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DEANS' LIST Recent faculty awards, honors, and large scale grants

SCHOOL OF EDUCATION 2001 Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award, Raymond Sharick, educational policy research and administration. COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING $100,000 Semiconductor Research Corp. grant, Wayne Burleson, electrical and computer engineering. $127,390 Office of Naval Research grant, James Carswell, electrical and computer engineering. $128,800 Harvard University grant, Theodore Djaferis, electrical and computer engineering. $234,770 Bridgeport Hydraulic Co. grant, James Edzwald, civil and environmental engineering. $128,000 DOD grant, Stephen Frasier, electrical and computer engineering. $295,050 Battelle grant, Stephen Sekelsky, electrical and computer engineering. Materials Science, Inc., Academic Award 2000, Philip Westmoreland and Stanislav Stoliarov, chemical engineering. $1.79 million in NASA and NSF grants, Sigfrid Yngvesson, electrical and computer engineering and Eyal Gerecht, astronomy. COLLEGE OF FOOD AND NATURAL RESOURCES USDA Honor Award, Weslie Autio, Jon Clements, Daniel Cooley, and Duane Greene, extension. Technology Editor, Landscape Architecture Magazine, Nicholas Dines, landscape architecture and regional planning. Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Outreach Award, Walton Galinat, plant and soil sciences emeritus. 2001 Distinguished Academic Outreach Award, Ruth Hazzard, cooperative extension. Keynote speaker, Japanese Cycling Association conference, Mark Lindhult , landscape architecture and regional planning. Fellow, Costume Society of America, Patricia Warner, consumer studies. Distinguished Faculty Award, UMass Alumni Association, Glenn Wong, sport studies. COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND FINE ARTS 2002 Fulbright Scholar (Greece), Nicholas Bromell, English. Guggenheim fellowship, Kevin Boyle, history. City of Northampton Poet Laureate, Martin Espada, English. 2001 Distinguished Academic Outreach Award, Roberta Uno, theater. 2001 Distinguished Teaching Award, Robert Sullivan, Germanic languages and literatures. 2001 Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award, Vija Mendelson, Spanish and Portuguese. COLLEGE OF NATURAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS $125,000 NSF grant, Raymond Arnold, physics. Outstanding Advisor Certificate of Merit, National Academic Advising Association, Bruce Byers, biology. $100,875 Hewlett Packard grant, James Capistran, polymer science and engineering. $400,000 DOD grant, Paul Cohen, computer science. $799,990 DOD grant; $405,960 Carnegie Mellon grant; Bruce Croft, computer science. $107,345 DOE grant, Richard Ellis, mathematics and statistics. $304,220 FAA grant, Richard Farris, polymer science and engineering. $344,460 NIH grant, Maurille Fournier, biochemistry and molecular biology. $219,880 NSF grant, William Gerace, Scientific Reasoning Research Institute. $400,000 DOD grant, Samuel Gido, polymer science and engineering. $140,000 NSF grant, Robert Hallock, physics. $191,940 NIH grant, Daniel Hebert, biochemistry and molecular biology. Plenary Address, New England Statistics Symposium, University of Connecticut, Joseph Horowitz, mathematics and statistics. $205,620 DARPA grant, David Jensen, computer science. SEAM (Search for Electro-Active Materials) 2000 Award, Polymer Research Institute of Polytechnic University, New York; Frank Karasz, polymer science and engineering. $478,580 NSF grant, Peter Lillya, chemistry. Honorary doctorate, Union College, Lynn Margulis, geosciences. $140,000 DOD grant, Leon Osterweil, computer science. $250,000 grant, Atlantic Coast Technologies, Edward Riseman, computer science. $180,200 NIH grant, Vincent Rotello, chemistry. 2001 Samuel F. Conti Faculty Fellowship, Thomas Russell, polymer science and engineering. $113,880 grant, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Peter Schloerb, astronomy. $200,000 NSF grant, Danny Schnell, biochemistry and molecular biology. $285,910 NIH grant, Larry Schwartz, biology. $105,000 California Institute of Technology (JPL) grant, Michael Skrutskie, astronomy. $275,000 NSF grant, Donald St. Mary, mathematics and statistics. $186,980 NIH grant, Lynmarie Thompson, chemistry. 2001 Outstanding Academic Advisor, James F. Walker, physics. $104,000 NASA grant, Daniel Wang, astronomy. $230,000 NASA grant, Martin Weinberg, astronomy. $173,470 NIH grant, Robert Weis, chemistry. Young Investigator Award, National Security Agency, Sarah Witherspoon, mathematics. 2001 Samuel F. Conti Faculty Fellowship; $226,735 NIH grant, Christopher Woodcock, biology. Fellow, American Physics Society, Po-Zen Wong, physics. Honorary doctorate, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava; Cross of Honor for Arts and Science, Republic of Austria; Ott Vogl, polymer science and engineering emeritus. $211,350 NASA grant, Shlom Zilberstein, computer science. $100,000 NSF grant, Robert Zimmermann, biochemistry and molecular biology. SCHOOL OF NURSING 2001 Outstanding Teacher Award, Karen Plotkin. SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND HEALTH SCIENCES President, New England American College of Sports Medicine, Stella Volpe, nutrition. COLLEGE OF SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES 2001-02 Radicliffe Institute fellow, Sarah Babb, sociology. Honorees, "Theories That Have Stood the Test of Time" series, Western States Communication Association; Vernon Cronen and W. Barnett Pearce (emeritus), communication. Co-recipient, Best Scientific Book prize, University of Havana, Carmen Diana Deere, economics. Five Colleges Pritzen Lecture, Ralph Faulkingham, anthropology. 2001 Distinguished Teaching Award, Robert Faulkner, sociology. $100,000 fellowship, Center for Advancement of Health and W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Dean Robinson, political science. 2001 Distinguished Academic Outreach Award, James Royer, psychology. 2001 Samuel F. Conti Faculty Fellowship, George Wade, psychology. 2001 Distinguished Teaching Award; Board of Directors, UMass Alumni Association; Susan Whitbourne, psychology.

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THE DEANS' LIST: Recent UMass faculty honors