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Fall 2005 (covering news from April 2005 - mid-October 2005) MAJOR GRANTS/CONTRACTS Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice Criminology professor David Weisburd was awarded $271,882 from the Department
of Justice for a project titled “Explaining Developmental Crime Trajectories
at Places: A Study of the Factors that Influence Crime at Micro Units of Geography.” Department of Economics
Public Safety Training and Technical Assistance Program
PSTTAP was awarded $250,000 from the Maryland State Police to update
its computer-aided dispatch system.
Sociology professor Leonard Pearlin was awarded $444,508 from the National
Institutes of Health to look at “Status, Inequality, Stress and Health
Among Older People.”
AWARDS/HONORS
Psychology professor Paul Hanges was elected a fellow of the American Psychological
Association. Criminology professor John Laub was awarded the prestigious Edwin H.
Sutherland Award by the American Society of Criminology. The Sutherland
Award recognizes outstanding contributions to theory or research in
criminology on the etiology of criminal and deviant behavior, the criminal
justice system, corrections, law or justice. Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences (HESP) adjunct professor
Christy Ludlow has won the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
(ASHA) Honors, making HESP one of only two institutions in the country
with two ASHA Honors recipients. The ASHA Honors is the highest honor
the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association can give; this award
has only been given to fewer than 150 people in the entire history of
the association (almost 100 years). Christy Ludlow joins Barbara Sonies,
who received the honor in 1999. Sociology professor John Pease won the 2005 University System of Maryland Regents'
Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching. Criminology professor Peter Reuter was made a National Associate of the National
Academy of Sciences.
Government and politics professor Miranda Schruers won the 2005 University
System of Maryland Regents' Faculty Award for Collaboration in Teaching.
STUDENTS
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Criminology
professor Denise Gottfredson was awarded $1.5 million from the Department of
Education to look at the effects of enhanced after-school programs on educational
outcomes.
Economics
professor Lawrence Ausubel was awarded $264,188 from the National Science Foundation
for a project titled “Dynamic Matching Mechanisms.” 
PSTTAP
received $4.3 million from the Maryland Department of Public Safety
and Correctional Services to transition their business practices and
computing systems from a mainframe to a distributive system, providing
subject matter, technical and policy experts and advice. 
Sociology
professor Ulla Larsen, a member of the MPRC, was awarded $253,103 from the National
Institutes of Health to conduct “A Community Study of Infertility in Northern
Tanzania.” 
Psychology
professor Carl Lejeuz was awarded 2 grants from the National Institutes of Health:
one for $1.7 million to study “Behavioral Technologies for Preventing
HIV Risk,” and the other for $1.1 million to study “Behavioral Treatment
for Depressed Smokers.”
Guillermo
Calvo, Distinguished University Professor of Economics, was elected into the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 
Thomas
Schelling, emeritus distinguished university professor in the Department of
Economics, was awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics.
Criminology
professor David Weisburd was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology.
Criminology
professor John Laub's book, Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys
to Age 70, is the recipient of the Distinguished Scholarly Publication award
from the Crime, Law and Deviance section of the American Sociological Association.
Criminology
Professor Doris MacKenzie was elected vice president of the American Society
of Criminology. 
Fernando
Balderrama, who graduated with degrees in economics, international business
and French, was awarded a Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship, worth up to $50,000,
to attend graduate school. He is attending the London School of Economics. Mr.
Balderrama was also chosen to give the student speech at the university’s
commencement ceremony in May. 
Melissa
Boteach, who graduated with double degrees in government and politics and Spanish,
was this year's recipient of the University Medal, the highest honor that the
university can bestow on a graduating student. The award exemplifies academic
distinction, extraordinary character and extracurricular contributions to campus
or public communities. 
