2010
Kathleen Axen, Health and Nutrition Sciences, received a grant from the National Institutes of Health, for "Metabolic Effects of Very Low-Carbohydrate Weight Reduction Diets on Obese Rats."
Rebecca A. Boger, Earth and Environmental Sciences, received $9,988 from the U.S. National Park Service, for the Jamaica Bay BioBlitz.
Gregory Boutis, Physics, received a $941,014 award from the National Institutes of Health, for "Probing Dynamics of Water in Elastin by Q-Space Imaging and Multiple Quantum NMR."
Brett F. Branco, Rebecca A. Boger, and Wayne Powell, Earth and Environmental Sciences, and Eleanor Miele, Secondary Education, received a $36,650 OEDG Planning Grant from the National Science Foundation, for "Partnership for a Place-Based Geoscience Experience for Urban Students."
Stephen Chester, Anthropology and Archaeology, received an $800 Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research and a $1,480 American Society of Mammalogists Grants-in-Aid of Research, for "The Ancestral Euarchontan and the Origin of Primates."
Stephen Chester, Anthropology and Archaeology, received $13,933 from the National Science Foundation: Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, and a $13,092 Leakey Foundation General Research Grant, for "Origin and Early Evolutionary History of Primates."
Stephen Chester, Anthropology and Archaeology, received $784 from the Doris O. and Samuel P. Welles Fund, University of California Museum of Paleontology, for "Early Evolutionary History of Primates."
Laurel Cooley, Mathematics, received a $400,000 grant from Math and Science Partnership (MSP), the New York State Department of Education. for MetroMath@CUNY.
Constantin Crânganu, Earth and Environmental Sciences, received a two-year $296,881 grant from the Department of Energy, for "Carbon Dioxide Sealing Capacity: Textural or Compositional Controls?"
Paisley Currah, Political Science, received a Small Research Grant Award, from The Williams Institute's Small Grants Program, for "Administrating Sex: Investigating How Federal Agencies Develop Criteria for Sex Reclassification."
Lesley Davenport, Chemistry, received a National Institutes of Health-MBRS SCORE Grant, for "Conformational Stability and Dynamics of G-Quadruplexed DNA and Ligand Interactions."
Jason K. Eckardt, Conservatory of Music, received an Alice M. Ditson Fund at Columbia University grant for the recording of "Undersong" on Mode Records.
Baila Epstein, Speech Communication Arts and Sciences, received a Research Grant for New Investigators from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation, for "Assessment of Error-monitoring in Children With Specific Language Impairment."
Dan Eshel, Biology, received a $39,580 award from the National Institutes of Health, for "Signaling Pathways and Microtubule Function."
Yu Gao, Psychology, won the Young Experimental Scholar Award from the Academy of Experimental Criminology.
Stefano Ghirlanda, Psychology, received a $447,994 grant from the National Science Foundation, for "Collaborative Research: Multi-ancestor Coalescent Theory for Cultural Evolution."
Brian Gibney, Chemistry, received a $435,195 award from the National Institutes of Health, for "Thermodynamics of Coupled Binding of Zn(II) and DNA to a Zinc Finger Tumor Suppressor."
Alexander Greer, Chemistry, received a four-year $1,552,120 National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health SC1 grant, for "Site-specific Delivery of Photosensitizer and Singlet Oxygen in vivo."
Yehuda L. Klein, Economics, was awarded $150,000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 2, for "Long-term Energy and Emissions Savings Potential in New York City Buildings."
Tania León, Conservatory of Music, was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Linda Louis, Early Childhood Education/Art Education, won the Kathy Connors Award, presented by the National Art Education Association, for career achievement in teaching.
Robert Lurz, Philosophy, received $6,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities, for "Mindreading Animals: The Controversy Over What Animals Know About Other Minds."
Richard Magliozzo, Chemistry, won a National Institutes of Health Bridge Award of $509,394, for "Catalysis of Isoniazid Action by M. tuberculosis KatG."
Klara Marton, Speech Communication Arts and Sciences, received a two-year grant from The European Union and the European Social Fund, TÁMOP, for "Assessment of Cognitive Functions in Children With Intellectual Disabilities."
Mojúbàolú Olufúnké Okome, Political Science, won the Amistad Award for contributions to international education.
Irina Patkanian, Television and Radio, received a $25,000 grant from the Jerome Foundation, to write, direct, and produce the documentary feature Living Here: A Kamchatka Tale."
Irina Patkanian, Television and Radio, received a $29,000 New York State Council on the Arts grant (Individual Artist/Film), to write, direct, and produce an animated documentary about the Mozambican civil war.
Diogo Pinheiro, Mathematics, received two three-year grants from Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (Portugal): one for "Exploring Pathogen Diversity in Disease Epidemiology and Vaccine Research ($200,000), and the other for "Randomness in Deterministic Dynamical Systems and Applications" ($186,000).
Juergen Polle, Biology, received two grants from the U.S. Department of Energy, for "Development of Pollution Prevention Technologies" and "National Alliance for Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts—An Algal Biofuels Research Consortium."
Wayne Powell, Earth and Environmental Sciences, and Eleanor Miele, Secondary Education, received a $147,397 grant from the National Science Foundation–Geoscience Education, for "Building Hybrid Communities of Practice to Benefit Urban Geoscience Students Through Sustained Geoscientist-Teacher Partnerships."
Laura A. Rabin, Psychology, received a three-year $471,000 National Institutes of Health SC2 Award, for "Cognitive Complaints in a Diverse Cohort of Elders: Novel Assessment Approaches."
Jean Eddy Saint Paul, Sociology, received a two-year $15,000 research award from the Mexican Secretariat of Public Education.
Jessica Siegel, English, received a $1,000 McCormick Foundation grant, for "We're Not Dead Yet: The Fall—and Potential Rise—of High School Newspapers in New York City."
Jessica Siegel, English, was named Outstanding Journalism Educator by the Deadline Club, New York City Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
Peter Taubman, Secondary Education, won the Outstanding Book Award from both the American Educational Research Association Division B and the American Association for Teaching and Curriculum, and the Critics Choice Book Award, from the American Educational Studies Association, for Teaching by Numbers.
Gabriel Yarmish, Computer and Information Science, received a $16,666 National Science Foundation Collaborative Award for "A Gaming Environment to Teach Students About Complex Distributed Systems.
Neng-Fa Zhou, Computer and Information Science, received a three-year National Science Foundation grant, for "An Integrated Parallel Constraint Programming Platform for Combinatorial Search Problems."
