Awards
July 31, 2020
Jill Barnholtz-Sloan, professor at the School of Medicine, was part of the The Cancer Genome Atlas team recognized by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) in its annual AACR Team Science Awards. The AACR Team Science Award recognizes an outstanding interdisciplinary team of…
July 31, 2020
The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) recognized the Weatherhead School of Management as one of the top 25 schools of its type worldwide for its commitment to positive and constructive change in business education. Innovations That Inspire, the AACSB’s annual challenge…
July 31, 2020
ӰƵ, through the Great Lakes Energy Institute (GLEI), received a $5,000 award from Venturewell to support EnvironFlo, a company that evolved out of the GLEI ThinkEnergy Fellowship Program. EnvironFlo is developing oil/water separation technology to clean up oil spills.…
July 31, 2020
Lydia Kisley, the Warren E. Rupp Assistant Professor of Physics, was selected to participate in the 2020-21 Scialog: Chemical Machinery of the Cell initiative, sponsored by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. The event’s goal is to identify…
July 31, 2020
Catherine Jayapandian, senior research associate in the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics (CCIPD), was awarded a one-year $57,500 Career Enhancement Award from the Neptune Kidney Consortium. Jayapandian received the award for her project titled “Computational…
July 31, 2020
Pranjal Vaidya, a PhD student in biomedical engineering and at the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics, was awarded the ACM SIGHPC Computational & Data Science Fellowship. This fellowship program targets women or students from racial or ethnic backgrounds that have…
July 29, 2020
Maggie Popkin, the Robson Junior Professor and associate professor in the Department of Art History and Art, has won a 2020–21 Andrew Heiskell Rome Prize, making her the first faculty member from ӰƵ to do so. These highly competitive fellowships support advanced…
July 17, 2020
Faculty and students associated with the Solar Durability and Lifetime Extension (SDLE) Research Center at ӰƵ received four poster awards for their presentations at the 2020 Photovoltaic Reliability Workshop. The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Lab…
July 17, 2020
Master of Business Administration candidate Yuxin Fan and Master of Science in Management (MSM)-Finance candidates Jiaxuan Li, Yilin Zhang and Anqi Lu were awarded second place in an operations competition hosted by MIT Sloan School's Operations Management Club. All four team members are graduate…
July 17, 2020
Zahin Islam, Daniel Shao and Evan Vesper, all undergraduates, were recently selected as Goldwater Scholarship recipients. The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program awarded 396 scholarships in 2020, from a pool of 1,343 undergraduates nominated by 461 institutions. The…