
Stony Brook University’s award-winning faculty were recently honored at the 21st annual Faculty Achievement Dinner. The dinner, hosted by the Office of the Provost, paid tribute to distinguished faculty who have received prestigious awards from July 1, 2012 through June 30, 2013. These awards recognize SBU’s world-renowned faculty for teaching, research and scholarly excellence.
President Samuel L. Stanley Jr., MD, and Dennis N. Assanis, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Vice President for Brookhaven Affairs, welcomed many of the 73 honorees to the Old Field Club to highlight their accomplishments. In addition, two honorees — Patricia Wright, Professor of Biological Anthropology, and Meave Leakey, renowned anthropologist and research professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Turkana Basin Institute — shared details on the work that resulted in their awards.
Here are the faculty who were honored for their academic excellence this year:
Anatomical Sciences
David Krause
Honorary Doctorate, University of Antananarivo, Madagascar
Anesthesiology
Kenneth Rosenfeld
2012 Excellence in Innovation Award, Advisory Board Company
Anthropology
Patricia Wright
Member, American Philosophical Society
Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Eugene Feinberg
2012 IBM Faculty Award
James Glimm
Fellow, American Mathematical Society
Alan Tucker
Fellow, American Mathematical Society
Art
Michele Bogart
Terra Foundation Visiting Professorship, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
Asian and Asian American Studies
Dongmei Zeng
Outstanding Lecturer, Stony Brook University

Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Vitaly Citovsky
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Rolf Sternglanz
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Biomedical Engineering
Shmuel Einav
2012 Mifal HaPayis Landau Prize for Scientific Research
C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics
Rouven Essig
Sloan Research Fellowship, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Leonardo Rastelli
Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Simons Fellow, Simons Foundation
Chemistry
Clare Grey
2013 Günther Laukien Prize
Fernando Raineri
Outstanding Lecturer, Stony Brook University
Jonathan Rudick
Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, National Science Foundation
Kenneth Takeuchi
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Jin Wang
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Stanislaus Wong
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Chemistry/Materials Science and Engineering
Esther Takeuchi
E.V. Murphree Award in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, American Chemical Society
College of Business
Herbert Lewis
2012 Excellence in Innovation Award, Advisory Board Company
Thomas Sexton
2012 Excellence in Innovation Award, Advisory Board Company
Continuous Quality Improvement
Melissa Dolan
2012 Excellence in Innovation Award, Advisory Board Company
Computer Science
Leo Bachmair
Logic in Computer Science Test-of-Time Award, ACM/IEEE
Michael Bender
Imre Simon Test-of-Time Award, Latin American Symposium on Theoretical Informatics
Arie Kaufman
Inducted into the Long Island Technology Hall of Fame
Michael Kifer
President, Rules and Reasoning Association
Ecology and Evolution
Walter Eanes
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Douglas Futuyma
Joseph Leidy Award for Research Achievement, Academy of Natural Sciences, Drexel University
Lev Ginzburg
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Jessica Gurevitch
Fellow, Ecological Society of America
Heather Lynch
Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, National Science Foundation
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Emre Salman
Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, National Science Foundation
Emergency Medicine
Frederick Schiavone
2013 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Lead Award, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
European Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Luigi Fontanella
I Murazzi Prize, Cultural Association of “Elogio della Poesia”
Irene Marchegiani
Outstanding Lecturer, Stony Brook University
Mario Mignone
Distinguished Service Award, American Association of Teachers of Italian
Geosciences/Mineral Physics Institute
Robert Liebermann
Edward A. Flinn III Award, American Geophysical Union
History
Jared Farmer
Fellowship, Tanner Humanities Center, University of Utah
Paul Gootenberg
Distinguished Professor
Research Director, SSRC Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship, “Global Commodity Studies” 2013
Sara Lipton
Visiting Fellow, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Wolf Schäfer
Berlin Prize Fellowship, American Academy in Berlin
Linguistics
Mark Aronoff
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Materials Science and Engineering
Alexander Orlov
Fellow, The Royal Society of Chemistry
Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, National Science Foundation
Selected to Participate in the National Academy of Engineering’s 19th Annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
Mathematics
H. Blaine Lawson
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Radu Laza
Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, National Science Foundation
Mathematics/Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Dennis Sullivan
Honorary Membership, London Mathematical Society
Mechanical Engineering
Dennis Assanis
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fu-Pen Chiang
National Science Council Lecturer, Taiwan
Jahangir Rastegar
Long Island Patent of the Year (in category of Innovation in Energy and the Environment), Long Island Technology Hall of Fame
Lei Zuo
Award, “Best Application of Energy Harvesting,” Energy Harvesting and Storage USA 2012 Conference
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Janet Hearing
Aesculapius Award for Excellence in Teaching, Stony Brook University School of Medicine
Erich Mackow
Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology
Eckard Wimmer
2012 Robert Koch Gold Medal, Robert Koch Foundation
Music
Sheila Silver
Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Philosophy
Timothy Hyde
Outstanding Lecturer, Stony Brook University
Eva Kittay
Inaugural Martin R. Lebowitz and Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize, Phi Beta Kappa with American Philosophical Society
Physics and Astronomy
Dmitri Kharzeev
Humboldt Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
James Lattimer
Distinguished Professor
Psychiatry and Behavioral Science
Gabrielle Carlson
Agnes Purcell McGavin Award for Prevention, American Psychiatric Association
Psychology
Marci Lobel
Honorary Professorship, Queens University, Belfast, Ireland
Aprajita Mohanty
“Rising Star,” Association for Psychological Science
Greg Hajcak Proudfit
2012 Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions, Association of Psychological Science
Award for Distinguished Early Career Contributions to Psychophysiology, Society for Psychophysiological Research
Radiation Oncology
Yusuf Hannun
Kuwait Prize, Kuwait Foundation for Advancement of Sciences
School of Dental Medicine
Ray Williams
Paul Goldhaber Award, Harvard School of Dental Medicine
School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
Cindy Lee
Inaugural Lecture, Marie Tharp Lecture Series for Ocean Research, 2013, GEOMAR
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel
School of Medicine
Kenneth Kaushansky
2013 Ernest Beutler Lecture and Prize, American Society of Hematology
School of Nursing
Marijean Buhse
2013 Research Award, International Organization of Multiple Sclerosis Association
Lori Escallier
Five Year Continuous Service Award with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Outstanding Service to the New Careers in Nursing Scholarship Program, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing
Sociology
Catherine Marrone
Outstanding Lecturer, Stony Brook University
Turkana Basin Institute/Anthropology
Meave Leakey
Foreign Associate, National Academy of Sciences
Writing Program
Wilbur Farley
Outstanding Lecturer, Stony Brook University
Thomas Tousey
Outstanding Lecturer, Stony Brook University
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