Fall 2006 TABLE OF CONTENTS
MAJOR GRANTS/CONTRACTS
Center for International Development and Conflict Management
Professor Ernest Wilson was awarded $1,472,746 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for a project titled “Avian Influenza Regional Tracking and Analysis."
Center for Institutional Reform in the Informal Sector (IRIS)
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded IRIS a grant for $6 million to assess the impact of the Foundation’s grants to microfinance organizations and help it understand the impact of financial services on poverty.
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Department of Geography
Professor Ivan Csiszar has been awarded $450,000 from NASA for a project titled “The Analysis for Long-Term Fire Dynamics and Impacts in the Amazon.”
Office of International and Executive Programs
The Naval Academy has awarded the college’s Office of International and Executive Programs a $285,000 contract to provide a Leadership Education and Development (LEAD) Program for Junior Officers selected for assignment as Company Officers.
Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences
Hearing and Speech Sciences professor Dr. Froma P. Roth and colleagues have been awarded a three-year $2.5 million Early Reading First Grant from the U.S. Department of Education for a project titled "Partnering for Literacy: A Multi-Disciplinary Program for Emergent Literacy and Early Reading Success.”
Public Safety Training and Technical Assistance Program (PSTTAP)
The Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (DPSCS) has awarded PSTTAP $4,248,683 to assist with the design, development, implementation and operational stabilization of portions of five information technology projects being undertaken to improve the technical services DPSCS provides to Maryland’s criminal justice agencies.
Department of Psychology
Professor Michael Dougherty has been awarded $350,000 from the National Science Foundation for a project titled “Attention, Memory and Judgment.”
Professor Arie Kruglanski was awarded $240,000 from the National Science Foundation for a project titled “A Parametric Model of Social Judgment.”
AWARDS/HONORS
Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Gary LaFree, START director and professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, has been named a fellow of the American Society of Criminology.
Professor John Laub was named a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher for 2006-2007.
Department of Economics
Professor Wallace Oates was named a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher for 2006-2007.
Department of Geography
Geography professor Sam Goward won the John Wesley Powell Award, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) on non-USGS employees.
Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences
Nan Bernstein Ratner, chair of the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, received the International Fluency Association’s Award of Distinction for Outstanding Researcher during the organization’s Fifth World Congress meeting in Dublin, Ireland, and has been awarded a Visiting Fellowship at the University of Sydney, Faculty of Health Sciences.
Department of Psychology
Stacey Daughters, assistant research professor and director of the Addictions Research Division in the Center for Addictions, Personality and Emotion Research, was awarded the Early Career Investigator Award at the College on Problems of Drug Dependence conference.
Distinguished University Professor Arie Kruglanski, Department of Psychology, has won the Society for Experimental Social Psychology’s Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award. This award honors the recipient’s unusually significant contributions to experimental social psychology.
Department of Sociology
Sociology professor Patricia Hill Collins has been named a Distinguished University Professor.
NEW FACES/APPOINTMENTS
Jennifer Dumas has joined the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences as assistant dean for development and alumni affairs.
Kim Nickerson has joined the college as an assistant dean and director of the college’s diversity initiative.
Suzanne Bianchi is the new chair of the Department of Sociology.
Harold Sigall has been appointed interim chair of the Department of Psychology.
The College welcomes six new faculty.
SERVICE
Criminology professor Doris MacKenzie has been elected president of the Academy of Experimental Criminology.
Romanian President Traian Basescu has appointed government and politics professor Vladimir Tismaneanu chair and coordinator of the Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Russia.
Criminology professor David Weisburd has been elected to the executive board of the American Society of Criminology as an executive counselor.
Psychology professor Amanda Woodward has been named a member of the National Institutes of Health's Cognition and Perception Study Section, Center for Scientific Review.
PUBLICATIONS
Economics professor Rodrigo Soares has won the Kenneth J. Arrow Award for Best Paper in Health Economics for his paper "The Quantity and Quality of Life and the Evolution of World Inequality."
STUDENTS
Behavioral and Social Sciences students took top honors at the university’s commencement in May: Jessica Sheer (left), a government and politics major, was the University Medal Winner and Michelle Karkowsky (right), a government and politics and economics major, was the commencement speaker.
