All Entries in the "Awards" Category
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.
The Library of Congress Recognizes Rita Dove for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry
Rita Dove, the Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Virginia, received the 2022 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry for lifetime achievement from the Library of Congress. Professor Dove has published 11 collections of poetry. She served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1993 to 1995 and won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1987.
Syracuse University’s Jamie Winders Recognized by the Center for Migration Studies
Dr. Winders, who is a professor of geography and associate provost for faculty affairs at Syracuse University, was honored for her contributions to the International Migration Review, the Center for Migration Studies’ flagship journal which she edited from October 2017 until June 2022.
Alexandra Navrotsky Has Been Awarded the Czochralski Medal from the European Materials Research Society
By advancing high- and low-temperature reaction calorimetry as a foundational research tool, Dr. Navrotsky has contributed to a broad spectrum of applications, from mineral thermodynamics to ceramic processing to zeolites. She has published more than 900 scientific papers.
Two Rice University Scholars Honored by the the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Lydia Kavraki, the Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science, was honored for her work in robotic motion planning and computational biology. Rebecca Richards-Kortum, the Malcolm Gillis University Professor, a professor of bioengineering and electrical and computer engineering, was recognized for establishing the field of global health engineering.
Vanderbilt’s Nicole Joseph Recognized by the Association for Women in Mathematics
Dr. Joseph’s research stems from her own experience growing up feeling alone as a Black girl in a mathematics class where other students didn’t look like her. Her experiences shaped her drive to tell the stories of Black girls and women and how they differ from their White girl and Black male counterparts.
Ashley Duggan Wins a Best Book Award From the National Communication Association
Synthesizing empirical evidence and associated theoretical constructs from the literature on health/illness in close relationships, Professor Duggan’s book compares foundational assumptions of research on relational processes and research on health and illness.
Stephanie Wettstein Wins an Award From the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Stephanie Wettstein, associate professor in the department of chemical and biological engineering at Montana State University, received the Education and Outreach Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Dr. Wettstein was honored for “engaging students with novel teaching materials to improve student learning.”
Virginia Tech’s Barbara Lockee Honored by the Association for Educational Communications and Technology
Barbara Lockee is associate vice provost for faculty affairs and professor of instructional design and technology in Virginia Tech’s School of Education. Dr. Lockee’s research and teaching are centered on the intersection of instructional design and distance learning.
Harvard University’s Makeda Best Created the Photography Catalogue of the Year
Makeda Best, the Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography at the Harvard Art Museums, recently received the prestigious Photography Catalogue of the Year award at the 2022 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards. Dr. Best was honored for her 2021 publication Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography Since 1970.
Professor Ila Fiete From MIT Wins the Swartz Prize From the Society for Neuroscience
Professor Fiete is being honored for breakthrough research modeling hippocampal grid cells, a component of the navigational system of the mammalian brain. “Fiete’s body of work has already significantly shaped the field of neuroscience and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future,” according to a statement by the Society of Neuroscience.
American Labor Studies Center to Present Its Highest Award to Cornell University’s Kate Bronfenbrenner
Kate Bronfenbrenner is the director of Labor Education Research and co-director of the Worker Empowerment Research Project at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. Before starting her academic career, she worked for many years as an organizer and union representative with the United Woodcutters Association in Mississippi.
Daphne Brooks of Yale University Received the Music in American Culture Award
Daphne Brooks, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of African American Studies, American Studies, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Music at Yale University, was presented with the Music in American Culture Award from the American Musicological Society.
Two Women Chemistry Scholars Have Been Named Moore Inventor Fellows
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has named five scholars as 2022 Moore Inventor Fellows. The honorees each receive $825,000 over the next three years to further their research in science, medicine, and environmental conservation. Among the five Moore Inventor Fellows this year are two women.
Princeton University’s Imani Perry Wins the National Book Award for Nonfiction
Imani Perry, the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University was honored for her book South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation.
Boston University Scholar Honored for Mentoring by the Society for Neuroscience
As part of her distinguished research career in aging and neurodegenerative conditions, Professor Alice Cronin-Golomb has supervised 36 graduating doctoral students, including 24 women. Many of those who have trained with her are now rising or established leaders in the field of neurodegeneration and neuropsychology.
Kathy Roberts Forde Shares Book Award From the American Historical Association
Kathy Roberts Forde, professor of journalism and associate dean of equity and inclusion in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is sharing the Eugenia M. Palmegiano Book Prize from the American Historical Association with her co-editor Sid Bedingfield.
American Society of Chemistry Awards Emily Lenning Its 2022 Teaching Award
Emily Lenning, professor of criminal justice at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina, was recognized for her ability to meet the needs of diverse learners and for challenging herself and her students to look beyond the classroom for opportunities to engage in lifelong learning.
University of Michigan’s Marie McCarthy Honored by the Society for Research in Music Education
Marie McCarthy, professor of music education at the University of Michigan, recently received the Senior Researcher Award from the Society for Research in Music Education of the National Association for Music Education (NAfME). The award recognizes significant, long-term scholarship in music education.
Margaret Murnane Chosen as Winner of the 2022 Isaac Newton Medal and Prize
Dr. Murnane, a Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder, received the award from the Institute of Physics for pioneering and sustained contributions to the development of ultrafast lasers and coherent X-ray sources and the use of such sources to understand the quantum nature of materials.
Erika Tatiana Camacho to Be Honored by the Association for Women in Mathematics for Mentoring
Dr. Camacho, a professor of applied mathematics at Arizona State University, is being recognized for her impactful and multidimensional mentoring activities that have enabled the success of generations of talented scientists and mathematicians.
Oklahoma State University’s Natasha Bray Wins Two National Awards in Osteopathic Medicine
Dr. Bray, dean of the Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, was named Internist of the Year by the American College of Osteopathic Internists and as Educator of the Year by the American Osteopathic Foundation.
Yale’s Vanessa Ogle Win the Max Planck-Humboldt Medal
Dr. Ogle, a historian of global Europe from the 18th century to the present, was honored for her historical research on capitalism and globalization. Before joining the faculty at Yale this fall, Dr. Ogle taught at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Pennsylvania.
A. Brooks Bowden Honored by the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness
A. Brooks Bowden, an assistant professor of education policy at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, focuses her research on strategies to overcome obstacles like hunger, housing insecurity, and mental health problems that prevent children from getting the most out of school.
Linda Darling-Hammond Wins the $3.9 Million Yidan Prize
Linda Darling-Hammond, a professor emeritus at Stanford Graduate School of Education has been awarded the 2022 Yidan Prize for education research. She now serves as president and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute, a nonprofit focused on education research.
Betty Diamond of Hofstra University Honored for Outstanding Achievements in Rheumatology
Betty Diamond, a professor of molecular medicine at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra University in Uniondale, New York, was selected to receive the Presidential Gold Medal from the American College of Rheumatology and the Association of Rheumatology Professionals.
Huda Zoghbi to Be Awarded the $100,000 Elaine Redding Brinster Prize in Science or Medicine
Huda Zoghbi, the founding director of the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital and a Distinguished Service Professor at the Baylor College of Medicine, is being honored for her work pinpointing the underlying, genetic causes of a pair of devastating neurological diseases.
Michigan State University’s Angela K. Wilson Wins Major Award for Women in Chemistry
Angela K. Wilson is John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Michigan State University. Dr. Wilson also serves as associate dean for strategic initiatives in the College of Natural Science and she is the current president of the American Chemical Society.
University of Pennsylvania’s Anita Allen Honored by the Hastings Center for Her Work in Bioethics
Anita L. Allen is the Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Allen was recognized for outstanding contributions to law and philosophy and to their practical applications in medicine, science, and public affairs.
Harvard’s Xiaowei Zhuang Honored by the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation for Her Work in Cell and Neurobiology
Dr. Zhuangs’ invention, STORM — short for STochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy — is one of the first imaging technologies to overcome the physical boundary (diffraction limit) of resolution in light microscopy. It thus enables us to observe single proteins performing their job within the crowded environment of intact, living cells.
Princeton University Scientist Win Quantum Computing Award From the American Physical Society
Nathalie de Leon, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Princeton University in New Jersey, won the Rolf Landauer and Charles H. Bennett Award in Quantum Computing from the American Physical Society for her contributions to experimental quantum information science.
University of Pennsylvania’s Anthea Butler Is Honored by the American Academy of Religion
Anthea Butler, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought at the University of Pennsylvania, has received the 2022 Martin E. Marty Award from the American Academy of Religion. The Marty Award is given annually to an individual whose work helps advance the public understanding of religion.
