Award-Winning Faculty
Rui Albuquerque (Finance & Economics) received the European Corporate Governance Institute’s Standard Life Investments Finance Prize and was also awarded the American Finance Association’s Smith Breeden Prize.
Hatice Altug (Electrical & Computer Engineering) received the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center’s New Investigator Award.
Nancy Ammerman (Sociology) had a 1991 article selected for a special issue commemorating the 50th anniversary of Review of Religious Research.
The College of Arts & Sciences Department of Archaeology and the School of Theology received awards from the Henry Luce Foundation.
Judith Austin (Mass Communications, Advertising & Public Relations) received the Society of Marketing and Communication Professionals’ MarCom Award.
Richard Averitt (Physics) received the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Young Faculty Award.
Andrew Bacevich (International Relations) received the Boston Public Library’s 2009 Literary Lights Award.
John Baillieul (Mechanical Engineering) was elected a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
Gary Balady (Medicine) received a Distinguished Achievement Award from the American Heart Association’s Council on Clinical Cardiology.
Emily Barman (Sociology) was elected to the board of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action.
Anthony Barrand (Anthropology) received a Lifetime Contribution Award from the Country Dance and Song Society.
Cynthia Becker (Art History) received a fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard for 2009-10 and a Fulbright grant to study in Morocco.
Calin Belta (Mechanical Engineering) received a Young Investigator Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
Emelia Benjamin (Cardiology) was invited to join the Association of University Cardiologists.
Susan Berger (Occupational Therapy & Rehabilitation Counseling) was named a Fellow of the American Occupational Therapy Association.
Thomas Bifano (Mechanical Engineering) was awarded the Bepi Colombo Prize by the Italian Space Agency, Università degli Studi di Padova, and the Padova Province Economics Department.
Archie Burnett (English) was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for 2009-10.
Sarah Campbell (Writing Program) received a Fulbright scholarship.
Gail Carpenter (Cognitive & Neural Systems) received an IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award.
Antonio Castro-Neto (Physics) was offered a Visiting Professorship at the University of California at Berkeley’s Miller Institute.
Francesco Cerrina (Electrical & Computer Engineering) was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Claudio Chamon (Physics) was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Suzanne Chapin (Curriculum & Teaching) won a Curriculum Award from the National Association for Gifted Children.
Richard Clapp (Environmental Health) received several awards from the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, including the SVTC Helen Clark Award.
James Collins (Biomedical Engineering) received Drexel University’s inaugural Anthony J. Drexel Exceptional Achievement Award.
William DeJong (Social & Behavioral Sciences) received an Outstanding Contribution to the Field Award from the Network Addressing Collegiate Alcohol and Other Drug Issues.
Victor Dietz (Orthodontics) received the Massachusetts Association of Orthodontists’ Frederick Moynihan Award.
Mary Jane Doherty (Film & Television) received a Hemphill Foundation Award for her documentary Los Niñños de la Danza Cubana.
Marina Donahue (Medicine) received an award for Excellence in Nursing Practice from the Theta Alpha Chapter of the Sigma Nursing Honor Society.
Michael El-Batanouny and James Stone (Physics) were appointed Jefferson Science Fellows by the U.S. Department of State.
Randall P. Ellis (Economics) and co-author Thomas McGuire won the National Institute for Health Care Management’s 14th Annual Health Care Research Award.
Terry Ellis (Physical Therapy & Athletic Training) received the Clinical Excellence in Education Award and the Clinical Research Award from the Neurology Section of the American Physical Therapy Association.
Simon Estes (Music) was named Vocal Educator of the Year by the Opera Company of Brooklyn.
Mark Ferriero (General Dentistry) received the Academy of General Dentistry’s Lifelong Learning and Service Recognition Award.
Emine Fetvaci (Art History) received the prestigious Peter T. Paul Career Development Professorship.
Juliet Floyd (Philosophy) was awarded fellowships at the American Academy in Berlin and the Lichtenberg-Kolleg.
James Galagan (Biomedical Engineering) received a New Faculty Award from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center.
Lisa Ganley-Leal (Medicine) was elected president of the New England Association of Parasitologists, and also received a Biosciences Research Grant from Becton, Dickinson, and Company.
Julian Go (Sociology) is co-winner of the 2009 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book from the Culture Section of the American Sociological Association for American Empire and the Politics of Meaning: Elite Political Cultures in the Philippines and Puerto Rico during U.S. Colonialism. Professor Go also will be the new editor for Political Power and Social Theory.
Bennett Goldberg (Physics) and Victor Yakhot (Mechanical Engineering) were elected Fellows of the American Physical Society.
Lee E. Goldstein (Medicine, Psychiatry) received a grant from the Ellison Foundation.
Judith Gonyea (Social Work) was invited to participate in the National Governors Association Policy Academy’s Civic Engagement of Older Adults Initiative in Massachusetts.
The Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center and the International Center for East Asian Archaeology & Cultural History received awards from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Mark Grinstaff (Chemistry) received the Center for Integration of Medicine & Innovative Technology’s Edward M. Kennedy Award for Healthcare Innovation for his work with CIMIT’s Cancer Advanced-Technology Team.
Charles Griswold (Philosophy) was awarded a Senior Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.
Stephen Grossberg (Cognitive & Neural Systems, Mathematics) was named an Inaugural Fellow of the American Education Research Association.
Shahla Haeri (Anthropology) and Michael Zell (Art History) received Jeffrey Henderson Senior Research Fellowships in the Humanities from the Boston University Humanities Foundation. Professor Haeri also was elected to the Board of Directors of the Middle East Studies Association of North America.
Patricia Hanrahan (Medicine) was named Preceptor of the Year by the Massachusetts Nurse Practitioner Association.
Robert Hefner (Anthropology) was elected president of the Association for Asian Studies.
Janelle Heineke (Operations & Technology Management) received an Instructional Innovation Award from the Decision Sciences Institute and was also named a DSI Fellow.
Andrew Henderson (Medicine, Microbiology) has received an Award for Outstanding Research Achievement from Nature Publishing Group.
Martin Herbordt (Electrical & Computer Engineering), Suresh Kalathur (Computer Science), and Tanya Zlateva (Computer Science) received IBM Faculty Awards.
Linda Heywood and John Thornton (African American Studies) and Parker Shipton (Anthropology) received the African Studies Association’s Melville J. Herskovits Award.
Patricia Hills (Art History) was appointed a Non-Resident Fellow at the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.
C. Robert Horsburgh (Medicine, Biostatistics) was elected co-chair of the Tuberculosis Epidemiologic Studies Consortium.
Alan Jette (Health & Disability Research Institute) received the Darrel J. Mase Leadership Award from the University of Florida’s College of Public Health and Health Professions.
Peggy Johnson (Clinical Psychiatry) received an Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
Judith Jones (General Dentistry) received the American College of Dentists’ William J. Gies Award for Innovation as an Educator.
Steven Katz (Religion) delivered the Sackler Lectures at the Mortimer and Raymond Sackler Institute of Advanced Studies at Tel-Aviv University.
Sam Kauffmann (Film & Television) was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. He also received the Petit Prose Award from the Short Short Story Film Festival for his film Massacre at Murambi.
Lalita Khaodhiar (Medicine) received a Visiting Professor Award from the Thai American Physicians Foundation.
Linda Killian (Journalism) was appointed a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Fred S. Kleiner (Art History) was elected a Fellow of the Text and Academic Authors Association for lifetime achievement in publishing and teaching.
Mark Klempner (Medicine, Microbiology) was invited to serve as a Visiting Professor and to deliver the 49th Annual Bailey Ashford Lecture at the University of Puerto Rico.
Laura Korobkin (English) was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in Belgium.
Frank Korom (Religion) received a Fellowship Award from the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies.
Mark Kramer (Mathematics & Statistics) received a Career Award at the Scientific Interface from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.
Andrew Kull (Law) was named Law Professor of the Year by the Massachusetts Bar Association and Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.
Thomas H. Kunz (Biology) was elected an honorary member of the American Society of Mammalogists.
R. Mark Laursen (Physical Therapy & Athletic Training) received an Athletic Trainer Service Award from the National Athletic Trainers’ Association.
Jung Wan Lee (Administrative Sciences) received a Distinguished Research Award at the 2008 Allied Academies’ Spring International Conference.
Maurice Lee (English) was awarded a Ryskamp Research Fellowship by the American Council of Learned Societies.
Lena Lundgren (Social Welfare Policy) was invited to serve on the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Advisory Expert Panel on HIV & substance abuse treatment.
James Lynch (Mechanical Engineering) received the Oceanographic Society’s Walter Munk Award.
Michael Macko (Medicine) received the 2008 Governor’s Award from the Rhode Island chapter of the American College of Physicians.
Robert Margo (Economics) was awarded a Russel Sage Fellowship.
Christopher Maurer (Romance Studies) was named an Académico Correspondiente (Corresponding Member) of the Real Academia Española.
Carl McManama (Dentistry) was named the Massachusetts Dental Society’s Clinician of the Year.
Brenda Gael McSweeney (Women’s Studies) was awarded the Order of Merit First Class from the Federal Republic of Germany.
Allen Michel and Jacob Oded (Finance & Economics) received the Financial Analysts Journal’s Graham and Dodd Scroll Award.
S. M. (Mike) Miller and George Psathas (Sociology) received awards from the American Sociological Association. Miller received the 2009 Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology, and Psathas received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Section on Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis.
Dilip Mookherjee (Economics) was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society.
Todd Murray (Mechanical Engineering) was awarded the Junior Prize for Research from the International Photoacoustic and Photothermal Association.
Lisa Najavits (Psychiatry) received the Betty Ford Award for Research on Addictions from the Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse.
John Neale and Sean P. Willems (Operations & Technology Management) won the Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice.
Catherine O’Connor (Literary & Language, Counseling & Development) received a Special Service Award from the Linguistic Society of America.
Sigrun Olafsdottir (Sociology) received the American Sociological Association’s Award for Best Dissertation in Mental Health.
Uday Pal (Manfacturing Engineering) received the Materials Processing and Manufacturing Division Education Resource Award from the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society.
Steven Perlman (Pediatric Dentistry) received an honorary doctorate from the Arizona School of Dentistry and Oral Health, as well as the George Cushing Award from the Chicago Dental Society.
Pierre Perron (Economics) received Econometric Theory’s Plura Scripsit Award.
Robert Pinsky (Creative Writing) was awarded the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize for his collection of poems Gulf Music.
Anatoli Polkovnikov (Physics) was named an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow.
John Porco (Chemistry) received the American Chemical Society’s Cope Scholar Award.
Richard Primack (Biology) was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Stephen Prothero (Religion) was invited to deliver the William Belden Noble Lectures at Harvard University’s Memorial Church.
Rahul Ray (Medicine) received an award from the National Cancer Institute.
Justin Ren (Operations & Technology Management) received a Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Meritorious Service Award.
Christopher Ricks (Editorial Institute) was awarded the honor of Knight Bachelor in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
Dana Robert’s (Theology) Converting Colonialism: Visions and Realities in Mission History was named one of the top 15 books on mission in 2008 by the International Bulletin of Missionary Research.
Amy Rosen (Health Policy & Management) was named a recipient of the Rx for Excellence Award by the Massachusetts Medical Law Report.
Ronald Roy (Mechanical Engineering) was awarded the University of Maine’s Francis Crowe Medal and elected to the Technical Council of the Acoustical Society of America.
Sayon Roy (Medicine, Ophthalmology) received an Innovation Award from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
Andrei E. Ruckenstein (Physics) was awarded the Prize of the Romanian Academy.
Joan Salge Blake (Health Sciences) was named the 2009 Outstanding Dietitian by the Massachusetts Dietetic Association.
Martin Schmaltz (Physics) was offered a visiting professorship for 2008-09 at the Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics.
Vivien Schmidt (International Relations) received an honorary doctorate from the Free University of Brussels.
Paolo Scrivano (Art History) received a Junior Fellowship from the Humanities Foundation at Boston University.
Sunil Sharma (Modern Languages & Comparative Literature) was awarded a residential fellowship at the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Study in New Delhi, India.
Andrew Shenton (Theology) received the Max B. Miller Book Prize from the American Guild of Organists for Olivier Messiaen’s System of Signs.
Sunny H. Shin (Social Work) received the Minority Scholar Award from the Society for Prevention Research.
Barbara Shinn-Cunningham (Cognitive & Neural Systems) received a National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship from the Department of Defense. She was also named a lifetime Associate Member of the National Research Council of the National Academies of Science.
William Skocpol (Physics) was named an Outstanding Referee by APS Journals for his contributions to Physical Review and Physical Review Letters.
Kevin Smith (Physics) was appointed as a Government Science Advisor to the Republic of Ireland.
Temple F. Smith (Biomedical Engineering) delivered the Stanislaw Ulam Lecture at the 12th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology.
Laurel Smith-Doerr (Sociology) was presented with the Director’s Award for Collaborative Integration at the end of her two years as a Visiting Scientist at the National Science Foundation.
H. Eugene Stanley (Physics) received an honorary doctorate from Northwestern University.
Alan Strahler (Geography & Environment) won the SAIC Estes Memorial Teaching Award from the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.
Fernando Suarez (Strategy & Innovation) was elected Program Chair of the Academy of Management’s Technology and Innovation Management Division.
Rathan Subramaniam (Radiology) won the GE-Radiology Research Academic Fellowship from the Association of University Radiologists.
Lisa Sullivan (Biostatistics) received the Association of Schools of Public Health’s ASPH/Pfizer Award for Teaching Excellence.
Malvin Teich (Electrical & Computer Engineering) was named an OSA Traveling Lecturer by the Optical Society of America as well as an IEEE/EMBS Distinguished Lecturer.
M. Selim Ünlü (Electrical & Computer Engineering) received the TÜBITAK Special Award from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey.
Thomas Van Dyke (Periodontology, Oral Biology) received both the William J. Gies Award and a Special Citation from the American Academy of Periodontology.
N. Venkat Venkatraman (Information Systems) was ranked 22nd in a list of the Journal of Management’s 150 most influential management scholars of the past quarter century.
Robert Wagenaar (Rehabilitation Sciences) served as a Dozor Visiting Scholar in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Rosanna Warren (English, Romance Languages) was awarded a Cullman Center Fellowship at the New York Public Library and appointed secretary of the American Academy of Arts & Letters.
David Weil (Finance & Economics) was named a Fulbright Specialist by the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars.
Marc Weinberg (Medicine) received a Mentorship Award from Roger Williams Medical Center and served as Vice Chairman for the Rhode Island Special Legislative Commission.
Robert Wexelblatt (Humanities) received the Next Generation Indie Book Awards’ Grand Prize in Fiction for his novel, Zublinka Among Women.
Jenny White (Anthropology) held a Fulbright-Hays Senior Research Fellowship and was elected Vice President for North America in the International Association of Crime Writers.
Gregory Williams (Art History) received a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Getty Foundation in 2008-09. He also was given the 2007-08 Faculty Award from the Art History Graduate Students at Boston University.
Mark Williams (Finance & Economics) was awarded the Beckwith Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
Joyce Wong (Biomedical Engineering) won an Individual Biomedical Research Award from the Hartwell Foundation, and was elected a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
Donald Wright (Mass Communications, Advertising & Public Relations) received a chairman’s citation from the Public Relations Society of America.
Peter Yeager (Sociology) was elected vice president and president-elect of the White Collar Crime Research Consortium.
Catherine Vance Yeh (Modern Languages & Comparative Literature) was awarded a fellowship from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation).
Leonard Zaichkowsky (Literacy & Language, Counseling & Development) received an Alumni Recognition Award from the University of Alberta.
Michael Zank (Religion) received the Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies Prize.
Bin Zhang (Clinical Epidemiology Research & Training Unit) received a Health Professional New Investigator Award from the American College of Rheumatology Research and Education Foundation.
Xin Zhang (Mechanical Engineering), Bennett Goldberg (Physics), and Mark Grinstaff (Chemistry) received research awards from the Schlumberger Technology Corporation.
Douglas Zook (Curriculum & Teaching) received a Fulbright Award.