Two Boston University research stories have made it into top stories lists for 2001
Geography Professor Ranga Myneni's work on global warming was chosen by Scientific American magazine as one of the top 50 stories of the year.
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Work by Photonics faculty Bahaa Saleh, Mal Teich, and Alexander Sergienko on quantum holography was chosen by the American Institute of Physics as one of the top physics stories of the year.
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Physics professor named 2001 Massachusetts Professor of the Year
 The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) have named Boston University Physics Professor Kevin Smith the 2001 Massachusetts Professor of the Year. Professor Smith was selected for the honor from six Massachusetts nominees and was among nearly 400 faculty members nominated nationwide.
Professor Smith teaches at all levels in the Department of Physics
 H. Eugene Stanley, physics professor, University Professor, and director of the Center for Polymer Studies, received one of seven Director's Awards for Distinguished Teaching Scholars from the National Science Foundation (NSF). This is the first series of these awards which are the nation's "highest honor for excellence in both teaching and research." Each award carries with it $300,000 over four years given for each of the seven professors to continue and expand their work beyond their institutions.
Stanley, who along with the other recipients will be honored at a ceremony on November 8 at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., was "among the most-cited physicists for work in applying statistical mechanics to physics, chemistry, engineering, biology, and medicine," according to the NSF announcement.
He was also recognized for developing "visualization materials to help students understand the large-scale features of simple and complex systems in terms of the small-scale interactions that give rise to them."
Stanley will use the award to produce tool kits that help structure curriculum design, modeling, and visualization, and to intitiate a series of workshops for high school teachers to help them integrate research-based educational technologies into the classroom.
George Kollios named recipient of the NSF CAREER Award
 Computer Science faculty member George Kollios is the recipient of a five-year NSF CAREER Award to support his research on "Efficient Indexing and Data Mining in Spatio-Temporal Databases." Kollios is the tenth member of the computer science department to receive a CAREER award.
 It may be the 21st century, but when Elizabeth Simmons visits high schools to talk about science careers she is disturbed by the response from female students.
"The girls will say, 'My boyfriend doesn't want me to be smarter than he is,' an attitude we thought went out decades ago, but it's still there," says Simmons, a CAS associate professor of physics.
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Three BU professors have been named Guggenheim Fellows for 2001
- Susan L. Mizruchi, Professor of English and American Studies, Boston University: American culture, economy, and the novel, 1860-1915.
- Dilip Mookherjee, Professor of Economics and Director, Institute of Economic Development, Boston University: Land reforms and fiscal decentralization in the economic development of West Bengal.
- Alicia Borinsky, Writer, Newton, Massachusetts; Professor of Latin American and Comparative Literature, Boston University: Fiction.
A complete list of Boston University Guggenheim Fellows can be found on the Office of Fellowships and Scholarships website.
Assistant professor selected to participate in the Frontiers of Engineering symposium
 Joyce Wong, Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, is one of 81 of the nation's top young engineers selected by the National Academy of Engineering to participate in the seventh annual Frontiers of Engineering symposium. The three-day event, to be held in September, brings together engineers who are performing leading-edge research and technical work.
BU graduate student wins an IBM Research Fellowship
 Shudong Jin, a graduate student in computer science, has won a prestigious IBM Research Fellowship. Shudong is one of 22 winners out of a pool of 254 nominees this year, representing the best PhD candidates in Math and Computer Science nationwide.
President Clinton Honors Professor Charles DeLisi
 Charles DeLisi, Arthur G.B. Metcalf Professor of Science and Engineering at Boston University is one of 28 recipients of the Presidential Citizens Awards conferred by President Clinton at a White House ceremony on January 8. He is honored for his role in outlining the feasibility, goals, and parameters of the Human Genome Project and galvanizing an international team of researchers to pool resources, create new technologies, and launch the monumental task of gene mapping and sequencing. DeLisi joins Hank Aaron, Muhammad Ali, Elizabeth Taylor and other remarkable individuals being recognized for their service and accomplishments in a variety of areas including civil rights, medicine and health, education, sports, disability advocacy and government service.
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BU Biology professor chosen to receive Benjamin W. Zweifach Award
 Biology Professor David Shepro has been chosen by the Microcirculatory Society to receive the Benjamin W. Zweifach Award. This prestigious award recognizes the achievements of internationally renowned individuals whose careers have been noteworthy and who have made outstanding contributions to the advancement of our knowledge of microcirculation. The award cites Dr. SheproÌs more than forty years of research on blood cell and endothelial cell communications. It acknowledges him as being among the first to recognize that blood cells can, and do, "talk" to blood vessels and that endothelial cells are much more than just a barrier. Indeed, says the citation, it could be argued that Dr. Shepro is the father of the modern concept of cell-cell communication in the microcirculation.
 BU Provost Dennis Berkey (center) with the winners of this year's Provost's Innovation Fund, an award program that provides money to BU scientists and engineers whose basic research is judged to have commercial potential. The winners are (from left) Vadim Demidov , from the Center for Advanced Biotechnology, Fred Schubert, from the Photonics Center, and Joyce Wong and Bela Suki, both of the department of biomedical engineering.
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BU Mathematics professor wins Alfred L. Whiteman Prize
 Thomas Hawkins, professor of mathematics at Boston University's College of Arts and Sciences, recently won the 2001 Alfred L. Whiteman Prize from the American Mathematical Society. This honor is awarded every four years for notable exposition and exceptional scholarship in the history of mathematics. The citation for the prize calls Hawkins "an outstanding historian of mathematics whose current research and numerous publications display the highest standards of mathematical and historical sophistication. Hawkin's work has truly transformed our understanding of how modern mathematics has evolved."
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Five BU professored honored
 David Marchant, assistant professor of earth sciences has received the W.S. Bruce Medal for his investigations of global warming and the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Established in 1923, the award is conferred every five years by the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's premier learned society.
 Ioannis Paschalidis, Associate Professor of Manufacturing Engineesthe recipient of a 2000 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation.
 ENG Professor Fred Schubert has been named one of R&D Magazine's 100 Awards winners for his work developing a Resonant Cavity Light Emitting Diode (RCLED) with colleagues at the Mitel Corporation. Prof. Schubert also won the Discover Award for Technical Innovation for his work on developing a white LED.
 ENG Professor Michael Howe has received the Per Bruel Gold Medal for Noise Control and Acoustics from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
 Nobel physicist Sheldon Glashow named first Metcalf Professor of Science.
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