman elected to the office of president of the American Mathematical Society. In 1998 she was awarded the National Medal of Science. In 1983 and in 1988, she was selected as a Noether Lecturer. She was named Outstanding Woman Scientist for 1993 by the Association for Women in Science.
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