2005
Award-Winning Faculty
Margrit Betke (Computer
Science), director of undergraduate
studies in the department, has
been selected as one of 10
“Women to Watch in New
England” by the Boston-based
business and technology newspaper
Mass High Tech. Chosen
from a pool of nearly 100 nominees
from academic, nonprofit,
and business organizations in the
New England region, the 2005 awardees were judged to excel in
leadership abilities, intellectual creativity, entrepreneurship, and
mentoring of the next generation of professionals in science and
technology.
Robert Devaney (Mathematics
& Statistics) has been named 2004
Massachusetts Professor of the Year
by the Carnegie Foundation for
the Advancement of Teaching and
the Council for the Advancement
and Support of Education (CASE).
He has previously earned significant
teaching awards, including
Boston University’s United
Methodist Church Scholar/Teacher
Award (1996) and Metcalf Award (2003). Devaney also won the
2005 Trevor Evans Award from the Mathematical Association of
America for an article entitled “Chaos Rules” published in
Math Horizons.
Elaine Alpert (Public Health and Medicine) has been awarded the Family Violence Prevention Fund’s Educator Award in recognition of educational leadership in helping health care providers, systems, and communities improve the lives and safety of those affected by violence and abuse.
John Baillieul (Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering) has been elected 40th president of the Control Systems Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Cheryl Barbanel (Medicine) was elected president of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Thomas Barfield (Anthropology) was elected president of the Central Eurasian Studies Society.
James M. Becker (Surgery) has been named Humanitarian of the Year by the New England Chapter of the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA). Dr. Becker is the first surgeon ever to be accorded this honor.
Enrico Bellotti (Electrical & Computer Engineering), Todd Murray (Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering), Assad Oberai (Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering), and Venkatesh Saligrama (Electrical & Computer Engineering) have won National Science Foundation CAREER Awards.
Tian Yu Cao (Philosophy) was elected a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ.
Alice Cronin-Golomb (Psychology) was elected president of the International Society for Behavioral Neuroscience.
Ricardo Elia (Archaeology) has been awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities .
David Felson (Medicine) was awarded the 2004 Lee C. Howley Sr. Prize for Arthritis Research by the Arthritis Foundation .
Timothy S. Gardner (Biomedical Engineering) has been selected as one of the world’s 100 “top young innovators” in 2004 by Technology Review, MIT’s magazine of innovation.
Irene Good (Writing Program) was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Charles Griswold (Philosophy) has been elected a Fellow of the Stanford Humanities Center.
Michael Hasselmo (Psychology) was elected president of the International Neural Network Society.
2004–2005 Fulbright Scholars John A. Hermos (Medical Sciences) and Frank J. Korom (Religious Studies) conducted research in India. Lisa A. Urkevich (Music) went to Kuwait.
Jaakko Hintikka (Philosophy) was awarded a 2005 Rolf Schock Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Jeffrey Hutter, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the Goldman School of Dental Medicine and chairman of the Department of Endodontics, has been elected to serve as a commissioner for the American Dental Association’s Commission on Dental Accreditation.
Karen Jacobs (Occupational Therapy) has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture at the University of Akureyri in Iceland during the 2005–2006 academic year.
Terrence Keane (Psychiatry) received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
Roscoe C. Giles (Electrical &
Computer Engineering), deputy
director of the Center for
Computational Science, has been
named one of the “50 Most
Important Blacks in Research
Science” for 2004 by the Career
Communications Group, Inc.The
award recognizes the accomplishments
of people of color to science
in the U.S. to promote their
greater representation among science professionals and to provide
young people of color with role models in science and
research.
Ronald Roy (Aerospace &
Mechanical Engineering) has
been chosen as the George
Eastman Professor of Oxford
University.This visiting professorship
is a distinguished chair
appointed annually to a citizen of
the United States deemed to be
of great eminence in teaching or
research. Prior Eastman Professors
include a Justice of the U.S.
Supreme Court and 12 Nobel laureates. Roy will be the first
engineer to hold this post in the 75-year history of this prestigious
award.
Conan Kornetsky (Psychiatry, Pathology, & Laboratory Medicine) was awarded the Nathan B. Eddy Lifetime Achievement Award by The College of Problems on Drug Dependency.
Laurence Kotlikoff (Economics), department chairman, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Kotlikoff is one of 19 BU faculty members to serve as Academy Fellows.
Maria Kukuruzinska (Molecular & Cell Biology) has been selected to serve as chair of one of the first Roadmap reviews to be conducted by the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Kukuruzinska will chair a grant-reviewing committee for the NIH’s National Center for Research Resources.
Joseph Loscalzo (Medicine) was awarded the American Heart Association’s 2004 Distinguished Scientist Award, honoring extraordinary contributions to cardiovascular and stroke research.
Michael Mendillo (Astronomy) has been elected president of the Space Physics and Aeronomy Section,American Geophysical Union. Nancy Crooker (Astronomy) has been chosen as president-elect.
Allan D. Pierce (Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering) has been awarded the Gold Medal in Psychological and Physiological Acoustics by the Acoustical Society of America (AAS).
Steven Colburn (Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering) will receive the Silver Medal.
Allan Pierce will also receive the Tom Rossing Award in Acoustics Education from AAS.
Robert Pinsky (Creative Writing), former U.S. Poet Laureate, has won the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry.
Sidney Redner (Physics) has been named Ulam Scholar by Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Scott Schaus (Chemistry) has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
Martin Schmaltz (Physics) has received an Outstanding Junior Investigator Award from the Department of Energy.
Laurel Smith-Doerr (Sociology) has received a Jean Monnet Fellowship.
H. Eugene Stanley (Physics and University Professors Program) has been elected a Fellow of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.
Alan Strahler (Geography) has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Lawrence Sulak (Physics) has received a Ville de Marseilles Research Prize.
Alfred I.Tauber (Philosophy and Medicine), director of the Center for Philosophy and History of Science, has been elected a Fellow of the Sackler Institute for Advanced Study.
Rosanna Warren (English & Modern Foreign Languages and University Professors Program) has received the Award of Merit for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Jenny White (Anthropology) has been elected president of the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association, and received the Douglass Prize for the best book on Europeanist Anthropology.
Dietmar Winkler (Religion) has received the Josef Kreiner Award of Merit.