Deans' List
Recent faculty awards, honors, and large-scale
grants
EDUCATION
- $195,000 Nellie Mae Foundation grant, Patricia Crosson, educational policy, research and administration, and Stephen Coelen, Massachusetts Institute for Social and Economic Research (MISER).
- $800,000 USDE grant, Bailey Jackson, dean, Lenore Carlisle and Robert Maloy, teacher education and curriculum studies.
- 1999 Critics' Choice Award, American
Educational Studies Association; Residency, Rockefeller Foundation Study Center, Bellagio, Italy; Sonia Nieto, teacher education and curriculum studies. - $240,000 AICPE (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants) grant, Stephen Sireci and Ronald Hambleton, educational policy, research and administration.
ENGINEERING
- 1999 Ben Dasher Award for Best Paper, Frontiers in Education Conference, Wayne Burleson, Aura Ganz, and Ian Harris, electrical and computer engineering.
- 2000-2001 Lilly Teaching Fellow, Dennis Goeckel, electrical and computer engineering.
- Director, UMass Transportation Center, Paul Shuldiner, civil engineering.
FOOD AND NATURAL RESOURCES
- Honor Award, Boston Society of Landscape Architects, Jack Ahern, landscape architecture and regional planning.
- American Council on Consumer Interests
Financial Planning Award, M.J. Alhabeeb,
consumer studies. - Silver Medal for Contributions to Horticulture, Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Kathleen Carroll, UMass Extension.
- Board of Trustees, North American Division of the International Life Sciences Institute, Fergus Clydesdale, food science.
- Distinguished Service Award, National Extension
Association of Family and Consumer
Science, Patricia Culross, UMass Extension. - 2000-2001 Lilly Teaching Fellow, James
Gladden, sports studies. - Merit Award, Boston Society of Landscape
Architects, Julius Fabos, Mark Lindhult, and Robert Ryan, landscape architecture and
regional planning. - Massachusetts Fisheries and Wildlife Board,
Joseph Larson, natural resources conservation. - 2000-2001 Lilly Teaching Fellow, Damon Revelas, hotel, restaurant and travel administration.
HUMANITIES AND FINE ARTS
- Robertson Prize for Best Article of 1999, Hispanic
American Historical Review, Katherine Bliss, history.
- 2000-2001 Lilly Teaching Fellow, Christine Cooper, English.
- 1999 Outstanding Paper Award for Excellence, The Literati Club, London, Michael Egan, English.
- 2000-2001 Lilly Teaching Fellow, Debbie Fulton, classics.
- Mellon Visiting Lecturer, Sawyer Seminars, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Mason Lowance, English.
- Poetry Editor, America magazine, Paul Mariani, English.
- NEH Research Fellowship, Marla Miller, history.
- Order for Distinguished Services, Argentine Army, Robert Potash, history emeritus.
- Villa I Tatti Fellowship, Harvard Center for Italian
Renaissance Studies, Florence; 2000-2001 Rome Prize; Monika
Schmitter, art history.
- O. Henry Award for Best Story of 2000; conference honoree, "John Edgar Wideman, A CALLALLOO Celebration," University of Virginia; John Wideman, English.
ISENBERG SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
- 2000-2001 Lilly Teaching Fellow, Susan Porter, accounting and information systems.
- Theodore Saloutos Memorial Award, Agricultural History Society, Lawrence Zacharias, management.
NATURAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS
- Division Director, Experimental and Integrative Activities, NSF Computer Science directorate, W. Richards Adrion, computer science.
- Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics, American Physical Society, Raymond Arnold, physics and astronomy.
- Distinguished University Professor, W. Bruce Croft, computer science.
- 2000-2001 Lilly Teaching Fellow, Christopher Duncan, geosciences.
- $184,224 DOD grant, Paul Cohen and Roderic Grupen, computer science.
- $340,950 NIH grant, Maurille Fournier,
biochemistry. - $167,091 NIH grant, Lila Gierasch, chemistry.
- Fellow, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Francis Juanes, natural resources conservation.
- $200,000 DOD grant, Frank Karasz, polymer science and engineering.
- Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, Guy Lanza, environmental sciences.
- National Medal of Science, Lynn Margulis,
geosciences. - Task Force on Undergraduate Physics, American Insitute of Physics, American Physical Society, and American Association of Physics Teachers, Jose Mestre, physics.
- $205,427 NSF grant, Kathryn McKinley and Charles Weems, computer science.
- Von Hippel Award, Materials Science Society, Richard Stein, Goessman Professor emeritus, chemistry.
- IEEE Bennet Prize Paper Award, Donald Towsley, computer science.
- 2000-2001 Lilly Teaching Fellow, Elsbeth Walker, biology.
NURSING
- Distinguished Practicioner, National Academy of Practice in Nursing, Eileen Breslin, dean.
- Chancellor's Medal, Melanie Dreher, former dean.
- Region 5 Coordinator, Sigma Theta Tau International, Donna Zucker.
PUBLIC HEALTH AND HEALTH
SCIENCES
- 1999 New England American College of Sports Medicine Honor Award, Priscilla Clarkson, exercise science.
- $209,800 Whitaker Foundation grant, Richard E.A. Van Emmerik, exercise science.
- Advisory Board, Center for Internet Technology in Education; Choice Magazine Outstanding Books of 1999 listing; Gary Moore, environmental health sciences.
SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
- 2000-2001 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, Nancy Folbre, economics.
- Millicent Kauffman Distinguished Service Award, Amherst Area Chamber of Commerce, George Goodwin, political science emeritus.
- Research Scholarship, Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars, Howard Wiarda, political science.
ADMINISTRATION
- Advisory Board, Center for Internet Technology in Education, Kevin Aiken, continuing education.
- Academic Consortium Board, Council on
International Exchange; Education Abroad Team, Association of International Educators; Maryelise Lamet, international programs. - Hesburgh Certificate of Excellence, Mary Deane Sorcinelli, Center For Teaching
