Honors and Awards
Archived article from Dec 12, 2005
The Melvyn Motolinsky Research Foundation has given John L. Colaizzi, dean of the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, its 2005 Distinguished Citizens Award. For the past 30 years, the foundation has granted its Distinguished Citizens Award to honorees for service to the community. Colaizzi's leadership, community service and philanthropic contributions in the field of medical research have earned him recognition. The foundation was established as a living memorial to Melvyn H. Motolinsky, a New Brunswick lawyer who died of leukemia at age 25 in 1969. The first honoree was Mason Gross, the late president of Rutgers.
Vilna Bashi, assistant professor, sociology (NB), received a Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health Diplomacy Fellowship from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Karima Bennoune, associate professor, School of Law-Newark, has been elected to the board of directors of Amnesty International USA.
Stacy Bonos, assistant professor, Cook College, has received the 2005 Young Crop Scientist Research Award, which recognizes young scientists who have made an outstanding contribution to crop science. The selection is administered by the Crop Science Society of America. Bonos' research focuses on the development of turfgrass cultivars with improved pest and stress tolerance.
Phil Brown, director of the New Jersey Center for Character Education in the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, has received the Achievements in Education Award from the New York City-based Overcoming Obstacles.
Dorothy Sue Cobble, professor, School of Management and Labor Relations, received Cornell University's 2005 Taft Book Prize for her book "The Other Women's Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America" (Princeton University Press, 2004).
The Edison Papers project was awarded the first Eugene S. Ferguson Prize by the Society for the History of Technology. The award is for a retrospective of the work of the Edison Papers project.
Steve Ferst, director of the Study Abroad program (NB), has been elected chair of the Education Abroad Knowledge Community of the National Association of Foreign Student Affairs (NAFSA), Association of International Educators.
James Finckenauer, professor, School of Criminal Justice, received the Jack A. Mark Memorial Award for 2005 from the New Jersey Association of Criminal Justice Educators for contributions to criminal justice education.
Michael Gershenson, professor, physics (NB), was named one of Scientific American magazine's top 50 leaders in science and technology for 2005. The magazine cited Gershenson and University of Illinois collaborator John Rogers for fabricating field-effect transistors based on pure, defect-free organic crystals and for exploring the fundamental limits of organic electronics.
Alison Isenberg, associate professor, history (NB), has been awarded the Lewis Mumford Prize by the Society for American City and Regional Planning History for her book "Downtown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It" (University of Chicago Press, 2004).
Saira Jan, clinical associate professor, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, has been awarded the 2005 "Best of the Best Award" from Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey. Jan was honored for her knowledge and leadership dealing with clinical issues in a real-time environment and her keen focus on health, wellness and patient safety.
Lucille Joel, professor, College of Nursing, has been elected president of the board of trustees for the Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools. She will begin a two-year term in January 2006.
Sidney A. Katz, professor, chemistry (Camden), has been named honorary professor at Nova Gorica Polytechnic in Slovenia as part of the Slovenian university's 10th anniversary celebration. Katz is being honored for his knowledge in environmental chemistry and toxic substances and his numerous research articles in prominent scientific journals.
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