2004
Award-Winning Faculty
James Collins (Biomedical Engineering) won a 2004 John
D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.
Informally known as the “genius award,” the fellowship program
is designed to emphasize the importance of the creative
individual in society.The selection process is rigorous, and
candidates are reviewed solely on the originality and creativity
of their work and the potential they have to do more
such work in the future. Collins is one of 24 individuals to
receive a fellowship this year.
Described by the MacArthur Fellows Program as “a scientist
who crosses the boundaries of engineering, mathematics,
and biology to explore the complex mechanisms
regulating biological systems,” Collins draws on both theory
and experiment for his innovative research into understanding
how the human body works.
H. Eugene Stanley (Center for Polymer Studies) was
elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences;
received the 2004 Boltzmann Award from the International
Union of Pure and Applied Physics Commission of Statistical
Physics; received the Teresiana Medal in Complex Systems
Research, and was awarded the Nicholson Medal of the
American Physical Society during the 2003/2004 academic
year.
In submitting his nomination for the Boltzmann Award,
the signatories—a group that included five recipients of the
Nobel Prize—characterized the research papers produced
during Stanley’s nearly four decades of scientific endeavor as
innovative and original, noting that many of the papers had
“an outstanding impact, some of them even in scientific disciplines
outside of physics.”
Leonid Levin (Computer Science) received the Kolmogorov Medal and presented the 2004 Kolmogorov Lecture at the Computer Learning Research Centre, University of London.
Guido Salvucci (Earth Sciences and Geography) received the Macelwane Medal of the American Geophysical Union.
Theodore Antoniou (Music) received the Herder Prize for Peace and Cultural Understanding from the University of Vienna and the Alfred Toepfer Foundation of Hamburg, Germany.
Stephen Grossberg (Cognitive and Neural Systems) received the 2003 Helmholtz Award for Distinguished Research on Visual Perception.
Paul Goldberg (Archaeology) received the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Research Award.
The following faculty received Fulbright Awards for 2003–2004:
Juliet Floyd (Philosophy) spent the winter in Vienna documenting the Vienna Circle, the philosophical group that helped shape 20th century Anglo-American philosophy;
Janice M. Barrett (Mass Communication, Public Relations, and Advertising) spent a year at Ireland’s Dublin City University examining political communication and media coverage of the peace process in Northern Ireland;
Nancy L. Day (Journalism) taught Russian students, giving them a sense of American-style press freedoms;
Daniel Gordon Partan (Law) lectured at Tsinghua University in Beijing on comparative foreign trade regulation and integration of international law into domestic law.
Christopher Ricks (William M. and Sara
B.Warren Professor of the Humanities)
received the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation Distinguished Achievement
Award and was chosen as Professor of
Poetry at Oxford University.
Farouk El-Baz (Center for Remote
Sensing) received the Nevada Medal from
the Desert Sciences Institute. He was also
commencement speaker and recipient of
an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at
The American University in Cairo.
Tejal Desai (Biomedical Engineering) was
named one of Popular Science magazine’s “Brilliant
10” and Woman of the Year by India New England.
NanoZone, an NSF-sponsored museum exhibition,
traces the events, beginning in childhood,
that launched her career as a biomedical engineer.
Other 2003–2004 Fulbright scholars from Boston University include:
Anne Donohue (Journalism) lectured at East China Normal University in Shanghai on broadcast and electronic media journalism;
Katherine Johnson (Anthropology/Archaeology) researched culture and migration at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City;
Eric C. Jones (BU International Honors Program) gave seminars for the U.S.- Germany International Education Administrators Program at the German Fulbright Commission in Berlin;
Sam H. Kauffmann (Film and Television) produced a documentary on AIDS orphans and lectured on video production at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda;
Jeanne Ellen Koopman (African Studies Center) lectured on environmental economics at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar and participated in smallholder irrigation projects;
Lisa A. Urkevich (Music) researched the musical culture of the Arabian Peninsula at Kuwait University.
Maureen Raymo (Earth Sciences), Quianshen Bai (Art History), Larry Sulak (Physics), and Irene Good (Writing) were elected Guggenheim Fellows.
Susan Eckstein (Sociology) was elected a MacArthur Fellow.
Alan Strahler (Geography) was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Antonio Castro Neto and Andrew Cohen (Physics) were elected Fellows of the American Physical Society.
Raj Mohanty and Martin Schmaltz (Physics) were chosen as Sloan Fellows.
Salomon Amar (Periodontology and Oral Biology) has been named to the Federal Drug Administration’s Dental Products Panel.
Arlene Ash (General Medicine) received the Aetna Susan B. Anthony Award for Excellence in Research on Older Women.
Lewis Braverman (Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition) received the first Thyroid Pathophysiology Medal ever awarded by the American Thyroid Association.
Haralambos Gavras (Hypertension) has received the 2004 Franz Volhard Award from the World Heart Federation and the International Society of Hypertension. Lucia M.Vaina (Biomedical Engineering) received the Rientro dei Cervelli Award from the Ministry of Education in Italy. Barry Zuckerman (Pediatrics) received the Public Policy and Advocacy Award from the Ambulatory Pediatric Association.Graduate Student Awards
Graduate students have pulled in an impressive number of Fulbright Awards during the 2003–2004 academic year.
In addition to Christopher Annear, Fulbright awardees include Corneliu N. Marian, studying economics in Romania; Maureen M. Minder, teaching English as a second language in Germany; Natasha T. Seaman, researching art and architectural history in the Netherlands; and Christal K. Whelan, studying anthropology in Japan. Also, Alex P. Ortolani was chosen as one of fifteen Luce Scholars in the nation. He will live and work in Asia during the coming year.
2004–2005 Fulbright awardees include: Melanie J. Adley and Jacob B. Morrow, who will be working as teaching assistants in Germany; Laura Meyer, who will study philosophy and religion in Japan; Anna Winestein, who will study economics in Switzerland with a Fulbright Foreign Government Grant; and Shelby Carpenter, who has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad grant to support her work in Gambia and Sierra Leone.