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.
Eric Allender, professor of computer science (NB), was named a 2006 fellow for his contributions to computational complexity theory by the Association for Computing Machinery. He was among 41 members recognized for contributions to the practical and theoretical aspects of computing and information technology.
Karima Bennoune, associate professor of law at Rutgers' School of Law–Newark, has been selected by the Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Minority Groups as the winner of the 2006 Derrick A. Bell, Jr. Award. The award honors a junior faculty member who through activism, mentoring, colleagueship, teaching, and scholarship has made an extraordinary contribution to legal education, the legal system, or social justice.
Christopher Brown, professor of history (NB), received the American Historical Association best book prize for his book, Moral Capital: Foundation of British Abolitionism." (The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Virginia, 2006).
Esther Canty-Barnes, clinical professor and director of the special education clinic, was appointed to the CVS All Kids Can Advisory Council, which has been established to help guide CVS's program to support children with disabilities.
Bruce Clarke, a specialist in turfgrass pathology (NB), has been named a fellow of the Crop Science Society of America by the American Society of Agronomy-Soil Science Society of America-CSSA. The fellowship is the highest honor the society bestows on its members, placing Clarke among an elite group of agricultural researchers around the world.
Dorothy Sue Cobble has been awarded a Charles Warren Fellowship from Harvard University for next year, where she will be in residence at the Charles Warren Center. 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.
Eric Davis, professor of political science (NB), has been named a Carnegie Scholar for 2007-2008 by the Carnegie Corporation of New York City. The fellowship will fund a project titled, "Islam and the Formation of Political Identities in Post Ba'thist Iraq: Implications for a Democratic Transition."
Doug Doyle and Allan Wolper, professors of journalism and media studies (Newark), were jointly honored by the New York Association of Black Journalists with a first-place award in public affairs for their radio broadcast on WBGO of an interview with former New York Times journalist Earl Caldwell. WBGO is an award-winning National Public Radio station based in Newark. Caldwell is famous for standing up to the FBI in 1968, when he refused to cooperate with the agency about the Black Panthers, the radical group which he covered exclusively for The New York Times. The live interview can be heard at http://www.wbgo.org/news/journal/archive.asp?date=2/16/2007.
Richard Falk, professor of mathematics (NB), is the recipient of the 2007 Daniel Gorenstein Memorial Award, given each year to a Rutgers faculty member noted for outstanding scholarly achievement and exceptional service to the university. The award was established in 1993 to commemorate Professor Gorenstein’s innovative mathematical research, his skillful and enthusiastic exposition of his field, and his devoted service to Rutgers. An awards ceremony and lecture will take place Tuesday, April 24, at 5 p.m. at the Zimmerli Museum.
Lloyd Gardner, research professor of history (NB), received the American Historical Association Award for Scholarly Distinction, for lifetime achievement. His most recent book is The Case That Never Dies: The Lindbergh Kidnapping (Rutgers University Press, 2004).
Fern Goodhart, director of the Department of Health Education (NB), has received the American College Health Association’s Edward Hitchcock Award for 2007. The award commemorates the work of Edward C. Hitchcock Jr., M.D., who founded the first college health service at Amherst College in 1861, and recognizes outstanding contributions to advancing the health of all college students.
Conrad Herwig, assistant professor of music at Mason Gross School of the Arts, was awarded the 2006 Paul Acket Award for Artist Deserving Wider Recognition at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam. Formerly known as the Bird Award, the prize is given to an artist who, according to a jury, deserves the attention of broader audiences.
Kynan Johns, director of orchestral activities at Mason Gross School of the Arts, stepped in for an injured Maestro Lorin Maazel in December to conduct Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the new Palau de les Arts in Valencia, Spain. Johns held a four-month position there as assistant conductor to Maazel while on sabbatical last year.
Daniel Kelemen, associate professor of political science (NB), has been named a member of the faculty of the School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, for 2007-2008. Kelemen will, among other activities, complete work on his second book, Suing for Europe:The Rise of Adversarial Legalism in the European Union.
Mitchell Koza, dean, School of Business–Camden, was cited in a recent issue of the Academy of Management Review as the author of one of the five most influential papers in the area of absorptive capacity. The journal evaluated 289 papers and judged Koza’s The Coevolution of Strategic Alliances, originally published in Organization Science in 1998, as one of the top five in terms of its impact on scholarship in that discipline.
Anant Madabhushi, assistant professor of biomedical engineering (NB), has been awarded the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation Early Career Translation Research Award in Biomedical Engineering for the his proposal “Automated Detection of Prostate Cancer from High Resolution MRI,” in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania. He is developing computer-aided diagnosis methods for early detection of prostate cancer.
Michael McKeon, professor of English (NB), was awarded the Professional and Publishing Award in Communication and Cultural Studies by the Association for American Publishers for his book The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and the Division of Knowledge (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005).
Yaw M. Mensah, acting associate dean for faculty and research (NB), and Rong Yang, a doctoral advisee of Mensah, received the 2006 MBAA International McGraw-Hill/Irwin Distinguished Paper Award at the North American Accounting Society meeting in Chicago.
Richard E. Miller, professor of English (NB) and executive director of the Plangere Writing Center, was awarded the James N. Britton Award for Inquiry within the English Language Arts by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) for his book Writing at the End of the World (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005).