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Every academic year, Rochester faculty members earn recognition from their colleagues around the country and the world for their research, scholarship, and teaching, as well as for their service to their disciplines and their students.

Such honors include recognition from national and international academic societies, induction into prestigious organizations, and recognition from peer institutions. Similarly, Rochester students are selected each year for recognition by some of the most competitive and prestigious honors programs available to undergraduates and graduate students in the United States.

Here’s a small sample of honorees from the 2014–15 year.

National Faculty Awards

Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education

Board of Directors

  • Diane Hartmann, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology; Senior Associate Dean, Graduate Medical Education

Acoustical Society of America

William and Christine Hartmann Prize in Auditory Neuroscience

  • Laurel Carney, Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Sloan Research Fellow

  • Michael Neidig, Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Alzheimer’s Association

International Research Award

  • Feng Vankee Lin, Assistant Professor of Nursing

American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine

Fellow

  • Ronald Epstein, Professor of Family Medicine Psychiatry, Oncology, and Nursing; Director, Center for Communication and Disparities Research

American Academy of Neurology

Mitchell B. Max Award for Neuropathic Pain

  • Robert Dworkin, Professor of Anesthesiology, Neurology, and Psychiatry

American Academy of Nursing

Fellow

  • Mary Carey, Associate Professor of Nursing
  • Daryl Sharp, Professor of Clinical Nursing

American Association for Dental Research

Irwin D. Mandel Distinguished Mentoring Award

  • William Bowen, Professor Emeritus, Eastman Institute for Oral Health, Microbiology and Immunology, Environmental Medicine

American College of Physicians

Mastership Recognition

  • Robert McCann, Professor of Medicine; Chief of Medicine, Highland Hospital

American College of Surgeons

Fellow

  • Guilherme Christiano, Assistant Professor of Surgery and Plastic Surgery
  • Rachel Farkas, Assistant Professor of Surgery and Oncology

American Council of Learned Societies

Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship

  • John Osburg, Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Collaborative Research Fellowship

  • Joshua Dubler, Assistant Professor of Religion and Classics

Fellowship

  • Supritha Rajan, Assistant Professor of English
  • Rachel Haidu, Associate Professor of Art and Art History

American Dance Therapy Association

Excellence in Education Award

  • Danielle Fraenkel, Instructor, Program of Dance and Movement

American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering

Fellow

  • Hani Awad, Professor of Biomedical Engineering
  • James McGrath, Professor of Biomedical Engineering

American Jewish Archives

Bernard and Audre Rapoport Fellow

  • Aaron Hughes, Philip S. Bernstein Professor in Judaic Studies in the Department of Religion and Classics

American Mathematical Society

Fellow

  • Allan Greenleaf, Professor of Mathematics

American Musicological Society

Einstein Award

  • Melina Esse, Associate Professor of Musicology

American Neurotology Society

Nicolas Torok Vestibular Award

  • Benjamin Crane, Associate Professor of Otolaryngology

American Political Science Association

Virginia Gray Best Book Award

  • Lynda Powell, Professor of Political Science

Best Paper Award

  • Gerald Gamm, Associate Professor of Political Science and History

Leon Weaver Award

  • G. Bingham Powell Jr., Marie C. Wilson and Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Political Science

Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Dataset Award

  • Hein Goemans, Associate Professor of Political Science

American Prosthodontics Society

Golden Medallion Award

  • Gerald Graser, Professor of Prosthodontics, Eastman Institute for Oral Health

American Society of Bone and Mineral Research

Council Member

  • Laura Calvi, Professor of Medicine; Codirector, Multidiscliplinary Neuroendocrine Clinic

American Society for Clinical Investigation

Member

  • Jennifer Anolik, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology

American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers

2014 Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award

  • Michael Alan Anderson, Associate Professor of Musicology

American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Fellow

  • Vivek Kaul, Segal-Watson Professor of Medicine; Chief, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

American University Professors of Ophthalmology

Executive Vice President

  • Steven Feldon, Professor of Ophthalmology; Director, Flaum Eye Institute

Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons and the Orthopaedic Research Society

Richard A. Brand Award for Outstanding Research

  • Christopher Beck, Associate Professor of Orthopaedics
  • John Daiss, Research Associate Professor of Orthopaedics
  • Stephen Kates, Hansjörg Wyss Professor, Department of Orthopaedics
  • Kohei Nishitani, Postdoctoral Fellow in Orthopaedics
  • Alexander Rosenberg, Research Assistant Professor of Medicine, Allergy, and Immunology and Rheumatology; Director, Bioinformatics
  • Edward Schwarz, Richard and Margaret Burton Distinguished Professor in Orthopaedics; Director, Center for Musculoskeletal Research

Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors

Gold Program Directors Recognition Award

  • Stephen Schultz, Associate Professor of Family Medicine

Association for Women in Mathematics

Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize

  • Sema Salur, Associate Professor of Mathematics

Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference

Shane Stevens Fellowship in the Novel

  • Stephen Schottenfeld, Assistant Professor of English

Chicago Tribune

Best Suspense Novel

  • Joanna Scott, Roswell S. Burrows Professor of English

Chinese American Pathology Association

President-elect (2017–18)

  • Ping Tang, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

CIES Fulbright

Fulbright Grant to Brazil

  • Daniel Reichman, Associate Professor of Anthropology

Fulbright Visiting Scholar

  • Martin Lynch, Associate Professor of Counseling and Human Development

Conference on College Composition and Communication

Outstanding Book Award

  • David Bleich, Professor of English

Council of Academic Family Medicine

Chair

  • Thomas Campbell, William Rocktaschel Chair in Family Medicine and Professor of Family Medicine and Psychiatry

Cunniff-Dixon Foundation

Senior Physician Award

  • David Korones, Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, and Hospice and Palliative Care

Dermatology Foundation

Research Career Development Award

  • Anna DeBenedetto, Instructor in Dermatology

Dreyfus Foundation

Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award

  • Daniel Weix, Associate Professor of Chemistry

Eastern Nursing Research Society

Top 20 Sustained Leaders Award

  • Margaret Kearney, Professor of Nursing; Vice Provost and University Dean of Graduate Studies

Elsevier

Young Investigator Award

  • Duje Tadin, Associate Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Forbes

“30 Under 30 in Science”

  • Elika Bergelson, Research Assistant Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Gairdner Awards (Canada)

2015 Gairdner International Award

  • Lynne Maquat, J. Lowell Orbison Distinguished Service Alumni Professor and Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics

Geological Society of America

Outstanding Publication Award

  • John Tarduno, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Gerontological Society of America

Fellow

  • Yeates Conwell, Professor of Psychiatry
  • Christopher Seplaki, Assistant Professor of Public Health Sciences

Holocaust Education Foundation

Summer Institute Fellowship

  • June Hwang, Associate Professor of German

Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research

Research Fellow

  • Dan Lu, Assistant Professor of Economics

IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)

Technical Excellence Award

  • Greg Gdowski, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Executive Director, Center for Medical Technology and Innovation

IEEE Photonics Society

2014 Quantum Electronics Award

  • Robert Boyd, Professor of Optics

Jagiellonian University

Merentibus Medal

  • Ralph Jozefowicz, Professor of Neurology and Medicine

John A. Hartford Foundation

Center of Excellence Scholars Award

  • Tim Holahan, Clinical Instructor of Medicine
  • Sarah Howd, Instructor of Medicine
  • Adina Jucan, Assistant Professor of Clinical Dentistry
  • Allison Magnuson, Senior Instructor of Medicine

Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation

Faculty Scholar

  • Sarah Peyre, Associate Professor of Surgery

Kosciuszko Foundation Collegium of Eminent Scientists

Distinguished Fellow

  • Roman Sobolewski, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics

Kyoto University, Japan

Fulbright Award in Palliative Care/Global Health

  • Robert Gramling, Associate Professor of Family Medicine

Lichtenberg Kolleg, University of Göttingen

Senior Research Fellowship

  • Dorinda Outram, Franklin W. and Gladys I. Clark Professor of History

Machinima Expo

Grand Prize

  • Sarah Higley, Professor of English

Marketing Science Institute

Young Scholar

  • Mitch Lovett, Assistant Professor of Marketing

Medieval Academy

2015 Robert L. Kindrick–CARA Award for Outstanding Service to Medieval Studies

  • Russell Peck, John H. Deane Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric and Poetry

Fellow

  • Richard Kaeuper, Professor of History

Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation

Outstanding Research Achievement Award

  • Richard Moxley, Helen Aresty Fine and Irving Fine Professor in Neurology
  • Charles Thornton, Saunders Family Distinguished Professor in Neuromuscular Research, Department of Neurology

National Academies of Practice

Distinguished Practitioner and Fellow

  • Tobie Olsan, Professor of Clinical Nursing

National Academy of Sciences

U.S. Kavli Frontiers of Sciences Fellow

  • John Kessler, Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences

National Institutes of Health

Early Independence Award

  • Elika Bergelson, Research Assistant Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

NIH Director’s New Innovators Award

  • Michelle Janelsins-Benton, Assistant Professor of Surgery

National Science Foundation

Faculty Early Career Development Award

  • Antonio Badolato, Assistant Professor of Physics
  • Danielle Benoit, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering
  • Michael Neidig, Assistant Professor of Chemistry

CRII (Pre-CAREER) Award

  • Ehsan Hoque, Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies

Fellow

  • Harry Reis, Professor of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology

North American Chinese Clinical Chemists Association

President

  • Victoria Zhang, Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Novartis

Early Career Award in Organic Chemistry

  • Daniel Weix, Associate Professor of Chemistry

Optical Society of America

Esther Hoffman Beller Medal

  • Govind Agrawal, Dr. James C. Wyant Professor in Optics

Fellow

  • Christophe Dorrer, Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
  • John Howell, Professor of Physics and Astronomy
  • Todd Krauss, Professor of Chemistry

2014 Nick Holonyak Jr. Award

  • Ching Tang, Professor of Chemical Engineering

RE:Gender (National Council for Research on Women)

Community Innovations Fellowship

  • Angela Clark-Taylor, Program Manager, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies

St. Andrews Institute of Medieval Studies

Donald Bullough Fellow

  • Richard Kaeuper, Professor of History

Simons Foundation

Simons Fellow in Theoretical Physics

  • Eric Blackman, Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Fellowship

  • Allan Greenleaf, Professor of Mathematics

Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award in the Neurosciences

  • Ben Hayden, Assistant Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine

Hilary E. C. Millar Award for Innovative Approaches to Adolescent Health Care

  • Suzanne Piotrowski, Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine; Director, Teen Health and Success Partnership

Fellow

  • Kim Urbach, Associate Professor of Clinical Nursing; Manager, School-Based Health Centers Program

Society of Behavioral Medicine

Citation Award

  • Michelle Janelsins-Benton, Assistant Professor of Surgery

Society of Breast Imaging

Fellow

  • Avice O’Connell, Professor of Clinical Imaging Sciences; Director, Women’s Imaging

Society for Experimental Social Psychology

Member

  • Jeremy Jamieson, Assistant Professor of Clinical and Social Sciences

Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco

President

  • Deborah Ossip, Professor of Public Health Sciences and Oncology

Society of Toxicology

2014 Special Recognition Award, 2015 Merit Award

  • Gunter Oberdörster, Professor Emeritus of Environmental Medicine

Society for Personality and Social Psychology

Distinguished Scholar Award

  • Edward Deci, Helen F. and Fred H. Gowen Professor in the Social Sciences, Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology

Templeton Foundation

Fellowship

  • Ben Hayden, Assistant Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Thomson Reuters

Citation Laureate

  • Stephen Jacobs, Professor of Optics; Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics

University of California San Francisco

150th Anniversary Alumni Excellence Award

  • Margaret Kearney, Professor of Nursing; Vice Provost and University Dean of Graduate Studies

University of KwaZulu-Natal

Honorary Professor

  • John Tarduno, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences

University Teaching Awards

Goergen Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

  • Julie Bentley, Associate Professor of Optics
  • Jeffrey Tucker, Associate Professor of English
  • Jonathan Pakianathan, Associate Professor of Mathematics

Eisenhart Award For Excellence In Teaching

Eastman School of Music (2013–14)

  • Jonathan Baldo Professor of English

(2014–15)

  • Steven Daigle Professor of Opera

Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

  • William FitzPatrick, Gideon Webster Burbank Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy

G. Graydon ’58 and Jane W. Curtis Award for Nontenured Faculty Teaching Excellence

  • Nickolas Vamivakas, Assistant Professor of Optics and Physics

Lifetime Achievement Award in Graduate Education

  • Ralph Locke, Professor of Musicology

William H. Riker University Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching

  • Randall Stone, Professor of Political Science

National Student Awards

Acoustical Society of America

Robert W. Young Award for Undergraduate Student Research in Acoustics

  • Jonathan Macoskey ’15, Pittsburgh; Biomedical Engineering

Academic All-American Honors

CoSIDA Capital One Academic All-America Team

  • Lauren Bailey ’15, Ossining, N.Y.; Chemical Engineering, Swimming (First Team)
  • Griffin Drake ’15, Indianapolis; Political Science and Philosophy, Soccer (Third Team)
  • Matt Mender ’16, Glens Falls, N.Y.; Biomedical Engineering, Football (Second Team)
  • Alex Swanger ’15, Penfield, N.Y.; Financial Economics, Soccer (Second Team)
  • Emily Widra ’15 Washington, D.C.; English, Anthropology, and Psychology,, Rowing (Third Team)

All-American Honors

  • Lauren Bailey ’15, Ossining, N.Y.; Chemical Engineering, Swimming (Honorable Mention)
  • Neil Cordell ’16, York, United Kingdom; Political Science, Squash (Second Team)
  • Boubacar Diallo ’16, Bignona, Senegal; Mechanical Engineering, Track and Field
  • Tomotaka Endo ’18, Kawasaki, Japan; Molecular Genetics, Squash (Second Team)
  • Brittany Grage ’15, Pittsford, N.Y.; Business, Softball (First Team)
  • Ryosei Kobayashi ’17, Yokohama, Japan; Business, Squash (First Team)
  • Tara Lamberti ’16, Penfield, N.Y.; Psychology, Field Hockey (Second Team)
  • Alexandra Leslie ’18, Lancaster, Pa.; Psychology, Basketball (Honorable Mention)
  • Vicky Luan ’16, Surrey, Canada; Chemistry, Swimming (Honorable Mention)
  • Michelle Relin ’16, Lititz, Pa.; Optics, Field Hockey (Second Team)
  • Emily Simon ’17, Olean, N.Y.; Biology, Swimming (Honorable Mention)
  • Khamai Simpson ’17, Cutler Bay, Fla.; Health, Behavior, and Society, Swimming, (Honorable Mention)
  • Mario Yanez Tapia ’17, Aguascalientes, Mexico; Business, Squash (First Team)

American Brain Tumor Association

Young Investigators Award

  • Michael Feldman, Fellow, School of Medicine and Dentistry

American Educational Studies Association

Taylor and Francis Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award

  • Tomás Boatwright, Doctoral Student, Warner School of Education

American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers Foundation

2015 Morton Gould Young Composer Award

  • Erin Graham ’17, Lewisburg, Pa.; Composition and Percussion, Eastman School of Music
  • Jason Thorpe Buchanan, Doctoral Student, Composition, Eastman School of Music

Amgen Scholars Program

Scholar

  • Justin Delafontaine ’16, Rye Brook, N.Y.; Biomedical Engineering

Arthur Poister National Organ Scholarship Competition

First Prize

  • Brian Glikes, Doctoral Student, Organ, Eastman School of Music

Association for the Study of Higher Education

Bobby Wright Dissertation of the Year Award

  • Amalia Dache-Gerbino, Doctoral Student, Warner School of Education

Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship

  • Nathalia Botero ’16, Spring Hill, Fla.; Molecular Genetics
  • Eric Chen ’16, Hackensack, N.J.; Molecular Genetics
  • Claude Galette ’16, Eagle Lake, Fla.; Psychology
  • Angel Huang ’16, Fresh Meadows, N.Y.; Psychology
  • Charlotte Humes ’16, Bardstown, Ky.; Mathematics
  • Jenna Register ’16, Buffalo; Brain and Cognitive Sciences
  • Matthew Sisto ’16, Rochester; History and Japanese
  • Victoria Stepanova ’15, Brooklyn; Health, Behavior, and Society
  • Cinthia E. Welch ’15, Fairport, N.Y.; Japanese and Health, Behavior, and Society

Boren Scholarship

  • Christian Wooddell ’17, Farmington, Mo.; Anthropology

Critical Language Scholarship

  • Aaron Schaffer ’16, Rochester; International Relations

DAAD-RISE Scholarship

  • Luke Daily ’16, Lake Grove, N.Y.; Biomedical Engineering
  • Claire Kaiser ’17, Lake Forest Park, Wash.; Biomedical Engineering
  • Tianyi (Linda) Liu ’16, Haikou, China; Mechanical Engineering
  • Zhaoyu Nie ’17, Wuhan, China; Optics
  • Nathaniel Potrepka ’17, Silver Spring, Md.; Computer Science and Audio and Music Engineering
  • Zhenzhi (Jane) Xia ’16, Wuxi, China; Optical Engineering
  • So Han Florence Yip ’17, Hong Kong, China; Mechanical Engineering

DownBeat Student Music Awards

Undergraduate College Original Composition, Small Ensemble

  • Garret Reynolds ’16, Moorpark, Calif.; Jazz Trumpet, Eastman School of Music

Undergraduate College Outstanding Arrangement

  • Brendan Lanighan ’15, Williamsville, N.Y., Jazz Trombone and Music Education, Eastman School of Music

Graduate College Outstanding Ensemble Arrangement

  • Gabe Condon, Graduate Student, Jazz Writing, Eastman School of Music
  • Julian Tanaka, Graduate Student, Jazz Writing, Eastman School of Music

Empire State Competition

First Prize Collegiate Category

  • Tim Padget ’17, St. Louis; Percussion, Eastman School of Music

Goldwater Scholarship

  • Brian McDonald ’16, Carmel, Ind.; Mathematics
  • Steven Torrisi ’16, Tivoli, N.Y.; Physics and Mathematics

Great Lakes Guitar Festival and Competition

First Prize

  • Austin Wahl ’15, Minneapolis; Guitar, Eastman School of Music

Second Prize

  • Charles Pfeifer ’16, North Granby, Conn.; Guitar, Eastman School of Music

Grieg Festival Young Artist Competition

First Prize

  • Daniel Baer, Doctoral Student, Piano, Eastman School of Music

Handel Society

Handel Research Prize

  • Regina Compton, Doctoral Student, Musicology, Eastman School of Music

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Janelia Research Fellows Program

  • Benjamin Cocanougher, Fellow, School of Medicine, and Dentistry

IEEE Power and Energy Society

Astronaut Scholarship Foundation Award

  • William Green ’16, Baiting Hollow, N.Y.; Mechanical Engineering

International Saxophone Symposium and Competition

First Prize

  • Katherine Weintraub, Doctoral Student, Saxophone, Eastman School of Music

MedTech Association

Engineering World Health Summer Institute Scholarship

  • Lisa Benison Graduate Student, Biomedical Engineering

NASA

Scholarship Plus Initiative Award

  • Aaron Lim ’17, Jamesville, N.Y.; Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Jeremy Warner ’15, Riverhead, N.Y.; Electrical and Computer Engineering

National Association of Women’s Studies

Cochair of the Mentoring Project

  • Angela Clark-Taylor, Doctoral Student, Warner School of Education

National Trumpet Competition

First Place, Graduate Division

  • Steven Felix, Graduate Student, Trumpet, Eastman School of Music

New York Business Plan Competition

Finalists

  • Seth Reining ’15 (MS) Graduate Student, Technical Entrepreneurship and Management
  • Anthony Yee ’15 (MS), Doctoral Student, Optics
  • Xiangzhi Yu, Doctoral Student, Mechanical Engineering
  • Yang Zhao, Doctoral Student, Optics
  • Brian Ayers, Graduate Student, Simon Business School
  • Eryn Fennig, Doctoral Student, Optics
  • Sarah Walters ’15 (MS), Doctoral Student, Optics

North Atlantic Region Association for Counselor Education and Supervision

Incoming Chair, Research Interest Network

  • Atiya Smith, Doctoral Student, Warner School of Education

2014 Emerging Leaders Fellow

  • Hennessey Lustica, Doctoral Student, Warner School of Education

Princeton in Asia

Fellow

  • Ben Van Son, Graduate Student, Warner School of Education

SMART (Science, Mathematics, and Research Transformation) Scholarship

  • Ian Gabalski ’16, Webster, N.Y.; Physics

Sydney Australia International Organ Competition

First Prize

  • Thomas Gaynor, Doctoral Student, Organ, Eastman School of Music

Vandoren Emerging Artist Competition

First Prize

  • Tyler Wiessner ’15, Ellicott City, Md.; Saxophone and Music Education, Eastman School of Music

West Chester International Organ Competition

First Place

  • Käthe Wright Kaufman ’16, Evanston, Ill.; Applied Music, Eastman School of Music

Whitaker International Fellowship

  • Michael Silverstein ’15, Sharon, Mass.; Biomedical Engineering
  • Namita Sarraf ’15, Pittsford, N.Y.; Biomedical Engineering

Wilson Center Guitar Competition

First Place

  • Gabriel Condon, Graduate Student, Jazz Guitar, Eastman School of Music

World Health Organization

Research Fellowship Program

  • Stacy Salerno, Fellow, School of Medicine and Dentistry

Student Teaching Awards

2015 Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student

  • Stephen Burger, Doctoral Student, English
  • Esteban Buz, Doctoral Student, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
  • Matthew Johnson, Doctoral Student, Biology
  • Aaron James, Doctoral Student, Eastman School of Music
  • Dev Ashish Khaitan, Doctoral Student, Physics
  • Patrick Papadopulos, Doctoral Student, Mathematics
  • Brian Sheldon, Doctoral Student, Chemistry
  • Grayson Sipe, Doctoral Student, Neuroscience
  • Michael Skibo, Doctoral Student, Developmental Psychology
  • David Slichter, Doctoral Student, Economics