Societies and Awards
Tilghman is a member of the American Philosophical Society, the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine and the Royal Society of London. She was a founding member of the International Mammalian Genome Society. She serves as a trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. From 1993 through 2000, Tilghman chaired Princeton’s Council on Science and Technology, which encourages teaching science and technology to students outside the sciences. In 1996, she received Princeton’s President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching.
Tilghman was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by Harvard University in 2004.
Nineteen Princeton graduating classes, from 1941 to 2005, have made President Tilghman an honorary member.
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