Sheena Iyengar award received Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Academic career
Iyengar's first faculty appointment was at the Sloan School of Management at MIT from July 1997 to June 1998.  In 1998, Iyengar joined the faculty at the Columbia Business School, starting as an assistant professor.  She has been a full professor at Columbia from July 2007 onward and, since November 2009, the inaugural S.T. Lee Professor of Business.Her principal line of research concerns the psychology of choice, and she has been studying how people perceive and respond to choice since the 1990s.  She has authored or coauthored over 30 journal articles.  Her research and statements have been cited often in the print media, including by Bloomberg Business Week, CityLab, Money Magazine, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.  Media appearances include The Diane Rehm Show (NPR), Marketplace (APM).
Iyengar was the recipient of the 2001 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers for, as the NSF said, "helping lead to a better understanding of how cultural, individual, and situational dimensions of human decision-making can be used to improve people's lives."  In 2011, Iyengar was named a member of the Thinkers50, a global ranking of the top 50 management thinkers.  In 2012, she was awarded the Dean's Award for Outstanding Core Teaching from Columbia Business School.
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