All Entries in the "Awards" Category
Two Women Scholars Win the Bancroft Prize
The Bancroft Prize is one of the nation’s top honors in the field of American history. The prizes are awarded annually by Columbia University. This year, two of the three winners are women: Beverly Gage, a professor of U.S. history at Yale University and Kelly Lytle Hernández who holds an endowed chair in history at the University of California, Los Angeles.
J. Kēhaulani Kauanui Recognized for Lifetime Achievement in American Indian History
J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, a professor of American studies at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, was recognized with the American Indian History Lifetime Achievement Award, given by the Western History Association. The award honors one scholar each year who has served in the trenches on all fronts to advance Indigenous history.
Jayati Ghosh Honored by the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
Jayati Ghosh a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has been named the 2023 recipient of the Galbraith Award from the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. The award commemorates outstanding agricultural economists who have made significant contributions to humanity.
University of Alabama at Birmingham Scholar Recognized by the American Society of Preventive Oncology
Wendy Demark-Wahnefried, a professor who holds the Webb Endowed Chair of Nutrition Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, was awarded the 2023 Joseph F. Fraumeni, Jr. Distinguished Achievement Award from the American Society of Preventive Oncology. The award is given annually to an outstanding scientist in the area of preventive oncology, cancer control and/or cancer prevention.
Cornell Scholar Wins Societal Impact Award From the Association for Computing Machinery
Nicola Dell, associate professor at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech and in the Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science at Cornell University, was recognized for leveraging research in human-computer interaction for the greater good.
Anna J. Egalite Honored by the American Educational Research Association
Anna J. Egalite, an associate professor in the College of Education at North Carolina State University who is currently serving as a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, has been selected as the American Educational Research Association Outstanding Reviewer.
Two American Women Are Among the Nine Winners of the Dan David Prize
The Dan David Prize is awarded by the Dan David Foundation at Tel Aviv University in Israel to up to nine early and mid-career scholars and practitioners in the historical disciplines. The honor comes with a $300,000 prize. OF this year’s nine winners, two are American women with university affiliations: Krista Goff of the University of Miami and Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers of the University of California, Berkeley.
Kimberly Bowes Wins Award for Her Two-Volume Book on Roman Peasants
Kimberly Bowes, a professor of classical studies in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, has won the 2023 Anna Marguerite McCann Award for Fieldwork Reports from the Archaeological Institute of America.
Saginaw Valley State University’s Anne Tapp Recognized for Her Achievements in Teacher Education
Professor Tapp, who joined the faculty in the university’s College of Education in 2002, teaches in both the undergraduate and graduate programs. She currently is on sabbatical from SVSU, working with NASA as a Jet Propulsion Laboratory education executive in residence.
Marlene Zuk Has Received the Frontiers of Knowledge Award From the BBVA Foundation
The BBVA Foundation’s annual award recognizes world-class researchers who have made field-shaping discoveries in a broad array of disciplines of scientific knowledge, technology, humanities, and artistic creation. Professor Zuk was honored for outstanding contributions to the field of behavioral and evolutionary ecology.
Joy Harjo Awarded Yale University’s Bollingen Prize for American Poetry
The Bollingen Prize, established by Paul Mellon in 1949, is awarded biennially by Yale University Library through Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library to an American poet for the best book published during the previous two years or for lifetime achievement in poetry. The prize includes a cash award of $175,000.
Georgia State’s Elizabeth Armstrong-Mensah Earns Early Career Teaching Excellence Award
The Early Career Teaching Excellence Award is given to one faculty member each year from among the 138 member institutions in the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health. The award recognizes faculty for outstanding teaching and mentoring of students in public health research, teaching, and practice.
Penn State’s Denise Okafor Wins the Mason Award for Women in the Chemical Sciences
First awarded in 2015, the Mason Award is a highly competitive award that attracts applications from the very best early-career female chemists across the country. Dr. Okafor’s research focuses on understanding how protein function is regulated.
University of Oregon’s Lana Lopesi to Be Awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit
Lana Lopesi, a Samoan writer, editor, art critic, and an assistant professor in the Department of Indigenous Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon, has been selected to be honored with the New Zealand Order of Merit in recognition of her services to the arts.
Lisa Sowle Cahill Recognized for a Lifetime of Achievement in the Study of Christian Ethics
Lisa Sowle Cahill is the Monan Professor of Theology at Boston College. Dr. Cahill is the author of 10 books and hundreds of scholarly articles and book chapters. She is a former president of the Society of Christian Ethics and the Catholic Theological Society of America.
Stella Ghervas Wins Books Prize From the Nanovic Institute at the University of Notre Dame
A native of Switzerland, Dr. Ghervas is a professor of Russian history at Newcastle University, England, and an associate of the department of history at Harvard University. She was honored for her book Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union.
Beth Kegley of the University of Arkansas Wins an Award From the American Society of Animal Science
Professor Kegley’s research focus is the impact of nutrition on the immune response, disease resistance, and growth performance of beef cattle. She teaches graduate-level courses on ruminant nutrition, energetics, and mineral metabolism. She grew up on a dairy, beef, and sheep farm in Virginia.
The American Astronomical Society Honors Yale University’s Meg Urry With the Distinguished Career Award
The award citation lauded Professor Urry “for her remarkable contributions to our understanding of a wide variety of topics in extragalactic high energy astrophysics, for establishing the unification paradigm of active galactic nuclei, her work on the origin of the extragalactic X-ray background, and for her tireless advocacy and support of women and underrepresented groups in science.”
MIT’s Bilge Yildiz Has Been Awarded the Rahmi M. Koç Medal of Science
The award recognizes scientists of Turkish origin younger than 50 who have made outstanding contributions to their fields. It’s given to people from various disciplines, from biological and physical sciences and engineering to social sciences.
France Bélanger Wins the Association for Information Systems Fellow Award
The recognition honors individuals who have impacted the information systems discipline in terms of research, teaching, and service and was given to Professor Bélanger “in recognition of all of the valuable contributions she has made to AIS and to the field of information systems during her distinguished career.”
Three Women Faculty Members at Yale University Win Book Prizes From the Modern Language Association
The three women scholars at Yale University who were honored by the Modern Language Association for their books are Katerina Clark, a professor of comparative literature and of Slavic languages and literatures, Jill Jarvis, an assistant professor of French, and Jessica Gabriel Peritz, an assistant professor of music.
Deb Niemeier to Receive the Franklin Institute’s Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science
The Bower Award, which comes with a $250,000 cash prize, honors Professor Niemeier for “pioneering the advancement and application of knowledge at the intersections among infrastructure, environment, public health, and equity through groundbreaking research on transportation systems and climate-related hazards.”
Priscilla Grew Awarded the President’s Medal From the Geological Society of America
Priscilla Grew is professor emerita and Native American Graves and Repatriation Act advisor at the University of Nebraska‒Lincoln. She was the first woman to hold a tenure-track appointment in the geology department at Boston College. Dr. Grew joined the faculty at the University of Nebraska in 1993 and retired from teaching in 2015.
Cornell’s Melody Zeng to Be Honored by the American Association of Immunologists
As a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan School of Medicine, Melody Seng was among the first to discover that a class of antibodies called IgG recognizes gut bacteria for maintenance of host-microbe symbiosis in the intestine. Dr. Zeng established her lab at Weill Cornell Medicine in 2019.
Miriam Mobley Smith Wins Leadership Award From the American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists
Miriam Mobley Smith is the interim dean of the Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo. Prior to coming to the University of Hawai’i in 2021, the veteran pharmacy academic served as interim dean and visiting professor at the Northeastern University Bourvé College of Health Sciences in Boston and as dean and tenured professor at the Chicago State University College of Pharmacy.
Two Women Scholars Receive Grawemeyer Awards From the University of Louisville
Jennifer Morton, the Presidential Penn Compact Associate Professor of Philosophy in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, is the recipient of the Grawemeyer Award in Education and Kelly Brown Douglas, dean of the Union Theological Seminary’s Episcopal Divinity School in New York City, has been awarded the Grawemeyer Award for Religion.
Professor Jerrilyn McGregory Wins the Chicago Folklore Prize From the American Folklore Society
Jerrilyn McGregory, a professor of English at Florida State University, was honored for her book on Boxing Day traditions in the Anglicized Caribbean world, which encompasses the Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, St. Croix, and St. Kitts.
Two Women Historians Win Order of the Coif Book Awards
Susan J. Pearson, a professor of history at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and Mia Bay, the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, have been honored to “outstanding publications that evidence creative talent of the highest order.”
Washington State University Names Chancellor’s Residence After a Pioneering Woman Faculty Member
Ida Lou Anderson joined the faculty at what is now Washington State University in 1926 as an instructor in the speech department. She was one of Washington State’s first female faculty members and counted among her many students and mentees Edward R. Murrow, one of the university’s most illustrious alumni.
Liberty University’s Lisa Sosin Is the Inaugural Winner of a Counseling Award That Has Been Named in Her Honor
Lisa Sosin is a professor in the department of counselor education and family studies and the director of the Ph.D. program in counselor education and supervision at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. She is being honored by the Association for Creativity in Counseling.
Renée McCauley Recognized for Lifetime Service to Computer Science Education
Renée McCauley, professor and chair of the department of computer science at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, has been selected to receive the 2023 Award for Lifetime Service to the Computer Science Education Community from the Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Maureen Perry-Jenkins Honored for Lifetime Achievement in Feminist Family Studies
Professor Perry-Jenkins’ research focuses on the ways in which socio-cultural factors such as race, gender, and social class shape work-family processes and are related to the quality of family relationships and the well-being of parents and their children.
Dean of the University of Arkansas Law School Receives Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award
Nance, the Nathan G. Gordon Professor of Law at the school, is serving as dean of the school for a second time. She joined the faculty in 1994 and served as dean from 2006 to 2011. She was the first woman and the first person of color to serve as dean in the school’s then-82-year history. In July 2022, she was named dean for the second time.
University of Massachusetts Scholar Recognized for Lifetime Achievement in the Field of Actigraphy
Patty Freedson, professor emerita of kinesiology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, was honored for developing and validating methods for estimating physical activity and sedentary behavior from wearable accelerometers.
Allison Schachter of Vanderbilt University Recognized for Her Translation of Yiddish Short Stories
Allison Schachter, associate professor of Jewish studies and English at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, was awarded the Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies from the Modern Language Association of America. She is sharing the award with her colleague Jordan Finkin of Hebrew Union College in New York.
