Faculty Honors
Three U-M researchers named 2011 MacArthur Fellows
Three University of Michigan researchers— historian Tiya Miles, chemist Melanie Sanford and stem cell biologist Yukiko Yamashita—are among the 22 new MacArthur Fellows announced today by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Each will receive $500,000 in "no strings attached" support over the next five years from the MacArthur Foundation. Read More
Akil, Groves elected to National Academy of Sciences
Neuroscientist Huda Akil, Ph.D., Co-Director of the Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience Institute and Medical School professor, and survey methodologist Robert Groves, director of the U.S. Census Bureau and a U-M professor, have been elected members of the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors attainable by an American scientist. Elected along with 70 others, Groves and Akil bring the number of U-M faculty elected to the National Academy of Sciences to 25. Read More
Two faculty named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
U-M professors Sharon Glotzer and Scott Page have been named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a prestigious society that recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions in scholarly and professional fields. Glotzer, the Stuart W. Churchill Collegiate Professor of Chemical Engineering, conducts research in the areas of computational nanoscience and simulation of soft matter, self-assembly and materials design. Page, the Leonid Hurwicz Collegiate Professor of Complex Systems, Political Science, and Economics, is the principal investigator for the IDEAS IGERT grant, funded by the National Science Foundation. He studies the importance of diversity and complexity in social systems and is the author of more than 60 articles and four books including the recently released “Diversity and Complexity.” Read More
Five U-M faculty members awarded Guggenheim Fellowships
Five U-M faculty were recently awarded prestigious Guggenheim Fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The fellowships went to 180 individuals, from a pool of 3000 applicants, for distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment. The U-M fellows are Arun Agrawal, professor and associate dean for research, School of Natural Resources and Environment; Jeffrey Gardner Heath, professor of linguistics; Mark Mizruchi, professor of sociology and business; Endi Poskovic, artist and associate professor of art and design; and Jennifer Ellen Robertson, professor of anthropology. Read More about their projects
U-M Daugherty wins Grammy
Michael Daugherty won a Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition for his three-part homage to trains, “Deus Ex Machina,” recorded by the Nashville Symphony on his “Metropolis Symphony” CD. The award was presented in afternoon ceremonies Sunday, Feb. 13, prior to the national broadcast of the Grammy Awards. The album also received Grammys for Best Orchestral Performance and Best Engineered Album in the classical music category. Daugherty is a professor of music composition at the U-M School of Music, Theatre and Dance. Read more
Early-career researchers receive Sloan fellowships
Two U-M professors are among the 118 researchers across the nation chosen as 2011 Alfred P. Sloan research fellows. Volker Elling, an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics, and Anne McNeil, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry, each receives a $50,000 fellowship. Elling is working on partial differential equations and fluid dynamics, an important area of applied mathematics. McNeil's research focuses on creating new and useful organic materials and exploring the basic mechanisms involved in their synthesis, assembly and operation. Read More
Three from CoE elected to National Academy of Engineering
Three professors from the College of Engineering — John Allison, Lawrence Burns and Mark Kushner — have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. The honors, which were announced Tuesday, are among the highest professional distinctions that can be accorded to an engineer and recognize outstanding contributions to engineering research, practice or education. The three U-M faculty are among 68 new members and nine foreign associates newly elected to the academy. Read More
U-M faculty named Fulbright Scholars
Three U-M scholars from the Ann Arbor campus and one from UM-Dearborn were awarded U.S. Department of State Fulbright Scholar grants to conduct research abroad. The recipients are Farina Mir (Department of History), Pieter Smith, (Department of Chemistry), Molly Yunker, (School of Education), and William DeGenaro (Department of Language, Culture and Communication, UM-Dearborn). The Fulbright Scholar Program sends 800 U.S. faculty and professionals abroad each year. These prestigious grants provide funding for recipients to lecture or conduct research abroad for periods of two to 12 months in 140 countries. [Read more...]
Two U-M Engineering faculty members receive 2011 Distinguished Innovator Award
Professors Khalil Najafi and Kensall Wise have been selected as the Distinguished University Innovators for 2011. The pair is being honored for their role developing breakthrough technologies in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and working with colleagues, students and industry partners to move these innovations from university laboratories to new startups to further develop the technology into successful products. [Read more...]
Nine university scientists and engineers named AAAS fellows
Nine University of Michigan faculty members are among 503 newly elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), who are honored for their distinguished efforts in advancing science, AAAS announced today. U-M faculty honored are: Kon-Well Wang, chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Stephen P. Timoshenko Collegiate Professor; Joel Blum, the John D. MacArthur Professor of Geological Sciences and a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Lee Hartmann, a professor in the Department of Astronomy; Lori Isom, a professor in the departments of Pharmacology, and Molecular and Integrative Physiology, as well as director of the Program in Biomedical Sciences at the U-M Medical School; Farnam Jahanian, chair of computer science and engineering and the Edward S. Davidson Collegiate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Anna Mapp, a professor in the Department of Chemistry; Adam Matzger, a professor in the Department of Chemistry as well as a professor of macromolecular science and engineering in the College of Engineering; and John Montgomery, a professor in the Department of Chemistry; Melanie Sanford, professor in the Department of Chemistry. [Read more...]