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糖心传媒聽faculty regularly garner regional, national, and international awards and honors for their professional contributions to research, scholarship, education, and community engagement.
As part of an ongoing series, we糖心传媒檙e spotlighting their professional accomplishments.
Laura Calvi elected president of American Society for Bone and Mineral Research
, the聽SKAWA Foundation Professor in Endocrinology and Metabolism聽in the Department of Medicine and a leader at the聽, has been voted president-elect of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (). She began her three-year leadership tenure at ASBMR on September. The professional organization consists of approximately 4,000 basic research scientists and clinical investigators who focus on bone and mineral metabolism and related fields.
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Anaar Desai-Stephens receives American Association of University Women糖心传媒檚 fellowship
糖心传媒攁n assistant professor of at the Eastman School of Music and an affiliate faculty member of the 糖心传媒攈as received the American Association of University Women糖心传媒檚 American Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship. The fellowship for non-tenured, tenure-track women faculty members funds eight consecutive weeks of research.
Desai-Stephens is at work on a book project that builds on her 2017 doctoral thesis, Singing through the Screen: Indian Idol and the Cultural Politics of Aspiration in Post-Liberalization India, and is based on nearly two years of ethnographic field work in Mumbai.
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Ray Dorsey honored for breakthrough work in combating Parkinson糖心传媒檚 disease
Ray Dorsey, a professor of聽, received the聽聽for his Parkinson糖心传媒檚 disease research that has led to multiple levels of action in combating the disease. Cure Parkinson糖心传媒檚 and the Van Andel Institute honored Dorsey and one of his coauthors, Michael Okun, of the book聽Ending Parkinson糖心传媒檚 Disease: A Prescription for Action.聽Earlier this year, Dorsey coauthored a paper with the World Health Organization, addressing Parkinson糖心传媒檚 as a global health priority.
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Nadine Grimm糖心传媒檚 book on endangered Bantu language garners awards
, an assistant professor in the , has been named the recipient of the Linguistic Society of America糖心传媒檚 2023 Bloomfield Book Award. The award 糖心传媒渞ecognizes a volume that makes an outstanding contribution of enduring value to our understanding of language and linguistics.糖心传媒� Grimm is being honored for her 2021 book,聽. Grimm spent 19 months in the field conducting research which led to a grammatical description of the聽Ngo虁lo虂聽variety of Gyeli, an endangered Bantu language spoken by 4,000糖心传媒�5,000 糖心传媒淧ygmy糖心传媒� hunter-gatherers in southern Cameroon.聽As Grimm wrote, 糖心传媒淚t represents one of the most comprehensive descriptions of a northwestern Bantu language.糖心传媒�
In 2019, the book also received the Association for Linguistic Typology糖心传媒檚 P膩峁噄ni Award, which recognizes achievements in the field of documenting the world糖心传媒檚 linguistic diversity through the writing of reference grammars.
Grimm directs the Linguistics department糖心传媒檚 Language Documentation and Description Program. She also serves as a consultant for the Endangered Language Archive and is a member of the editorial board of the journal Linguistique et Langues Africaines.
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Aaron Hughes awarded Fulbright Distinguished Chair and begins book tour
, the Philip S. Bernstein Chair of Jewish Studies and the Deans Professor of the Humanities in the , has been awarded the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in North American Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa for the 2022颅糖心传媒�23 academic year. While at Carleton, he plans to complete a biography of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (the country糖心传媒檚 constitutional bill of rights); and to work on a new project, 糖心传媒淭he Inconvenient Muslim.糖心传媒� The latter situates contemporary legal and political discourses about Muslims at the heart of a historical inquiry. Less about actual Muslims, it aims to show how modern nation states think about religious alterity using Muslims as a catalyst. The 糖心传媒渋nconvenient Muslim糖心传媒澨切拇綌everywhere yet nowhere, named but nameless糖心传媒攊s what enables western nations to invest or deprive groups of a set of imagined characteristics that are of the state糖心传媒檚 own making.
In November, Hughes, a native of Canada who received his undergraduate degree from the University of Alberta, embarks on a tour for his book (2022). The book has become a top-selling work of nonfiction for Canada糖心传媒檚 biggest bookstore, Indigo. Hughes also took part in , Canada糖心传媒檚 Original Nonfiction Festival.
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Rose Kennedy selected as one of 20 Packard Fellows nationwide
, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry, has been named a 2022 by the . The fellowship annually honors 20 science and engineering professors across the United States who are pursuing research early in their careers. Each fellowship is accompanied by an individual grant of $875,000, distributed over five years.
Kennedy糖心传媒檚 research focuses on synthetic chemistry and developing unconventional and sustainable strategies for producing innovative building blocks and materials. A current project includes developing more sustainable catalytic methods. Catalysis糖心传媒攁ccelerating the rate of a chemical reaction or promoting an entirely new reaction by introducing a substance known as a catalyst糖心传媒攑lays a crucial role in chemical discoveries in biomedicine, agriculture, energy, and other fields. However, this process often relies on the use of rare, precious metals and generates substantial chemical waste.
Kennedy and the members of her lab develop methods that use sustainable elements as catalysts to temporarily remove a molecule糖心传媒檚 functional groups糖心传媒攁rrangements of atoms that determine the molecule糖心传媒檚 behavior糖心传媒攁nd reinstall them elsewhere in the molecule to change the molecule糖心传媒檚 overall properties and applications. The sustainable elements Kennedy uses as catalysts include nickel, copper, and iron, which are abundant on Earth. This approach provides a traceless and waste-free alternative to many unsustainable chemical synthesis practices.
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Duncan Moore recognized for advancing entrepreneurship at universities
糖心传媒�74 (PhD), the vice provost for entrepreneurship and the Rudolf and Hilda Kingslake Professor of Optical Engineering, received the Legacy Award from the . The award recognizes pioneers in advancing entrepreneurship at universities, including the creation of high-impact centers.
Moore, the founder of Gradient Lens Corp., has been instrumental in building the University糖心传媒檚 Ain Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation from inception into . From 2004 to 2009, he was responsible for an initial $3.5 million Ewing Kauffman Foundation grant, matched with $7 million from the University, that launched the center. In 2006, Moore was appointed director for entrepreneurship, and the following year, vice provost for entrepreneurship.
Under Moore糖心传媒檚 direction, the center, named in honor of benefactors Mark S. Ain 糖心传媒�67S (MBA) and Carolyn Ain, provides mentorship, training, and support in many ways. In addition to classes and guest speakers, the center offers programs such as the 糖心传媒 Student Incubator at NextCorps, a National Science Foundation Innovation-Corps (I-Corps) mentorship program, several student business plan competitions, the e5 program for select undergraduates looking to launch an enterprise or intern at a startup, and the Technical Entrepreneurship and Management master糖心传媒檚 program.
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Kerry O糖心传媒橞anion recognized for national contributions to MD-PhD training聽
, director of the聽at the School of Medicine and Dentistry and a professor of聽, has received the 2022聽. The award recognizes an individual who has made significant contributions to physician-scientist training on the national level. O糖心传媒橞anion, who has been Rochester糖心传媒檚 MSTP director since 2000, served as a member and chair of the聽as well as of the National Institute of General Medicine Sciences’ TWD-A study section. He currently serves as an advisor for multiple MD-PhD programs nationwide. He is also a founding Board Member of the American Physician Scientists Association, a student-run organization that promotes careers for physician-scientists.
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Ronald Schwartz honored by Nuclear Cardiology Society
, a professor of medicine, cardiology, and imaging sciences, received the Distinguished Teacher and Clinician Award from the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology. He is a founding member of the ASNC and past president of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Cardiovascular Council.
Schwartz and the other team members of the Nuclear Cardiology Laboratory perform dynamic acquisition CZT (cadmium zinc telluride) SPECT imaging to support treatment of coronary disease, cardiac amyloidosis and pulmonary hypertension, and assessment of organ rejection following heart transplantation.
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