Awards
March 23, 2017
Students from ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ took home first place at the seventh annual Autonomous Snowplow Competition in St. Paul, Minnesota. Hosted by the North Start Section of the Institute of Navigation Satellite Division, the competition challenges students to design, build and operate a…
March 23, 2017
ACES+, the continuation of the Academic Careers in Engineering & Science (ACES) program, announced the recipients of the 2017 ADVANCE Opportunity Grant Awards. Nine proposals representing academic disciplines–ranging from nursing to engineering to psychological sciences–have been awarded a…
March 23, 2017
Cassi Pittman, associate professor of sociology, has been awarded a Career Enhancement Fellow by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, which administers funds for the program provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Pittman is one of 20 junior faculty from around the country…
March 23, 2017
An article led by the computational team at ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ was nominated for the Lucien Levy Best Research Article Award by the American Journal of Neuroradiology. The nominated article, titled "Computer-Extracted Texture Features to Distinguish Cerebral Radionecrosis from…
March 10, 2017
The Safe Routes to School National Partnership and the National Shared Use Task Force named Erika Hood, REACH Community Fellow and active living strategy coordinator at the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods, one of two Shared Use Ambassadors for spring 2017. The National Shared…
March 10, 2017
The Lighthouse Guild selected Yoshikazu Imanishi, assistant professor of pharmacology, for its 2017 Pisart Award. The Lighthouse Guild is a nonprofit vision and health care organization that aims to meet the needs of people who are blind or visually impaired. Since 1981, the Pisart Award has “has…
March 10, 2017
The American Political Science Association (APSA) has awarded a Centennial Center for Political Science and Public Affairs grant to Karen Beckwith, the Flora Stone Mather Professor and chair of the Department of Political Science. The APSA’s Presidency Research Fund will support Beckwith’s…
February 24, 2017
Darcy Freedman, associate director of the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods, won the Paper of the Year award from the American Journal of Health Promotion. Her paper, published in June, is titled “Making Healthy Eating Policy Practice: A Group Randomized Controlled Trial on…
February 24, 2017
Dhamakapella won second place at Sangeet Saagar 2017, a national South-Asian fusion a cappella competition. At the competition, held Feb. 18, Dhamakapella competed against teams from Rutgers University, Loyola University of Chicago, University of Maryland and University of Miami. The Delta Sigma…
February 24, 2017
Erika Trapl, associate director of the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN), won a one-year, $240,000 Tobacco Disparities Demonstration Project grant from the Ohio Department of Health (ODH). The project extends work PRCHN is engaged in as a partner of the Health…