The American Academy of Sciences and Letters recently awarded 10 scholars with Barry Prizes for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement. The prestigious annual honor, open to scholars across diverse fields and disciplines, celebrates extraordinary achievement and unwavering commitment to excellence within the arts, sciences, and learned professions. Each awardee received a $50,000 prize.
One of the awardees is an African American.
G. Marcus Cole is the Joseph A. Matson Dean and Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. Professor Cole was appointed the eleventh dean of Notre Dame Law School in 2019. Earlier, he held two endowed chairs and served as associate dean for academic affairs at Stanford Law School. He was a member of the faculty there for 22 years.
Professor Cole, who is a scholar of the empirical law and the economics of commerce and finance, earned his bachelor’s degree in applied economics from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He earned a juris doctorate at Northwestern University in Illinois. After law school, he clerked for Judge Morris Sheppard Arnold of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
