Honors, Awards, and Grants

Our faculty are not only superb teachers, they are active scholars in their fields of expertise.

In addition to the more than $11 million in research grants the Brooklyn College faculty obtained over the past year, many of them garnered accolades and distinctions in their respective fields. Below are the accolades bestowed upon our talented faculty in 2020. Check our archives below to see the honors, awards, and grants our faculty have received since 2010.

  • Swapna M. Banerjee, professor of history, received an Australian Research Council Discovery project grant on a collaborative research, “Ayahs and Amahs: Transcolonial Servants in Australia and Britain 1780–1945.”
  • Cheryl Carmichael, assistant professor of psychology, won a five-year, $896,346 grant from the National Science Foundation to expand her research on responsiveness in relationships.
  • Associate Professor of Chemistry Emilio Gallicchio received the OpenEye American Chemical Society COMP Outstanding Junior Faculty Award.
  • Assistant Professor of Chemistry Guillermo Gerona-Navarro won a $1.57 million award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for his promising research on gene repression in potential cancer therapies.
  • Professor of Chemistry Ryan Murelli was awarded a four-year, $1.54 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for his research on developing and exploiting new synthetic strategies for tropolones.
  • Adjunct Professor of English Sigrid Nunez was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
  • Helen Phillips ’07 M.F.A., associate professor of English, won a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Previous Years

2019

  • Laura Ascenzi-Moreno, Special Education, received a $4,000 grant from the National Council of Teachers of English Research Foundation, for “Developing Bilingual Readers: A Bilingual Vision for Mentor Texts.”
  • Nicholas Biais, Biology, received $32,714 from the University of California – Santa Cruz, for “Vibrio Cholerae c-diGMP Signaling: Motile to Biofilm Transition and Transmission.”
  • Elizabeth Chua, Psychology, received $117,750 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, for “Brain Stimulation Studies of Memory and Memory Awareness.”
  • Maria Contel, Chemistry, received $392,500 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, for “Biodegradable Nanocarriers and Antibodies as Targeting Delivery Vehicles for Cancer Metallodrugs.”
  • Angelo DiBello, Psychology, received $233,594 from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, for “Using Counter-Attitudinal Advocacy to Change Drinking Behavior and Related Problems.”
  • Angelo DiBello, Psychology, received $131,650 from Brown University for “Enhancing the Efficacy and Duration of a Brief Alcohol Intervention Using Self-Affirmation.”
  • The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute awarded a $160,906 grant to Melissa Fuster, Health and Nutrition Sciences, for “Applying Innovative Approaches to Design and Implement an Intervention to Improve Cardiovascular Health in Hispanic/Latino Communities Through Restaurants.”
  • Yu Gao, Psychology, received $392,500 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, for “Neurobiological Characteristics, Parent-Child Relationships, and Conduct Problems in Adolescence: A Longitudinal Multimodal Neuroimaging Study.”
  • The Evolving Earth Foundation awarded Matthew Garb, Earth and Environmental Sciences, a $2,035 grant for “Cold Methane Seeps as Possible Refuges From Ash Falls: Comparative Faunal Analyses From a Seep and Non-Seep Deposit, Upper Cretaceous Pierre Shale, South Dakota.”
  • Louise Hainline, Psychology, received $362,965 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, for biomedical research training for minority honor students at Brooklyn College.
  • Amy Ikui, Biology, received $353,250 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, for “Cell Cycle Regulation in Response to Plasma Membrane Stress in S. Cerevisae.”
  • Xinyin Jiang, Health and Nutrition Sciences, received $117,750 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, for “The Lasting Effect of Maternal Choline Supplementation on Lipid Metabolism in Mouse Progeny Affected by Maternal Obesity and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus.”
  • Xinyin Jiang, Health and Nutrition Sciences, received $45,000 from the American Egg Board, for “Egg Consumption During Pregnancy and Cognitive Development of Offspring.”
  • Aneta Mieszawska, Chemistry, received $342,124 from the National Cancer Institute, for “Anti-Vascular and Cytotoxic Nanoparticle Formulations for Ovarian Cancer Therapy.”
  • Luis Quadri, Biology, received $78,500 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for “Gene Essentiality in Mycobacterium Kansasii.”
  • Vital Projects Fund, Inc., awarded Alex Vitale, Sociology, a $100,000 grant, for “Policing and Social Justice Project.”

2018

  • Michael Bergen and Ellen Geller, Speech Communication Arts and Sciences, received a $165,000 grant from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene—Bureau of Early Intervention, to develop a specialization in early intervention in speech-language pathology at Brooklyn College.
  • Elizabeth Chua, Psychology, received $117,750 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, for “Brain Stimulation Studies of Memory and Memory Awareness.”
  • Maria Ann Conelli, School of Visual, Media and Performing Arts, received $55,000 from the New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment, for “Broadway in the Boroughs.”
  • Maria Contel, Chemistry, received a $392,500 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, for “Biodegradable Nanocarriers and Antibodies as Targeting Delivery Vehicles for Cancer Metallodrugs.”
  • Angelo DiBello, Psychology, received $192,969 from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, for “Using Counter Attitudinal Advocacy to Change Drinking Behavior and Related Problems.”
  • The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery acquired Memorial to a Marriage, by Patricia Cronin, Art.
  • Jennifer Drake, Psychology, received the Daniel E. Berlyne Award, Division 10, from the American Psychological Association.
  • For outstanding contribution toward fostering the research training of underrepresented minorities in microbiology, Peter N. Lipke, Biology, received the William A. Hinton Research Training Award.
  • Amy Ikui, Biology, received $353,250 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, for “Cell Cycle Regulation in Response to Plasma Membrane Stress in S. Cerevisae.”
  • Michael Mandel, Computer and Information Sciences, received a $500,000 National Science Foundation Award, for “Career: Integrating Perceptual Models of Auditory Importance Into Deep Learning-based Noise-robust Speech Recognition.”
  • Adam Parris, Science Resilience Institute at Jamaica Bay, received $285,000 from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority and $200,000 from the New York State Department of State, for “Protocol for Monitoring Nature-based Shorelines.”
  • Irina Patkanian, Television and Radio, received $25,000 from the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies Interdisciplinary Research and $20,000 from the New York State Council for the Arts.
  • Luis Quadri, Biology, received a $78,500 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, for “Interrogation of Mycobacterium Kansasii With Forward Genetics.”
  • Ryan Murelli, Chemistry, received a $392,500 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, for “Biological Studies of Alpha-Hydroxytorpolones.”
  • Mara Schvarstein, Biology, received a $157,000 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, for “Regulation of Chromosome and Centrosome Inheritance by HORMA Proteins in Meiosis.”
  • Shaneen M. Singh, Biology, received an $11,188 grant from Concarlo Holdings LLC, for “In silico modeling of p27Kip1 with the Brk SH3 domain and variants to develop a p27drug candidate for treatment in cancer.”
  • Brianne Smith, Earth and Environmental Sciences, received $227,000 from Earthwatch Institute, for “Rapid Assessment and Long-term Monitoring of Urban Green Infrastructure With Citizen Scientists.” She also received $162,935 from the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, for “Town + Gown: Task Order for Citywide Stormwater Resiliency Study.”
  • The Spencer Foundation awarded Lulu Song, Early Childhood Education/Art Education, $49,994 for “Promoting Chinese Dual Language Learners’ Language and Pre-academic Skills: Role of Early Childhood Teachers’ Knowledge and Practices.”
  • Sophia Suarez, Physics, received $23,330 from the American Chemical Society, for “Studies of the Dynamics in and the Effect of Surfactants on Gas Hydrates Formation and Agglomeration.”
  • Robert Tutak, Film, received the Best Immigrant Film Award at the Socially Relevant Film Festival, for Ellis Island: The Making of a Master Race in America.
  • Alex S. Vitale, Sociology, received $100,000 from the Policing and Social Justice Project Vital Projects Fund, for “Investigate Gang Suppression Policing Techniques.”

2017

  • Laura Ascenzi-Moreno, Childhood, Bilingual and Special Education, received a $300,000 National Science Foundation grant, for “Leveraging Multilingualism to Support Computer Science Education Through Translanguaging Pedagogies.”
  • Myles Bassell, Business Management, received the “Coach of the Year” Excellence in Teaching Award from the Marketing Global Leadership Academic Association, a chapter of the American Marketing Association.
  • Stephen Chester, Anthropology and Archaeology, received a $5,000 American Association of Physical Anthropologists Professional Development Grant, for “New Paleogene Primate Skeletons From Fossiliferous Limestones.”
  • Christopher Dunbar, Kinesiology, was awarded the New York Guard Achievement Medal by the New York State Division of Military and Naval Affairs.
  • Christopher Dunbar, Kinesiology, was awarded a Certificate of Appreciation by the State of New York Division of Military and Naval Affairs New York Guard 12th Regimental Training Institute.
  • Helen Georgas, Library, received a $4,600 grant from the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (for the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs) for the online journal Underwater New York.
  • Brian R. Gibney, Chemistry, received the Partners for Progress and Prosperity Award, presented by the Middle Atlantic Region of the American Chemical Society.
  • Janet Grommet, Health and Nutrition Sciences, won the Outstanding Dietetics Educator Award (Area 7), from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
  • Amy E. Ikui, Biology, received a four-year $1,000,000 National Institutes of Health SC1 grant.
  • Sunil Mohanty, Finance, received the Who’s Who in America Lifetime Achievement Award.
  • Laura A. Rabin, Psychology, received a $13,990 research award from the JCK Foundation, for “Predictors of Mental Health Literacy in a Diverse Sample of Undergraduate Students.”
  • Laura A. Rabin, Psychology, received a three-year $331,682 National Science Foundation REU Award, for “Intensive Mentored Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) in Psychology and Neuroscience at an Urban Public College.”
  • Laurie Rubel, Secondary Education, received a $50,000 Small Research Grant, from the Spencer Foundation.
  • Laurie Rubel, Secondary Education, received a Fulbright United States Scholar Award.

2016

  • Amotz Bar-Noy, Computer and Information Science, received $208,000 from the Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance, sponsored by the United States Army Research Laboratory.
  • Myles Bassell, Business Management, received the “Best Teacher Ever” Excellence in Teaching Award from the Marketing Global Leadership Academic Association, a chapter of the American Marketing Association.
  • Brett F. Branco, Earth and Environmental Sciences, received a three-year $498,570 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, for “Resilient Schools Consortium (RiSC) Project.”
  • Stephen Chester, Anthropology and Archaeology, received $29,497 from the National Science Foundation, Program in Systematics and Biodiversity Science, for “ROA: Supplement to RUI/SG: Phylogenetic Relationships of Archaic ‘Ungulates’ and Their Implications for the Timing and Rate of Divergence of Placental Mammal Clades.”
  • Sarah J. Christman, Film, was awarded a Rooftop Films Feature Film Grant, for Swarm Season.
  • Tracy Chu, Health and Nutrition Sciences, received a two-year $418,494 grant to identify sociocultural and environmental influences on sleep-related infant care practices among three non-Hispanic black subgroups.
  • Laurel Cooley, Mathematics, received a three-year $949,123 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the features of selective alternative teacher certification programs that affect selective route mathematics teachers’ professional pathways.
  • Annette Danto, Film, received the Fulbright Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Award and Flex Grant.
  • Christopher Dunbar, Kinesiology, was awarded the New York Guard Achievement Medal by the New York State Division of Military and Naval Affairs.
  • William Esber, Psychology, received $249,000 from the National Institutes of Health to research how the brain processes change in stimulus salience.
  • Brenda Foley, Theater, received a $5,000 Aron Grant from Marlboro College for student/faculty research collaboration.
  • Yu Gao, Psychology, received a two-year National Institute of General Medical Sciences SC3 grant, for “A Brain Imaging Study on Conditioning Deficits in Antisocial Youths.”
  • Brian R. Gibney, Chemistry, received the Partners for Progress and Prosperity Award, presented by the Middle Atlantic Region of the American Chemical Society.
  • Alexander Greer, Chemistry, received a Singlet O2 Therapeutics LLC in Support of NIH for Small Business Technology Transfer Grant, from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research.
  • Alexander Greer, Chemistry, received a joint three-year National Scientific and Technical Research Council (Argentina)–National Science Foundation grant for a research project titled “Photodynamic Therapy Using Pterins as Photosensitizers.”
  • Katherine Lu Hsu, Classics, received a $1 million grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation to establish the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Scholarships, which will award tuition grants and living stipends to students with financial need in order to study at the Latin/Greek Institute in the summer.
  • Anna Law, Political Science, received a National Science Foundation grant of $79,497, for “How Do U.S. Immigration Courts Decide Gender-based Asylum Claims?”
  • Michael Mandel, Computer and Information Science, received a $50,430 Google Research Award, for “Incorporating a Speech Model Into Multichannel Spatial Clustering.”
  • Michael Mandel, Computer and Information Science, received a three-year $449,958 National Science Foundation Award, for “RI:Small: Concatenative Resynthesis for Very High-quality Speech Enhancement.”
  • Sharon O’Connor-Petruso, Childhood, Bilingual and Special Education, received a Certificate of Appreciation Web Master, from the American Educational Research Association’s Special Interest Group International Studies.
  • Brigid O’Keeffe, History, received a Franklin Research Grant, from the American Philosophical Society.
  • Anjana D. Saxena, Biology, received a Sackler Institute for Nutrition Research Grant from the New York Academy of Sciences, for “Prenatal betaine supplementation as a treatment for macrosomia in a mouse model of gestational diabetes mellitus.”
  • Jessica Siegel, English, received a $40,000 Whiting Fellowship to create a digital home for Brooklyn oral histories.
  • Shaneen M. Singh, Biology, received a $15,000 grant from Concarlo Holdings LLC, for “In silico modeling of p27Kip1 with the Brk SH3 domain and variants to develop a p27drug candidate for treatment in cancer.”
  • Dina Sokol, Computer and Information Science, received a three-year $129,000 grant from the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation, for “Approximate Cycles and Repetitions.”
  • Lulu Song, Early Childhood Education/Art Education, received a $10,000 Crow Professorship, for “Promoting Chinese Dual Language Learners’ Development: Role of Teachers’ Knowledge and Practices and Home Environment.”
  • Mariana Torrente, Chemistry, received $177,417 from the National Institutes of Health to study the role of epigenetics in the origins of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
  • Deborah Walder, Psychology, won the Young Investigator Award from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, for “Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Structural MRI Abnormalities in Adolescents At-risk for Depression: The Role of Early Life Stress and 5-HTTLPR.”
  • Tracy Wong, Health and Nutrition Sciences, received a three-year National Institute of General Medical Sciences (National Institutes of Health), SCORE SC2 grant, for “The Impact of Female Genital Cutting on African Immigrants.”
  • Neng-Fa Zhou, Computer and Information Science, received a $385,855 National Science Foundation, Division of Computing and Communication Foundations, grant, for “From Declarative Specifications of Search Problems to Efficient Solutions.”

2015

  • Rebecca A. Boger, Earth and Environmental Sciences, received $127,475 from NASA, for “GLOBE Online Training Materials for the Hydrosphere and Biosphere, NASA.”
  • Mike Cloud, Art, received the inaugural Chiaro Award from the Headlands Center for the Arts, in recognition of works in the field of painting.
  • Mike Cloud, Art, received the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Award in the category of “Painting.”
  • Erin Courtney, English, was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in playwriting.
  • Jennifer Drake, Psychology, received a two-year grant from the Imagination Institute, for “Assessing and Fostering Visual Imagination Through Drawing.”
  • Jennifer Drake, Psychology, received the Rising Star Award from the Association for Psychological Science.
  • Brenda Foley, Theater, received a $4,700 Aron Grant for faculty/student collaborative research on archival research and constructing dramatic narratives.
  • Stefano Ghirlanda, Psychology, received a $250,000 grant for “From Nature to Culture: Evolutionary Origins of Human Uniqueness,” from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation in collaboration with Stockholm University and Mälardalen University.
  • Alexander Greer, Chemistry, received a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation, Chemistry Division, for “Phase Separation of Reactive Oxygen with Multi-compartmented Sensitizers.”
  • Louise Hainline, Psychology, received a $529,968 grant for “Peer-Assisted Team Research (PATR): A Method for Early Undergraduate Research,” from the National Science Foundation, Division of Undergraduate Education.
  • Yong-Gang Huang, Modern Languages and Literatures, won the Outstanding Book Award for Teaching Methodology (Academic Discipline: Education) from the Association of Chinese Professors of Social Sciences in the United States, for the co-authored book America Encounters Classical Chinese Culture: A Pedagogy for Philosophy and Literature.
  • Xinyin Jiang, Health and Nutrition Sciences, received a National Institutes of Health SCORE2 grant, for “Effects of Choline on Fetal Growth and Lipid Accretion in Gestational Diabetes.”
  • Rosamond King, English, won the Caribbean Studies Association Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Annual Prize for Best Caribbean Studies Book.
  • Rachel Kousser, Art, received an Archaeological Institute of America Publication Subvention Award.
  • Ben Lerner, English, received a $625,000 MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship.
  • Klara Marton, Speech Communication Arts and Sciences, received a grant from the International Visegrad Fund, for “Bilingual Assessment of Child Lexical Knowledge: New Method for Polish, Czech, Slovak and Hungarian.”
  • Ryan Murelli, Chemistry, received $658,553 from the National Institutes of Health, for “Optimization of Alpha-hydroxytropolones as Novel Inhibitors of the HBV RNaseH.”
  • Ryan Murelli, Chemistry, received a National Institutes of Health SCORE Grant of $1,558,600, for “Synthetic and Biological Studies of α-Hydroxytropolones.”
  • Sharon O’Connor-Petruso, Childhood, Bilingual and Special Education, received the Distinguished Leadership and Service Award, from the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Special Interest Group (SIG) International Studies.
  • Arturo O’Farrill, Conservatory of Music, won the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition, for Three Revolutions.
  • Ursula Oppens, Conservatory of Music, was nominated for a Grammy Award for the recording of Frederic Rzewski’s “The People United Will Never Be Defeated.”
  • Maria Perez y Gonzalez, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, received the Cultural Award: Education, from the Instituto de Puerto Rico.
  • Laura A. Rabin, Psychology, received a three-year $331,682 grant from the National Science Foundation, for “Intensive Mentored Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) in Psychology and Neuroscience at an Urban Public College.”
  • Tracy Wong, Health and Nutrition Sciences, received a three-year National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities (National Institutes of Health) R15 AREA Program Grant, for “A Social Ecological Model of Infant Sleep Environments Among Non-Hispanic Black Infants.”

2014

  • H. Arthur Bankoff, Anthropology and Archaeology, received a $5,000 Senior Research Award from the Institute for Aegean Prehistory, for the Jadar Project in western Serbia.
  • Nicholas Biais, Biology, received $157,000 from the National Institutes of Health to dissect the process by which biofilms develop.
  • Amotz Bar-Noy, Computer and Information Science, received $401,196 from the Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance, sponsored by the United States Army Research Laboratory.
  • Luigi Bonaffini, Modern Languages and Literatures, won the Raiziss/De Palchi Translation Prize from the Academy of American Poets.
  • Luigi Bonaffini, Modern Languages and Literatures, won the Translatiom Prize from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for translation of Attilio Bertolucci’s La camera da letto (The Bedroom).
  • Brett F. Branco, Earth and Environmental Sciences, received a two-year $282,998 grant from the National Park Service (Northeast Cooperative Ecosystems Study Unit), for “Detecting Water Quality Regime Shifts in Jamaica Bay.”
  • Chia-Ju Chang, Modern Languages and Literatures, received a grant from the Taiwan Ministry of Education, for the Eco-documentary Film Festival and workshop.
  • Stephen Chester, Anthropology and Archaeology, won a $2,000 George Gaylord Simpson Prize, Yale Peabody Museum, for the publication Systematics of Paleogene Micromomyidae (Euarchonta, Primates) from North America.
  • Sarah J. Christman, Film, won the Art and Science Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, for Gowanus Canal.
  • Matthew Crump, Psychology, received a three-year $356,073 National Science Foundation grant, for “Acquisition of Hierarchical Control in Skilled Action Sequencing.”
  • Andrew Delameter, Psychology, received $392,500 from the National Institutes of Health, for “A Multi-component Approach to Extinction in Pavlovian Learning.”
  • Miriam B. Deutch, Library, received the Best of Show Award for Special Programs, Exhibits and Events from the American Library Association.
  • Jennifer Drake, Psychology, received a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts, for “Expressive Drawing: Examining the Long-term Psychological and Psychophysiological Benefits.”
  • Christopher Dunbar, Kinesiology, was awarded the New York Guard Service Ribbon, by the Division of Military and Naval Affairs of the State of New York.
  • Emilio Gallicchio, Chemistry, received a two-year $142,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, for “SI2-SSE: High-Performance Software for Large-scale Modeling of Binding Equilibria.”
  • Guillermo Gerona-Navarro, Chemistry, received $157,000 from the National Institutes of Health to study the particular role of polycomb group (PcG) proteins in different cellular processes and to decipher the role of PRC2, one of the general types formed by PcG target genes in cancer biology.
  • Mustapha Khan, Film, won the Best Screenplay Award (short) for Blanchin’ Jimmies, at the Harvardwood Screenwriting Competition.
  • Yehuda L. Klein, Economics, received a two-year $41,229 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Educational Partnership Program: Cooperative Science Center Cross Center Collaboration, for “An Environmental and Economic Assessment of an Activated Green Infrastructure Approach for Managing Urban Stormwater Contaminant Loading to Coastal Waters.”
  • Philip Napoli, History, received the Patriotism Award from the United Military Veterans of Kings County.
  • Arturo O’Farrill, Conservatory of Music, won the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition, for The Afro Latin Jazz Suite.
  • Juergen Polle, Biology, received a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, for “A Systems Biology and Pond Culture-based Understanding and Improvement of Metabolic Processes Related to Productivity in Diverse Microalgal Classes for Viable Biofuel Production.”
  • Anthony Sclafani, Psychology, received $341,472 from the National Institutes of Health, for “Carbohydrate Appetite, Fat Appetite, and Obesity.”
  • Karen B. Stern Gabbay, History, received an AIA Subvention Award, Van Bothmer Subvention Grant of the American Institute of Archaeology, for “Writing on the Wall: Graffiti and the Forgotten Jews of Late Antiquity (PUP).”
  • Jeanne Theoharis, Political Science, won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work—Biography/Autobiography.
  • Justin Townsend, Theater, won the Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design.
  • Tracy Wong, Health and Nutrition Sciences, received a two-year National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (National Institutes of Health) R15 AREA Program Grant, for “Social Networks of West African Forced Migrants.”

2013

  • Jennifer Adams, Secondary Education, received a $133,051 award from the National Science Foundation to investigate the impact of formal-informal collaborations on teach identity development over time.
  • Jennifer Basil, Biology, received $10,000 from the Grass Foundation, for “Can the Chambered Nautilus Detect Sound?”
  • Gregory S. Boutis, Physics, was awarded a four-year $1,099,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health, for “NMR Studies of the Effects of Mode of Birth on Vaginal Elastin.”
  • Brett F. Branco, Earth and Environmental Sciences, received $32,428 from the National Park Service (Northeast Cooperative Ecosystems Study Unit), for “Response of Benthic Infauna to Marsh Restoration.”
  • Brett F. Branco, Earth and Environmental Sciences, received $50,000 from the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement, for “Sentinels of Shoreline Change: A Citizen Science Field Observation Program.”
  • Jillian Cavanaugh, Anthropology and Archaeology, received a Cultural Anthropology Senior Research Grant from the National Science Foundation.
  • Stephen Chester, Anthropology and Archaeology, received $700 from the Doris O. and Samuel P. Welles Fund, University of California Museum of Paleontology, for “First Postcranial Fossils of Purgatorius.”
  • Sarah J. Christman, Film, won the Jury Award at the Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival, for Gowanus Canal.
  • Elizabeth Chua, Psychology, received a National Institutes of Health SC2 Award, for “Cognitive and Neural Bases of Memory Confidence and Accuracy.”
  • Carol Connell, Business Management, received an Institute for New Economic Thinking grant, for “Monetary Reform and the Bellagio Group: Selected Letters and Papers of Fritz Machlup, Robert Triffin and William Fellner.”
  • Maria Contel, Chemistry, received a three-year $471,000 National Institute of Health SCORE grant, for “Organogold Phosphorus-containing Compounds as Anticancer Agents.”
  • Maria Contel, Chemistry, received a four-year $1,413,000 National Institute of Health SCORE grant, for “Titanium-gold-based Chemotherapeutics for Prostate and Kidney Cancer.”
  • Beth Ferholt, Early Childhood Education/Art Education, received a research grant from the University of Jönköping (Sweden), for “Playworld and Exploratory Learning in Preschool.”
  • Beth Ferholt, Early Childhood Education/Art Education, received a Riksbankens Jubileums Gran from the, Swedish Humanities and Social Sciences Foundation, for “The Creation of an International, Interdisciplinary Research Network for the Study of the Relationship of Play and Learning Through Playworlds: A Response to an International Shift in Focus Towards Learning in Preschools.”
  • Brenda Foley, Theater, received a $2,500 faculty development grant from Marlboro College to research 19th-century asylums.
  • Katherine Fry, Television and Radio, received the John F. Wilson Award for scholarship and exemplary service from the New York State Communication Association.
  • Akiko Fuse, Speech Communication Arts and Sciences, won the Award for Continuing Education from the American Speech–Language–Hearing Association.
  • Amy E. Hughes, Theater, won the Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, from the American Society for Theatre Research.
  • Amy E. Ikui, Biology, received a four-year $300,000 National Institutes of Health SC3 grant.
  • Laura J. Juszczak, Chemistry, received a four-year grant from the National Institutes of Health, for “Edge-on/Face-on: Trp Tripeptides Model Residue Interactions in Proteins.”
  • Tania León, Conservatory of Music, won the Victor Herbert Award, from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
  • Peter Lipke, Biology, received a grant from the National Institutes of Health, for “A Role for Amyloids in Force-dependent Activation of Cell Adhesion.”
  • John F. Marra, Earth and Environmental Sciences, was awarded the Antarctic Service Medal from the U.S. Department of Defense.
  • Theodore Muth, Biology, received a $114,928 grant from the United States Department of Agriculture, for “Soil Microbial Communities in the Urban Environment.”
  • Theodore Muth, Biology, received a $538,815 grant from the National Science Foundation, for “Urban Microbial Community Dynamics: A Classroom Approach.”
  • Vinit Parmar, Film, won the Award of Excellence, Canada Film Festival. and the Award of Excellence, Broadcast Education Association Festival of Media Arts, and was nominated for Best Short Documentary nomination, Beloit International Film Festival, for Quest for Energy.
  • Theodore Raphan, Computer and Information Science, received a three-year $176,625 grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), for “Vestibular Control of the Vasovagal Response.”
  • Mariana Regalado, Library, received a Google Maps Engine Grant.
  • Anjana D. Saxena, Biology, received a two-year National Institutes of Health Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Award, for “Role of Nucleolin in Regulating mRNA Stability During DNA Damage Response (DDR).”
  • Karen B. Stern Gabbay, History, received a National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship, for “Jewish Graffiti in the Ancient Mediterranean World.”
  • Jeanne Theoharis, Political Science, won the Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians, for The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks.
  • Noson S. Yanofsky, Computer and Information Science, won the PROSE Award for best popular science and popular mathematics book, given by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers, for The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Math, and Logic Cannot Tell Us.

2012

  • Kathleen Axen, Health and Nutrition Sciences, received $116,573 from the National Institutes of Health to study the cellular mechanisms underlying a popular low-carb diet, with my increase the risk of diabetes.
  • H. Arthur Bankoff, Anthropology and Archaeology, received a $3,000 research grant from the Institute for Aegean Prehistory, for the Jadar Project in western Serbia.
  • Jennifer Basil, Biology, was listed in The Princeton Review’s America’s 300 Best Professors.
  • Jennifer Basil, Biology, received $30,466 from BSF: USA-Israel Binational Science Foundation, for “Functional Mapping of Learning-induced Activity in the CNS of Nautilus, a Plesiomorphic Cephalopod.”
  • Stacey Brenner-Moyer, Chemistry, won a $450,000 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development grant for junior faculty, for the development of nonmetal, environmentally friendly catalysts.
  • Sarah J. Christman, Film, won the Jury Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, for As Above, So Below.
  • Malgorzata Ciszkowska, Chemistry, received a four-year $1.6 million Howard Hughes Medical Institute grant, for “A Community-based Approach to STEM Research.”
  • Erin Courtney, English, won an Obie Award for A Map of Virtue.
  • Constantin Crânganu, Earth and Environmental Sciences, received the Prize of Excellence, awarded by the Association of Tourism Writers and Journalists from Romania for the series “Climate Change— Between Reality and Fiction.”
  • Lesley Davenport, Chemistry, received a National Institutes of Health SCORE Grant, for “Conformation and Multimeric Formation of G-Quadruplexed DNA: Effects of Ligand Interactions.”
  • Andrew Delamater, Psychology, received a four-year $1,000,000 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, for “A Multi-component Approach to Extinction in Pavlovian Learning.”
  • Terry Dowd, Chemistry, received $109,468 per year, for four years, from the National Institutes of Health, for “Structure-function Relation of Connexin Disease Mutations.”
  • Mary B. Easley, Theater, won the Audelco Award for Best Direction of a Dramatic Production, for Court Martial at Fort Devens.
  • Paul Forlano, Biology, received $157,000 from the National Institutes of Health for his research on the neurochemicals responsible for proper auditory-driven social functions, which has implications for better understanding of such syndromes as Asperger’s.
  • Paul Forlano, Biology, received an Erik B. Fries Endowed Fellowship Fund Award, the H. Keffer Hartline and Edward MacNichol, Jr. Fellowship Award, and the Laura and Arthur Colwin Endowed Summer Research Fellowship Fund Award to support summer research at the Marine Biological Laboratory’s Whitman Center in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
  • Yu Gao, Psychology, received a three-year National Institute of Mental Health SC2 grant, for “Biomarkers for Conduct Problems: Abnormal Conditioning to Punishments and Rewards.”
  • Amy E. Hughes, Theater, received a $200 American Theatre and Drama Society Publication Subvention Award and a $600 American Society for Theatre Research McNamara Publishing Subvention, for Spectacles of Reform: Theater and Activism in Nineteenth-century America.
  • Janet E. Johnson, Political Science, received a grant from the American-Scandinavian Foundation.
  • Laura Juszczak, Chemistry, received $155,430 from the National Institutes of Health for her research on disease-related proteins.
  • Hong-Jen Lin, Finance, received a grant from the Society of Actuaries, for “Dynamic Factor Model Analysis on the Cash Flows of Investment and Hedging Strategies of the U.S. Insurance Industry.”
  • Peter Lipke, Biology, received a grant from the National Institutes of Health, for “A Role for Amyloids in Force-dependent Activation of Cell Adhesion.”
  • Jason Moore, Television and Radio, won the Mobius Award and the Telly Award for “USDT: Ryman.”
  • Ryan Murelli, Chemistry, received a $471,000 National Institutes of Health SCORE Grant, for “Synthetic and Biological Studies of Antitubercular Natural Products.”
  • James Nishiura, Biology, received a $116,573 National Institutes of Health grant for his study of the molecular mechanisms responsible for mosquito growth.
  • Vinit Parmar, Film, won the Prestige Film Award, Gold Level; Best Short Documentary Award, OneCloudFest; and Best Eco Documentary, San Pedro Film Festival, for Quest for Energy.
  • Vinit Parmar, Film, won the Diamond Level Award in Documentary Category, California Film Awards; Gold Level Award in Documentary Category, Oregon Film Awards; Award for 2nd Place in Best Water Documentary Category, Montana CINE International Film Festival; Honorable Mention Award, Los Angeles New Wave International Film Festival; Best Environmental Film, Chashama Film Festival; New York Golden Palm Award, Mexico Film Festival, for Living River.
  • Diogo Pinheiro, Mathematics, received a $1,100 Scientific Community Support Fund, from Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (Portugal), for organization of the I Winter School on Stochastic Dynamics and Control in Finance and Economics Conference.
  • Laura A. Rabin, Psychology, received a $291,209 National Science Foundation REU Award, for “Intensive Mentored Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) in Cognitive, Behavioral, and Affective Neuroscience at an Urban Public College.”
  • Nancy Romer, Psychology, received grants totaling $451,846 from the New York City Department of Youth and Community Development to fund Networks to College, a student service aimed at improving literacy, communication, and conflict-resolution skills.
  • Laurie Rubel, Secondary Education, received funding from the National Science Foundation for “CAREER: Centering the Teaching of Mathematics on Urban Youth.”
  • Kai Shum, Physics, received $48,881 from Sun Harmonics, Ltd. to investigate the manufacturing processes behind a specific type of solar cell, which would, in turn, reveal more effective energy alternatives.

2011

  • Carolina Bank Muñoz, Sociology, received a Fulbright Fellowship to study the impact of Wal-Mart in Chile and to teach at the University Alberto Hurtado.
  • H. Arthur Bankoff, Anthropology and Archaeology, received a $5,000 research grant from the Institute for Aegean Prehistory, for the Jadar Project in western Serbia.
  • Rebecca A. Boger, Earth and Environmental Sciences, received $303,000 from NASA, for “Global Climate Change, International Food Security, and Local Sustainability: Collaborative Course Development and Sharing Among Institutions Serving Diverse and Underserved Learners.”
  • Brett F. Branco, Earth and Environmental Sciences, received $122,580 from the Hudson River Fund, for “The Influence of Oyster Restoration on Nitrogen Cycling in the Hudson-Raritan Estuary.”
  • Sarah J. Christman, Film, won the Jury Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, for Broad Channel.
  • Carol Connell, Business Management, received a Earhart Foundation Research Fellowship, for “Fritz Machlup and the Bellagio Group.”
  • Paisley Currah, Political Science, received the Michael Lynch Service Award, from the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association.
  • Lesley Davenport, Chemistry, received a National Institutes of Health SCORE Grant, for “Conformation and Multimeric Formation of G-Quadruplexed DNA: Effects of Ligand Interactions.”
  • Scott Dexter, Computer Information and Science, received a two-year $399,082 grant from the National Science Foundation-EESE, for “Collaborative Research: Understanding and Preparing Future Computer Professionals for the Ethical Complexities of a Diverse World.”
  • Christopher Dunbar, Kinesiology, was awarded the Medal for Humane Service to the State of New York, by the New York State Division of Military and Naval Affairs.
  • Brenda Foley, Theater, received a $325,000 Christian Johnson Endeavor Foundation Grant from Marlboro College, for “Innovation in the World Studies Program.”
  • Brenda Foley, Theater, received a $2,340 Faculty Professional Development Grant from Marlboro College.
  • Akiko Fuse, Speech Communication Arts and Sciences, won the Award for Continuing Education from the American Speech–Language–Hearing Association.
  • Brian R. Gibney, Chemistry, received a European Commission Grant, for “Peptide-based Diodes for Solar Cells.”
  • Amy E. Ikui, Biology, received a three-year $300,000 National Institutes of Health SC2 grant.
  • Xia Li, Early Childhood Education/Art Education, won the Best Dissertation Award, from the Chinese American Educational Research and Development Association.
  • Richard Magliozzo, Chemistry, received a National Science Foundation Research Award, for “Formation and Properties of a New Radical Cofactor in Catalase-peroxidase (KatG).”
  • Arturo O’Farrill, Conservatory of Music, won the Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album, for The Offense of the Drum.
  • Ursula Oppens, Conservatory of Music, was nominated for a Grammy Award for Winging It: Piano Music of John Corigliano.
  • Vanessa Pérez-Rosario, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, won the Early Career Teacher of Color Leadership Award, from the National Council of Teachers of English.
  • Helen Phillips, English, won the DIAGRAM Innovative Fiction Prize, for “Things We Do.”
  • Helen Phillips, English, won the Iowa Review Nonfiction Award, for “Life Care Center.”
  • Michael J. Rawson, History, won the Abel Wolman Book Award, from the Public Works Historical Society.
  • Michael J. Rawson, History, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Price for History, for Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston.
  • Corey Robin, Political Science, won the Cliopatra Award for Best Blog Writer, from History News Network.
  • Lulu Song, Early Childhood Education/Art Education, received a $20,000 Society for Research in Child Development Strategic Plan Conference Grant, for “Infants’ Learning of Multiple Languages: Development in Cultural Context.”
  • Celina K. Su, Political Science, received a New York University / MasterCard Foundation Grant, to examine leadership development models via Women’s World Banking.
  • Sophia Suarez, Physics, received a $30,000 Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Career Enhancement Award.
  • Jeffrey Suzuki, Mathematics, received a National Science Foundation grant, for “Mathematics and Social Advocacy.”
  • Laura Tesman, Theater, received a Diversity Projects Development Fund grant, for the ensemble development of the original play Nocturnal.

2010

  • Kathleen Axen, Health and Nutrition Sciences, received a grant from the National Institutes of Health, for “Metabolic Effects of Very Low-Carbohydrate Weight Reduction Diets on Obese Rats.”
  • Rebecca A. Boger, Earth and Environmental Sciences, received $9,988 from the U.S. National Park Service, for the Jamaica Bay BioBlitz.
  • Gregory Boutis, Physics, received a $941,014 award from the National Institutes of Health, for “Probing Dynamics of Water in Elastin by Q-Space Imaging and Multiple Quantum NMR.”
  • Brett F. Branco, Rebecca A. Boger, and Wayne Powell, Earth and Environmental Sciences, and Eleanor Miele, Secondary Education, received a $36,650 OEDG Planning Grant from the National Science Foundation, for “Partnership for a Place-Based Geoscience Experience for Urban Students.”
  • Stephen Chester, Anthropology and Archaeology, received an $800 Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research and a $1,480 American Society of Mammalogists Grants-in-Aid of Research, for “The Ancestral Euarchontan and the Origin of Primates.”
  • Stephen Chester, Anthropology and Archaeology, received $13,933 from the National Science Foundation: Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, and a $13,092 Leakey Foundation General Research Grant, for “Origin and Early Evolutionary History of Primates.”
  • Stephen Chester, Anthropology and Archaeology, received $784 from the Doris O. and Samuel P. Welles Fund, University of California Museum of Paleontology, for “Early Evolutionary History of Primates.”
  • Laurel Cooley, Mathematics, received a $400,000 grant from Math and Science Partnership (MSP), the New York State Department of Education. for MetroMath@CUNY.
  • Constantin Crânganu, Earth and Environmental Sciences, received a two-year $296,881 grant from the Department of Energy, for “Carbon Dioxide Sealing Capacity: Textural or Compositional Controls?”
  • Paisley Currah, Political Science, received a Small Research Grant Award, from The Williams Institute’s Small Grants Program, for “Administrating Sex: Investigating How Federal Agencies Develop Criteria for Sex Reclassification.”
  • Lesley Davenport, Chemistry, received a National Institutes of Health-MBRS SCORE Grant, for “Conformational Stability and Dynamics of G-Quadruplexed DNA and Ligand Interactions.”
  • Jason K. Eckardt, Conservatory of Music, received an Alice M. Ditson Fund at Columbia University grant for the recording of “Undersong” on Mode Records.
  • Baila Epstein, Speech Communication Arts and Sciences, received a Research Grant for New Investigators from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation, for “Assessment of Error-monitoring in Children With Specific Language Impairment.”
  • Dan Eshel, Biology, received a $39,580 award from the National Institutes of Health, for “Signaling Pathways and Microtubule Function.”
  • Yu Gao, Psychology, won the Young Experimental Scholar Award from the Academy of Experimental Criminology.
  • Stefano Ghirlanda, Psychology, received a $447,994 grant from the National Science Foundation, for “Collaborative Research: Multi-ancestor Coalescent Theory for Cultural Evolution.”
  • Brian Gibney, Chemistry, received a $435,195 award from the National Institutes of Health, for “Thermodynamics of Coupled Binding of Zn(II) and DNA to a Zinc Finger Tumor Suppressor.”
  • Alexander Greer, Chemistry, received a four-year $1,552,120 National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health SC1 grant, for “Site-specific Delivery of Photosensitizer and Singlet Oxygen in vivo.”
  • Yehuda L. Klein, Economics, was awarded $150,000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 2, for “Long-term Energy and Emissions Savings Potential in New York City Buildings.”
  • Tania León, Conservatory of Music, was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
  • Linda Louis, Early Childhood Education/Art Education, won the Kathy Connors Award, presented by the National Art Education Association, for career achievement in teaching.
  • Robert Lurz, Philosophy, received $6,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities, for “Mindreading Animals: The Controversy Over What Animals Know About Other Minds.”
  • Richard Magliozzo, Chemistry, won a National Institutes of Health Bridge Award of $509,394, for “Catalysis of Isoniazid Action by M. tuberculosis KatG.”
  • Klara Marton, Speech Communication Arts and Sciences, received a two-year grant from The European Union and the European Social Fund, TÁMOP, for “Assessment of Cognitive Functions in Children With Intellectual Disabilities.”
  • Mojúbàolú Olufúnké Okome, Political Science, won the Amistad Award for contributions to international education.
  • Irina Patkanian, Television and Radio, received a $25,000 grant from the Jerome Foundation, to write, direct, and produce the documentary feature Living Here: A Kamchatka Tale.“
  • Irina Patkanian, Television and Radio, received a $29,000 New York State Council on the Arts grant (Individual Artist/Film), to write, direct, and produce an animated documentary about the Mozambican civil war.
  • Diogo Pinheiro, Mathematics, received two three-year grants from Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (Portugal): one for “Exploring Pathogen Diversity in Disease Epidemiology and Vaccine Research ($200,000), and the other for “Randomness in Deterministic Dynamical Systems and Applications” ($186,000).
  • Juergen Polle, Biology, received two grants from the U.S. Department of Energy, for “Development of Pollution Prevention Technologies” and “National Alliance for Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts—An Algal Biofuels Research Consortium.”
  • Wayne Powell, Earth and Environmental Sciences, and Eleanor Miele, Secondary Education, received a $147,397 grant from the National Science Foundation–Geoscience Education, for “Building Hybrid Communities of Practice to Benefit Urban Geoscience Students Through Sustained Geoscientist-Teacher Partnerships.”
  • Laura A. Rabin, Psychology, received a three-year $471,000 National Institutes of Health SC2 Award, for “Cognitive Complaints in a Diverse Cohort of Elders: Novel Assessment Approaches.”
  • Jean Eddy Saint Paul, Sociology, received a two-year $15,000 research award from the Mexican Secretariat of Public Education.
  • Jessica Siegel, English, received a $1,000 McCormick Foundation grant, for “We’re Not Dead Yet: The Fall—and Potential Rise—of High School Newspapers in New York City.”
  • Jessica Siegel, English, was named Outstanding Journalism Educator by the Deadline Club, New York City Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
  • Peter Taubman, Secondary Education, won the Outstanding Book Award from both the American Educational Research Association Division B and the American Association for Teaching and Curriculum, and the Critics Choice Book Award, from the American Educational Studies Association, for Teaching by Numbers.
  • Gabriel Yarmish, Computer and Information Science, received a $16,666 National Science Foundation Collaborative Award for “A Gaming Environment to Teach Students About Complex Distributed Systems.
  • Neng-Fa Zhou, Computer and Information Science, received a three-year National Science Foundation grant, for “An Integrated Parallel Constraint Programming Platform for Combinatorial Search Problems.”

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