2006
Award-Winning Faculty
The American Society for Environmental History awarded the 2005 George Perkins March Prize (best book in environmental history) to James McCann (History) for his book Maize and Grace: Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500-2000 (Harvard University Press). He was also named as a Patron of the Friends of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
William Kannel (Medicine and Epidemiology) will receive the Stephen Smith Award for Lifetime Achievement in Public Health from the New York Academy of Medicine. Dr. Kannel, one of the founders of the Framingham Heart Study, also recently earned recognition from the University of California, Irvine for "A lifetime of accomplishments in the global Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease"
J Gregory McDaniel (Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering) as elected a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America for his work on structural acoustics. This honor is awarded to only 12 percent of the Society’s 7,000 members. McDaniel’s research has involved the interaction between sound and underwater structures, structural vibration, and automotive brake squeal.
Saralynn Allaire (Medicine) won the First Place Research Award from the American Rehabilitation Counseling Association.
Kazem Azadzoi (Urology and Pathology) was appointed to the International Continence Society Hall of Fame at the Society's 35th annual meeting.
Paul Barber (Biology) was honored with a Presidential Early Career Award for Research Endeavors (PECASE) by the National Science Foundation for his work in evolutionary and conservation biology.
Thomas Barfield (Anthropology), Richard Primack (Biology), Frank J. Korom (Religion and anthropology) and Julian Zelizer (History) received Guggenheim Fellowships.
David Barlow (Psychology) was selected for the 2006 American Board of Professional Psychology Distinguished Service to the Profession Award. He was also honored as the 2005-2006 Kathryn Grover Harrington & Robert A. Harrington Distinguished Visiting Professor at Baldwin-Wallace College.
Calin Belta (Manufacturing Engineering), Prakash Ishwar and Joshua Semeter (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Chris Passaglia (Biomedical Engineering), Ethan Baxter (Earth Sciences) and Sean Elliott (Chemistry) were honored with Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program awards from the National Science Foundation.
James Collins (Biomedical Engineering, Center for Biodynamics) as named to Scientific American’s list of Top 50 Science and Technology Leaders for 2005.
Elizabeth Craig (Organizational Behavior) received the Best Paper Based on a Recent Dissertation Award from the Academy of Management, Careers Division.
Michele David (Medicine) was awarded the 2006 Physician Advocacy Fellowship by The Institute on Medicine as a Profession.
Arthur Dell Orto (Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitation Counseling) received a Distinguished Career Award in Rehabilitation Education from the National Council on Rehabilitation Education.
Carlo J. De Luca (NeuroMuscular Research Center) and Herbert Voigt (Biomedical Engineering) were elected founding Fellows of the Biomedical Engineering Society.
Jerome Detemple (Finance and Economics) was named co-editor of Mathematical Finance.
Farouk El-Baz (Center for Remote Sensing) was elected to the Moroccan Academy of Science and Technology.
Susan Fournier (Marketing) was given a Marketing Science Institute Young Scholars Award.
Thomas F. Freddo (Ophthalmology, Anatomy and Neurobiology, and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine) was elected incoming President of the International Society for Eye Research.
Donald Gair (Psychiatry/emeritus) received the 2006 Outstanding Psychiatrist Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society. He also received the American Psychiatric Association's Agnes Purcell McGavin award for Distinguished Career Achievement in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.
Sheryl Grace (Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering) was elected an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Courtney Harding (Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitation Counseling) received the American Psychological Association’s Alexandeer Gralnick Research Investigator Award.
Michael Holick (Medicine, Physiology, and Biophysics) was awarded the Excellence in Clinical Research Award from the National Center for Research Resources.
Karen Jacobs (Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitation Counseling) was a 2005-06 Fulbright Foundation Fellow. She taught at the University of Akureyi in Iceland. John Francis Bowley (Restorative Sciences and Biomaterials) was a Fulbright Fellow in Taiwan where he researched tissue regeneration in the temporomandibular joint and helped Tiwanese professors translate their work into English.
Nancy Koppel (Mathematics) received an honorary doctorate from the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Yrjo Koskinen (Finance and Economics) won an award from the Finnish Securities Markets Foundation for an article published in the Journal of Business.
Thomas Kunz (Biology, Center for Ecology and Conservation Biology) was appointed to a National Research Council Committee, charged by the US Congress and National Academy of Sciences to prepare a document on the "Impacts of Wind Energy Development on Wildlife."
Sharon Levine (Medicine) was awarded a 2005 Outstanding Committee Member Award by the Education Committee of the American Geriatrics Society.
Bart Lipman (Economics) was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society.
Kenneth Lutchen (Biomedical Engineering) was elected Vice President of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Lucia Vaina, John White, and Joyce Wong (Biomedical Engineering) and Hamid Nawab (NeuroMuscular Research Center) were elected to the College of Fellows of AIMBE.
Megan MacGarvie (Finance and Economics) was named a Research Fellow of National Bureau of Economic Research.
Anita McGahan (Strategy and Policy) was cited for Distinguished Service to the Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management.
Michael Mendillo (Astronomy) was elected an Associate Member of the Royal Astronomical Society
Elise Morgan (Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering) was received a 2005 Young Investigator Award.
Peter Novak (Neurology) won the 2005 Junior Award for Excellence in Clinical Research from the Movement Disorder Society and the International Congress of Parkinson's disease and Movement Disorders.
Vini Onyemah (Marketing) was the winner of the 7th Annual Marketing Association Sales SIG Doctoral Dissertation Award.
Michael Otto (Psychology) was elected President of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.
Christopher Pierce (Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and Psychiatry) was awarded the Joseph Cochin Young Investigator Award by the College on Problems of Drug Abuse.
Alan Pisano (Electrical and Computer Engineering) received the 2005 GE Career Achievement Award.
Robert Pollack (Mathematics and Statistics) was chosen as a Sloan Fellow.
Paula Quatromoni (Health Sciences) was named Media Spokesperson for the American Heart Association’s Childhood Obesity Initiative and “Go for Red” campaigns.
Maureen Raymo (Earth Sciences) presented the Emiliani Lecture at the American Geophysical Union.
Justin Ren (Organizational Behavior) was named to the Emerging Scholars Program by the Production and Operations Management Society.
Neil Ruderman (Medicine) was honored with the 2006 Albert Renold Award, a lifetime achievement award from the American Diabetes Association.
Miklos Sahin-Toth (Molecular and Cellular Biology) was named to the editorial board of the Journal of Biological Chemistry and elected an honorary member of the Hungarian Gastroenterology Society.
Michael Salinger (Finance and Economics) was named director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Economics.
Scott Stewart (Finance and Economics) shared the 2006 Distinguished Paper Award from the Academy of Finance for “Analysis of the Wealth Impact of Re-Allocation Decisions by Institutional Plan Sponsors,” which he co-wrote with Jeffrey Heisler, Christopher R. Knittel, and John J. Neumann.
Matthew Wachowiak has been given a Young Investigator Award for Research in Olfaction by the American Chemical Senses Society.
Richard West (Computer Science) won the Best Paper award at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE) Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS).