2015
Rebecca A. Boger, Earth and Environmental Sciences, received $127,475 from NASA, for "GLOBE Online Training Materials for the Hydrosphere and Biosphere, NASA."
Mike Cloud, Art, received the inaugural Chiaro Award from the Headlands Center for the Arts, in recognition of works in the field of painting.
Mike Cloud, Art, received the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Award in the category of "Painting."
Erin Courtney, English, was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in playwriting.
Jennifer Drake, Psychology, received a two-year grant from the Imagination Institute, for "Assessing and Fostering Visual Imagination Through Drawing."
Jennifer Drake, Psychology, received the Rising Star Award from the Association for Psychological Science.
Brenda Foley, Theater, received a $4,700 Aron Grant for faculty/student collaborative research on archival research and constructing dramatic narratives.
Stefano Ghirlanda, Psychology, received a $250,000 grant for "From Nature to Culture: Evolutionary Origins of Human Uniqueness," from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation in collaboration with Stockholm University and Mälardalen University.
Alexander Greer, Chemistry, received a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation, Chemistry Division, for "Phase Separation of Reactive Oxygen with Multi-compartmented Sensitizers."
Louise Hainline, Psychology, received a $529,968 grant for "Peer-Assisted Team Research (PATR): A Method for Early Undergraduate Research," from the National Science Foundation, Division of Undergraduate Education.
Yong-Gang Huang, Modern Languages and Literatures, won the Outstanding Book Award for Teaching Methodology (Academic Discipline: Education) from the Association of Chinese Professors of Social Sciences in the United States, for the co-authored book America Encounters Classical Chinese Culture: A Pedagogy for Philosophy and Literature.
Xinyin Jiang, Health and Nutrition Sciences, received a National Institutes of Health SCORE2 grant, for "Effects of Choline on Fetal Growth and Lipid Accretion in Gestational Diabetes."
Rosamond King, English, won the Caribbean Studies Association Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Annual Prize for Best Caribbean Studies Book.
Rachel Kousser, Art, received an Archaeological Institute of America Publication Subvention Award.
Ben Lerner, English, received a $625,000 MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship.
Klara Marton, Speech Communication Arts and Sciences, received a grant from the International Visegrad Fund, for "Bilingual Assessment of Child Lexical Knowledge: New Method for Polish, Czech, Slovak and Hungarian."
Ryan Murelli, Chemistry, received $658,553 from the National Institutes of Health, for "Optimization of Alpha-hydroxytropolones as Novel Inhibitors of the HBV RNaseH."
Ryan Murelli, Chemistry, received a National Institutes of Health SCORE Grant of $1,558,600, for "Synthetic and Biological Studies of α-Hydroxytropolones."
Sharon O'Connor-Petruso, Childhood, Bilingual and Special Education, received the Distinguished Leadership and Service Award, from the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Special Interest Group (SIG) International Studies.
Arturo O'Farrill, Conservatory of Music, won the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition, for Three Revolutions.
Ursula Oppens, Conservatory of Music, was nominated for a Grammy Award for the recording of Frederic Rzewski's "The People United Will Never Be Defeated."
Maria Perez y Gonzalez, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, received the Cultural Award: Education, from the Instituto de Puerto Rico.
Laura A. Rabin, Psychology, received a three-year $331,682 grant from the National Science Foundation, for "Intensive Mentored Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) in Psychology and Neuroscience at an Urban Public College."
Tracy Wong, Health and Nutrition Sciences, received a three-year National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities (National Institutes of Health) R15 AREA Program Grant, for "A Social Ecological Model of Infant Sleep Environments Among Non-Hispanic Black Infants."
