Award Winning Faculty
 The American Society for Environmental History awarded the 2005 George Perkins March Prize (best book in environmental history) to James McCann (History) for his book Maize and Grace: Africa’s Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500–2000 (Harvard University Press). He was also named as a Patron of the Friends of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
 Courtenay M. Harding (Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitation Counseling) received the second American Psychological Foundation Alexander Gralnick Research Investigator Award for her commitment to research and education in the area of serious mental illness. The Alexander Gralnick Research Investigator Award is a biennial grant that supports exceptional research and mentoring accomplishments in this area. The award honors the late Alexander Gralnick, MD, a Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
 James Collins (University Professors Program, Biomedical Engineering, Center for BioDynamics) was named to Scientific American’s list of Top 50 Science and Technology Leaders for 2005.
Saralynn Allaire (Medicine) won the First Place Research Award from the American Rehabilitation Counseling Association.
Kazem Azadzoi (Urology and Pathology) was appointed to the International Continence Society Hall of Fame at the Society’s 35th annual meeting.
Paul Barber (Biology) was honored with a Presidential Early Career Award for Research Endeavors (PECASE) by the National Science Foundation for his work in evolutionary and conservation biology.
Thomas Barfield (Anthropology), Richard Primack (Biology),
Frank J. Korom (Religion and Anthropology), and Julian Zelizer (History) received Guggenheim Fellowships.
 David Barlow (Psychology) was selected for the 2006 American Board of Professional Psychology Distinguished Service to the Profession Award. He was also honored as the 2005–2006 Kathryn Grover Harrington and Robert A. Harrington Distinguished Visiting Professor at Baldwin-Wallace College.
Calin Belta (Manufacturing Engineering), Prakash Ishwar and Joshua Semeter (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Chris Passaglia (Biomedical Engineering), Ethan Baxter (Earth Sciences), and Sean Elliott (Chemistry) were honored with Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program Awards from the National Science Foundation.
Elizabeth Craig (Organizational Behavior) received the Best Paper Based on a Recent Dissertation Award from the Academy of Management, Careers Division.
Michele David (Medicine) was awarded the 2006 Physician Advocacy Fellowship by the Institute on Medicine as a Profession.
 Arthur Dell Orto (Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitation Counseling) received a Distinguished Career Award in Rehabilitation Education from the National Council on Rehabilitation Education.
Carlo J. De Luca (NeuroMuscular Research Center) and Herbert Voigt (Biomedical Engineering) were elected founding Fellows of the Biomedical Engineering Society.
Jerome Detemple (Finance and Economics) was named co-editor of Mathematical Finance.
Farouk El-Baz (Center for Remote Sensing) was elected to the Moroccan Academy of Science and Technology.
 Susan Fournier (Marketing) was given a Marketing Science Institute Young Scholars Award.
Thomas F. Freddo (Ophthalmology, Anatomy and Neurobiology,
and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine) was elected incoming President of the International Society for Eye Research.
Donald Gair (Psychiatry/emeritus) received the 2006 Outstanding Psychiatrist Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society. He also received the American Psychiatric Association’s Agnes Purcell McGavin Award for Distinguished Career Achievement in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
 Sheryl Grace (Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering) was elected an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Michael Holick (Medicine, Physiology, and Biophysics) was awarded the Excellence in Clinical Research Award from the National Center for Research Resources.
Karen Jacobs (Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitation Counseling) was a 2005–06 Fulbright Foundation Fellow. She taught at the University of Akureyi in Iceland. John Francis Bowley (Restorative Sciences and Biomaterials) was a Fulbright Fellow in Taiwan, where he researched tissue regeneration in the temporomandibular joint and helped Taiwanese professors translate their work into English.
William Kannel (Medicine and Epidemiology) will receive the Stephen Smith Award for Lifetime Achievement in Public Health from the New York Academy of Medicine. Dr. Kannel, one of the founders of the Framingham Heart Study, also recently earned recognition from the University of California, Irvine, for “A Lifetime of Accomplishments in the Global Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease.”
 Nancy Kopell (Mathematics) received an honorary doctorate from the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Yrjo Koskinen (Finance and Economics) won an award from the Finnish Securities Markets Foundation for an article published in the Journal of Business.
Thomas Kunz (Biology, Center for Ecology and Conservation Biology) was appointed to a National Research Council Committee, charged by the U.S. Congress and National Academy of Sciences to report on “The Impacts of Wind Energy Development on Wildlife.”
Sharon Levine (Medicine) was awarded a 2005 Outstanding Committee Member Award by the Education Committee of the American Geriatrics Society.
Bart Lipman (Economics) was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society.
Kenneth Lutchen (Biomedical Engineering) was elected Vice President of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Lucia Vaina, John White, and Joyce Wong (Biomedical Engineering), and Hamid Nawab (NeuroMuscular Research Center) were elected to the College of Fellows of AIMBE.
Megan MacGarvie (Finance and Economics) was named a Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
 J. Gregory McDaniel (Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering) was elected a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America for his work on structural acoustics.
Anita McGahan (Strategy and Policy) was cited for Distinguished Service to the Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management.
Michael Mendillo (Astronomy) was elected an Associate Member of the Royal Astronomical Society.
 Elise Morgan (Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering) has received the 2005 International Osteoporosis Foundation-Servier Young Investigator Award.
Peter Novak (Neurology) won the 2005 Junior Award for Excellence in Clinical Research from the Movement Disorder Society and the International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders.
Vini Onyemah (Marketing) was the winner of the Seventh Annual Marketing Association Sales Special Interest Group Doctoral Dissertation Award.
Michael Otto (Psychology) was elected President of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.
Christopher Pierce (Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and Psychiatry) was awarded the Joseph Cochin Young Investigator Award by the College on Problems of Drug Abuse.
Alan Pisano (Electrical and Computer Engineering) received the 2005 GE Career Achievement Award.
Robert Pollack (Mathematics and Statistics) was chosen as a Sloan Fellow.
 Paula Quatromoni (Health Sciences) was named Media Spokesperson for the American Heart Association’s Childhood Obesity Initiative and “Go for Red” campaigns.
Maureen Raymo (Earth Sciences) presented the Emiliani Lecture at the American Geophysical Union.
 Justin Ren (Organizational Behavior) was named to the Emerging Scholars Program by the Production and Operations Management Society.
Neil Ruderman (Medicine) was honored with the 2006 Albert Renold Award, a lifetime achievement award from the American Diabetes Association.
Miklos Sahin-Toth (Molecular and Cellular Biology) was named to the editorial board of the Journal of Biological Chemistry and elected an honorary member of the Hungarian Gastroenterology Society.
Michael Salinger (Finance and Economics) was named director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Economics.
Scott Stewart (Finance and Economics) shared the 2006 Distinguished Paper Award from the Academy of Finance for “Analysis of the Wealth Impact of Re-Allocation Decisions by Institutional Plan Sponsors,” which he co-wrote with Jeffrey Heisler, Christopher R. Knittel, and John J. Neumann.
Matthew Wachowiak (Biology) has been given a Young Investigator Award for Research in Olfaction by the Association for Chemoreception Sciences.
 Rosanna Warren (University Professors) was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Richard West (Computer Science) won the Best Paper Award at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE) Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS).
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