All Entries in the "Awards" Category
The American Association for the Advancement of Science Honors Four Early-Career Women Chemists
This year’s recipients of the 2025 Marion Milligan Award for Women in the Chemical Sciences are Grace Han of Brandies University in Massachusetts, Michelle Calabrese and Jessica Lamb of the University of Minnesota, and Erin Stache of Princeton University in New Jersey.
Duke University Rabbi Elana Friedman Recognized for Outstanding Student Support Services
Friedman has served as Duke University’s chief Jewish educator and spiritual leader for the past decade. In her role, she provides counseling services for students and oversees Jewish learning initiatives for the campus community.
Nneka Dennie Receives National Book Prize for Outstanding Bibliographical Scholarship
Dr. Dennie’s award-winning book, Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth-Century Black Radical Feminist, examines the works of North America’s first Black woman newspaper editor.
Melissa Lane Awarded for Book on the History of Philosophy and Politics
Dr. Lane currently serves as the Class of 1943 Professor of Politics at Princeton University. Her award-winning book, Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Ideas of the Political, examines Plato’s thoughts on the accountability of those in power.
Janine Kwapis Honored for Innovative Cognitive Aging Research
Dr. Kwapis conducts extensive research on the molecular and epigenetic mechanisms that support long-term memory formation, storage, and updating. She currently serves as the Paul Berg Early Career Professor in the Biological Sciences at Pennsylvania State University.
University of Alabama at Birmingham Scholar Receives National Recognition for Artistic Excellence
Stacey Holloway currently serves as an associate professor of sculpture and coordinator of the bachelor of fine arts program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
MIT Professor Daniela Rus Honored for Pioneering Robotics Research
Daniela Rus, the Andrew and Erna Viteribi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, conducts extensive research on developing robotic autonomy, with a long-term goal of integrating intelligent machines into everyday life.
Maria Charisi Receives International Recognition for Early-Career Achievements in STEM
As a scholar, Dr. Charisi focuses her research on supermassive black holes. She currently serves as an assistant professor at Washington State University and conducts research at the University of Crete.
Tanisha Ford Receives National Book Award for a Biography of Prominent Civil Rights Movement Fundraiser
Dr. Ford’s award-winning book Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power, Behind the Civil Rights Movement (Amistad, 2023), examines the social history of Mollie Moon, founding president of the National Urban League Guild.
The 2024 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Has Been Awarded to Two Women Scholars
The 2024 Frederick Douglass Book Prize has been awarded to Marlene Daut, professor at Yale University, and Sara Johnson, professor at the University of California, San Diego.
University of Louisville Honors Julia Belser for Book on Disability Studies and Religion
Julia Watts Belser currently teaches at Georgetown University as a professor of Jewish studies and conducts research with the university’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs.
Caitlin Cain Recognized for Early-Career Research on Gas Chromatography
Dr. Cain currently serves as a research fellow at the University of Michigan, where she is working to develop novel analytical and computational tools to study neurochemical dynamics.
American Society of Criminology Honors Nicole Rader for Distinguished Feminist Scholarship
The American Society of Criminology’s Division of Feminist Criminology has honored Dr. Nicole Rader for her book, Teaching Fear: How We Learn to Fear Crime and Why It Matters, which analyzes how society teaches young girls to be afraid of crime.
Debra Bangasser Receives National Recognition for Outstanding Psychiatric Research
Dr. Bangasser conducts research on how stress affects the risk for various psychiatric disorders, with a focus on addressing women’s historical underrepresentation in clinical studies.
Two Women Scholars Receive the 2024 First Book Award From the Modernist Studies Association
The Modernist Studies Association has presented its First Book Prize to Pardis Dabashi, assistant professor at Bryn Mawr College, and Kirsty Sinclair Dootson, lecturer at University College London who earned her Ph.D. at Yale University.
Yanna Yannakakis Wins Two National Awards for Her Book on Colonial Mexico
The American Society for Legal History and the American Historical Association have both honored Dr. Yannakakis for her book, Since Time Immemorial: Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico.
Virginia Howard Honored by the American Heart Association for Outstanding Population Research
Dr. Howard has received national recognition for her outstanding research on stroke risk factors. She currently leads the REGARDS project, which investigates racial health disparities in stroke-related deaths.
Association for Women Geoscientists Honors René Shroat-Lewis for Mid-Career Excellence
Dr. Shroat-Lewis has been a faculty member at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock for over a decade. The Association of Women Geoscientists recently honored her for her outstanding teaching and mentoring contributions.
Kathleen DuVal Honored for Her Book on the History of North America
Dr. DuVal is a longtime professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her award-winning book, Native Nations: A Millennium in North America, discusses the history of the continent’s Indigenous peoples over the past 1,000 years.
Kate Soper Receives the 2024 Emerging Composer Prize From the New York Philharmonic
As the 2024 Kravis Emerging Composer, Dr. Soper will premiere an original piece at the New York Philharmonic, featuring herself as the vocalist. She currently teaches at Smith College in Massachusetts.
Kathryn Cramer Brownell Receives Award for Her Book on the History of Political Journalism on Cable News
The American Historical Association has honored Dr. Brownell for her book, 24/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of American from Watergate to Fox News.
The Planetarium at the University of Connecticut Has Been Renamed to Honor the First Woman Physics Professor
Cynthia Wyeth Peterson led the University of Connecticut planetarium and observatory for several decades and was the institution’s first woman professor of physics. She retired in 2016 after nearly 50 years of service.
Kirsten Schultz Receives Award for Book on Eighteenth-Century Brazilian History
Kirsten Schultz was honored for her book, From Conquest to Colony: Empire, Wealth, and Difference in Eighteenth-Century Brazil. She currently teaches as a professor of history at Seton Hall University in New Jersey.
Two Women Music Professors Win American Prize in Instrumental Performance
The recipients of the American Prize in Instrumental Performance Award are Hana Beloglavec, assistant professor of trombone at Florida State University, and Alexa Still, professor of flute at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio.
Manisha Sinha Honored for Outstanding Mentorship and Contributions to African American History Research
The Southern Historical Association has awarded their 2024 John W. Blassingame Award to Manisha Sinha, professor of history at the University of Connecticut. She is being honored of her research into African American history and her mentorship of African American students.
Emma Sepúlveda Becomes First Latin American Woman to Receive the International Mercouri Prize
The Melina Mercouri International Prize from UNESCO-Greece honors individuals who champion human rights through creative expression. Dr. Sepúlveda is a scholar of Latin American and Spanish literature and the author of 17 books that span several creative disciplines.
American Heart Association Recognizes Jane Newburger for Outstanding Mentorship in Academia
In addition to her own clinical work as a pediatric cardiologist, Dr. Newburger has mentored dozens of researchers and healthcare professionals as a professor at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital.
April Paschall Honored for Contributions to Adult Learning and Continuing Education
April Paschall has received national recognition for advancing adult learning at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, where she founded a new bachelor’s degree program in multidisciplinary studies.
Sudha Raj Honored for Lifetime Achievement in Nutrition and Dietetics
The Dietitians in Integrative and Functional Medicine subgroup of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics has honored Sudha Raj, professor at Syracuse University, for her lifetime achievements in nutrition research and education.
Anne Chin Recognized for Distinguished Career in Geomorphology
In her work as a geographer, Dr. Chin focuses her research on human interactions with geomorphological and ecological processes in river landscapes. She currently serves as chair of the department of geography at Florida State University.
Monic Ductan Receives Inaugural Tennessee Book Award in Fiction
Monic Ductan was honored for her first book, Daughters of Muscadine: Stories. She currently teaches creative writing and literature at Tennessee Tech University.
Two Women Academics Named Recipients of the 2024 Rolf Schock Prize
Irene Heim, professor emerita at MIT, has received the 2024 Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy and Lai-Sang Young, a professor of mathematics at New York University, has received the 2024 Rolf Schock Prize in Mathematics.
Kristy Pabilonia Recognized for Contributions to Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory Medicine
Dr. Pabilonia is a professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Biomedical Sciences and the executive director of clinical diagnostics for the Veterinary Health System at Colorado State University.
National Press Photographers Association Presents Its Highest Honor to Julie Jones
Julie Jones has been recognized by the National Press Photographers Association for her lifetime achievements in photojournalism. Dr. Jones currently serves as a lecturer at the University of Oklahoma.
Kristin Hutchins Receives Rising Star Award From the American Chemical Society
Presented by the American Chemical Society’s Women Chemists Committee, the Rising Star Award honors a mid-career scientist with outstanding potential in their field.
