Focus publishes a column on a periodic basis that recognizes significant accomplishments of members of the Rutgers community. Faculty and staff who wish to be recognized for achievement, or those who would like to note the achievements of others, may submit a notice of their awards or honors through the Submit News form.
Akinbiyi Akinlabi, associate professor of linguistics, School of Arts and Sciences, received the Silver Jubilee Award from the Linguistic Association of Nigeria in recognition of his contributions to the development of Nigerian languages.
Associate Professor Michael Alles, Professor Alexander Kogan, Professor Miklos Vasarhelyi, and Assistant Professor J. Donald Warren Jr., Department of Accounting, Business Ethics, and Information Systems, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick, received the Bright Idea Award in Accounting, sponsored by the Stillman School of Business at Seton Hall University and the NJPRO Foundation, for their article “Guarding the Auditing Guards,” which was published in the Institute of Management Accountants’ Strategic Finance Journal (February 2006).
The National Academies of Practice in Nursing elected Cynthia Ayres, assistant professor, College of Nursing, as a distinguished practitioner for her contributions to health care practice.
Jennifer Austin, assistant professor, Department of Spanish and Linguistics and Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures, Newark College of Arts and Sciences, is the recipient of the Community Engagement in Teaching and Learning Award. She was recognized for her research on how the linguistic abilities of minority populations in New Jersey affect their access to educational opportunities.
Edna Baugh, assistant director, clinical administration, School of Law–Newark, was elected to the Vermont Law School Alumni Association Board.
Alok Baveja, associate professor, Department of Management, School of Business–Camden, received the Bright Idea Award in Health Care from the Stillman School of Business at Seton Hall University and the NJPRO Foundation in honor of his paper, “Medical Errors and Quality of Care: From Control to Commitment.”
Patricia Bender, director, Writing Center, Newark College of Arts and Sciences, was given the Faculty/Staff Community Service Award. She has directed the Writing Center since 1998. She is now in her second term as president of the Friends of the Newark Public Library, where she promotes literacy through outreach programs and events.
Professors David Bensman, School of Management and Labor Relations, William Rodgers III, Heldrich Center for Workforce Development, and Associate Professor Maria Boile, School of Engineering and Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation, received an NSF research grant for a study on “The Logistics Industry as an Agent of Change in the Global Economy.” The study will focus on the Port of New York and New Jersey as a case study of the impact of globalization on labor markets.
Janet Bernardin, career management specialist in New Brunswick, celebrated the 20th anniversary of the New Jersey Collegiate Career Day in June 2007, the largest career fair in New Jersey. The January 4 event attracted more than 250 employers and 3,000 job seekers – the fourth-largest candidate attendance in Career Day history.
Joseph Blasi, professor, School of Management and Labor Relations, received a fellowship in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where he is working on an economic history project on shared rewards and corporate governance.
Sherri-Ann Butterfield, associate professor, Department of Sociology, Newark College of Arts and Sciences, was named a fellow of the Social Science Research Council for the 2006–07 academic year. She will be working on the National Science Foundation–funded “Children of Immigrants in Schools” project, which investigates the role of educational institutions and policy in the integration of West Indian and South Asian immigrant students in Great Britain and the United States.
Gyorgy Buzsaki, professor, Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, received the James S. McDonnell Foundation Scholars Award, including $600,000 over six years.
John Cantwell, professor, Department Management and Global Business, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick, was elected vice president of the Academy of International Business for 2006–08, and was named program chair for that academy’s June 2008 conference in Milan.
Ted Chase, professor, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, received the Peter Homack Award of the New Jersey section of American Water Resources Association. The award recognizes those who have made outstanding contributions toward a multidisciplinary understanding or management of water resources in New Jersey.
Dorothy Sue Cobble, professor, School of Management and Labor Relations, was awarded a nationally competitive Charles Warren Fellowship from Harvard University’s Warren Center, where she is in residence for one year. Her research project focuses on the contributions of Samuel Gompers and other labor leaders to the establishment of the International Labour Organization and the formulation of universal labor and human rights.
Barbara Cooper, professor of history and director, Center for African Studies, School of Arts and Sciences, received the African Studies Association Melville J. Herskovits Award for the best book published on Africa during 2006 for Evangelical Christians in the Muslim Sahel (Indiana University Press).
Research Professor Stephen Crystal, School of Social Work, and Assistant Research Professor Judith A. Lucas, both at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, received a $244,170 award in October 2007 for their project, “Patterns and Guideline Consistency of Antipsychotic Drug Use in Nursing Homes,” from the Retirement Research Foundation.
The Department of Communication in the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies ranked first in Thomson Scientific’s study of High Impact U.S. Institutions in communication research. Between 2002 and 2006, the department published 78 papers in Thomson Scientific–indexed communication journals – the most of any university in the nation.
Nancy DiTomaso, professor and chair, Department of Management and Global Business, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick, received the Making Connections Award from the Academy of Management, Organization Behavior Division, for the symposium “How, Where, and Why Diversity Matters: A Contextualized Agenda for Future Research.” The award was presented at the Academy of Management’s annual meeting, held in Philadelphia. DiTomaso also was named Outstanding Reviewer for 2007 by the associate editors of the Academy of Management Learning and Education Journal at the meeting.
Christopher Dougherty, associate dean, University College–Camden, and director, Educational Opportunity Fund, became president of the Association for Continuing Higher Education in November 2007. He previously served as president-elect for this national organization.
Jon C. Dubin, professor and director, clinical programs, School of Law–Newark, was selected by New Jersey Appleseed as the recipient of the 2007 Stanley Van Ness Leadership Award in Public Interest.
Allan Espiritu, assistant professor, Department of Art, Camden College of Arts and Sciences, received two gold awards from Create Magazine for his design of Margery Amdur’s artist catalog, identity package, and poster campaign for the Lantern Theater in Philadelphia. Amdur is an associate professor in the Department of Art, Camden College of Arts and Sciences.
Constance Finley and Eugene McElroy of the Carey Library at the School of Management and Labor Relations won the American Library Association’s John Sessions Award for service to labor. The award is named for the former American Federation of Labor/Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) co-chair of the AFL-CIO/ALA Joint Committee on Library Service to Labor Groups.
Kate Flint, professor, Department of English, School of Arts and Sciences, has been named a Fellow of the National Humanities Center for the academic year 2007–08.
H. Bruce Franklin, professor, Department of English, Newark College of Arts and Sciences, was honored at a special session of the annual American Studies Association in Philadelphia during a panel entitled “Scholar/Activist, Activist/Scholar: The Life and Work of H. Bruce Franklin.”
Tom Fulton, assistant professor, Department of English, School of Arts and Sciences, received a 2008–09 NEH Faculty Research Fellowship. Fulton will undertake the final stages of research and revision of his book manuscript, entitled Milton’s Revolutionary Reading.
Mary Gatta, director of workforce policy and research, Center for Women and Work, School of Management and Labor Relations, was elected to a three-year council position for the Sociological Practice Section of the American Sociological Association in July 2007.
Carla Giaudrone, assistant professor, Department of Spanish, Camden College of Arts and Sciences, received honorary mention from the Uruguayan Ministry of Education and Culture in recognition of her book, La Degeneracion del 1900. Modelos esteticos-sexuales.
Howard Gillette, professor, Department of History, Camden College of Arts and Sciences, and director, Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities, received the New Jersey Historical Commission’s Richard P. McCormick Prize for best scholarly publication of the year. The award was in recognition of his book Camden after the Fall.
J. William Gillette, professor, Department of History, School of Arts and Sciences, has received a Fulbright distinguished lectureship and will occupy the Nikolay V. Sivachev Distinguished Chair in American History at Russia’s Moscow State University this spring.
Isaac Gottlieb, acting director, International Executive M.B.A. program, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick, received the Extra Mile Award – which recognizes school personnel who in some unique way distinguish themselves above and beyond the call of duty – for volunteering his time to conduct Microsoft Excel training workshops for M.B.A. students.
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David Greenberg, professor, Department of Journalism and Media Studies, School of Communication, Information and Library Studies, was honored by the Washington Post for his book, Calvin Coolidge. The book is listed among the 100 best nonfiction books of 2007.
Kim Guadagno, instructor, School of Law–Newark, was elected Sheriff of Monmouth County, the first woman to hold the position.
Steven Handel, professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, has been elected an honorary member of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Handel was cited for his work meshing modern ecological restoration science with landscape design.
Rutgers–New Brunswick Art Librarian Sara Harrington was awarded the Art Libraries Society of North America/New York Chapter inaugural Sherman Clarke Professional Development Award. This award will allow Harrington to pursue her research on Shaker art and material culture and funds a short research trip to the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Library in Maine.
Mary S. Hartman, university professor and director, Institute for Women’s Leadership, was recently named president-elect of Executive Women of New Jersey, which supports women at the highest levels of business, government, and the professions. In June, on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, meeting this year at the University of Minnesota, Hartman and her then–Douglass College colleague, American historian Lois Banner, will be honored as the “founding mothers” of this major conference, whose first meeting was held at Douglass in 1973.
Jeannette Haviland-Jones, professor, department of psychology, director of the Human Emotions Laboratory; Terry McGuire, associate professor, vice chair of department of genetics, and Claire McInerney, associate professor, director of the information technology and informatics program ,SCILS, have been named senior fellows of the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement. Haviland-Jones and McGuire will coordinate the Consortium for the Assessment for Student Achievement for NCSCE, while McInerney will provide leadership for the Controlled Vocabularies Project within the Digital Library Program.
Dorothy L. Hodgson, professor, Department of Anthropology, School of Arts and Sciences, and director, Institute for Research on Women, was recently named president-elect of the Association for Feminist Anthropology. With over 800 members, this group promotes feminist scholarship in all four fields of anthropology through its publications, sponsored panels, fellowships, awards, website, outreach, and mentoring.
Allan Horwitz, professor, Department of Sociology, and dean of social sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, received the Leonard W. Pearlin Award for outstanding lifetime contributions to the sociology of mental health from the Mental Health Section of the American Sociological Association.
Carolina Ibáñez-Ventoso, research associate, Department of Life Science, School of Arts and Science, received the 2007 American Federation on Aging Research and GE Health Care Junior Investigator Award for Excellence in Biomarker Research for her work investigating how microRNAs affect the aging process.
Susan Jackson, professor, School of Management and Labor Relations, was elected by her peers vice president for the Academy of Management, the main professional body for business and management professors around the world. She will be program chair for the academy’s next annual meeting, which attracts approximately 7,000 academics, graduate students, and practitioners.
Frieder Jaekle, assistant professor, Department of Chemistry, Newark College of Arts and Sciences, was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, which recognizes those who have demonstrated excellence early in their careers. Jaekle’s work includes the development of new materials that provide brighter and sharper alternatives to the current plasma and liquid crystal display technology used in monitors.
Janet Jones, senior career counseling officer in New Brunswick, spearheaded the establishment of a Rutgers chapter of Delta Epsilon Iota, an academic honor society with a career focus including 30 chapters around the country. With 675 members in the initial class, Rutgers has one of the largest chapters, of which Janet is serving as adviser.
Rachel Jones, assistant professor, College of Nursing, was the 2007 Tribute to Nurses Award honoree for a nurse educator by The New York Times. She also received the Provost’s Award for Community Engagement in Research for demonstrating ways to transform nursing knowledge into innovative approaches to the public health needs in Newark and surrounding communities.