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FACULTY AWARDS
& ANNOUNCEMENTS
Listed in alphabetical order
WENDI L. ADAMEK
Assistant Professor of Religion, 2008 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Textual Studies Category from the American Academy of Religion for her book, The Mystique of Transmission: On an Early Chan History and its Contexts, Columbia University Press, 2007.
KRISTINA BOERGER
Music Associate, had been named Outstanding Choral Director of the Year by the New York Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association.
Peter Bower
Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science, has been elected as a Leadership Fellow by the SENCER (Science Education for New Civic Engagement and Responsibilities) National Fellowship Board of the American Association of Colleges and Universities. Bower who created the Brownfield Action (BA) digital simulation and curriculum (with the technical assistance of the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning) was honored not only for his award winning BA curriculum but also for the fact that, unlike other curriculums so honored, he has disseminated BA and it is now being used at more than 10 colleges and universities with a national network of collaborating faculty.
ALEXANDER COOLEY
Associate Professor of international relations, named an inaugural Open Society Fellow under the Open Society Institute's "Understanding Authoritarianism" initiative.
DEBORAH COEN
Assistant Professor of History, awarded a two-year grant from the University of Chicago's Defining Wisdom project
MONA EL-GHOBASHY
Assistant Professor of Political Science, named 2009 Carnegie Scholar
ROSS HAMILTON
Assistant Professor of English, awarded the 2009 Harry Levin Prize by the American Comparative Literature Association
SASKIA HAMILTON
Associate Professor of English, awarded a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship
PAUL E. HERTZ
Professor of biological sciences is the program director for a $1.5 million grant from Howard Hughes Medical Institute aimed at invigorating science teaching at liberal arts colleges. Many undergraduate biology experiments, while useful for demonstrating principles, are more cookbook than cutting edge. Barnard is using its grant to turn some of its biology lab courses into a setting for ground-breaking research on a pest that attacks tomatoes and potatoes.
JOHN S. MAGYAR
Assistant Professor of Chemistry won a research grant from the ACS Petroleum Research Fund for studying the metal uptake and regulation in a methanogenic microorganism isolated from the Rancho La Brea Tar Pits
DUSA McDUFF
Helen Lyttle Kimmel '42 Professor of Mathematics, received an honorary degree from the Universite Loius Pasteur Strasbourg for remarkable work in topology, specially relating to the development of symplectic topology
DIANE PATAKI '93
Plant ecologist awarded prestigious James Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union
WADDA RIOS-FONT
Professor of Spanish and Latin American Cultures, awarded a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship
PAUL SCOLIERI
Assistant Professor of Dance, has been named the 2008-09 Peggy Rockefeller
Visiting Scholar of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS)
at Harvard University. At DRCLAS, Professor Scolieri will work on his book
project entitled Encountering Dance: Aztec Ritual and Missionary Discourse,
a study of the role of dance in the 16th-century "encounter" between Spanish
missionaries, conquistadors and "Aztecs" in the New World.
RAJIV SETHI
Associate professor of economics, has been appointed to the external faculty of the Santa Fe Institute, a private, not-for-profit, independent research and education center founded in 1984, for multidisciplinary collaborations in the physical, biological, computational, and social sciences.
LESLEY A. SHARP
Professor of Anthropology, has been awarded the Millennium Book Prize for 2008 by the Society for Medical Anthropology for Strange Harvest: Organ Transplants, Denatured Bodies, and the Transformed Self. The prize is awarded to a book "judged to be the most significant and potentially influential contribution to medical anthropology," and one that also exhibits "exceptional courage and potential impact beyond the field."