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 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.
- Kennet E. Flores, assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences, received $160,565 from the National Science Foundation for "Petrology and Geochemistry—Collaborative Research: Mantle metasomatism during serpentinization in subduction zones: Insights from in-situ boron isotopes."
- 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.
- Assistant Professor of Health and Nutrition Sciences Melissa Fuster Rivera received a Health Disparities Loan Repayment Award from the National Institutes of Health/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
