Fischhoff awarded Sigma Xi William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement
Howard Heinz University Professor Baruch Fischhoff has been named the recipient of the 2021 Sigma Xi William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement. The Procter prize has been awarded since 1950 to a scientist who has made an outstanding contribution to scientific research and has demonstrated an ability to communicate the significance of this research to scientists in other disciplines.
Fischhoff is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine. He has served as president of several organizations including the Society for Judgment and Decision Making and of the Society for Risk Analysis, the latter for which he received the 1991 Distinguished Achievement Award. Fischhoff was founding chair of the Food and Drug Administration Risk Communication Advisory Committee, chaired the National Research Council Committee on Behavioral and Social Science Research to Improve Intelligence Analysis for National Security, and co-chaired the National Research Council Committee on Future Research Goals and Directions for Foundational Science in Cybersecurity and three National Academy of Sciences Colloquia on “The Science of Science Communication.”
Fischhoff is a former member of the Eugene, Oregon Commission on the Rights of Women, Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Advisory Committee, the World Federation of Scientists Permanent Monitoring Panel on Terrorism, and the Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board, where he chaired the Homeland Security Advisory Committee. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), the Association for Psychological Science, the Society of Experimental Psychologists, and the Society for Risk Analysis.
Fischhoff has co-authored or edited, Acceptable Risk (1981), A Two-State Solution in the Middle East: Prospects and Possibilities (1993), Elicitation of Preferences (2000), Risk Communication: A Mental Models Approach (2002), Intelligence Analysis: Behavioral and Social Science Foundations (2011), Risk: A Very Short Introduction (2011), Communicating Risks and Benefits: An Evidence-Based Guide (2011), Judgment and Decision Making (2011), Risk Analysis and Human Behavior (2011), The Science of Science Communication I (2013), II (2014), and III (2019), and Counting Civilian Casualties (2013).
Fischhoff will be presented the award at the Sigma Xi Annual Meeting and Student Research Conference.
