All Entries in the "Awards" Category
Diana DiTomasso Honored for Excellence in Women’s Health and Obstetrics Education
Dr. DiTomasso, a clinical associate professor at the University of Rhode Island, is an expert on breastfeeding, infant weight changes, and human milk expression.
Marion Ehrich Honored for Career Contributions to Toxicology Research and Education
Dr. Ehrich has been a faculty member with Virginia Tech since 1980. Her scientific discoveries have influenced broader research on how neurotoxic organophosphates harm humans.
Jennifer Borland Receives National Recognition for New Book on Medieval Women’s History
Dr. Borland’s monograph, Visualizing Household Health: Medieval Women, Art, and Knowledge in the Régime du corps, leverages art history to examine the role medieval women played in household medicine.
Trudy Mackay Wins Darwin-Wallace Medal for Excellence in Evolutionary Biology
Presented annually by the Linnean Society of London, the Darwin-Wallace Medal recognizes outstanding research on evolutionary biology. Dr. Mackay was honored for her work on advancing the understanding of quantitative traits.
Beth Beason-Abmayr Recognized as a Distinguished Educator by the American Physiological Society
A faculty member for nearly three decades, Dr. Beason-Amayr currently serves as chair of Rice University’s biosciences department, where she works to advance undergraduate education and research opportunities.
Columbia University’s Mary Mendenhall Receives an International Book Award
Dr. Mendenhall is an associate professor at Columbia University’s Teachers College. Her award-winning book, Education and Resilience in Crisis, examines how humanitarian crises have impacted teaching and learning in seven sub-Saharan African countries.
The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering Presents Its Highest Honor to Jennifer West
Dr. West, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia, has spent the past three decades developing nanomedicine technologies to address unmet medical needs.
Juliet Wiersema Wins a Book Award From the Association for Latin American Art
Dr. Weirsema’s award-winning book, The History of a Periphery, provides insight into a over-looked part of the Spanish empire through analyzing rare, hand-drawn maps from Columbia’s Pacific Lowlands.
Luciana de Oliveira Receives National Recognition for Advancing Second Language Research and Teaching
Dr. de Oliveira, professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, focuses on issues related to teaching multilingual learners at the K-12 level, including the role of language in learning, teacher education for multilingual learners, and functional approaches to language development
The National Academy of Sciences Awards the 2025 Public Welfare Medal to Mary-Claire King
Dr. King, the American Cancer Society Professor of Medical Genetics and Genome Sciences at the University of Washington, was honored by the National Academy of Sciences for her outstanding use of forensic genetics to reunite families torn apart by violence from around the world.
New Book by Swarthmore’s Roseann Liu Wins Two National Awards
Designed to Fail by Roseann Liu, assistant professor at Swarthmore College, examines funding disparities between predominately White and non-White schools in Philadelphia.
Maria Grant Recognized for Outstanding Research on Retinal Diseases
Currently serving as chair of the department of opthlamology and visual sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Dr. Grant uses stem cell research to understand and address a wide range of retinal diseases.
Three American-Based Women Professors Receive 2025 Suffrage Science Awards
The Suffrage Science Award is an international prize presented to women scientists who are pioneers in their field. This year’s cohort of 12 awardees includes Danielle Julie Carrier of the University of Tennessee, Priyamvada Natarajan of Yale University, and Thuc-Quyen Nguyen of the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Two Women Ivy League Professors Receive the Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Social Sciences
The recipients of the the 2025 Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Social Sciences are Dolores Albarracín of the University of Pennsylvania and Mahzarin Banaji of Harvard University.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Receives Major International Prize for Outstanding Research in the Humanities
Dr. Spivak, longtime professor at Columbia University, is an interdisciplinary scholar of comparative literature, philosophy, postcolonial studies, and political and feminist theory. She has recently received the Holberg Prize from the Norwegian Government in honor of her lifelong research contributions.
Caltech’s Pamela Bjorkman Named the 2025 Wolf Prize Laureate in Medicine
The Wolf Prize is presented annually by the Wolf Foundation to exceptional individuals in various scientific and artistic fields. Dr. Bjorkman, longtime professor of biological engineering at Caltech, is the only woman professor in this year’s cohort of Wolf Prize Laureates.
Sarah Ruiz Honored for Early-Career Contributions to Health Education
The Society for Public Health Education has presented its 2025 M. Elaine Aud Horizon Award to Sarah Ruiz, assistant professor at New Mexico State University, for her contributions to the public health profession and education.
Yale’s Paola Bertucci Wins International Prize for Book on the History of Science
Dr. Bertucci’s award-winning book, In the Land of Marvels, discusses how eighteenth-century scientists published fictional events and results to bolster their careers
Boni Elewski Receives Gold Medal Award from the American Academy of Dermatology
Dr. Elewski, chair of the department of dermatology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, is an international leader in fungal and psoriasis research and dermatological clinical trials.
Anna Balazs Receives International Recognition for Materials Science and Soft Matter Research
Johannas Gutenberg University Mainz in Germany has presented its 2025 Gutenberg Research Award to Anna Balazs, professor of chemical engineering at the University of Pittsburgh.
Franklin Institute Recognizes Katharine Suding for Transformative Contributions to Restoration Ecology
A distinguished profesor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado Boulder, Dr. Suding is a plant community ecologist who studies ecosystem landscape and population biology.
Amanda Gilmore Recognized for Outstanding Early Career Research in Public Health
A Georgia State faculty member since 2019, Dr. Gilmore focuses her work on the prevention and treatment of several public health issues, particularly among underserved groups.
Florida State University’s Liliya Ugay Named Composer of the Year by the Music Teachers National Association
Dr. Ugay has taught music composition at Florida State University for the past six years. She recently received national recognition for her piece, “Pull No More,” which was inspired by her own experience of childbirth and common clichés related to the harp.
Michigan State University’s Teresa Woodruff Honored by Society for Women’s Health Research
Dr. Woodruff has been recognized for her outstanding contributions to women’s health research. She founded the field of oncofertility in 2006, sparking research into the reproductive options of cancer patients and cancer survivors.
Elizabeth Oliver Receives Lifetime Service Award from the American Accounting Association
Dr. Oliver, the Lewis Whitaker Adams Professor in Commerce at Washington and Lee University in Virginia, has been recognized for her lifetime achievement in accounting education and leadership within the profession.
Two Women Scholars at American Universities Recognized for Achievements in Biomedical Technology
The award winners are Kiana Aran of the University of California, San Diego and Amanda Randles of Duke University in North Carolina. Both women were recognized for developing breakthrough biomedical technologies.
Amy Gutmann Receives Yale’s Legend in Leadership Award
Dr. Gutmann led the University of Pennsylvania from 2004 to 2022, making her the institution’s longest serving president. After her retirement, she became the first woman to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Germany.
Dusa McDuff Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Mathematical Society
The American Mathematical Association has recognized Barnard College’s Dusa McDuff for her lifelong contributions to the field of symplectic geometry and topology and her mentorship of other women in mathematics.
Stanford’s Fei-Fei Li Wins Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
Among a cohort of seven recipients, Dr. Li was the only woman to receive the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. She is a leading expert in machine learning whose contributions have contributed to the modern understanding of artificial intelligence.
Naomi Halas Awarded the 2025 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry
A University Professor at Rice University, Naomi Halas was honored for her creation and development of nanoshells, which are used in many biomedical and chemical applications.
Article Authored by Cornell’s Valeria Hans Wins the 2025 Civil Justice Scholarship Award
Valeria P. Hans, the Charles F. Rechlin Professor of Law at Cornell University, was honored for her co-authored paper, “Democratic Renewal and Civil Jury,” which provides a practical roadmap to restoring juris to their historical importance in the American legal system.
Leah Stokes Recognized for Outstanding Climate Science Communication
ClimateOne has honored Leah Stokes, an associate professor of political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, for her outstanding scientific contributions and efforts to communicate climate change research to the public.
Priyamvada Natarajan Honored for Career Contributions to Black Hole and Dark Matter Research
Dr. Natarajan, professor of astronomy and physics at Yale University, is known for her extensive research on the formation of black holes and the use of gravitational lensing to map dark matter.
Evelina Fedorenko Receives National Award for Outstanding Research on the Brain’s Language Network
Dr. Fedorenko, associate professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, investigates how people understand and produce language through the use of brain imaging and computational modeling.
New Novel by Colorado State University Professor Ramona Ausubel Receives National Book Foundation Award
Professor Ausubel is the author of three novels and two short-story collections. Her latest work, The Last Animal, has received the 2025 Science + Literature Award from the National Book Foudnation.
