Special Section
Every academic year, 乱伦强奸 faculty members earn recognition from their colleagues around the country and the world for their research, scholarship, and teaching, as well as for their service to their disciplines and their students.
Such honors include recognition from national and international academic societies, induction into prestigious organizations, and recognition from peer institutions. Similarly, 乱伦强奸 students are selected each year for recognition by some of the most competitive and prestigious honors programs available to undergraduates and graduate students in the United States.
Here鈥檚 a small sample of honorees from the 2014鈥15 year.
National Faculty Awards
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
Board of Directors
- Diane Hartmann, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology; Senior Associate Dean, Graduate Medical Education
Acoustical Society of America
William and Christine Hartmann Prize in Auditory Neuroscience
- Laurel Carney, Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Sloan Research Fellow
- Michael Neidig, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Alzheimer鈥檚 Association
International Research Award
- Feng Vankee Lin, Assistant Professor of Nursing
American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
Fellow
- Ronald Epstein, Professor of Family Medicine Psychiatry, Oncology, and Nursing; Director, Center for Communication and Disparities Research
American Academy of Neurology
Mitchell B. Max Award for Neuropathic Pain
- Robert Dworkin, Professor of Anesthesiology, Neurology, and Psychiatry
American Academy of Nursing
Fellow
- Mary Carey, Associate Professor of Nursing
- Daryl Sharp, Professor of Clinical Nursing
American Association for Dental Research
Irwin D. Mandel Distinguished Mentoring Award
- William Bowen, Professor Emeritus, Eastman Institute for Oral Health, Microbiology and Immunology, Environmental Medicine
American College of Physicians
Mastership Recognition
- Robert McCann, Professor of Medicine; Chief of Medicine, Highland Hospital
American College of Surgeons
Fellow
- Guilherme Christiano, Assistant Professor of Surgery and Plastic Surgery
- Rachel Farkas, Assistant Professor of Surgery and Oncology
American Council of Learned Societies
Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship
- John Osburg, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Collaborative Research Fellowship
- Joshua Dubler, Assistant Professor of Religion and Classics
Fellowship
- Supritha Rajan, Assistant Professor of English
- Rachel Haidu, Associate Professor of Art and Art History
American Dance Therapy Association
Excellence in Education Award
- Danielle Fraenkel, Instructor, Program of Dance and Movement
American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
Fellow
- Hani Awad, Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- James McGrath, Professor of Biomedical Engineering
American Jewish Archives
Bernard and Audre Rapoport Fellow
- Aaron Hughes, Philip S. Bernstein Professor in Judaic Studies in the Department of Religion and Classics
American Mathematical Society
Fellow
- Allan Greenleaf, Professor of Mathematics
American Musicological Society
Einstein Award
- Melina Esse, Associate Professor of Musicology
American Neurotology Society
Nicolas Torok Vestibular Award
- Benjamin Crane, Associate Professor of Otolaryngology
American Political Science Association
Virginia Gray Best Book Award
- Lynda Powell, Professor of Political Science
Best Paper Award
- Gerald Gamm, Associate Professor of Political Science and History
Leon Weaver Award
- G. Bingham Powell Jr., Marie C. Wilson and Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Political Science
Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Dataset Award
- Hein Goemans, Associate Professor of Political Science
American Prosthodontics Society
Golden Medallion Award
- Gerald Graser, Professor of Prosthodontics, Eastman Institute for Oral Health
American Society of Bone and Mineral Research
Council Member
- Laura Calvi, Professor of Medicine; Codirector, Multidiscliplinary Neuroendocrine Clinic
American Society for Clinical Investigation
Member
- Jennifer Anolik, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology
American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers
2014 Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award
- Michael Alan Anderson, Associate Professor of Musicology
American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
Fellow
- Vivek Kaul, Segal-Watson Professor of Medicine; Chief, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
American University Professors of Ophthalmology
Executive Vice President
- Steven Feldon, Professor of Ophthalmology; Director, Flaum Eye Institute
Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons and the Orthopaedic Research Society
Richard A. Brand Award for Outstanding Research
- Christopher Beck, Associate Professor of Orthopaedics
- John Daiss, Research Associate Professor of Orthopaedics
- Stephen Kates, Hansj枚rg Wyss Professor, Department of Orthopaedics
- Kohei Nishitani, Postdoctoral Fellow in Orthopaedics
- Alexander Rosenberg, Research Assistant Professor of Medicine, Allergy, and Immunology and Rheumatology; Director, Bioinformatics
- Edward Schwarz, Richard and Margaret Burton Distinguished Professor in Orthopaedics; Director, Center for Musculoskeletal Research
Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors
Gold Program Directors Recognition Award
- Stephen Schultz, Associate Professor of Family Medicine
Association for Women in Mathematics
Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize
- Sema Salur, Associate Professor of Mathematics
Bread Loaf Writers鈥 Conference
Shane Stevens Fellowship in the Novel
- Stephen Schottenfeld, Assistant Professor of English
Chicago Tribune
Best Suspense Novel
- Joanna Scott, Roswell S. Burrows Professor of English
Chinese American Pathology Association
President-elect (2017鈥18)
- Ping Tang, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
CIES Fulbright
Fulbright Grant to Brazil
- Daniel Reichman, Associate Professor of Anthropology
Fulbright Visiting Scholar
- Martin Lynch, Associate Professor of Counseling and Human Development
Conference on College Composition and Communication
Outstanding Book Award
- David Bleich, Professor of English
Council of Academic Family Medicine
Chair
- Thomas Campbell, William Rocktaschel Chair in Family Medicine and Professor of Family Medicine and Psychiatry
Cunniff-Dixon Foundation
Senior Physician Award
- David Korones, Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, and Hospice and Palliative Care
Dermatology Foundation
Research Career Development Award
- Anna DeBenedetto, Instructor in Dermatology
Dreyfus Foundation
Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
- Daniel Weix, Associate Professor of Chemistry
Eastern Nursing Research Society
Top 20 Sustained Leaders Award
- Margaret Kearney, Professor of Nursing; Vice Provost and University Dean of Graduate Studies
Elsevier
Young Investigator Award
- Duje Tadin, Associate Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Forbes
鈥30 Under 30 in Science鈥
- Elika Bergelson, Research Assistant Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Gairdner Awards (Canada)
2015 Gairdner International Award
- Lynne Maquat, J. Lowell Orbison Distinguished Service Alumni Professor and Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Geological Society of America
Outstanding Publication Award
- John Tarduno, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Gerontological Society of America
Fellow
- Yeates Conwell, Professor of Psychiatry
- Christopher Seplaki, Assistant Professor of Public Health Sciences
Holocaust Education Foundation
Summer Institute Fellowship
- June Hwang, Associate Professor of German
Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research
Research Fellow
- Dan Lu, Assistant Professor of Economics
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
Technical Excellence Award
- Greg Gdowski, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Executive Director, Center for Medical Technology and Innovation
IEEE Photonics Society
2014 Quantum Electronics Award
- Robert Boyd, Professor of Optics
Jagiellonian University
Merentibus Medal
- Ralph Jozefowicz, Professor of Neurology and Medicine
John A. Hartford Foundation
Center of Excellence Scholars Award
- Tim Holahan, Clinical Instructor of Medicine
- Sarah Howd, Instructor of Medicine
- Adina Jucan, Assistant Professor of Clinical Dentistry
- Allison Magnuson, Senior Instructor of Medicine
Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation
Faculty Scholar
- Sarah Peyre, Associate Professor of Surgery
Kosciuszko Foundation Collegium of Eminent Scientists
Distinguished Fellow
- Roman Sobolewski, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
Kyoto University, Japan
Fulbright Award in Palliative Care/Global Health
- Robert Gramling, Associate Professor of Family Medicine
Lichtenberg Kolleg, University of G枚ttingen
Senior Research Fellowship
- Dorinda Outram, Franklin W. and Gladys I. Clark Professor of History
Machinima Expo
Grand Prize
- Sarah Higley, Professor of English
Marketing Science Institute
Young Scholar
- Mitch Lovett, Assistant Professor of Marketing
Medieval Academy
2015 Robert L. Kindrick鈥揅ARA Award for Outstanding Service to Medieval Studies
- Russell Peck, John H. Deane Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric and Poetry
Fellow
- Richard Kaeuper, Professor of History
Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation
Outstanding Research Achievement Award
- Richard Moxley, Helen Aresty Fine and Irving Fine Professor in Neurology
- Charles Thornton, Saunders Family Distinguished Professor in Neuromuscular Research, Department of Neurology
National Academies of Practice
Distinguished Practitioner and Fellow
- Tobie Olsan, Professor of Clinical Nursing
National Academy of Sciences
U.S. Kavli Frontiers of Sciences Fellow
- John Kessler, Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
National Institutes of Health
Early Independence Award
- Elika Bergelson, Research Assistant Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
NIH Director鈥檚 New Innovators Award
- Michelle Janelsins-Benton, Assistant Professor of Surgery
National Science Foundation
Faculty Early Career Development Award
- Antonio Badolato, Assistant Professor of Physics
- Danielle Benoit, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering
- Michael Neidig, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
CRII (Pre-CAREER) Award
- Ehsan Hoque, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies
Fellow
- Harry Reis, Professor of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology
North American Chinese Clinical Chemists Association
President
- Victoria Zhang, Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Novartis
Early Career Award in Organic Chemistry
- Daniel Weix, Associate Professor of Chemistry
Optical Society of America
Esther Hoffman Beller Medal
- Govind Agrawal, Dr. James C. Wyant Professor in Optics
Fellow
- Christophe Dorrer, Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- John Howell, Professor of Physics and Astronomy
- Todd Krauss, Professor of Chemistry
2014 Nick Holonyak Jr. Award
- Ching Tang, Professor of Chemical Engineering
RE:Gender (National Council for Research on Women)
Community Innovations Fellowship
- Angela Clark-Taylor, Program Manager, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women鈥檚 Studies
St. Andrews Institute of Medieval Studies
Donald Bullough Fellow
- Richard Kaeuper, Professor of History
Simons Foundation
Simons Fellow in Theoretical Physics
- Eric Blackman, Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Fellowship
- Allan Greenleaf, Professor of Mathematics
Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award in the Neurosciences
- Ben Hayden, Assistant Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine
Hilary E. C. Millar Award for Innovative Approaches to Adolescent Health Care
- Suzanne Piotrowski, Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine; Director, Teen Health and Success Partnership
Fellow
- Kim Urbach, Associate Professor of Clinical Nursing; Manager, School-Based Health Centers Program
Society of Behavioral Medicine
Citation Award
- Michelle Janelsins-Benton, Assistant Professor of Surgery
Society of Breast Imaging
Fellow
- Avice O鈥機onnell, Professor of Clinical Imaging Sciences; Director, Women鈥檚 Imaging
Society for Experimental Social Psychology
Member
- Jeremy Jamieson, Assistant Professor of Clinical and Social Sciences
Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
President
- Deborah Ossip, Professor of Public Health Sciences and Oncology
Society of Toxicology
2014 Special Recognition Award, 2015 Merit Award
- Gunter Oberd枚rster, Professor Emeritus of Environmental Medicine
Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Distinguished Scholar Award
- Edward Deci, Helen F. and Fred H. Gowen Professor in the Social Sciences, Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology
Templeton Foundation
Fellowship
- Ben Hayden, Assistant Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Thomson Reuters
Citation Laureate
- Stephen Jacobs, Professor of Optics; Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
University of California San Francisco
150th Anniversary Alumni Excellence Award
- Margaret Kearney, Professor of Nursing; Vice Provost and University Dean of Graduate Studies
University of KwaZulu-Natal
Honorary Professor
- John Tarduno, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
University Teaching Awards
Goergen Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
- Julie Bentley, Associate Professor of Optics
- Jeffrey Tucker, Associate Professor of English
- Jonathan Pakianathan, Associate Professor of Mathematics
Eisenhart Award For Excellence In Teaching
Eastman School of Music (2013鈥14)
- Jonathan Baldo Professor of English
(2014鈥15)
- Steven Daigle Professor of Opera
Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
- William FitzPatrick, Gideon Webster Burbank Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy
G. Graydon 鈥58 and Jane W. Curtis Award for Nontenured Faculty Teaching Excellence
- Nickolas Vamivakas, Assistant Professor of Optics and Physics
Lifetime Achievement Award in Graduate Education
- Ralph Locke, Professor of Musicology
William H. Riker University Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching
- Randall Stone, Professor of Political Science
National Student Awards
Acoustical Society of America
Robert W. Young Award for Undergraduate Student Research in Acoustics
- Jonathan Macoskey 鈥15, Pittsburgh; Biomedical Engineering
Academic All-American Honors
CoSIDA Capital One Academic All-America Team
- Lauren Bailey 鈥15, Ossining, N.Y.; Chemical Engineering, Swimming (First Team)
- Griffin Drake 鈥15, Indianapolis; Political Science and Philosophy, Soccer (Third Team)
- Matt Mender 鈥16, Glens Falls, N.Y.; Biomedical Engineering, Football (Second Team)
- Alex Swanger 鈥15, Penfield, N.Y.; Financial Economics, Soccer (Second Team)
- Emily Widra 鈥15 Washington, D.C.; English, Anthropology, and Psychology,, Rowing (Third Team)
All-American Honors
- Lauren Bailey 鈥15, Ossining, N.Y.; Chemical Engineering, Swimming (Honorable Mention)
- Neil Cordell 鈥16, York, United Kingdom; Political Science, Squash (Second Team)
- Boubacar Diallo 鈥16, Bignona, Senegal; Mechanical Engineering, Track and Field
- Tomotaka Endo 鈥18, Kawasaki, Japan; Molecular Genetics, Squash (Second Team)
- Brittany Grage 鈥15, Pittsford, N.Y.; Business, Softball (First Team)
- Ryosei Kobayashi 鈥17, Yokohama, Japan; Business, Squash (First Team)
- Tara Lamberti 鈥16, Penfield, N.Y.; Psychology, Field Hockey (Second Team)
- Alexandra Leslie 鈥18, Lancaster, Pa.; Psychology, Basketball (Honorable Mention)
- Vicky Luan 鈥16, Surrey, Canada; Chemistry, Swimming (Honorable Mention)
- Michelle Relin 鈥16, Lititz, Pa.; Optics, Field Hockey (Second Team)
- Emily Simon 鈥17, Olean, N.Y.; Biology, Swimming (Honorable Mention)
- Khamai Simpson 鈥17, Cutler Bay, Fla.; Health, Behavior, and Society, Swimming, (Honorable Mention)
- Mario Yanez Tapia 鈥17, Aguascalientes, Mexico; Business, Squash (First Team)
American Brain Tumor Association
Young Investigators Award
- Michael Feldman, Fellow, School of Medicine and Dentistry
American Educational Studies Association
Taylor and Francis Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award
- Tom谩s Boatwright, Doctoral Student, Warner School of Education
American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers Foundation
2015 Morton Gould Young Composer Award
- Erin Graham 鈥17, Lewisburg, Pa.; Composition and Percussion, Eastman School of Music
- Jason Thorpe Buchanan, Doctoral Student, Composition, Eastman School of Music
Amgen Scholars Program
Scholar
- Justin Delafontaine 鈥16, Rye Brook, N.Y.; Biomedical Engineering
Arthur Poister National Organ Scholarship Competition
First Prize
- Brian Glikes, Doctoral Student, Organ, Eastman School of Music
Association for the Study of Higher Education
Bobby Wright Dissertation of the Year Award
- Amalia Dache-Gerbino, Doctoral Student, Warner School of Education
Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship
- Nathalia Botero 鈥16, Spring Hill, Fla.; Molecular Genetics
- Eric Chen 鈥16, Hackensack, N.J.; Molecular Genetics
- Claude Galette 鈥16, Eagle Lake, Fla.; Psychology
- Angel Huang 鈥16, Fresh Meadows, N.Y.; Psychology
- Charlotte Humes 鈥16, Bardstown, Ky.; Mathematics
- Jenna Register 鈥16, Buffalo; Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- Matthew Sisto 鈥16, 乱伦强奸; History and Japanese
- Victoria Stepanova 鈥15, Brooklyn; Health, Behavior, and Society
- Cinthia E. Welch 鈥15, Fairport, N.Y.; Japanese and Health, Behavior, and Society
Boren Scholarship
- Christian Wooddell 鈥17, Farmington, Mo.; Anthropology
Critical Language Scholarship
- Aaron Schaffer 鈥16, 乱伦强奸; International Relations
DAAD-RISE Scholarship
- Luke Daily 鈥16, Lake Grove, N.Y.; Biomedical Engineering
- Claire Kaiser 鈥17, Lake Forest Park, Wash.; Biomedical Engineering
- Tianyi (Linda) Liu 鈥16, Haikou, China; Mechanical Engineering
- Zhaoyu Nie 鈥17, Wuhan, China; Optics
- Nathaniel Potrepka 鈥17, Silver Spring, Md.; Computer Science and Audio and Music Engineering
- Zhenzhi (Jane) Xia 鈥16, Wuxi, China; Optical Engineering
- So Han Florence Yip 鈥17, Hong Kong, China; Mechanical Engineering
DownBeat Student Music Awards
Undergraduate College Original Composition, Small Ensemble
- Garret Reynolds 鈥16, Moorpark, Calif.; Jazz Trumpet, Eastman School of Music
Undergraduate College Outstanding Arrangement
- Brendan Lanighan 鈥15, Williamsville, N.Y., Jazz Trombone and Music Education, Eastman School of Music
Graduate College Outstanding Ensemble Arrangement
- Gabe Condon, Graduate Student, Jazz Writing, Eastman School of Music
- Julian Tanaka, Graduate Student, Jazz Writing, Eastman School of Music
Empire State Competition
First Prize Collegiate Category
- Tim Padget 鈥17, St. Louis; Percussion, Eastman School of Music
Goldwater Scholarship
- Brian McDonald 鈥16, Carmel, Ind.; Mathematics
- Steven Torrisi 鈥16, Tivoli, N.Y.; Physics and Mathematics
Great Lakes Guitar Festival and Competition
First Prize
- Austin Wahl 鈥15, Minneapolis; Guitar, Eastman School of Music
Second Prize
- Charles Pfeifer 鈥16, North Granby, Conn.; Guitar, Eastman School of Music
Grieg Festival Young Artist Competition
First Prize
- Daniel Baer, Doctoral Student, Piano, Eastman School of Music
Handel Society
Handel Research Prize
- Regina Compton, Doctoral Student, Musicology, Eastman School of Music
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Janelia Research Fellows Program
- Benjamin Cocanougher, Fellow, School of Medicine, and Dentistry
IEEE Power and Energy Society
Astronaut Scholarship Foundation Award
- William Green 鈥16, Baiting Hollow, N.Y.; Mechanical Engineering
International Saxophone Symposium and Competition
First Prize
- Katherine Weintraub, Doctoral Student, Saxophone, Eastman School of Music
MedTech Association
Engineering World Health Summer Institute Scholarship
- Lisa Benison Graduate Student, Biomedical Engineering
NASA
Scholarship Plus Initiative Award
- Aaron Lim 鈥17, Jamesville, N.Y.; Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Jeremy Warner 鈥15, Riverhead, N.Y.; Electrical and Computer Engineering
National Association of Women鈥檚 Studies
Cochair of the Mentoring Project
- Angela Clark-Taylor, Doctoral Student, Warner School of Education
National Trumpet Competition
First Place, Graduate Division
- Steven Felix, Graduate Student, Trumpet, Eastman School of Music
New York Business Plan Competition
Finalists
- Seth Reining 鈥15 (MS) Graduate Student, Technical Entrepreneurship and Management
- Anthony Yee 鈥15 (MS), Doctoral Student, Optics
- Xiangzhi Yu, Doctoral Student, Mechanical Engineering
- Yang Zhao, Doctoral Student, Optics
- Brian Ayers, Graduate Student, Simon Business School
- Eryn Fennig, Doctoral Student, Optics
- Sarah Walters 鈥15 (MS), Doctoral Student, Optics
North Atlantic Region Association for Counselor Education and Supervision
Incoming Chair, Research Interest Network
- Atiya Smith, Doctoral Student, Warner School of Education
2014 Emerging Leaders Fellow
- Hennessey Lustica, Doctoral Student, Warner School of Education
Princeton in Asia
Fellow
- Ben Van Son, Graduate Student, Warner School of Education
SMART (Science, Mathematics, and Research Transformation) Scholarship
- Ian Gabalski 鈥16, Webster, N.Y.; Physics
Sydney Australia International Organ Competition
First Prize
- Thomas Gaynor, Doctoral Student, Organ, Eastman School of Music
Vandoren Emerging Artist Competition
First Prize
- Tyler Wiessner 鈥15, Ellicott City, Md.; Saxophone and Music Education, Eastman School of Music
West Chester International Organ Competition
First Place
- K盲the Wright Kaufman 鈥16, Evanston, Ill.; Applied Music, Eastman School of Music
Whitaker International Fellowship
- Michael Silverstein 鈥15, Sharon, Mass.; Biomedical Engineering
- Namita Sarraf 鈥15, Pittsford, N.Y.; Biomedical Engineering
Wilson Center Guitar Competition
First Place
- Gabriel Condon, Graduate Student, Jazz Guitar, Eastman School of Music
World Health Organization
Research Fellowship Program
- Stacy Salerno, Fellow, School of Medicine and Dentistry
Student Teaching Awards
2015 Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student
- Stephen Burger, Doctoral Student, English
- Esteban Buz, Doctoral Student, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- Matthew Johnson, Doctoral Student, Biology
- Aaron James, Doctoral Student, Eastman School of Music
- Dev Ashish Khaitan, Doctoral Student, Physics
- Patrick Papadopulos, Doctoral Student, Mathematics
- Brian Sheldon, Doctoral Student, Chemistry
- Grayson Sipe, Doctoral Student, Neuroscience
- Michael Skibo, Doctoral Student, Developmental Psychology
- David Slichter, Doctoral Student, Economics