The awards Eric has received include the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (1990), the Packard Fellowship (1991), the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (1992), the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship (1992), the ACS Cope Scholar Award (1993), the Fluka "Reagent of the Year" Prize (1994), the Thieme-IUPAC Prize in Synthetic Organic Chemistry (1996), the Baekeland Medal (1999), the ACS Award for Creativity in Synthetic Organic Chemistry (2001), the NIH Merit Award (2002), election to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2004), the Mitsui Catalysis Science Award (2005), the ACS H.C. Brown Award for Synthetic Methods (2008), election to the National Academy of Sciences (2008), the Janssen Prize (2010), the Noyori Prize (2011), the Nagoya Gold Medal Prize (2011), the Chirality Medal (2012), the Remsen Award (2013), the Esselen Award (2015), the ACS Arthur C. Cope Award (2016), the Award for Creativity in Molecular Design and Synthesis (2016), the Humboldt Research Award (2020), the Willard Gibbs Medal (2024), the Tetrahedron Prize (2024), the Welch Award in Chemistry (2024), the ACS Roger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry (2025), the F. Albert Cotton Medal (2026), and the IKCOC Prize (2026).