All Entries in the "Awards" Category
Kristin Hutchins Receives Rising Star Award From the American Chemical Society
Presented by the American Chemical Society’s Women Chemists Committee, the Rising Star Award honors a mid-career scientist with outstanding potential in their field.
Victoria Chang Wins The Forward Prize for Best Poetry Collection
Professor Chang is the first Asian American and first woman to hold the Bourne Chair of Poetry at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She was honored by The Forward Foundation for her new poetry collection, With My Back to the World
Toni Jensen Receives 2024 Porter Literary Fund Prize
Dr. Jensen is an associate professor of fiction and director of the program in creative writing and translation at the University of Arkansas. She also teaches in the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts.
Carolina Harada Receives National Award for Outstanding Medical School Teaching and Advising
The Association of American Medical Colleges has presented the 2024 Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award to Carolina Harada, professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine.
Lynne Maquat Honored for Outstanding RNA Research Contributions
Over 40 years ago, Dr. Maquat discovered the biological process known as nonsense-mediated mRNA decay. Her research has resulted in significant breakthroughs in the understanding of a wide range of diseases, including cystic fibrosis and cancer.
Kimberlé Crenshaw Honored With Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Medal
Since 2000, Professor Crenshaw has held joint faculty appointments with Columbia Law School in New York and the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law.
Barbara Savage Receives Book Award for Her Recent Biography of Merze Tate
The Before Columbus Foundation has honored Barbara Savage, professor emerita at the University of Pennsylvania, with their 2024 American Book Award for Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar.
Jody Lewen Honored for Lifetime Achievement in Higher Education
Dr. Lewen has received the 2024 Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education. She is the founder and president of Mount Tamalpais College, a higher education institution which offer courses at San Quentin State Prison in California.
Erin Calipari Recognized by the Society for Neuroscience for Outstanding Early-Career Research
Dr. Calipari was recognized for her outstanding research on drug addiction and treatment. She currently serves as an associate professor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville and is the director of the Vanderbilt Center for Addiction Research.
Jennifer Borland Receives Book Award From the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship
Dr. Borland was honored for her book Visualizing Household Health: Medieval Women, Art, and Knowledge in the Régime du corps. She has been a member of the Oklahoma State University for nearly two decades.
Seattle University Professor Sonora Jha Receives 2024 Prize for Fiction from the Washington State Book Awards
Dr. Jha was recently recognized by the Washington State Book Awards for her novel, The Laughter. In addition to authoring several books throughout her career, she has spent the past two decades teaching communication studies at Seattle University.
American Theatre and Drama Society Honors Ann Folino White for Excellence in Teaching
Dr. Folino White is an associate professor of theatre studies at Michigan State University. In addition to her academic interests in theatre and drama, she is an advocate for advancing student accessibility on campus.
Rajaa Shindi Receives National Recognition for Contributions to Information Systems Industry and Students
The Association of Information Systems has awarded Dr. Shindi with their Volunteer of the Year Award. She currently teaches as an assistant professor at New Mexico State University, where she oversees the university’s Association of Information Systems student chapter.
Michele Kozimor Wins Distinguished Teaching Award from the American Sociological Association
As a professor of sociology at Elizabethtown College, Dr. Kozimor is dedicated to innovative instruction, mentoring, and professional development for both students and faculty.
Rhetoric Society of America Recognizes Rebecca Dingo for Outstanding Mentorship
Dr. Dingo currently serves as the associate director of the Office of Faculty Development and a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she teaches courses on composition and rhetoric.
Gilda Barabino Awarded the 2024 Carnegie Mellon Dickinson Prize in Science
Dr. Barabino, president of Olin College of Engineering in Needham, Massachusetts, has conducted extensive research on the understanding of sickle cell disease and orthopedic tissue engineering, as well as advancing diversity and belonging in engineering education and research.
Xuguang Wang Honored by American Meteorological Society for Contributions to Earth System Predictability Research
Dr. Wang, endowed professor at the University of Oklahoma, was honored for her research that has advanced the predictability of global hurricane and convective-scale models.
Giulia Galli Wins the Joseph O. Hirschfelder Prize in Theoretical Chemistry
Dr. Galli current serves as a professor in the School of Molecular Engineering and department of chemistry at the University of Chicago and conducts research as a senior scientist with the Argonne National Laboratory
Margaret Hagerman Wins National Award for Early Career Research in Children and Youth Studies
As a scholar, Dr. Hagerman focuses her work on how children’s social contexts shape their understanding of race, racism, and racial privilege, and what that means for racial inequality on a broader scale.
Three Women Named Laureates of the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists
This year’s Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists laureates are Cigal Kadoch of Harvard Medical School, Markita del Carpio Landry of the University of California, Berkeley, and Britney Schmidt of Cornell University.
Katherine de Kleer Honored for Outstanding Early-Career Research in Planetary Sciences
Katherine de Kleer’s research has contributed to the broader understanding of the atmospheric composition and environmental properties of Uranus, Neptune, Jupiter, Io, Europa, Callisto, and Ganymede.
Dixie Watts Dalton Earns Recognition for Distinguished Graduate Teaching in Agricultural and Applied Economics
Dixie Watts Dalton has over three decades of higher education experience. She currently teaches several graduate level courses on agribusiness marketing, management, and policy at Virginia Tech.
National League of Nursing Recognizes Sharon Irving for Outstanding Clinical Practice Leadership
Sharon Irving, professor of pediatric nursing at the University of Pennsylvania, has conducted extensive research on clinical care delivery, particularly nutrition care delivery for critically ill infants and children.
The White House Presents Its Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award to Karen Ivy
Dr. Ivy was recognized by The White House for her outstanding background in community service. She is known for creating the U.S. to Uganda Connections Program, an international initiative that uses technology to inspire and empower youth through educational exchanges and leadership development.
Maryam Naghibolhosseini Honored by Sigma Xi for Innovative Research on the Human Voice
Dr. Naghibolhosseini has been a member of the Michigan State University community for the past decade. Her research centers around the irregularities in the human voice, which can be a sign of a neurological disease or a mental health disorder.
American Sociological Society Recognizes Robin Isserles for Distinguished Contributions to Community College Teaching
A professor at the Borough of Manhattan Community College within the CUNY system for nearly three decades, Dr. Isserles focuses her career on advancing community college education.
Beverly Henry Wheeler Receives National Award Named in Her Honor for Lifetime Achievement in College Admissions
The National Association for College Admissions Counseling has named its inaugural lifetime achievement award after Beverly Henry Wheeler, interim director of admission at Hendrix College. She is honored for her contributions to advancing equity in college admissions.
Megan Koster Receives National Recognition for Advancing Respiratory Care Education
Dr. Koster currently serves as chair of the department of respiratory care at Boise State University in Idaho. Her research focuses on the tangible benefits of earning a graduate-level degree in respiratory care.
Two Women Professors Win Book Award for Best French-to-English Translation
Angela Hunter, professor of English at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and Rebecca Wilkin, professor of French at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, have received the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for their book Louise Dupin’s Work on Women: Selections.
National Institute for Pharmaceutical Technology and Education Awards Its Highest Honor to Diane Burgess
For the past 30 years, Dr. Burgess has been a faculty member with the School of Pharmacy at the University of Connecticut. Her research in pharmaceutics has led to nearly 300 publications and 10 U.S. patents.
Two Women Receive Lifetime Achievement Awards From the Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior
The Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior has recently awarded its Helen Denning Ullrich Annual Award for Lifetime Excellence in Nutrition Education to Mary Murimi of Texas Tech University and Diane Smith of Washington State University.
Friday Institute for Educational Innovation Presents Prestigious Friday Medal to Maria Pitre-Martin
Dr. Pitre-Martin currently serves as director of UNC Greensboro’s SERVE Center. She has significant experience in North Carolina public service, previously serving in several roles within the Department of Public Instruction and the State Board of Education.
Elizabeth Sharrow Receives National Recognition for Book on the Legacy of Title IX
Dr. Sharrow’s book Equality Unfulfilled argues that the current state of Title IX policy undermines the efforts to achieve systemic change in college athletics.
Barbara Reisner and Joanne Stewart Honored for Outstanding Achievement in Chemistry Teaching
Dr. Reisner and Dr. Stewart were honored for participating in the creation of the Interactive Online Network of Inorganic Chemists, a supportive community for inorganic chemistry faculty members.
Jessica Bolton Honored for Early-Career Research Contributions in Psychology, Neurology, and Immunology
Dr. Bolton, an assistant professor at Georgia State University, focuses her research on how stress in early-life experiences affects the developing brain.
