Deans’ list
Recent faculty awards, honors, and large-scale grants
ENGINEERING
$150,000 DOD grant, James Carswell, electrical and computer engineering.
$200,000 Sharp Labs of America grant, Seshu Desu, electrical and computer engineering.
$150,000 GE Fund grant, Donald Fisher, mechanical and industrial engineering.
$170,400 DOE grant; $138,000 DOD grant; Stephen Frasier, electrical and computer engineering.
$150,000 EnrichNet Inc. grant, Aura Ganz, electrical and computer engineering.
$336,200 in NSF grants, Lixin Gao, electrical and computer engineering.
Abbe Award, New York Microscopical Society, Dean Joseph Goldstein, mechanical and industrial engineering.
$200,000 Massachusetts Division of Energy Resources grant, James Manwell, mechanical and industrial engineering.
$110,000 DOE grant, Peter Monson, chemical engineering.
$393,800 American Water Works Association grant, Paula Sturdevant Rees, civil and environmental engineering.
$100,000 Office of Naval Research grant, Steven Reising, electrical and computer engineering.
$557,400 in Massachusetts Highway Department grants, Paul Shuldiner, civil and environmental engineering.
$119,000 Engelhard Corporation grant, Michael Tsapatsis, chemical engineering.
$107,000 research grant, University of California, Henning Winter, chemical engineering.
FOOD AND NATURAL RESOURCES
Merit Award in Communications, American Society of Landscape Architects, Jack Ahearn, landscape architecture and regional planning.
Fellow, American Society of Landscape Architects, Dean Cardasis, landscape architecture and regional planning.
Chair of the Board of Trustees, International Life Sciences Institute, North American Branch, Fergus Clydesdale, food science.
Distinguished Alumni Award, Michigan State University landscape architecture program, Nicholas Dines, landscape architecture and regional planning.
Merit Award in Communications, American Society of Landscape Architects, Patricia McGirr and Henry Lu, landscape architecture and regional planning.
2000 Harry C. Gill Award, Sports Turf Managers Association, Mary Owen, UMass extension.
HUMANITIES AND FINE ARTS
Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Books award, Angel Loureiro, Spanish and Portuguese.
Honorable Mention, Hourani Book Award of the Middle East Studies Association, Harun al-Rashid, Judaic and Near Eastern studies.
Second Place, Gettysburg College, Lincoln Prizes, Leonard Richards, history.
Honorary Membership, Golden Key Honorary Society, Neal Shipley, history.
Distinguished Retiring Editor, MELUS, The Journal of the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, Joseph Skerrett Jr., English.
Distinguished University Professor, John Wideman,
English.
2001 Commonwealth Award, Richard Yarde, art.
NATURAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS
$110,845 NSF grant, Mark Abbott, geosciences.
$129,530 NSF grant, James Allan, computer science.
$212,470 Northwestern University research grant, Andrew Barto, computer science.
$409,160 NSF grants, Raymond Bradley, geosciences.
$143,215 NIH grant, Vivian Budnik, biology.
Honorary Membership, Golden Key Honorary Society, Bruce Byers, biology.
$131,750 Oxford Instruments grant, Donald Candela, physics.
$100,005 NSF grant, Maura Cannon, biochemistry and molecular biology.
$774,000 DOD grants, Paul Cohen, computer science.
$171,445 NIH grant, Lila Gierasch, biochemistry and molecular biology.
$963,755 DOD grants, Roderic Grupen, computer science.
$440,000 DOE grant, Ross Hicks, physics.
$266,000 DOD grant, David Jensen, computer science.
$200,000 DOD grant, Frank Karasz, polymer science
and engineering.
$349,830 NSF grant, George Knightly, mathematics
and statistics.
$423,000 DOE grant, Richard Kofler, physics.
$125,000 Dartmouth College research grant, James Kurose,
computer science.
$441,180 DOD grant, Victor Lesser, computer science.
2001 Commonwealth Award, Lynn Margulis, geosciences.
$174,830 NIH grant, Thomas Mason, biochemistry and molecular biology.
$150,000 DOD grant, Thomas McCarthy, polymer science and engineering.
$292,035 University of Utah research grant, Kathryn McKinley, computer science.
$243,010 Louisiana State University research grant, Jose Mestre, physics.
$397,000 Hampton University research grant, Rory Miskimen, physics.
$129,600 University of Texas research grant, Jennifer Normanly, biochemistry and molecular biology.
$204,535 NASA grant, Alan Parrish, astronomy.
Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery, Krithi Ramamritham, computer science.
$178,165 DOE grant, Thomas Russell, polymer science and engineering.
$228,445 NIH grant, Danny Schnell, biochemistry and molecular biology.
$330,630 DOD grant, Donald Towsley, computer science.
$145,000 NSF grant, Shlomo Zilberstein, computer science.
PUBLIC HEALTH AND HEALTH SCIENCES
Distinguished Service Award, American Industrial Hygiene Association, Salvatore DiNardi, environmental health sciences.
SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, Howard Wiarda, political science.
ADMINISTRATION
Honorary doctorate, Hokkaido University, David K. Scott, chancellor.
