Five Women Faculty Members Honored With Notable Awards

Rebecca Campbell, 2013 Beal Outstanding Faculty Award winnerRebecca Campbell, a professor of psychology at Michigan State University in East Lansing, received the 2015 Award for Special Contributions to Public Policy from the Society for Community Research & Action of the American Psychological Association. Professor Campbell was honored for her research on sexual assault and her advocacy and volunteer work with sexual assault victims.

Dr. Campbell has been on the faculty at Michigan State since 2003. Previously, she taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Professor Campbell is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Illinois. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in ecological and community psychology from Michigan State University.

Mikaela Rogozen-SoltarMikaela Rogozen-Soltar, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada received the Global Citizenship Award from the Center for Public Anthropology. She is the book review editor for the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies.

Dr. Rogozen-Soltar holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

campbellGretchen Campbell, a fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute, a collaboration of the National Institute of Standards and the University of Maryland, received the Maria Goeppert Mayer Award from the American Physical Society. The award comes with a cash prize and offers the opportunity to lecture at four universities.

Dr. Campbell is a graduate of Wellesley College and holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

kshogrenKarrie Shogren, associate professor of special education at the University of Kansas, has been selected to receive the 2015 Distinguished Early Career Research Award from the Division of Research of the Council for Exceptional Children. Dr. Shogren also serves as associate director of the Center on Development Disabilities and the Beach Center on Disability.

Dr. Shogren joined the faculty at the University of Kansas in 2013. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Ohio State University and holds a master’s degree in psychology from the University of Dayton and a Ph.D. from the University of Kansas.

Gretchen Garofoli, Pharm.D. copyGretchen K. Garofoli, clinical assistant professor in the School of Pharmacy at West Virginia University, has been selected to receive the 2015 Distinguished New Practitioner Award from the American Pharmacists Association.

Dr. Garofoli is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. She earned a doctor of pharmacy degree at the University of Pittsburgh.

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