Boston University Research Magazine 2007

Award-Winning Faculty

Elaine Alpert (Social and Behavioral Sciences) received the Massachusetts Medical Society's Henry Ingersoll Bowditch Award for Excellence in Public Health. For several decades, she has been at the vanguard of the movement to train medical professionals in identifying and asking patients about family violence. She is the author of Partner Violence: How to Recognize and Treat Victims of Abuse, now in its fourth edition.

Allison Blakely (History) was elected president of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest academic honor society, in recognition of his service and his lifelong work advancing the society's goal of excellence in the liberal arts and sciences. A member since 1962, Blakely will lead Phi Beta Kappa for a three-year term.

Paula Friedman (Geriatric Dentistry) was named a fellow of the Pierre Fauchard Academy, an international organization that recognizes outstanding work in dentistry, for her contributions to the profession. Friedman is a former president of the American Dental Education Association and is one of three professors in the Goldman School of Dental Medicine who have been invited to join the Fauchard Academy.

Maurice Lee (English) was awarded a Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. The fellowship, designed to help junior faculty advance their research, will allow Lee to explore how changing notions of chance in the 19th century influenced American literature and to situate the works of writers such as Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, and Henry David Thoreau within the shifting cultural and philosophical landscape at that time.

Bahaa Saleh (Electrical and Computer Engineering) received the 2006 Kuwait Prize in Basic Sciences from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences. The award recognizes Saleh's contributions to the field of optical science, including his extensive research in squeezed and entangled light.

Abu Abdullah (International Health) was named a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health by the Royal College of Physicians and received an Outstanding Health Promotion Project Award from the government of Hong Kong.

Sachiko Akiyama (Visual Arts) received the Joan Mitchell Award and an Artist Resource Trust Grant.

Lynne Allen (Visual Arts) received a Whiting Foundation Award.

George Annas (Health Law) was awarded the Pellegrino Medal in Bioethics from Samford University.

Theodore Antoniou (Music) was awarded the distinction of Commander of the Order of Honor, Greece.

Caroline Apovian (Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition) received the American Society of Clinical Nutrition's Physician Nutritionist Specialist Award.

Emily Barman (Sociology) was awarded the Association of Fundraising Professionals' Skystone Ryan Research Prize for her book Contesting Communities.

Ethan Baxter (Earth Sciences) was honored with the F. W. Clarke Medal of the Geochemical Society.

Jeffrey F. Beatty (Strategy and Policy) won the Boston University Metcalf Cup and Prize for Excellence in Teaching.

Laurence Beck (Nephrology) received a Junior Faculty Award from Amgen.

John Bernardo (Pulmonary Center) received the Massachusetts Thoracic Society's Henry D. Chadwick Medal.

Azer Bestavros (Computer Science) was elected chair of the Technical Committee on the Internet for the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Communications Society.

Shalender Bhasin (Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition) was listed as one of the Best Doctors in Boston by the National Guidelines Committee.

Jag Bhawan (Dermatology) received the Walter R. Nickel Award for Excellence in Teaching from the American Society of Dermatopathology.

Gregory Binus (Psychiatry) received the Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from the National Association for the Mentally Ill and the American Psychiatry Association.

Penelope Bitzas (Music) and Eric P. Widmaier (Biology) received the Boston University Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Brooke Blower (History), Sucharita Chandran (Marketing), John Connor (Microbiology), and Marah Curtis (Social Welfare Policy) were awarded Peter Paul Career Development Professorships.

Zvi Bodie (Finance and Economics) was named the Norman and Adele Barron Professor in Management.

Donald Booth (Oral Surgery) was inducted into the Royal College of Surgeons.

Steven Borkan (Nephrology) received the Massachusetts Medical Society's Grant V. Rodkey Award for outstanding contributions to medical education.

Lewis Braverman (Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition) received the Endocrine Society's Robert Williams Distinguished Service Award.

Frederic Brunel (Marketing), Jonathan Hibbard (Marketing), and Peter Russo (Strategy and Policy) each received the Award for Excellence in Entrepreneurship Teaching and Pedagogical Innovation from the National Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers.

James Burns (Danielsen Institute) was honored with the Early Career Psychologist Award from the National Register of Health Service Psychologists and the American Psychological Association.

William Carroll (English) and James Winn (English) received Fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies.

Christos Cassandras (Manufacturing Engineering) and David Castañón (Electrical and Computer Engineering) were named Distinguished Members of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Control Systems Society.

Suzanne Chapin (Curriculum and Teaching) received the 2006 Award for Exemplary Curriculum in Mathematics for Gifted and Talented Students from the National Association for Gifted Children.

Aram V. Chobanian (Medicine) and Ha Jin (Creative Writing) were elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Cutler Cleveland (Geography and Environment) received the Adelman/Frankel Award from the United States Association for Energy Economics.

Alan S. Cohen (School of Medicine) was recognized with an outstanding achievement award at the International Symposium on Amyloidosis.

Herbert Cohen (Nephrology) was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation.

Hannah Cole (Visual Arts) received the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Award and the Platte Clove Artist-in-Residence Fellowship.

Theodore Colton (Epidemiology) was selected by the American Public Health Association to deliver the 2006 Lowell Reed Lecture.

Wendy Coster (Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitation Counseling) received the Eleanor Clarke Slagle Lectureship Award from the American Occupational Therapy Association.

Ralph D'Agostino (Mathematics and Statistics) was named the Remington Lecturer by the American Heart Association.

Carlo De Luca (NeuroMuscular Research Center) and his company, Delsys, received a Tibbetts Award from the Small Business Administration.

Isabel Dominguez (Hematology/Oncology); Haralambos Gavras (Hypertension); Albena Halpert, Brian Jacobson, Robert Lowe, Satish Singh, Diane Song, and Michael Wolfe (all of Gastroenterology); and Yuqing Zhang (Epidemiology) were named members of the National Guidelines Committee.

Thomas Einhorn (Orthopedics) received the Dr. Marian Ropes Award for Excellence from the Massachusetts Arthritis Association.

Sean Elliott (Chemistry), Emanuel Katz (Physics), Christopher Passaglia (Biomedical Engineering), Leonid Reyzin (Computer Science), Joshua Semeter (Electrical and Computer Engineering), and Joan Walker (Geography and Environment) each received a National Science Foundation Career Award. Emanuel Katz also received a Sloan Fellowship and Leonid Reyzin was named a Fellow of the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics.

Terry Everson (Music) led the BU Trumpet Ensemble to second place in the 2007 National Trumpet Competition.

Fred Foulkes (Organizational Behavior) received the American Compensation Committee's Lifetime Achievement Award.

Alan Geller (Dermatology) received the Environmental Protection Agency's Stratospheric Ozone Protection Award.

Barbara Gilchrest (Dermatology) was awarded the Stephen Rothman Medal by the Society for Dermatologic Investigation.

Michael Grodin (Health Law) delivered the Cabot Lecture at Harvard Medical School as well as the University Holocaust Lecture and Dean's Lecture at Vanderbilt University.

Linda Heywood (African American Studies) received a fellowship from the W. E. B. DuBois Institute for African and African American Studies.

Ariel Hirsch (Radiology) received the Nathan Smith Award from the New England Surgical Society.

Alice Jacobs (Cardiology) received the American Heart Association's Paul Dudley White Award.

Zhimon Jacobson (Dental Medicine) received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bucharest.

Peggy Johnson (Psychiatry) was named Clinical Psychiatrist of the Year by the Massachusetts Psychiatry Society.

Judith Jones (Dental Medicine) received the International Association of Dental Research's Distinguished Scientist Award.

Shiro Kamachi (Dental Medicine) received an Outstanding Faculty Award from Procter & Gamble.

Spencer Kemp (Dental Medicine) was named a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology.

Fred Kleiner (Art History) received the Text and Academic Authors Association's Text Prize for A History of Roman Art.

Nancy Kopell (Mathematics) received the Weldon Memorial Prize from the University of Oxford and was selected to be the John von Neumann lecturer by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

Lev Levitin (Electrical and Computer Engineering) was named a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.

Don Lucas (Music) was elected President of the International Trombone Association.

Robert Margo (African American Studies) received the Clio Award for exceptional service in cliometrics.

Cathie Jo Martin (Political Science) was named a Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute.

Norman Mazer (Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition) received the North American Menopause Society and Procter & Gamble's Pharmaceutical Androgen Research Award.

Michael Meurer (Law) received the David Saul Smith Scholarship Award.

Hamid Nawab (Electrical and Computer Engineering) was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering.

Patricia Nemec (Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitation Counseling) received the John Beard Award from the U.S. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association.

Frank Perna (Mental Health and Behavioral Medicine) received the Walter Peach Award from the Association of Applied Sport Psychology.

Jean E. Ramsey (Ophthalmology) received the American Academy of Ophthalmology Achievement Award.

Amy Rosen (Health Services) received the Career Scientist Award from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Ronald Roy (Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering) was named George Eastman Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford.

Jeffrey Rubin (History) received an American Philosophical Society Fellowship.

Thomas Ryan (Cardiology) received the Distinguished Fellow Award from the American Heart Association's Council on Clinical Cardiology.

Vivien Schmidt (International Relations) was named Chaire Francqui Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and Université Catholique de Louvain.

Bruce Schulman (History) received the Nancy Lyman Roelker Award from the American Historical Association.

Barry Shauck (Visual Arts) was elected President of the National Art Education Association.

Michael Shwartz (Operations and Technology) was named the Richard D. Cohen Professor in Management.

Donald Small (Physiology and Biophysics) was named a Distinguished Scientist by the American Heart Association.

Jeffrey Spiegel (Otolaryngology) received the Honor Award and Big on Goals Award from the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.

Steve Stecklow (Journalism) received the Gilbert and Ursula Farfel Prize for Investigative Journalism and the Philip Meyer Award for Precision Journalism.

Casey Taft (Psychiatry) received the Danieli Young Professional Award from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.

Murad Taqqu (Mathematics and Statistics) was honored with the ACM/SIGCOMM Test of Time Award.

Selim Ünlü (Electrical and Computer Engineering) was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.

Rosanna Warren (English, Romance Studies) was appointed a Visiting Scholar by the Phi Beta Kappa Society.

Carolyn Wehler (Dental Medicine) received the Dental Hygienist of the Year Award from the Massachusetts Dental Hygienists' Association.

James Wolff (International Health) was named Community Physician of the Year by the Massachusetts Medical Society.

Donald Wroblewski (Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering) received the Senior Research Associate Award from the National Research Council and Air Force Research Lab.

Gary Young (Health Services) received the Investigative Award in Health Policy Research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.