2013
Jennifer Adams, Secondary Education, received a $133,051 award from the National Science Foundation to investigate the impact of formal-informal collaborations on teach identity development over time.
Jennifer Basil, Biology, received $10,000 from the Grass Foundation, for "Can the Chambered Nautilus Detect Sound?"
Gregory S. Boutis, Physics, was awarded a four-year $1,099,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health, for "NMR Studies of the Effects of Mode of Birth on Vaginal Elastin."
Brett F. Branco, Earth and Environmental Sciences, received $32,428 from the National Park Service (Northeast Cooperative Ecosystems Study Unit), for "Response of Benthic Infauna to Marsh Restoration."
Brett F. Branco, Earth and Environmental Sciences, received $50,000 from the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement, for "Sentinels of Shoreline Change: A Citizen Science Field Observation Program."
Jillian Cavanaugh, Anthropology and Archaeology, received a Cultural Anthropology Senior Research Grant from the National Science Foundation.
Stephen Chester, Anthropology and Archaeology, received $700 from the Doris O. and Samuel P. Welles Fund, University of California Museum of Paleontology, for "First Postcranial Fossils of Purgatorius."
Sarah J. Christman, Film, won the Jury Award at the Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival, for Gowanus Canal.
Elizabeth Chua, Psychology, received a National Institutes of Health SC2 Award, for "Cognitive and Neural Bases of Memory Confidence and Accuracy."
Carol Connell, Business Management, received an Institute for New Economic Thinking grant, for "Monetary Reform and the Bellagio Group: Selected Letters and Papers of Fritz Machlup, Robert Triffin and William Fellner."
Maria Contel, Chemistry, received a three-year $471,000 National Institute of Health SCORE grant, for "Organogold Phosphorus-containing Compounds as Anticancer Agents."
Maria Contel, Chemistry, received a four year $1,413,000 National Institute of Health SCORE grant, for "Titanium-gold-based Chemotherapeutics for Prostate and Kidney Cancer."
Beth Ferholt, Early Childhood Education/Art Education, received a research grant from the University of Jönköping (Sweden), for "Playworld and Exploratory Learning in Preschool."
Beth Ferholt, Early Childhood Education/Art Education, received a Riksbankens Jubileums Gran from the, Swedish Humanities and Social Sciences Foundation, for "The Creation of an International, Interdisciplinary Research Network for the Study of the Relationship of Play and Learning Through Playworlds: A Response to an International Shift in Focus Towards Learning in Preschools."
Brenda Foley, Theater, received a $2,500 faculty development grant from Marlboro College to research 19th-century asylums.
Katherine Fry, Television and Radio, received the John F. Wilson Award for scholarship and exemplary service from the New York State Communication Association.
Akiko Fuse, Speech Communication Arts and Sciences, won the Award for Continuing Education from the American Speech–Language–Hearing Association.
Amy E. Hughes, Theater, won the Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, from the American Society for Theatre Research.
Amy E. Ikui, Biology, received a four-year $300,000 National Institutes of Health SC3 grant.
Laura J. Juszczak, Chemistry, received a four-year grant from the National Institutes of Health, for "Edge-on/Face-on: Trp Tripeptides Model Residue Interactions in Proteins."
Tania León, Conservatory of Music, won the Victor Herbert Award, from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
Peter Lipke, Biology, received a grant from the National Institutes of Health, for "A Role for Amyloids in Force-dependent Activation of Cell Adhesion."
John F. Marra, Earth and Environmental Sciences, was awarded the Antarctic Service Medal from the U.S. Department of Defense.
Theodore Muth, Biology, received a $114,928 grant from the United States Department of Agriculture, for "Soil Microbial Communities in the Urban Environment."
Theodore Muth, Biology, received a $538,815 grant from the National Science Foundation, for "Urban Microbial Community Dynamics: A Classroom Approach."
Vinit Parmar, Film, won the Award of Excellence, Canada Film Festival. and the Award of Excellence, Broadcast Education Association Festival of Media Arts, and was nominated for Best Short Documentary nomination, Beloit International Film Festival, for Quest for Energy.
Theodore Raphan, Computer and Information Science, received a three-year $176,625 grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), for "Vestibular Control of the Vasovagal Response."
Mariana Regalado, Library, received a Google Maps Engine Grant.
Anjana D. Saxena, Biology, received a two-year National Institutes of Health Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Award, for "Role of Nucleolin in Regulating mRNA Stability During DNA Damage Response (DDR)."
Karen B. Stern Gabbay, History, received a National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship, for "Jewish Graffiti in the Ancient Mediterranean World."
Jeanne Theoharis, Political Science, won the Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians, for The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks.
Noson S. Yanofsky, Computer and Information Science, won the PROSE Award for best popular science and popular mathematics book, given by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers, for The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Math, and Logic Cannot Tell Us.
