 Levin won the MacArthur Award (1988), Distinguished Service Citation (1998), and the Eminent Ecologist Award (2010) of the Ecological Society of America; the Okubo Award of the Society for Mathematical Biology and the Japanese Society for Mathematical Biology (2001); and the Distinguished Scientist Award of the American Institute for Biological Sciences (2007).He was honored with the Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize (2004) for Environmental Sciences by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences; the Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences (2005) by the Inamori Foundation; the Margalef Prize (2010) of the Government of Catalonia; and the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (2014).Levin has mentored more than 100 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, and has published widely.