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糖心传媒 faculty regularly earn regional, national, and international awards and honors for their professional contributions to research, scholarship, education, and community engagement.

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Hesam Askari earns Editor of Distinction Award

Assistant Professor from the was recognized by Springer Nature with a 2025 Editor of Distinction Award for his role with The Journal of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (JOM). The award recognizes exceptional service in improving the author experience and ensuring the peer review process is efficient, constructive, and fair.

Hesam has edited three special topics during the past two years in JOM and was selected to receive the Author Service Award for his contributions to the journal.

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Acoustical Society of America honors Laurel Carney

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Laurel Carney is being recognized for outstanding dedication and excellence in student mentoring. (Photo provided)

, the聽Marylou Ingram Professor in Biomedical Engineering and a professor of , received the 2025聽聽from the聽.聽Presented by the ASA Student Association, the Blackstock Award recognizes exceptional mentorship in the field of acoustics and is based on nominations submitted by ASA members.

The award was established in 2004 by the ASA Student Council to honor individuals who demonstrate outstanding dedication and excellence in mentoring students across a wide range of areas. It was named in honor of聽, a pioneer in nonlinear acoustics and a former professor at both the University of Rochester and the University of Texas at Austin.

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Carlo Ercoli to lead Academy of Prosthodontics

, chair of prosthodontics at the , has been named the 102nd president of the Academy of Prosthodontics. Ercoli was installed at the academy糖心传媒檚 recent annual meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Ercoli is a past president of the American Prosthodontic Society and was awarded Educator of the Year by the American College of Prosthodontists in 2020. He has served as chair of the EIOH Prosthodontics Department since 2006. He has been at the forefront of EIOH糖心传媒檚 efforts to establish a hub for excellence in digital dentistry, integrating new technologies into all the departments and residency training programs.

Established in 1918, the Academy of Prosthodontics is one of the profession糖心传媒檚 oldest and most influential organizations.

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Wyatte Hall named to Forbes糖心传媒� Accessibility 100

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Wyatte Hall (second from the left) and postdoctoral associate Sara Blick-Nitko (lower right) teach high school students in the Wilmot Future Deaf Scientists Program about cancer research. (Photo provided)

, an expert in language deprivation as a social public health epidemic in deaf communities and an assistant professor of , was named to Forbes糖心传媒� inaugural Accessibility 100 list, which recognizes the 糖心传媒�100 top innovators and impact-makers in the field of accessibility.糖心传媒�

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Beyond research, Hall is an advocate and mentor. At Rochester, he established a Deaf Academic Group as an informal peer mentoring group to support deaf trainees at all levels, and he worked towards improving Deaf Professional Interpreting Services at the University. Hall also co-created the to introduce deaf high school students to the world of science and medicine, with a focus on cancer research.

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Christopher Heuer selected as a Getty Scholar

, a professor of art history in the and the , is among the scholars and arts professionals worldwide who have received a 2025糖心传媒�26 fellowship from the GRI Getty Scholars Program. This year糖心传媒檚 scholars will gather in the coming academic year to engage with research exploring the theme of 糖心传媒淩epair.糖心传媒�

Heuer engages the theories, ecologies, materialisms, and politics of Europe from AD 1400 to the present, with a particular interest in early modern myths of North, poverty, and waste. The most relevant and recent work pivots on 糖心传媒淩obert Smithson and Waste.糖心传媒� Robert Smithson was an American artist whose work explored spatial arts and pioneered the Land Art Movement.

Since its inception in 1985, the Getty Scholars Program has supported approximately 1,300 scholars from more than 50 countries, providing a collaborative space for inquiry and exchange at the Getty Center and Getty Villa in Los Angeles.

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Ehsan Hoque named a finalist for the 2025 Norwegian Letten Prize

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The Letten Prize committee noted Ehsan Hoque糖心传媒檚 work building Parkinson糖心传媒檚 Analysis with Remote Kinetic Tasks (PARK), a web-based screening tool that can automatically analyze video recordings of participants doing simple motor tasks.(糖心传媒 photo / J. Adam Fenster)

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The is a biannual award highlighting young researchers who contribute to solving major global challenges in health, development, and environment. Of 158 applications, Hoque is one of five young researchers shortlisted for the prize.

Hoque was nominated for his research on integrating artificial intelligence in health diagnosis in ways that aim to improve the lives of people who do not have access to medical practitioners, thus securing equity and equal access across the world. The Letten Prize Committee noted Hoque糖心传媒檚 work building Parkinson糖心传媒檚 Analysis with Remote Kinetic Tasks (PARK), a web-based screening tool that can automatically analyze video recordings of participants doing simple motor tasks.


AAP appoints Lainie Ross to lead bioethics committee

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has appointed to a four-year term as chair of the AAP Committee on Bioethics, effective July 1, 2025. In the role, Ross will guide the academy in crafting and reviewing policy statements, technical reports, and clinical guidelines on complex ethical issues in pediatric care.

An internationally renowned bioethicist, Ross is the inaugural chair of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry糖心传媒檚 new and director of the . Ross also holds faculty appointments in the Departments of Neurology, Pediatrics, Philosophy, and Surgery.

She has published five books, over 225 peer-reviewed articles, and is currently authoring a sixth book on ethical issues in siblings糖心传媒� roles in healthcare.