Faculty Honors

Jonathan Baldo, associate professor of humanities at the Eastman School, was awarded a 2000 Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.

Daphne Bavelier, assistant professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, was named a John Merck Scholar. The $240,000 award recognizes Bavelier's work on the human brain's ability to rewire itself in people with sensory impairments.

David Calkins, assistant professor of ophthalmology, received a 2000 Sloan Research Fellowship.

Paul Coleman, professor of neurobiology and anatomy, received the Alzheimer Association's Pioneer Award for Alzheimer's Disease Research. The award provides Coleman with $1 million in research funding over the next five years.

Alice Conklin, associate professor of history, received a 2000 Guggenheim Fellowship for her project on the development of anthropology and ethnographic studies between World War I and II in France.

Dante Cichetti, professor of psychology, psychiatry, and pediatrics, received the Nicholas Hobbs Award and the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research in Child Clinical Psychology from the American Psychological Association.

Philippe Fauchet, professor and chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America. He also was named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Eby Friedman, professor of electrical and computer engineering, was named a fellow in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Richard Kaeuper, professor of history, was the 1999- 2000 R. Stanton Avery Distinguished Fellow at the Huntington Library in San Marino, Calif.

Amy Lerner, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, received a New Investigator Award from the Whitaker Foundation. The $210,000 award recognizes Lerner's research on how bones grow, develop, and heal.

Alan Lupack, director of the Rossell Hope Robbins Library, was elected president of the North American Branch of the International Arthurian Society, the largest of the society's dozen chapters around the world.

John Marcellus, professor of trombone at the Eastman School, received the ITA award, the highest honor given by the International Trombone Association.

Kevin McFarland, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, received an Outstanding Junior Investigator award from the Department of Energy. The $400,000 award is intended to support talented young physicists as they establish research programs early in their careers.

Duncan Moore, the Rudolf and Hilda Kingslake Professor of Optical Engineering, received the 2000 National Engineering Award from the American Association of Engineering Societies.

Walter Y. Oi, Elmer B. Milliman Professor of Economics, received the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service for his work leading to the adoption of an all-volunteer military.

H. Allen Orr, professor of biology, received a 2000 Guggenheim Fellowship to write a book on speciation.

Alexandre Pouget, assistant professor of brain and cognitive sciences, received a Sloan Research Fellowship.

Augusta Read Thomas, associate professor of composition, won a sponsorship prize from the Ernst von Siemens Foundation. The Munich, Germany, Foundation sponsors the roughly $30,000 award to recognize special achievements by composers, performers, and musicologists.

Ross L. Watts, William H. Meckling Professor of Business Administration, was named an Outstanding Accounting Educator for the year 2000. He was one of two professors in the nation chosen by the American Accounting Association.

Michael Weliky, assistant professor of brain and cognitive sciences, received the 1999-2000 McKnight Foundation Scholar Award. The three-year, $150,000 award recognizes Weliky's research in brain development and visual perception.

J. H. David Wu, associate professor of chemical engineering, was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.

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