All Entries in the "Awards" Category
Marialuisa Di Stefano Receives Book of the Year Award from American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education
The award-winning book, Integrando STEAM: A Guide for Elementary Bilingual and Dual Programs serves as a guide for implementing bilingual and dual language curriculums in elementary school programs.
Karen Bullock Honored for Outstanding Contributions to Diversity in Palliative Medicine
As an endowed professor at Boston College and scholar at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Dr. Bullock’s new award honors her dedication to improving care for underrepresented patient populations in hospice and palliative medicine.
Jo Ann Miller Honored for Lifetime Achievement in Choral Arts
Dr. Miller, director of choral activities at North Dakota State University for the past 35 years, has received the Weston J. Noble Lifetime Achievement Award from the Midwest Region of the American Choral Directors Association.
National Academy of Sciences Honors Nancy Hopkins for Lifetime Contributions to Women’s Representation in STEM
President Emerita of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Susan Hockfield, says Dr. Hopkins’ award “celebrates her critical role in increasing the participation of women in science and engineering as a significant national achievement.”
Linda Tropp Awarded for Contributions to Psychological Research and Social Action
Dr. Tropp, professor of social psychology at the University of Massachusetts, stated “this award means more to me than any other award in psychology, given how central the goal of conducting socially relevant research has been to my own professional development and career trajectory.”
Sylvia Houghteling Honored With Two Awards For Her Book The Art of Cloth in Mughal India
The Textile Society of America and the College Art Association have both presented Sylvia Houghteling with an award for her book, “The Art of Cloth in Mughal India”
Bernadine Marie Hernandez Receives Three Literary Awards for New Book
Border Bodies: Racialized Sexuality, Sexual Capital, and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Borderlands has earned author Bernadine Marie Hernández two Book of the Year awards and an honorable mention from three national literary associations.
Christa Baker Receives C.J. Herrick Award in Neuroanatomy
Christa Baker, assistant professor of biological sciences at North Carolina State University has been honored by the American Association for Anatomy for her outstanding contributions to the field comparative neuroanatomy.
Kimberly White-Smith Honored for Outstanding Contributions to Teacher Education
“Through her leadership and scholarship, Dr. White-Smith inspires a new generation of teachers to serve students and approach their work with equity, compassion, and respect,” said Gail F. Baker, provost and senior vice president at the University of San Diego.
Mary Boyce Receives the 2024 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Mechanical Engineering
“I am deeply honored to receive the 2024 Benjamin Franklin Medal,” said Dr. Boyce, professor and former provost of Columbia University. “I feel that this recognition reflects my collaborative work with so many talented students, postdocs, and colleagues over many years.”
United States Department of Agriculture Honors Ozzie Abaye for Excellence in Teaching
Ozzie Abaye, the Thomas B. Hutcheson Jr. Professor of Agronomy at Virginia Tech, has received with the 2023 Excellence in College and University Teaching Award for Food and Agricultural Sciences. Dr. Abaye states, “Teaching is not what I do for a living, but what I do to live.”
American Society of Mechanical Engineers Honors Jennifer Wayne With Dedicated Service Award
The Distinguished Service Award “honors the unusual dedicated voluntary service to the society marked by outstanding performance, demonstrated effective leadership, prolonged and committed service, devotion, enthusiasm and faithfulness.”
Modern Language Association Honors Jody Enders With Lois Roth Award
Professor of French at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Jody Enders, has received the Lois Roth Award from the Modern Language Association for one of her many collections of translated French plays
Terrie Williams Honored by The National Academy of Sciences
University of California Santa Cruz professor Terrie Williams has been awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences for her work in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology.
Caltech’s Shu-ou Shan Recognized for Her Research on Molecular Machines in Protein Folding
The National Academy of Science has honored Shu-ou Shan with their Award in Molecular Biology. Dr. Shan is the Altair Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology where she studies biochemistry and molecular biophysics.
Association of Women in Mathematics Honors Baylor University’s Trena Wilkerson
Trena Wilkerson, a professor of mathematics education at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, received the Louise Hay Award from the Association for Women in Mathematics.
Another Honor for Rice University’s Naomi Halas
Naomi Halas, a University Professor at Rice University in Houston Texas, has been awarded the 2024 Mildred Dresselhaus Prize in Nanoscience and Nanomaterials from the American Physical Society.
Livia Schiavinato Eberlin Honored for Her Work in Cancer Research
Dr. Eberlin, an associate professor of surgery at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, developed the MasSpec Pen in 2016 while she was serving as an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin. The MasSpec Pen is a device for detecting cancer directly on tissues. The device is used to detect cancer tissue during a surgical operation, which allows doctors to more accurately remove tumor tissue.
Princeton’s Neta Bahcall Honored by the American Astronomical Society
Neta Bahcall, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy at Princeton University, has been awarded, the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship, the highest honor bestowed by the American Astronomical Society. Professor Bahcall is the sixth woman to win the award. Her husband, who also taught at Princeton, won the honor in 1999.
NASPA Recognizes Florida State University’s Amy Hecht for Sustained Professional Achievement and Leadership
Amy Hecht, vice president for student affairs at Florida State University, has been recognized with the Scott Goodnight Award for Outstanding Performance as a Dean by the Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education (NASPA).
The Latest Cohort of L’Oreal For Women in Science Fellows
L’Oreal USA recently announced the recipients of its For Women in Science (FWIS) Fellowship program, which grants awards annually to five female postdoctoral scientists to support their research endeavors.
The Linguistic Society of America Recognizes the Work of Princeton’s Laura Kalin
Dr. Kalin joined the faculty at Princeton in 2016. Her research focuses on the syntax and morphology of understudied (and often endangered) languages with a current focus on a group of Neo-Aramaic languages originally spoken in Kurdish areas of Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Türkiye.
Brown University Doctoral Student Wins the 2023 American Library in Paris Book Award
Each year, the American Library in Paris Book Award recognizes a title, published originally in English, “that best realizes new and intellectually significant ideas about France, the French people or encounters with French culture.” Katherine Chen, a doctoral student in English at Brown University is the youngest person and first Asian American to receive the honor.
Mississippi State University Scholar Honored for Community Engagement by the PCI Foundation
Alexis Gregory, an associate professor in the School of Architecture at Mississippi State University, is the recipient of the 2023 Community Engagement Award from the Chicago-based Precast Concrete Industry Foundation. Since 2001, the PCI Foundation has focused on providing curriculum development grants to schools of architecture, engineering and construction management.
Lekelia Jenkins Named a Fellow of the International Science Council
Lekelia Jenkins, an associate professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University, has been named a fellow of the International Science Council, the highest honor that can be conferred on an individual by the council.
De’Etra Young Received the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Teaching Award
Dr. Young is associate dean for academics and land-grant programs at Tennessee State University. The award recognizes excellence in agricultural sciences teaching and student engagement.
Columbia University’s Pamela Smith Honored by the American Historical Association
Pamela H. Smith is the recipient of the George L. Mosse Prize from the American Historical Association. The prize is awarded annually for an outstanding major work of extraordinary scholarly distinction, creativity, and originality in the intellectual and cultural history of Europe since the Renaissance.
Barbara Farley Wins Award for Dedication to Students and the Community
Illinois College President Barbara Farley has been named the eleventh recipient of the Courageous Leadership Award presented by Credo a higher education consulting firm. The award is given annually to a higher education president whose vision and dedication have made an impact on their institution, community, and the students they serve.
Geology Pioneer Honored by Johns Hopkins University
Florence Bascom, the trailblazing founder of the geology department at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, was recently honored by Johns Hopkins University, where her name now graces a building – the Bascom Undergraduate Teaching Laboratories – designed to foster undergraduate research.
Belinda Edmondson Wins Book Award From the Modern Language Association
The Modern Language Association of America announced it is awarding its first annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for African Studies to Belinda Edmondson, Distinguished Professor in the departments of English and Africana studies at Rutgers University-Newark.
Liz Garcini of Rice University Wins Award From the American Psychological Association
Luz Garcini is an assistant professor of psychological sciences at Rice University in Houston, Texas, and interim director of Community Health at the university’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research.
Columbia University’s Lila Abu-Lughold Honored With Lifetime Achievement in Feminist Anthropology
Dr. Abu-Lughod’s work, strongly ethnographic and mostly based in Egypt, has focused on three broad issues: the relationship between cultural forms and power; the politics of knowledge and representation; and the dynamics of women’s and human rights, global liberalism, and feminist governance of the Muslim world.
The Society for Neuroscience Recognizes the Career Achievements of BJ Casey
BJ Casey, the Christina L. Williams Professor of Neuroscience at Barnard College in New York City, is the winner of the 2023 Mika Salpeter Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Neuroscience.
Rose Hu Honored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Rose Hu, associate dean for research at the Utah State University College of Engineering, is this year’s winner of the Women in Communications Engineering Outstanding Achievement Award presented by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
University of Chicago’s Tina Post Wins Best Book Award
Tina Post, an assistant professor of English at the University of Chicago, recently received the Best Book Prize from the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present.
