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2018 FACULTY RECOGNITION DINNER the Honorees The 31st Annual FACULTY RECOGNITION DINNER Kellogg Global Hub October 25, 2018 The 31st Annual FACULTY RECOGNITION DINNER is hosted by President Morton Schapiro and Provost Jonathan Holloway. It honors members of the Northwestern faculty who have brought distinction to the University by earning important external recognition in the past year. The multidisciplinary Faculty Honors Committee reviewed award recipients identified by the deans and department chairs, selecting the most prestigious awards for University recognition. Each subcommittee reviewed awards in its respective fields. Arts and Humanities Life and Medical Chris Abani Sciences Richard Kieckhefer Serdar Bulun Sara Maza Bob Lamb Saul Morson Amy Rosenzweig Natasha Trethewey Clyde Yancy Engineering and Physical Social Sciences Sciences David Austen-Smith Yonggang Huang Shari Diamond Bryna Kra Jamie Druckman Tobin Marks Jan Eberly Chad Mirkin Larry Hedges Greg Olson Joel Mokyr Monica Olvera de la Cruz John Rogers Richard Silverman The Honorees Jan Achenbach Zdeněk Bažant Honorary Doctor of Science ASME Medal Clarkson University American Society of Mechanical Engineers Emma Adam Foreign Member Lyle Spencer Research Award Academy of Athens Spencer Foundation Alfred M. Freudenthal Medal Erik Andersen American Society of Civil Engineers Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award Karl Bilimoria National Science Foundation President Association for Academic Surgery Torben Andersen Fellow Michelle Birkett Society for Economic Measurement Inaugural Member National Academies of Sciences, Hossein Ardehali Engineering, and Medicine, Member New Voices Initiative Association of American Physicians Daniel Brat Ana Arjona President Book of the Year Prize American Association of Conflict Research Society Neuropathologists Katherine Barsness Anton Braverman Fellow Best Publication in Applied Mayday Pain and Society Probability Award Fellowship Program Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, Applied Probability Society 2018 FACULTY RECOGNITION DINNER The Honorees Linda Broadbelt Clare Cavanagh E. V. Murphree Award in Industrial Arts and Letters Award in Literature and Engineering Chemistry American Academy of Arts and Letters American Chemical Society S. Hollis Clayson R. H. Wilhelm Award in Chemical Reaction Engineering Visiting Senior Fellow American Institute of Chemical Center for Advanced Study in the Engineers Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art Richard Burt Deborah Cohen Van Bekkum Award Fellow European Society for Blood and American Academy of Arts Marrow Transplantation and Sciences Vasili Byros Lynn Cohn Outstanding Publication Award Award for Outstanding Society for Music Theory Professional Article International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution Hector Carrillo Distinguished Book Award Eric Dahl American Sociological Association, Section on Sociology of Sex and Gender Henry Primakoff Award for Early-Career Particle Physics Distinguished Contribution to American Physical Society Research Book Award American Sociological Association, Isaac Daniel Section on Latina/o Sociology Corresponding Member Academy of Athens Gemma Carvill NIH Director’s New Innovator Award Stephen Davis National Institutes of Health Member Academia Europaea NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Mesmin Destin Kyle Eagen Emerging Leadership Award NIH Director’s Early American Psychological Association, Independence Award Committee on Socioeconomic Status National Institutes of Health Fellow Alice Eagly Association for Psychological Science Legacy Honoree Society for Personality and Steven DeVries Social Psychology Brian Boycott Prize Federation of American Societies for Georgy Egorov Experimental Biology Social Choice and Welfare Prize Society for Social Choice and Welfare Sumitrajit Dhar Fellow Kornel Ehmann American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Hideo Hanafusa Outstanding Investigator Award International Symposium on William Dichtel Flexible Automation Cottrell FRED Award Research Corporation for International Honor Award Science Advancement for Education SME (formerly Society for Fellow Manufacturing Engineers) John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation James Elliott Catherine Worthingham Fellow J. Chad Duncan American Physical Therapy Outstanding Educator Award Association American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists Antonio Facchetti Giulio Natta Medal Italian Chemical Society 2018 FACULTY RECOGNITION DINNER The Honorees Claude-André Faucher-Giguère Deborah Gaebler-Spira Cottrell Scholar Award Lifetime Achievement Award Research Corporation for American Academy for Cerebral Palsy Science Advancement and Developmental Medicine Gary Fine Daniel Galvin Fellow Presidential Authority Award American Academy of Arts Russell Sage Foundation and Sciences John Gatta Richard Finno Outstanding Teaching Award Ralph B. Peck Award American Statistical Association, Geo-Institute of the American Teaching of Statistics in the Society of Civil Engineers Health Sciences Section Caitlin Fitz Kathleen Green Fellow David Martin Carter Mentor Award American Council of Learned Societies American Skin Association Ken Forbus Philip Greenland Herbert A. Simon Prize for Advances Distinguished Alumnus Award in Cognitive Systems University of Rochester School of Cognitive Systems Foundation and Medicine and Dentistry Herbert Simon Society Member Association of American Physicians Danna Freedman ACS Award in Pure Chemistry Robert Hariman American Chemical Society Susanne K. Langer Award for Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award Outstanding Scholarship in the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Ecology of Symbolic Form Media Ecology Association NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Larry Hedges Simone Ispa-Landa Honorary Member William T. Grant Scholar European Association of Methodology William T. Grant Foundation Yidan Prize for Education Research Seema Jayachandran Yidan Prize Foundation Sustainability Science Award Ecological Society of America Allen Heinemann James Brady Award Michael Jewett Brain Injury Association of Illinois Young Investigator Award Biochemical Engineering Journal Walter Herbst Fellow Vicky Kalogera National Academy of Inventors Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics Mark Hersam American Institute of Physics and Fellow American Astronomical Society National Academy of Inventors Member Jane Holl National Academy of Sciences John M. Eisenberg Excellence in Mentorship Award Julia Kalow Agency for Healthcare Research Young Investigator Research Program and Quality Air Force Office of Scientific Research Yonggang Huang Mercouri Kanatzidis Zdeněk P. Bažant Medal for Chemical Pioneer Award Failure and Damage Prevention American Institute of Chemists American Society of Civil Engineers Aggelos Katsaggelos Foreign Member Academia Europaea Fellow Optical Society Foreign Member Chinese Academy of Sciences 2018 FACULTY RECOGNITION DINNER The Honorees Sinan Keten Matt Lesniak Young Investigator Medal Member Society of Engineering Science American Society for Clinical Investigation Laura Kipnis Top 10 Nonfiction Books Tracy Lohr Wall Street Journal Clara Immerwahr Award Unifying Concepts in Catalysis Patrick Kiser Fellow Kevin Lynch American Institute for Medical IROS Harashima Award for and Biological Engineering Innovative Technologies IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Dimitri Krainc Intelligent Robots and Systems Soriano Lectureship American Neurological Association James Mahoney Member Prem Kumar Sociological Research Association Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service Charles Manski United States Department of Defense Honorary Doctorate Hebrew University of Jerusalem Christopher Kuzawa Member Michael Markl National Academy of Sciences Fellow Society for Cardiovascular Carol Lee Magnetic Resonance Lifetime Achievement Award American Educational Research Association NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Tobin Marks Alex Mincek CPSE Award 25 Best Classical Music Swedish Chemical Society Recordings of 2017 New York Times Lee Fong Award and Lectureship National Taiwan University Andrew Miri Foreign Member Next Generation Leader Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei Allen Institute for Brain Science Harvey Prize Technion–Israel Institute of Technology Chad Mirkin Wilhelm Exner Medal Bonnie Martin-Harris Austrian Industry Association Honors of the Association Foreign Member American Speech-Language-Hearing Chinese Academy of Sciences Association Friendship Award People’s Republic of China Kate Masur Fellow Harrison Howe Award National Endowment for American Chemical Society, the Humanities Rochester Section Nano Research Award Mary McDermott Nano Research Distinguished Scientist Award American Heart Association Ira Remsen Award American Chemical Society, William Miller Maryland Section Cell Culture Engineering Award Engineering Conferences International Joel Mokyr Distinguished Fellow American Economic Association 2018 FACULTY RECOGNITION DINNER The Honorees Aldon Morris Robert Murphy Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Fellow Outstanding Book Award American Institute for Medical and Society for the Study of Social Problems Biological Engineering Distinguished Scholarly Wendy Murray Publication Award American Sociological Association, Fellow History of Sociology Section American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering Fulbright Specialist Fulbright Specialist Program Brian Mustanski Lifetime Achievement Award Award for Distinguished Contribution American Sociological Association, to Education and Training History of Sociology Section American Psychological Association, Society for the Psychology
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