All Entries in the "Awards" Category
Maureen Donnelly Wins Award for Excellence in Herpetology
The American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists has honored biologist Maureen Donnelly of Florida International University with the Henry S. Fitch Award for Excellence in Herpetology. This is considered the highest honor within the field of amphibian studies
MIT’s Elly Nedivi Honored for Her Research on the Cerebral Cortex
Elly Nedivi is the William R. and Linda R. Young Professor of Neuroscience in The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the 2023 recipient of the Krieg Cortical Kudos Discoverer Award from the Cajal Club.
National Association of Biology Teachers Recognizes the Innovative Teaching of Samiksha Raut
Dr. Raut, an associte professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham notes the effects of active learning as opposed to heavy book-based course materials as the backbone of her teaching style. She has taken a very intentional step to involve her students with community engagement opportunities, particularly with non-major students, which serves as a testament to her commitment to innovation.
University of Arkansas Scholar Wins Book Award from the National Communication Association
Lindsey Aloia is associate dean for international education and associate professor of communication at the University of Arkansas. She was honored for the most outstanding book published within the past five years that made a significant contribution to the field of interpersonal communication.
Joan Ferrini-Munday Wins Lifetime Achievement Award From the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Lifetime Achievement Award honors council members who have demonstrated distinguished leadership, instruction, and service to the mathematics education field at the national level for over 25 years. Dr. Ferrini-Mundy has been president of the University of Maine since July 2018.
Linda Griffin Honored for Her Work in Sports Pedagogy
Dr. Griffin is an expert in games-centered approaches to teaching and learning sport-related games, and she applies those best practices to teaching her undergraduate courses with the goal of helping students understand the connections between contemporary sport, society, and culture.
American Heart Association Bestows Lembright Award on University of Connecticut Researcher
Nancy Schmieder Redeker is a professor at the University of Connecticut Schools of Nursing and Medicine, senior associate dean for research, and interim director of the Ph.D. program in nursing. The Lembright Award, established in 1987, is the top award for excellence in research given by the American Heart Association.
Beth Huebner Honored by the American Society of Criminology
Beth Huebner is the Watts Endowed Professor of Public Safety and director of Arizona State University’s School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. She was honored for distinguished scholarship in the area of corrections and/or sentencing over a lifetime.
Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition Honors Gwendolyn Pough
Gwendolyn D. Pough, dean’s professor of the humanities and professor in the department of women’s and gender studies at Syracuse University in New York, is the latest recipient of the 2023 Ede Mentoring Award from the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition. The biennial award recognizes impactful mentorship of students, campus leadership, professionals, and others.
Robin Wall Kimmerer Wins the Stone Award for Literary Achievement
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a State University of New York Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse and the founder and director of its Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.
University of Mississippi’s Viola Acoff Honored for Her Policymaking Role in Materials Engineering
Dr. Acoff became dean of the School of Engineering at the University of Mississippi on July 1. She is the first woman and first African American to hold the position. From 2014 to 2023, she was the associate dean for undergraduate and graduate programs at the University of Alabama.
Rosalie Otero Recognized for a Lifetime of Work Advancing Honors Education
Rosalie Otero, professor emerita and former director of the Honors Program at the University of New Mexico, recently was presented with the 2023 Founders Award from the National Collegiate Honors Council at its annual conference in Chicago.
Kelly Lambert Wins the 2023 Science Educator Award From the Society for Neuroscience
The award honors neuroscientists who have made significant contributions to educating the public about neuroscience. The award announcement noted that Lambert “deftly merges best practices in education with outstanding science that makes neuroscience accessible, interesting, and fun for both her students and the community at large.”
Cornell’s Riché Richardson Wins Book Award From the Society for the Study of Southern Literature
Riché Richardson, professor of African American literature in the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University in Ithaca New York, has been awarded the C. Hugh Holman Award from the Society for the Study of Southern Literature. The award will be presented to Professor Richardson at the Modern Language Association conference in January 2024.
International Union of Pure and Applied Physics Honors Rice University’s Evelyn Tang
Evelyn Tang, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy in the Wiess School of Natural Sciences and a senior scientist at the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics at Rice University in Houston, Texas, is an inaugural recipient of the Interdisciplinary Early Career Scientist Prize.
Patricia Hill Collins Awarded the $1 Million Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture
The prize is given annually to an individual whose ideas have profoundly shaped human self-understanding and advancement in a rapidly changing world. Professor Collins joined the faculty at the University of Maryland in 2005. Earlier, she was the director of the African American Center at Tufts University and spent more than 20 years on the faculty at the University of Cincinnati.
Maya Rossin-Slater Awadred the Elaine Bennett Research Prize from the American Economic Association
Maya Rossin-Slater is a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and an associate professor of health policy at Stanford University. The prize recognizes Dr. Rossin-Slater’s research examining the impacts of public policies and other factors on families and children.
UCLA’s Alvine Kamaha Honored by the American Physical Society
Alvine Kamaha, assistant professor of physics at the University of California, Los Angeles, won the 2024 Edward A. Bouchet Award from the American Physical Society for her leadership and accomplishments in the experimental search for dark matter in the universe and advancement of underrepresented minority scientists.
Jaclyn Nunziato Has Received the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award
Jaclyn Nunziato, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine in Roanoke, received student-nominated honor that recognizes a faculty physician who exemplifies qualities of a caring and compassionate mentor in the teaching and advising of medical students.
Professor Rachel Dickey Wins the Cultural Heritage Landscape Award for a Plaza in Rock Hill, South Carolina
Rachel Dickey is an associate professor in the David R. Ravin School of Architecture at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and founder of Studio Dickey, a Charlotte-based art and design practice.
Murray State University’s Rebecca Rosen Honored by the Modern Language Association
Rebecca M. Rosen, assistant professor of English at Murray State University in Kentucky, has been awarded the 2022 Richard Beale Davis Prize. This award is presented by the Modern Language Association Early American Literature Forum.
Princeton’s Bonnie Bassler Shares the 2023 Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research
Dr. Bassler first discovered that bacteria communicate during her postdoctoral work, and she has spent her career identifying and characterizing the molecules that bacteria use to coordinate collective behaviors and share other kinds of information.
Yingda Chen Wins the Germund Dahlquist Prize From the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Dr. Cheng is a professor of mathematics at Virginia Tech. The Germund Dahlquist Prize is awarded every two years to an individual for original contributions to numerical solutions of differential equations and numerical methods for scientific computing.
American Society for Engineering Education Honors Lafayette College’s Jenn Stroud Rossman
Dr. Rossmann, the Baird Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, was recently presented with the 2023 Sterling Olmsted Award. The award recognizes those who have made distinguished contributions to the development and teaching of liberal arts in engineering education.
Elizabeth Linos Wins the David N. Kershaw Prize From the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management
Elizabeth Linos is the Emma Bloomberg Associate Professor of Public Policy and Management and faculty director of The People Lab at the Kennedy School at Harvard University. She was honored for her research on how governments can build a more effective workforce and provide better public services.
Princeton’s Ilana Witten Receives a Director’s Pioneer Award From the National Institutes of Health
Professor Witten, an expert in the brain activity that underlies reward-driven learning and decision making, will receive funding to study the fundamental question of what produces individual differences in behavior, a question often posed as nature versus nurture.
Robin Nelson Wins the Sussman Award From the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Robin Nelson, an associate professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University, is being recognized for “her outstanding contributions to understanding human relationships and their evolutionary impact.”
Ana Fostel Wins the Ross Prize From the Foundation for Advancement of Research in Financial Economics
A native of Uruguay, Ana Fostel is a professor of economics at the University of Virginia. The Ross Prize is presented to recognize and encourage significant contributions to research in financial economics. Professor Fostel will share the prize with her colleague John Geanakoplos, the James Tobin Professor of Economics and chair of Hellenic Studies at Yale University.
agInnovation Has Recognized the Work of the University of Arkansas’ Jacquelyn Mosley
Jacquelyn Mosley, professor of human development and family sciences in the School of Human Environmental Sciences at the University of Arkansas, was presented the 2023 National Experiment Station Section Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award at the agInnovation fall meeting in Michigan.
Harvard’s Ya-Chieh Hsu Receives a Glenn Foundation Discovery Award
The Glenn Foundation Discovery Award from the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research and the American Federation for Aging Research was created to support research projects with strong potential to develop pioneering discoveries to understand the underlying biological mechanisms that govern normal human aging and its related physiological decline.
Michelene Chi of Arizona State University Wins the 2023 Yidan Prize for Education Research
Dr. Chi, a Regents Professor and the Dorothy Bray Endowed Professor of Science and Teaching in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University, will receive the award in a special ceremony in December in Hong Kong, where she will receive a gold medal and a $3.8 million award to fund her research.
Two Women Researchers Awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
The Breakthrough Prize popularly known as the “Oscars of Science” was created to celebrate the wonders of our scientific age. This year two women are among the winners in the life sciences: Sabine Hadida, senior vice president of Vetex Pharmaceuticals in San Diego and Ellen Sidransky of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
Biophysics Society Recognizes the Research of Vanderbilt University’s Nancy Carrasco
Nancy Carrasco, Joe C. Davis Chair in Biomedical Science and chair of the department of molecular physiology and biophysics at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, is being honored for work to define and characterize the sodium/iodide transporter that is essential for synthesizing thyroid hormone and then translating these findings into important medical applications.
Lisa Powell of Sweet Briar College Honored by the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences
At Sweet Briar College, associate professor Lisa Powell serves as head of the STEM Division Head and director of the Center for Human and Environmental Sustainability. She also leads the academic and community-focused aspects of the college’s agricultural areas, including the greenhouse, apiary, vineyard, garden, and forests.
Yale’s Cécile Fromont Received the 2023 Gustav Ranis International Book Prize
Dr. Fromont, a professor of the history of art at Yale. was born and raised in Martinique. Her ancestors came to the Caribbean island from Africa, South Asia, and Burgundy. She joined the Yale faculty in 2018 after teaching for eight years at the University of Chicago. Her writing and teaching focus on the visual, material, and religious culture of Africa and Latin America.
