A professor emerita of literature and creative writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Yamashita is the author of eight books and several plays. She has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.
Dr. Gilmour has taught government and political science courses at Midland College in Texas for more than three decades. She has received the college's Teacher of the Year Award three times.
The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication has honored Washington State University's Jennifer Henrichsen for her scholarship on how structural conditions and evolving forms of risk shape journalistic work, and what those pressures mean for journalism and democratic life.
Dr. Birch, an endowed professor and co-director of the Institute for Urban Research at the University of Pennsylvania, is known for her research on global urbanization with an emphasis on urban climate finance, sustainable urban development, and multilevel government in implementing global agreements.
Joya Misra of the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently received the American Sociological Association's Jessie Bernard Award, an annual honor presented to scholars who have significantly advanced research on the role of women in society.
Dr. Lokko focuses her work on the intersectoral design and research of bio-based materials to drive ecological health and generative justice goals. She currently serves as an assistant professor in the School of Architecture and assistant director of the Center for Ecosystems in Architecture at Yale University.
Professor Fernandez Lynch currently teaches as an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine and the Carey Law School. She is known for her work on clinical research ethics and regulation, access to investigational medicine, and FDA pharmaceutical policy.
The National Association of College and University Business Officers is honoring Dawn Rhodes, chief business and finance officer and senior vice president at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.
Jordana B. Cohen of the University of Pennsylvania and Daria V. Ilatovskaya of Augusta University have been honored by the American Journal of Hypertension for their outstanding research contributions in clinical science and basic science, respectively.
An applied microeconomist, Dr. Goldberg, former chief economist of the World Bank Group, has fundamentally shaped the empirical study of global trade and development. She has been a faculty member in the department of economics and the Jackson School of Global Affairs at Yale University of the past 25 years.
Vanderbilt University's Shatema Threadcraft received two book awards from the American Political Science Association. Lisa Messeri of Yale University was honored by the Society for Cultural Anthropology and Fiona Cunningham of the University of Pennsylvania was honored by Cornell University.
"Done well, simulation doesn't just teach skills. It shapes safer, more thoughtful clinicians," said Dr. Fogg, an associate professor and assistant dean at the Texas Woman's University College of Nursing. "When it's interprofessional, it prepares them to work as part of the collaborative healthcare teams patients depend on."
