Faculty Awards 2012-2013

Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Beth Beason-Abmayr     Charles Duncan Award for Instruction in Natural Sciences; Judges’ Prize, iGEM 2012 World Championship Jamboree; Best Professor 2012, Baker College  

Janet Braam     Bioscience research grant, John S. Dunn Foundation; Cozzarelli Prize for PNAS paper, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; Gates Foundation Award

David Caprette    Charles Duncan Award for Instruction in Natural Sciences; Best Professor 2012, Baker College

Dan Carson     Elected fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Wassim Chehab     Cozzarelli Prize for PNAS paper, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; Gates Foundation Award

Liz Eich     Charles Duncan Award for Instruction in Natural Sciences

Cindy Farach-Carson     Bioscience research grant, John S. Dunn Foundation

Mike Gustin    George R. Brown Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Rice University

Dmitri Lopotko     Collaborative Research Fund Award, Simmons Family Foundation

Kathleen Matthews    Honoring service as Chair, Gulf Coast Consortia Oversight Committee  

James McNew    Collaborative Research Fund Award, Simmons Family Foundation

Alma Novotny    Outstanding Faculty Associate, Will Rice College; George R. Brown Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Rice University

George Phillips    Elected fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Gerda Saxer     Faculty Initiatives Fund Award, Rice University

Yousif Shamoo    Recipient (as IBB Director), 2013 Beckman Scholars Program for undergraduates; George R. Brown Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Rice University

Jonathan Silberg    Faculty Initiatives Fund Award, Rice University

Dan Wagner    Faculty Initiatives Fund Award, Rice University

Chemistry

Cecilia Clementi     Outstanding Faculty Associate, Lovett College

Gustavo Scuseria     John L. Margrave Memorial Innovation and Excellence Award

Jim Tour     George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching  

Kenton Whitmire     Outstanding Faculty Associate, Sid Richardson College

Peter Wolynes     Elected to Council, National Academy of Sciences

Emeriti Honors

Robert Curl    Outstanding Faculty Associate, Lovett College; America Competes Award for Public Service, Council on Competitiveness

Earth Science

John Anderson      Brögger Lecturer, University of Stockholm, Sweden              

Rajdeep Dasgupta    Hisashi Kuno Award, American Geophysical Union, section of Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology; CAREER award, National Science Foundation

Brandon Dugan    Faculty Initiatives Fund Award, Rice University

Helge Gonnerman     Faculty Initiatives Fund Award, Rice University

Richard G. Gordon    Council Leadership Team, American Geophysical Union

Alan Levander     Humboldt Research Prize Renewal, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Carrie Masiello     Faculty Initiatives Fund Award, Rice University

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Tom Miller     Faculty Initiatives Fund Award, Rice University

Nik Putnam      Lophotrochozoans genomes paper published in Nature

Scott Solomon     Charles Duncan Award for Instruction in Natural Sciences

Mathematics

Tim Cochran    RTG Grant, National Science Foundation

David Damanik    Inaugural Fellow, American Mathematical Society; RTG Grant, National Science Foundation

Robert Hardt     RTG Grant, National Science Foundation

Shelly Harvey     Inaugural Fellow, American Mathematical Society

Brendan Hassett     RTG Grant, National Science Foundation; Invited plenary talk, American Mathematical Society; Editorial board, Journal of Algebraic Geometry

John Hempel    Inaugural Fellow, American Mathematical Society; Retirement after 49 years of service to Rice University

Frank Jones    50 years at Rice                

John Polking     Inaugural Fellow, American Mathematical Society          

Andrew Putman    CAREER Award, National Science Foundation; Sloan Foundation Fellowship

Anthony Várilly-Alvarado     Sophia Meyer Farb Prize for Teaching, Phi Beta Kappa national honor society

Mike Wolf    Inaugural Fellow, American Mathematical Society; Codirector, Rice Emerging Scholars Program (RESP); RTG Grant, National Science Foundation; Editor, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society and Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Physics and Astronomy

Anthony Chan     Outstanding Faculty Associate, Martel College

Stan Dodds    Distinguished Faculty Associate, Wiess College

Barry Dunning     Faculty Initiatives Fund Award, Rice Universit; Outstanding Faculty Associate, Jones College

Jason Hafner    Inducted into Sigma Pi Sigma, Physics Honor Society; Fellow, Center for Teaching Excellence, Rice University                                        

Huey Huang     Distinguished Alumnus Award, National Taiwan University

Randy Hulet     Elected chair, American Physical Society, Division of Atomic, Molecular, & Optical Physics 

Christopher Johns-Krull     Distinguished Faculty Associate, Brown College

Thomas Killian     Faculty Initiatives Fund Award, Rice University

Neal Lane     Vannevar Bush Award, National Science Foundation

Herbert Levine     INSPIRE Award ($1 million), National Science Foundation; Elected fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Edison Liang    Distinguished Faculty Associate, Hanszen College

Doug Natelson     Elected fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Elected fellow, American Physical Society

Peter Nordlander     Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics, Physics of Quantum Electronics Conference; Elected fellow, Optical Society of America

José Onuchic    INSPIRE Award ($1 million), National Science Foundation

Han Pu     Outstanding Referee Award, American Physical Society

Patricia Reiff     Distinguished Faculty Associate, Brown College

Qimiao Si     Qianren Short-term visiting Professorship

Paul Stevenson     George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching, Rice University

Frank Toffoletto    Outstanding Faculty Associate, Martel College

Lam Yu     Charles Duncan Award for Instruction in Natural Sciences