2016
Amotz Bar-Noy, Computer and Information Science, received $208,000 from the Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance, sponsored by the United States Army Research Laboratory.
Myles Bassell, Business Management, received the "Best Teacher Ever" Excellence in Teaching Award from the Marketing Global Leadership Academic Association, a chapter of the American Marketing Association.
Brett F. Branco, Earth and Environmental Sciences, received a three-year $498,570 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, for "Resilient Schools Consortium (RiSC) Project."
Stephen Chester, Anthropology and Archaeology, received $29,497 from the National Science Foundation, Program in Systematics and Biodiversity Science, for "ROA: Supplement to RUI/SG: Phylogenetic Relationships of Archaic 'Ungulates' and Their Implications for the Timing and Rate of Divergence of Placental Mammal Clades."
Sarah J. Christman, Film, was awarded a Rooftop Films Feature Film Grant, for Swarm Season.
Tracy Chu, Health and Nutrition Sciences, received a two-year $418,494 grant to identify sociocultural and environmental influences on sleep-related infant care practices among three non-Hispanic black subgroups.
Laurel Cooley, Mathematics, received a three-year $949,123 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the features of selective alternative teacher certification programs that affect selective route mathematics teachers' professional pathways.
Annette Danto, Film, received the Fulbright Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Award and Flex Grant.
Christopher Dunbar, Kinesiology, was awarded the New York Guard Achievement Medal by the New York State Division of Military and Naval Affairs.
William Esber, Psychology, received $249,000 from the National Institutes of Health to research how the brain processes change in stimulus salience.
Brenda Foley, Theater, received a $5,000 Aron Grant from Marlboro College for student/faculty research collaboration.
Yu Gao, Psychology, received a two-year National Institute of General Medical Sciences SC3 grant, for "A Brain Imaging Study on Conditioning Deficits in Antisocial Youths."
Brian R. Gibney, Chemistry, received the Partners for Progress and Prosperity Award, presented by the Middle Atlantic Region of the American Chemical Society.
Alexander Greer, Chemistry, received a Singlet O2 Therapeutics LLC in Support of NIH for Small Business Technology Transfer Grant, from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research.
Alexander Greer, Chemistry, received a joint three-year National Scientific and Technical Research Council (Argentina)–National Science Foundation grant for a research project titled "Photodynamic Therapy Using Pterins as Photosensitizers."
Katherine Lu Hsu, Classics, received a $1 million grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation to establish the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Scholarships, which will award tuition grants and living stipends to students with financial need in order to study at the Latin/Greek Institute in the summer.
Anna Law, Political Science, received a National Science Foundation grant of $79,497, for "How Do U.S. Immigration Courts Decide Gender-based Asylum Claims?"
Michael Mandel, Computer and Information Science, received a $50,430 Google Research Award, for "Incorporating a Speech Model Into Multichannel Spatial Clustering."
Michael Mandel, Computer and Information Science, received a three-year $449,958 National Science Foundation Award, for "RI:Small: Concatenative Resynthesis for Very High-quality Speech Enhancement."
Sharon O'Connor-Petruso, Childhood, Bilingual and Special Education, received a Certificate of Appreciation Web Master, from the American Educational Research Association's Special Interest Group International Studies.
Brigid O'Keeffe, History, received a Franklin Research Grant, from the American Philosophical Society.
Anjana D. Saxena, Biology, received a Sackler Institute for Nutrition Research Grant from the New York Academy of Sciences, for "Prenatal betaine supplementation as a treatment for macrosomia in a mouse model of gestational diabetes mellitus."
Jessica Siegel, English, received a $40,000 Whiting Fellowship to create a digital home for Brooklyn oral histories.
Shaneen M. Singh, Biology, received a $15,000 grant from Concarlo Holdings LLC, for "In silico modeling of p27Kip1 with the Brk SH3 domain and variants to develop a p27drug candidate for treatment in cancer."
Dina Sokol, Computer and Information Science, received a three-year $129,000 grant from the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation, for "Approximate Cycles and Repetitions."
Lulu Song, Early Childhood Education/Art Education, received a $10,000 Crow Professorship, for "Promoting Chinese Dual Language Learners' Development: Role of Teachers' Knowledge and Practices and Home Environment."
Mariana Torrente, Chemistry, received $177,417 from the National Institutes of Health to study the role of epigenetics in the origins of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Deborah Walder, Psychology, won the Young Investigator Award from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, for "Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Structural MRI Abnormalities in Adolescents At-risk for Depression: The Role of Early Life Stress and 5-HTTLPR."
Tracy Wong, Health and Nutrition Sciences, received a three-year National Institute of General Medical Sciences (National Institutes of Health), SCORE SC2 grant, for "The Impact of Female Genital Cutting on African Immigrants."
Neng-Fa Zhou, Computer and Information Science, received a $385,855 National Science Foundation, Division of Computing and Communication Foundations, grant, for "From Declarative Specifications of Search Problems to Efficient Solutions."
