Stony Brook University’s award-winning faculty were recently honored at the 22nd annual Faculty Achievement Dinner earlier in February. The dinner, hosted by the Office of the Provost, paid tribute to distinguished faculty who have received prestigious awards from July 1, 2013 through June 30, 2014. These awards recognize SBU’s world-renowned faculty for teaching, research and scholarly excellence.
Dennis N. Assanis, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Vice President for Brookhaven Affairs, welcomed many of the 101 honorees to Lombardi’s on the Sound to highlight their accomplishments. In addition, two honorees — David Bynum, Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, and Ken A. Dill, Distinguished Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy and Department of Chemistry — shared details on the work that resulted in their awards.
Below are the faculty who were honored for their academic excellence this year:
Anatomical Sciences
Russell Mittermeier, Finalist, 2014 Indianapolis Prize
Anthropology
John Shea, Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities
Patricia Wright, Winner, 2014 Indianapolis Prize; Distinguished Service Professor, SUNY
Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Bakhtavar Hagedorn, Outstanding Lecturer Award, Stony Brook University
Joseph S.B. Mitchell, Distinguished Professor, SUNY
Asian and Asian American Studies
William Chittick, Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Outstanding Title in Religion for Divine Love
Biochemistry and Cell Biology
David Bynum, Distinguished Service Professor
Vitaly Citovsky, Distinguished Professor, SUNY
Susan Erster, Outstanding Lecturer, Stony Brook University
Nancy Hollingsworth, Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
Erwin London, Distinguished Professor, SUNY; Schroepher Medal for Steroid or Sterols Research, American Oil Chemists Society; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Harvard Lyman, Chancellor’s Award for Faculty Service
Biomedical Informatics
Fusheng Wang, National Science Foundation CAREER Award
Biomedical Engineering
Mary Frame McMahon, President, Microcirculatory Society
Clinton Rubin, Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Lilianne Mujica-Parodi Strey, Chair, Global Study on Neuroimaging, NIH/NSF/DoD Task Force on Neuroimaging in the 21st Century
Biomedical Engineering/Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology
Gábor Balázsi, Scialog Fellow, Research Corporation for Science Advancement and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Cancer Center
Yusuf Hannun, Doctor of Humane Letters, American University of Beirut
Center for Science and Mathematics Education
Linda Padwa, Outstanding Lecturer, Stony Brook University
Chemistry
Benjamin Chu, Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
Nancy Goroff, Award for Creative Research & Applications of Iodine Chemistry, American Chemical Society
Benjamin Hsiao, Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
Stephen Koch, Fellow, American Chemical Society
Scott Laughlin, National Science Foundation EAGER Award for BRAIN Initiative Research
Susan Oatis, Outstanding Lecturer, Stony Brook University
Iwao Ojima, Award for Creative Work in Fluorine Chemistry, American Chemical Society
Fernando Raineri, Outstanding Lecturer, Stony Brook University
Esther Takeuchi, Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
C.N. Yang Institute/Physics
Alfred Goldhaber, Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities
College of Business
Carl Allocca, Outstanding Lecturer, Stony Brook University
Richard Chan, William H. Newman Award, Academy of Management
Computer Science
Leman Akoglu, NSF Career Award 2014
Phillipa Gill, Early Career Award, National Science Foundation
Xianfeng (David) Gu, 2013 Morningside Gold Medal of Applied Mathematics, International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians
Arie Kaufman, NSF Collaborative Research Award
Michael Kifer, 20-Year Test of Time Award, Association for Logic Programming
Creative Writing and Literature
Jules Feiffer, Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Cultural Analysis and Theory
Robert Harvey, Distinguished Professor, SUNY
Ecology and Evolution
Dianna Padilla, Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Emergency Medicine
Fred Schiavone, Chair-Elect of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Group on Resident Affairs (GRA)
English
Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Whiting Writers’ Award, The Whiting Foundation; PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, PEN American Center
Benedict Robinson, Short-term Fellowship, Folger Shakespeare Library
European Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Peter Caravetta, Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities
Luigi Fontanella, Camaiore Prize, Municipality of Camaiore (Lucca), Tuscany
Sophie Raynard, Edited Book Award (Honor Book), Children’s Literature Association
History
Alix Cooper, Senior Research Fellowship, European Research Council
Jared Farmer, Hiett Prize in the Humanities, The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture; John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize, Foundation for Landscape Studies
Lawrence Frohman, Fulbright Award, German-American Fulbright Commission; Summer Research Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities
Christopher Sellers, Abel Wolman Award, American Public Works Association
Shobana Shankar, Multi-Country Research Fellowship, Council for American Overseas Research Centers
Kathleen Wilson, Stanton Avery Distinguished Fellowship, The Huntington Library, Art Collection and Botanical Gardens
Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology
Ken Dill, Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Linguistics
Mark Aronoff, Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Ellen Broselow, Fellow, Linguistic Society of America
Materials Science and Engineering
Pelagia-Irene Gouma, Richard M. Fulrath Award, The American Ceramic Society
Alexander Orlov, Kavli Fellow, National Academy of Sciences
Mathematics
James Simons, Fellow, National Academy of Sciences
Dennis Sullivan, Balzan Prize for Mathematics
Song Sun, Sloan Research Fellowship, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Mechanical Engineering
Qing (Cindy) Chang, National Science Foundation Early CAREER Award
Thomas Cubaud, National Science Foundation CAREER Award
William Worek, Edwin F. Church Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Lei Zuo, 2014 SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award, SAE International; 2014 Best Award in Structures and Structural Dynamics, ASME
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
James Bliska, Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Training Award, Molecular and Cell Biology of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Patrick Hearing, Elected to Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee, National Institutes of Health
Eckard Wimmer, Loeffler-Frosch Medal, German Society of Virology
Music
Carol Wincenc, Lifetime Achievement Award, Society of Arts and Letters
Neurological Surgery/Cerebrovascular Center
Henry Woo, Fellow, American College of Surgeons
Oral Biology and Pathology
Israel Kleinberg, 2014 IADR (International Association for Dental Research) Distinguished Scientist Award in Research in Dental Caries
Pediatrics
Richard Fine, 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award, International Pediatric Transplant Association
Sharon Nachman, 2014 PI for INPAACT Network
Margaret Parker, Master of Critical Care Medicine, Society of Critical Care Medicine
Pharmacological Sciences
Arthur Grollman, Princess Takamatsu International Lecturer 2014, Princess Takamatsu Cancer Research Fund
Philosophy
Eva Kittay, Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation; Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities
Physics and Astronomy
Chang Kee Jung, Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities
Dmitri Kharzeev, Severo Ochoa Distinguished Visiting Professor, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Laszlo Mihaly, Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Vasili Semenov, IEEE Council on Superconductivity Award
Political Science
Leonie Huddy, Nevitt Sanford Award, International Society of Political Psychology
Preventive Medicine
Stephen Post, Elected Fellow, Royal Society of Medicine, London
Preventive Medicine/Program in Public Health
Jaymie Meliker, Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
Preventive Medicine/Program in Public Health/English
Andrew Flescher, Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) Award in Theology and Religious Studies, American Association of Publishers
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Gabrielle Carlson, Elected Member of the Governing Council, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Max Fink, Lifetime Achievement Award, International Society for ECT and Neurostimulation
Psychology
Matthew Lerner, Young Investigator Award, International Society for Autism Research
John Robinson, Chancellor’s Award for Faculty Service
Radiology/Emergency Medicine/Medicine
Michael Poon, Inaugural Charles A. Gargano Chair in Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging
School of Health Technology and Management
Brooke Ellison, Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum
School of Medicine
Kenneth Kaushansky, Distinguished Professor, SUNY
School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
Kurt Bretsch, Outstanding Lecturer, Stony Brook University
Demian Chapman, 2014 Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation, The PEW Charitable Trusts
Daniel Knopf, Wiley Research Fellow, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Carl Safina, Finalist, 2014 Indianapolis Prize
Jie Yu, NSF Career Award
School of Nursing
Pat Bruckenthal, Fellow, American Academy of Nursing
Terri Cavaliere, Lifetime Achievement Award, National Association of Neonatal Nurses
Lori Escallier, Six Year Award, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for the RWJ Scholars Program
Corrine Jurgens, Fellow, American Academy of Nursing
Simons Center for Geometry and Physics/Mathematics
Sir Simon Donaldson, Inaugural Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, created by Yuri Milner and Mark Zuckerberg
Sociology
Michael Schwartz, Distinguished Teaching Professor, SUNY
Theatre Arts
Annie Baker, 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Drama
Mallory Catlett, Obie Award, The Village Voice
— By Shelley Catalano
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