All Entries in the "Awards" Category
Aviv Regev Wins the 2021 Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science
Aviv Regev is an internationally known computational and systems biologist and executive vice president of Genentech Research and Early Development. She is on leave from her faculty position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thavolia Glymph of Duke University Wins Three Awards From the Organization of American Historians
Thavolia Glymph, the Peabody Family Distinguished Professor of History at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, was honored with three awards for her book on the role of women during the Civil War.
The University of Northern Arizona Honors Its First Woman President
The art museum in Old Main on the campus of Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff will be renamed in honor of the university’s thirteenth president Clara Lovett, who served from 1993 to 2001. She was the first woman to lead one of Arizona’s state universities.
Janet Napolitano Receives Lifetime Achievement Award From the American Council on Education
Janet Napolitano, who served as president of the University of California System from 2013 to 2020 and currently is a professor of public policy and director of the Center for Security in Politics at the University of California, Berkeley. was selected for the Lifetime Achievement Award given by the American Council on Education.
The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Honors University of Kentucky Neuroscientist
Jill Turner, an associate professor in the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy, concentrates her research on the pharmacogenomics of addiction, which is a way of applying precision medicine to patients with substance use disorders. She focuses on creating therapy specific to the patient instead of using a ‘one size fits all’ approach.
DePaul University’s Lourdes Torres Honored by the the Latin American Studies Association
Lourdes Torres, a professor of Latin American and Latino studies at DePaul University in Chicago, has been named the recipient of the 2021 Frank Bonilla Public Intellectual Award from the Latina/o Studies Section of the Latin American Studies Association.
Bard College’s Valeria Luiselli Wins the €100,000 Dublin Literary Award
Valeria Luiselli, who teaches literature and creative writing at Bard College in Avondale-on-Hudson, New York, has been awarded the €100,000 Dublin Literary Award for her novel Lost Children Archive/em>.
Kaja Dunn of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte Awarded the Kennedy Center Medallion
Kaja Dunn, an assistant professor of theatre at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, is being honored for her work addressing issues of race in theatre education.
Two Women Scholars Honored by the Society of Behavioral Medicine
Barbara Baquero and Heather M. Derry received the 2021 Leading the Narrative Award from the Society of Behavioral Medicine.
Melanie Wood Is the First Women in Mathematics to Win a Waterman Award From the National Science Foundation
Melanie Wood, professor of mathematics at Harvard University, is the recipient of the Alan T. Waterman Award from the National Science Foundation, the organization’s most prestigious prize for scientists under the age of 40 in the United States.
American Society of Civil Engineers Honors Notre Dame’s Patricia J. Culligan
Patricia J. Culligan, professor of civil engineering and the Matthew H. McCloskey Dean of the University of Notre Dame’s College of Engineering, received the 2021 H. Bolton Seed Medal for her work “expanding the boundaries of geoenvironmental and sustainability engineering to enhance human health and the environment.”
Vanderbilt University’s Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons Wins the 2021 Pérez Prize
Campos-Pons grew up on a sugar plantation in the Matanzas province of Cuba, and her family has Nigerian, Hispanic, and Chinese roots. She was a pioneer of the New Cuban Art Movement that opposed Communist repression in Cuba during the late 1980s.
Three Women in Academia Awarded Juniper Literary Prizes
The University of Massachusetts Press and the master of fine arts degree program for poets and writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have announced the 2021 winners of the Juniper Literary Prizes. Three of the winners are women with current academic affiliations.
Norma Riccucci Wins Award for Her Contribution to the Scientific Study of Bureaucracy
Norma Riccucci is a Board of Governors Distinguished Professor on the Newark campus of Rutgers University in New Jersey. She received the Herbert Simon Award from the Midwest Political Science Association for her research on street-level bureaucracy and representative bureaucracy.
Marcella Nunez-Smith Receives the Visionary Leadership Award From the International Festival of Arts & Ideas
Dr. Nunez-Smith, an associate professor and associate dean for health equity research at Yale Medical School, was honored for her work to address the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Black and brown communities.
Rice University Scholar Honored by the International Society of Bayesian Analysis
Marina Vannucci is the Noah Harding Professor of Statistics at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Dr. Vannucci, who has taught at Rice Univerity since 2007, also holds an adjunct appointment in biostatistics at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
For the First Time, the University of Michigan Is Naming an Academic Building for a Woman
For the first time in its history, the University of Michigan has named an academic building to honor a woman. The building that houses the Life Sciences Institute, a hub for bioscience research, will be known as Mary Sue Coleman Hall. Dr. Coleman was president of the university from 2002 to 2014.
Johns Hopkins University’s Virginia Roach Recognized for Her Commitment to Improving Public Education
Virginia Roach, executive director of the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth, is this year’s recipient of the New York Academy of Public Education’s Medalist Award, given annually to one individual who demonstrates a commitment to improving the public education system.
Martha Jones of Johns Hopkins University Wins Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Martha Jones’ book examines the racism and sexism Black women endured in their pursuit of political participation and power. It also closely examines how Black women used that power to secure equality and representation for others.
Stanford University’s Sherri Rose Honored for Her Work on Using Statistics to Improve Healthcare
Sherri Rose, an associate professor of medicine and a core faculty member at Stanford Health Policy in the Freeman Spogli Institute, has won this year’s Gertrude M. Cox Award from the Washington Statistical Society and RTI International for her significant contributions to applied statistics.
American Humor Studies Association Has Recognized the Work of Notre Dame’s Perin Gürel
Awarded by the American Humor Studies Association, the Jack Rosenbalm Prize for American Humor is given for the best article on American humor by a pre-tenure scholar, graduate student, adjunct professor, or independent scholar published in a peer-reviewed academic journal or book in 2018 or 2019.
Historian Amy Stanley of Northwestern University Wins Two Book Awards
Amy Stanley, professor of history in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University has won the 2021 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for biography and the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography for her book Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World.
Courtney Dressing of the University of California, Berkeley Is a Rising Star in Astronomy
Courtney Dressing, an assistant professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, has been selected to receive the 2021 Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy from the American Astronomical Society for her research on the formation rate, composition, and evolution of planets around red dwarf stars.
University of North Dakota Scholar’s Book Honored by the Society of Professors of Education
Diana D’Amico Pawlewicz, an assistant professor of education, health, and behavior at the University of North Dakota, received the 2021 Outstanding Book Award from the Society of Professors of Education.
Two Women at Rutgers University Win National Book Critics Circle Awards
Nicole Fleetwood, a professor of American studies and art history in the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University New-Brunswick won the award for criticism/ Poet Cathy Park Hong, a professor in the master of one arts degree program in creative writing at Rutgers University-Newark, was honored in the autobiography category.
Ecological Society of America Honors Erika Zavaleta of the University of California, Santa Cruz
Dr. Zavaleta, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, has been selected to receive the 2021 Commitment to Human Diversity in Ecology Award from the Ecological Society of America. The award recognizes long-standing contributions toward increasing the diversity of future ecologists through mentoring, teaching, or outreach.
Alicia Timme-Laragy Named Outstanding Young Investigator by the Society of Toxicology
Dr. Timme-Laragy is an associate professor of environmental life sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research aims to elucidate cellular and molecular mechanisms of toxicant-induced oxidative stress in embryonic development and identify later-life consequences of embryonic exposure to oxidative stress.
Rutgers University’s Nancy Sinkoff Wins the National Jewish Book Award for Biography
Professor Sinkoff was honored for her biography of Lucy S. Dawidowicz (1915–1990) who was a trailblazing historian in the field now known as Holocaust studies.
American Society of Church History Recognizes University of Notre Dame Scholar
Katie Bugyis, an assistant professor in the program of liberal studies at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, has been awarded the Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize from the American Society of Church History. The award honors outstanding scholarship in the history of Christianity by a first-time author.
Kimberly Blaeser Honored by the Native Writers Circle of the Americas for Lifetime Achievement
A faculty member affiliated with the English department and the American Indian Studies Program, Professor Blaeser specializes in poetry and creative nonfiction writing. An award-winning poet, Dr. Blaeser has published eight books including five poetry collections as well as short stories, creative nonfiction, and scholarship.
Elena Litchman Recognized by the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography
Elena Litchman is a professor of aquatic ecology at Michigan State University. She joined the faculty at Michigan State in 2005. Dr. Litchman is perhaps best known for her seminal work developing a trait-based approach for the study of plankton ecology.
Deborah Wiebe Receives Lifetime Achievement Award for Work in Child and Family Health
The Society of Behavioral Medicine honored Dr. Wiebe of the University of California, Merced for a lifetime of dedication to the pursuit of outstanding high-quality research, mentoring, and teaching in the field of child and family health.
Washington State University Scholar Honored for Her Work on Late Roman Art
Hallie Meredith, a teaching assistant professor of fine arts at Washington State University, received the William R. Levin Award for Research in the History of Art before 1750 from SECAC, formerly the Southeastern College Art Conference.
The National Academy of Engineering Honors MIT’s Linda G. Griffith for Innovative Teaching
Professor Griffith was honored for “the establishment of a new biology-based engineering education, producing a new generation of leaders capable of addressing world problems with innovative biological technologies.”
Sara Hiebert Burch of Swarthmore College Recognized for Innovation in the Biology Classroom
Professor Hiebert Burch was recognized for her “interactive engagement” activities for her lecture classes. “I eventually moved to a partially ‘flipped’ classroom,” she explains, “so that we could spend more time cementing concepts by using them to solve problems, rather than simply talking about them.”
