| Brooklyn College faculty garner national and international honors and awards in the fields of education, technology, the arts, literature, law, and economics, among others. Recent accolades include:
- Jennifer L. Ball, Art, received a half-year Whiting fellowship. (2007)
- Myles Bassell, Economics, marked his second year of delivering a series of lectures, “Building a Power Brand with Advertising,” to students in universities throughout China. He received the Most Respected Teacher Award, from Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers. (April 2007)
- David C. Bloomfield, Education, wrote American Public Education Law (Peter Lang, 2007). Bloomfield wrote several entries on special education law for The Praeger Handbook on Special Education (Praeger, 2007). He was widely quoted on the Supreme Court’s June 2007 decision in Parents Involved v. Seattle, including in the New York Daily News, New York Sun, WNBC-TV, and the Eagle (Wichita, Kansas). He has been reelected for a two-year term to the Citywide Council on High Schools, an advisory body to the New York City Department of Education.
- Rose Burnett Bonczek, Theater, directed and produced GI60 2007, an international one-minute play festival that is presently being featured by BBC Big Screen in Leeds, England. (2007)
- Jillian R. Cavanaugh, Anthropology and Archaeology, co-organized a panel and presented a paper, “Linguistic Ambiguity, Social Ambivalence, and Cultural Authenticity: Bad Language in Northern Italy,” at the 2006 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, in San Jose, California. She was awarded a Whiting Fellowship for 2007–2008.
- At the April 2007 Annual Convention and Exhibition of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, in Long Beach, California, Constantin Crânganu, Geology, presented a paper, “Petrophysical Characteristics and Facies Distribution of Reservoir and Non-Reservoir Rocks from the Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma,” which he co wrote with Brooklyn College alumna Maria A. Villa. He worked as part of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) team to generate a learning activity that will familiarize educators and students with a way to obtain and analyze model output data from NCAR to consider best- and worst-case scenarios for global warming.
- Annette Danto, Film, was awarded a grant from the Lucius and Eva Eastman Foundation for her documentary, Ethica, Ethikos, Ethics, now in production at locations in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and South Asia. (2007)
- Geraldine DeLuca, English, received the Elena Cornado Award awarded to outstanding Italian American women in higher education. (2007)
- Scott Dexter, Computer Science, and Laurel Cooley, Mathematics, received a CUNY Faculty Development Grant to develop curriculum modules for linear algebra that infuse computer science applications as well as incorporate mathematical learning theories. (2007)
- Tibbi Duboys, Education, has been named to the faculty of Axe6, the Social Science Laboratory at Rene Descartes, Paris V, the Sorbonne. (2007)
- Dan Eshel, Biology, was awarded a $230,000 three-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to study signaling pathways and microtubule function. (2007)
- Beth Evans, one of Library Journal’s Movers and Shakers of 2007, for using the networking site MySpace to attract and inform Brooklyn College students, faculty, and staff of the BC Libraries facilities and resources.
- Katherine Fry, Television and Radio, received a 2007 Wolfe Institute Fellowship.
- Dean Louise Hainline received a four-year grant renewal from the Research Involvement for Scientific Education Program to increase the number of under-represented minority students going into biomedical research. (2007)
- Annie Hauck-Lawson, Health and Nutrition Sciences, moderated and presented on “The Food Voice: Perspectives…In Practice” panel at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Food and Society, University of Victoria, British Columbia, in May. She was also part of the food studies methodologies roundtable at the same conference. This past spring, Hauck-Lawson reviewed design documents and helped supply display components for the International Grocery Store of the Brooklyn Children’s Museum World Brooklyn exhibit. She was invited to serve as a technical adviser to the Trans-Fat Help Center, a project of CityTech in conjunction with the New York City Department of Health. (2007)
- Rachel Kousser, Art, received a half-year Whiting fellowship. (2007)
- Tania León, director of music composition at Brooklyn College and the Claire and Leonard Tow Distinguished Professor, won a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship.
- Klara Marton, Speech Communication Arts and Sciences, received an NIH research award to study “The Impact of Inhibition Control on Working Memory in Children with Language Impairment” and a PSC-CUNY award to study inhibition control in children. She is the co-principal investigator on a Hungarian research grant on “Supported Decision Making and Evidence-Based Practice in Individuals with Psycho-Social Disorders.” (2007).
- Paul Moses, English, received a 2007 Wolfe Institute Fellowship.
- Carol Bank Muñoz, Sociology, was awarded a fellowship from the Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities at Brooklyn College for a project on corporate social responsibility. (2007)
- T.R. Muth, Biology, received a grant to transform an existing microbiology lab course into a state-of-the-art research experience for undergraduates. (2007)
- Irina Patkanian, Television and Radio, received the 2007 NYSCA grant to shoot a short film, Armed Defense, research and development for which was funded by a PSC-CUNY grant. Her thirty-minute documentary essay My American Neighbor, about the perception of America and its dream from abroad, premiered at the Independent Television Festival in Los Angeles in July. It was selected to play at SURGE festival in Oregon in October and Hot Springs (Arkansas) Documentary Film Festival in September.
- (As a team)--Wayne Powell (Geology), Micha Tomkiewicz (Physics), Simon Parsons (CIS), and Louise Hainline--received a five-year grant that targets urban schools for curriculum materials, and allow students and teachers to use Brooklyn College as a lab. (2007)
- Steven Remy, History, was appointed deputy director of the Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. (2007)
- Corey Robin, Political Science, was awarded three fellowships to fund his academic leave for 2007–08: the Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellowship at Princeton University’s Center for Human Values; a fellowship at Princeton’s Program in Ethics and Public Affairs; and a fellowship from the American Council on Learned Societies.
- Laurie Rubel, Education, awarded the Knowles Science Teaching Foundation’s 2006 Young Scholar Fellowship for her project “Centering the Teaching of Mathematics on Urban Youth.”
- Gunja SenGupta, Department of History, was named Director for the Macaulay Honors College. (2007)
- Robert M. Shapiro, Judaic Studies, was named a consultant to the Museum of Jewish Heritage for the current exhibition on Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust. In June, Shapiro’s translation of Isaiah Trunk’s book Lódz Ghetto: A History (Indiana University Press, 2006) was awarded a bronze medal for the best work in history in 2006 by ForeWord magazine. He made a public presentation on the diary of Moshe Flinker, written in Hebrew by a teenager in Belgium, in Baltimore in July. (2007)
- Celina Su, Political Science, was the recipient of a full-year Whiting Fellowship. (2007)
- Saam Trivedi, Philosophy, received a half-year Whiting fellowship. (2007)
- Raymond Tung, acting chair of Physics department, received a grant to address basic research issues in a topical area of materials science with high technical relevance. (2007)
- Judylee Vivier, Theater, received the Claire Tow Distinguished Teacher Award, a prize donated by Alumnus Leonard Tow, ’50, in honor of his wife Claire, ’52.
- Norman C. Weissberg, Psychology, received a Certificate of Appreciation from the Nassau County Chapter of the American Red Cross, in recognition of his service as a volunteer mental health worker in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. (2005)
- William T. Williams, Art, was honored with the North Carolina Award for Fine Art (2006)
- Sharon Zukin, Sociology, received the Robert and Helen Lynd Award for Career Achievement in urban sociology from the community and urban sociology section of the American Sociological Association in August. (2007)
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