Faculty Awards

Members of the BU faculty were honored at a luncheon on Thursday, May 1, for external awards in their field of study received during the 2007-2008 academic year. The honorees are listed alphabetically below.

Martin Albert, MED
Included in Who’s Who in America 2006-2007 and included in Best Doctors in America

Ana Albuquerque, SMG
Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award Runner Up — AAA Management Accounting Section 2007

Lynne Allen, CFA
Nominated to ArtTable, a leadership organization for professional women in the visual arts nationwide

Elaine Alpert, SPH
Norman A Scotch Award for Excellence in Teaching

George J. Annas, SPH
McDonald-Merrill-Ketcham Memorial Award for Furthering Understanding Between the Professions of Law and Medicine

Andrew Bacevich, CAS
Member of the Council on Foreign Relations

John Baillieul, ENG
Elected Vice President of Publications Service and Products and thereby gained a seat on the Board of Directors of the IEEE for 2007

Gary Balady, MED
Top Doctors in America 2007

Paul Barbone, ENG
Fellow of ASA in June 2007

Thomas Barfield, CAS
Guggenheim Fellowship

Cynthia Becker, CAS
Council of American Overseas Research Multi-Country Research Fellowship for two summers of comparative research in Morocco and Niger summers 2008 and 2009

Dan Berlowitz, SPH
Peter Reizenstein Prize from the International Society for Quality in Health Care

Jose Betances, MED
Harris Fellowship in Child Development

C.B. Bhattacharya, SMG
Elected by Aspen Institute’s Business and Society Program 2007

Jag Bhawan, MED
Research Award for best abstract “Quantitative analysis of dermal small fibers in Parkinson’s disease and multiple system atrophy ” (Novak P, Bharat Marya N, Whren K, Bhawan J)

Irving Bigio, ENG
Appointed Guest Professor (Honorary) University College London Honorary Visiting Professor at University College London Department of Surgery Effective Dec Honorary Editorial Board Member of Honorary Editorial Board for Medical Devices: Evidence and Research

Zvi Bodie, SMG
Treasury and Risk magazine’s “100 most influential people in finance ” June 2007 and · Received first ever award for Lifetime Achievement in Applied Retirement Research from the Retirement Income Industry Association November 2007

Lynn Borgatta, MED
Best paper Kapp N Borgatta L Stubblefield P Vragovic O Moreno N Mifepristone in Midtrimester, Medical Abortion: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Eamon Brown, CFA
2007 Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship for Sculpture

Sara Brown, SAR
Athletic Trainer of the Year (2008) from Athletic Trainers of Massachusetts (state organization)

Frederic Brunel, SMG
“Outstanding Reviewer” award for the Journal of Advertising presented at the 2007 meeting of the American Academy of Advertising and joined the Advisory Board of the Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA) February 2007

William Carey, ENG
Acoustical Society of America Silver Medal in Underwater Acoustics For achievement in research Awarded in 2007

Gail Carpenter, CAS
Institute of Electrical and Electronic, Engineers (IEEE) Neural Networks Pioneer Award; re-Elected to Board of Governors of the International Neural Network Society

William Carroll, CAS
American Council of Learned Societies Senior Fellowship

Christos, Cassandras, ENG
Elected Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)

Sharon Cermak, SAR
Lady Davis Fellowship from the Hebrew University Israel

Christopher Chamley, CAS
Fellow of the Econometric Society

Aram Chobanian, MED
Ellis Island Medal of Honor; elected as Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Domenic Ciraulo, MED
Best Doctors in America

Jim Collins, ENG
NIH Director’s Pioneer Award “A Network Biology Approach to Antibiotic Action and Bacterial Defense Mechanisms” $25M over 5 years Patent – Finalist for the 2007 National Collegiate Inventor’s Competition; “A Tunable Genetic Switch Based on RNAi and Repressor Proteins for Regulating Gene Expression in Mammalian Cells ” Deans TL and Collins JJ Patent – Winner of the 2008 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize; “Dispersin B-Expressing Bacteriophage for Enhanced Biofilm Removal ” Lu T Collins JJ

Deborah Cornell, CFA
Prize awarded for Species Boundaries: DNA Exploding Majestic Galleries National Exhibition; Featured Artist March 2007 – Metanexus Institute Bryn Mawr, PA for the online publication “Global Spiral;” Work (Puzzle) collected by University of Colorado

Catherine Costello, MED
Life Science Excellence Award presented by the President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, in a ceremony held at Mount Sinai Medical Center

Wendy Coster, SAR
Certificate of Appreciation (2008) from the American Occupational Therapy Foundation at the AOTA Annual Conference in April “in recognition and appreciation of your significant contributions to occupational therapy”

Thomas Cottle, SED
Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters degree from Mass School of Professional Psychology

Andrea Coviello, MED
Invited Symposium Chair for session at the 89th Annual Endocrine Society Meeting

Mark Crovella, CAS
Elected Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communications

Edward Damiano, ENG
Received FDA approval of IDE application for closed-loop blood-glucose control Received full and unconditional approval by the FDA of IDE application to test our closed-loop control system in subjects with type 1 diabetes This represented a new milestone for the FDA as it was the first FDA-approved IDE application by an academic sponsor for a closed-loop blood-glucose control system for investigational use in human subjects

Debbie Danielpour, COM
One of three writers whose work was honored at the annual Discovery Evening of PEN New England, the regional branch of the renowned writer’s organization

Michele David, MED
Appointed by Governor Deval Patrick to the MA Public Health Council the policy arm of the MA Department of Public Health

Robert Devaney, CAS
Elected to the Council of American Mathematical Society

Lydia Diamond, CFA
2007-2008 Finalist for Susan Smith Blackburn Prize; 2007-2008 TCG/NEA Theatre Residency for Playwrights

Anne Donohue, COM
Fulbright Fellowship to study and teach journalism in China

Howard Eichenbaum, UNI
Elected a Fellow of the AAAS (American Academy for the Advancement of Sciences) and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association for his work on how the brain represents memories

Thomas Einhorn, MED
2008 Alfred R Shands Award, a combined award from the Orthopaedic Research Society and the American Orthopaedic Association given for lifetime achievement in orthopedic research He was also recently elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)

Sol Eisenberg, ENG
Elected to Fellow of AIBME

Kamil Ekinci, ENG
Nanoscale Microscopy Imaging; CAREER Award

Randall Ellis, CAS
President-Elect of the American Society of Health Economists

Terry Ellis, SAR
Outstanding Service Award (June 2007) from the American Parkinson’s Disease Association – Massachusetts Chapter

Robert Ferrante, MED
Edward T. Bird Humanitarian Award

Graeme Fincke, SPH
Peter Reizenstein Prize from the International Society for Quality in Health Care

Adrien Finzi, CAS
Elected Chair of the Biogeosciences Section of the Ecological Society of America

Duncan Fitzgerald, CAS
Fellowship in the Geological Society of America

Susan Fournier, SMG
Best Article Award Journal of Consumer Research 2007 for article published in 2004 and noted for its impact on the discipline for article “When Good Brands Do Bad” and paper “Brands Matter: An Empirical Demonstration of the Creation of Shareholder value through Branding” (Volume 34 No 2) has been awarded the Sheth Foundation Award for Best Paper published in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science in 2006 May 2007

Matthew Fox, SPH
Abraham Lilienfeld Pize from the Society for Epidemiologic Research

Maxim Frank-Kamenetskii, ENG
Elected to Fellow of AIBME

Suzanne Freitag, MED
Obtained accreditation from ASOPRS (American Society for Oculoplastic and Reconstructive Surgery) for the fellowship Less than half of all fellowships in the US are accredited by ASOPRS

John Gittinger, MED
Named editor of Survey of Ophthalmology and Comprehensive Ophthalmology Update

Sheldon Glashow, CAS
Honorary Degree Laurea ad Honorean in Physics from University of Bologna; and in October 2007 elected as a Foreign Member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (the Italian National Academy of Sciences ), the oldest scientific academy in the world

Paul Goldberg, CAS
Fryxell Award for Interdisciplinary Research presented by the Society for American Archaeology in March 2008

Liah Greenfeld, UNI
Awarded the 2008 UAB Ireland Distinguished Visiting Scholar Prize from the University of Alabama at Birmingham

Stephen Grossberg, CAS
Elected to Board of Governors of the International Neural Network Society; re-Elected as Editor-in-Chief of Neural Networks

Frank Guenther, CAS
Willard R Zemlin Lecture Award (American Speech Language-Hearing Association)

Shahla Haeri, CAS
UNESCO/UNITWIN Network chair for 2007-2001 entitled Gender Culture and People-Centered Development The UNESCO network consists of BU/WSP three prestigious universities in India and three social activist non-governmental organizations

Christine Hamel, CFA
Designated as a Linklater “Freeing the Natural Voice” Teacher

Eric Hardt, MED
Robert Dawes Evans Clinical Educator a newly developed group of experienced clinicians with focus on inpatient medical education

Robert Hefner, CAS
Lee Kong Chian Inaugural Fellow Stanford University and National University of Singapore; Elected Vice President of Association for Asian Studies; Carnegie Scholar in Islam

Janelle Heineke, SMG
Named a fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute; this honor recognizes scholars for “outstanding contributions in the field of decision sciences teaching research and/or service to the institute”

Michael Howe, ENG
2007 Rayleigh Medal of the Institute of Acoustics for achievement in research

Chi-Cheng Huang, MED
Finalist Outreach Testimony/Biography Category: Fourth Annual Outreach Resource of the Year Awards (2006) When Invisible Children Sing

Norman Hursh, SAR
Outstanding Rehabilitation Educator of the Year from the International Association of Rehabilitation Professionals

Brian Jack, MED
2007 Patient Care Award for Excellence in Patient Education Innovation by the STFM He was also named the AHRQ PIPS grantee of the month in August 2007 for his work on the Reengineered Hospital Discharge

Angela Jefferson, MED
Paul B Beeson Career Development Award in Aging

Deborah Kahn, CAS
Elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London

Emanuel Katz, CAS
National Science Foundation CAREER Award

Steven Katz, CAS
National Jewish Book Award in Reference Category

Sam Kauffman, COM
Film Massacre at Murambi screened at numerous film festivals and collected the following awards: Global Justice Award, Media That Matters Film Festival, June 2007 New York NY; Grand Prix Award (best film of festival) Crested Butte Reel Fest, August 2007, Crested Butte, Colo.; Jury Award, Best Documentary Crested Butte Reel Fest August 2007 Crested Butte, Colo.; Best of the Fest Award 10 or Less Film Festival October 2007 Portland Ore., Best Documentary Film 10 or Less Film Festival October 2007 Portland, Ore.; Best Documentary Short New England Film and Video October 2007 Festival, Boston Mass.

Lewis Kazis, SPH
Peter Reizenstein Prize from the International Society for Quality in Health Care

Margaret Kelly-Hayes, MED
2007 Stroke Council Award

Fred Kleiner, CAS
Elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London

Ronald Knepper, ENG
IEEE Life Fellow

Jennifer Knust, STH
Henry Luce III Fellow in Theology 2007-2008; Rome Prize by the American Academy in Rome; Villa Getty Scholar by the Villa Getty

Janusz Konrad, ENG
2008 IEEE Fellow for contributions to motion estimation and stereoscopic imaging

Nancy Kopell, CAS
Von Neuman Prize/Lecture (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics); Honorary Degree, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Yrjo Koskinen, SMG
2007 Broderick Award for Excellence in Research

Laurence Kotlikoff, CAS
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Tom Kunz, CAS
Lifetime Achievement Award from the Karst Waters Institute

TR Lakshamanan, CAS
Edward L Ullman Award (Association of American Geographers); Honorary Degree Ohio State University

Kevin Lang, CAS
Honorable Mention 2007 Award for Best Professional/Academic Book in Sociology and Social Work Association of American Publishers

Christopher Lehrich, CAS
ACLS Award

Barton Lipman, CAS
Program Chair 2009 North American Summer Meetings of the Econometrics Society

Jon Lipsky, CFA
Eliot Norton Award for Best Director (Small Company) for King of the Jews and Coming Up For Air — An Autojazzography

Pinghua Liu, CAS
National Science Foundation Early Faculty Development (CAREER) Award for his work on “Mechanistic Studies of Phosphonates: Biosynthesis and Biodegradation”

Weining Lu, MED
Recipient of the 2007 Pediatric Renal Research Award from the National Kidney Foundation of Massachusetts Rhode Island New Hampshire and Vermont (MA/RI/NH/VT)

Albert Ma, CAS
President of the Chinese Economic Association in North America

Elizabeth Mahoney, MED
Attained the status of Fellow in the American Academy of Otolaryngic Allergy in October 2007

Zoliswa Mali, SED
Award for excellence in the teaching of the Zulu language and dedication to the field of
African Language Pedagogy from the African Language Teachers Association (ALTA)

Robert Margo, CAS
Russell Sage Fellowship

Ann McKee, MED
Moore Award Honorable Mention

Brenda Gael McSweeney, CAS
UNESCO/UNITWIN Network chair for 2007-2001 entitled Gender, Culture, and People-Centered Development

Ennio Mingolla, CAS
Helmholtz Award (International Neural Network Society)

Rafique Mughal, CAS
Member of the International Committee on Historic Gardens and Cultural Landscapes

Phyllis Newby, MED
Robert M Russell Award for Excellence in Scientific Achievement “Nutrition and Obesity”

Augustus Richard Norton, CAS
Fulbright Senior Scholar Award for the Islamic World

Stephanie Oberhaus, MED
The Crest Oral B Proctor and Gamble Professional Oral Health Excellence in Teaching in the Basic Sciences Award

Vincent Onyemah, SMG
National Conference in Sales Management (NCSM) Best Conference Paper Award: NCSM / Pi Sigma Epsilon Annual Conference Irvine CA 2007

Rebecca Perkins, MED
2007-2008 ACOG/Merck Research Award on Adolescent Health Preventative Services for her work on factors affecting HPV vaccination in underserved and minority adolescents

Pierre Perron, CAS
Fellow of the Econometric Society

Jim Petosa, CFA
County Executive Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Award from Montgomery County, Md. as “Outstanding Artist/Scholar”

Allan Pierce, ENG
2007 Stanley Ehrlich Gold Medal for achievement in research

John Porco, CAS
Merck Research Laboratories Academic Development Program (ADP) Award

Tyrone Porter, ENG
Acoustical Society of America R Bruce Lindsey Award Top acoustician under the age of 35

Jim Post, SMG
Inaugural Recipient of the School’s John F. Smith Jr Professorship in Management as “one of the nation’s most visible scholars in the study of public leadership and the changing relationship between business government and society”

James Pritchett, CAS
African Studies Association Special Recognition Award

Steven Prothero, CAS
Quill Award for Religion/Spirituality

Jean Ramsey, MED
Named to the Board of Trustees of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and elected as the Vice Chair of the Advisory Council of the Board

Z Justin Ren, SMG
Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) Early Career Award 2007 INFORMS Junior Faculty Paper Competition 2nd Place 2006 for the paper “Call Center Outsourcing: Coordinating Staffing Level and Service Quality” (co-authored with Y-P Zhou)

Christopher Roosevelt, CAS
Rodney S. Young Endowed Lecturer on Iron Age Turkey (AIA)

Amy Rosen, SPH
Peter Reizenstein Prize from the International Society for Quality in Health Care

David Rosenbloom, MED
Annual Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Field

Ronald Roy, ENG
65th George Eastman Visiting Professor of the University of Oxford

Marie Saint-Hilaire, MED
Named to the American Parkinson Disease Association Scientific Advisory Board

Joan Salge Blake, SAR
Outstanding Dietetic Educator Award (2007) from American Dietetic Association

Loren J. Samons, CAS
Onassis Foundation Senior Visiting Scholar

Robert Saper, MED
Visiting Professor of the SASTRA University Center for Advanced Research in Indian Systems of Medicine (CARISM) located in Thanjavur Tamil Nadu India; presented the keynote at a National Seminar on “Quality Control and Standardization of Metal-Based Ayurveda and Siddha Medicines”

Katherine Semrau, SPH
Young Investigator Award from the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections

Ganesan Shankaranarayanan, SMG
“Understanding Impartial Versus Utility Driven Quality Assessments in Large Datasets ” won the Stuart Madnick Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Information Quality (ICIQ 2007); second paper, “Inequality in Utility of Data and its Implications for Data Management,” won the WITS Best Paper Award at the Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS 2007) in Montreal, Canada

Robert Sloane, LAW
School of Law Hague Academy of International Law Diploma and the American Society of International Law’s Certificate of Merit

Temple Smith, ENG
Awarded 2007 Senior Scientist Accomplishment Award for the International Society of Molecular Biologists, Vienna, Austria

H. Eugene Stanley, UNI
Awarded the 2008 Julius Edgar Liliefeld Prize to recognize a most outstanding contribution to physics “for contributions to the deeper understanding of phase transitions and critical phenomena in complex systems; and for excellence in communicating the excitement of interdisciplinary research to a wide range of audiences”

Ashley Stevens, SMG
Bayh-Dole Award Association of University Technology Managers 2007

Bela Suki, ENG
Elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering

Anne Sullivan Soydan, SAR
Mary Switzer research fellowship (2008-2009) from National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR)

Alfred Tauber, CAS
ISA Medal for Science, the highest honor awarded by the Institute of Advanced Studies

Jim Thistle, COM
The official presentation and creation of the Jim Thistle Fellowship In Broadcast News Management by WCVB-TV and Hearst-Argyle Television.

Selim Unlu, ENG
Australian Research Council Nanotechnology Network Distinguished Lecturer

Lou Ureneck, COM
Awarded the 2007 National Outdoor Book Award for his book Backcast: Fatherhood, Fly-Fishing, and a River Journey Through the Heart of Alaska

Elsie Vergara, SAR
Fulbright Scholarship “Senior Specialists Program”

Mariann Verheyen, CFA
IRNE (Independent Reviewers of New England) award for Best Costume Design for Present Laughter

Sujata Visaria, CAS
Affiliate Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development

Herbert Voigt, ENG
President-elect International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE); Past-President of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) National President Alpha Eta Mu Beta (AEMB)

Chihhung Wang, MED
Robert Wood Johnson Physician Faculty Scholar

Seymour Wang, CAS
National Science Foundation Early Faculty Development (CAREER) Award for his work on “Molecular Dynamics Study of Growth and Dissolution Dynamics of Stable and Meta-Stable Methane Hydrates”

Zhi Wang, MED
60th edition of “Who is Who in America” in 2007

Jay Wexler, LAW
Fulbright Scholar, Jagiellonian University Krakow Poland

Jenny White, CAS
Elected member of Board of Governors Institute of Turkish Studies; American Research Institute in Turkey Research Grant; Fulbright Scholar

Merry White, CAS
Japan Foundation Research Award

John Wiecha, MED
Publication by Wiecha is selected as key medical education literature of 2006

Gregory Williams, CAS
Getty Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship for 2008-2009

James Wiseman, CAS
Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement presented by the Archaeological Institute of America

Philip A. Wolf, MED
Honorary Doctorate of Science at the State University of New York in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the epidemiology of stroke

James Wolff, Jr., SPH
Community Clinician of the Year Award from Massachusetts Medical Society

Don Wright, COM
Distinguished Service Award from the Arthur W Page Society in September 2007 and the Jackson Wagoner Behavioral Science Research Award from the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) in October

Donald Wroblewski, ENG
NRC Senior Research Associateship Award AY 2006-2007

Katherine Zhang, ENG
DARPA Young Faculty Research Award for her proposal entitled Micro- and Nano-Mechanics of Thin Film and Thin Film Coatings