Dr. Ellen Langer has been invited to receive the Liberty Science Center's Genius Award in May 2016.  Awardees in 2015 included SETI ­pioneer Jill Tarter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and “Father of the Internet” Vint Cerf. Past Genius Awardees were Oliver Sacks, Jane Goodall, Richard Branson, Garry Kasparov, Temple Grandin, Cori Bargmann, Dean Kamen, Sylvia Earle, and Craig Venter.