Editing Richard Powers (section)

===Professorships and awards===
In 2010 and 2013, Powers was a Stein Visiting Writer at Stanford University, during which time he partly assisted in the lab of biochemist Aaron Straight.<ref name=stanfordnews>{{cite web|publisher=Stanford News|title=Award-winning novelist, Stanford Professor Richard Powers finds inspiration in teaching, tech and trees|date=March 25, 2014|url=http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/march/richard-powers-qanda-032514.html|author=Angela Becerra Vidergar}}</ref><ref name=raintaxi>{{cite web|title=A Fugitive Language: An interview with Richard Powers|url=http://www.raintaxi.com/a-fugitive-language-an-interview-with-richard-powers/|author=Alan Vorda|publisher=Rain Taxi (online)|date=Winter 2013–2014}}</ref>

Powers was named a [[MacArthur Fellowship|MacArthur Fellow]] in 1989.  He received a Lannan Literary Award in 1999.

Powers was appointed the Swanlund Professor of English at [[UIUC]] in 1996, where he is currently an emeritus professor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.english.illinois.edu/people/rpowers|title=Richard Powers {{!}} Department of English {{!}} University of Illinois|last=of|first=Department|website=www.english.illinois.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-04-19}}</ref>

On August 22, 2013, Stanford University announced that Powers had been named the Phil and Penny Knight Professor of Creative Writing in the Department of English.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://english.stanford.edu/news/richard-powers-joins-english-faculty |title=Richard Powers Joins the English Faculty &#124; Department of English |publisher=English.stanford.edu |date=2013-08-22 |accessdate=2021-11-19}}</ref>