A Quartet of Academic Women Earn Awards

chatterjee_profileArchana Chatterjee, professor of pediatrics and medical microbiology and immunology at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, received the Advisory Committee Service Award from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for “distinguished service to the people of the United States.”

Dr. Chatterjee is a graduate of Pune University in India. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska.

dussart_2012-300x200Francoise Dussart is the recipient of the Faculty Mentor of the Year Award from the Institute on Teaching and Mentoring, a nonprofit organization funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr. Dussart is a professor of anthropology and a core faculty member in the Center for Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Connecticut.

Professor Dussart earned a master’s degree at the Sorbonne in Paris, and holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the Australian National University in Canberra.

sartorem1Melanie Sartore-Baldwin, an associate professor of kinesiology at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, was named a fellow of the North American Society for Sport Management. She has been on the ECU faculty since 2007.

Dr. Satore-Baldwin, a native of Macomb, Illinois, is a graduate of Western Illinois University. She received a master’s degree at Indiana University and a doctorate from Texas A&M University.

samaaSamaa Abdurraqib, a visiting assistant professor of gender and women’s studies at Bowdoin College, was named Volunteer of the Year by Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine.

Dr. Abdurraqib is a graduate of Ohio State University, where she majored in English. She earned a doctorate at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

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