Faculty Honors and Awards 2008-2009
Biochemistry & Cell Biology
Bonnie Bartel Elected AAAS Fellow
Kathleen Beckingham Elected to the ASBMB Publications Committee
George Bennett Travel Fund award for collaboration with Fudan & Zhangshan Universities
Mike Gustin George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching, 2008
Mary Ellen Lane Research on zebrafish reported on ABC News
Kathy Matthews Meritorious Service Award, Association of Rice Alumni, 2009
Joff Silberg Undergraduate team received gold medal in International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition that entered “BioBeer”
Yizhi Jane Tao Travel Fund award for collaboration with Fudan & Zhangshan Universities
Weiwei Zhong Searle Scholar Award, 2009
Chemistry
Zachary Ball John L. Margrave Junior Faculty Innovation Award, Rice University, 2008
Cecilia Clementi Norman Hackerman Award in Chemical Research, Welch Foundation, 2009
Vicki Colvin Health Hero, Prevention Magazine, 2008
Robert Curl Presidential Gold Medal, Indian Science Congress, 2008
Naomi Halas Faculty Fellow, National Security Science and Engineering; Associate Editor, Nano Letters; elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Jeffrey Hartgerink IBB Collaborative Award, Rice University, 2008
Anatoly Kolomeisky Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2008
Stephan Link GSA Faculty Teaching/Mentoring Award, 2008; John L. Margrave Junior Faculty Innovation Award, Rice University, 2008; Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, 2008
James Tour 2008 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology, Foresight Institute; NASA Space Act Award, NASA, 2008
Bruce Weisman Elected Fellow, American Physical Society, 2008
Michael Wong DragonflyTV Nano (funded by NSF), integral role in the development of “Self Assembly” part of the episode on “Nanotechnology Applications”
Eugene Zubarev Sloan Research Fellow, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2008; John L. Margrave Innovation and Excellence Award, Rice University, 2008
Earth Science
Cin-Ty Lee Hisashi Kuno Award, American Geophysical Union, VGP Section, 2008; F.W. Clarke Award, early career award, Geochemical Society, 2009
Carrie Masiello Member of “Team Biochair” which was awarded top prize in the “Recycle Ike” competition, 2008
Manik Talwani Emil Weichert Medal, German Geophysical Society, 2009
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
David Queller Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2008
Volker Rudolf Young Investigator’s Prize, American Society of Naturalists, 2008; Andrew Fleming Award, University of Virginia, 2008
Joan Strassmann Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2008; President of the Animal Behavior Society
Mathematics
Michael Boshernitzan Membership in Mathematical Sciences Research Institute as Research Professor, 2008
Robert Hardt Associate Editor, Journal of Geometric Analyses, 2008
Brendan Hassett Editorial Board, Experimental Mathematics, 2008
Physics & Astronomy
David Alexander Faculty Fellowship, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, 2008
Matthew Baring Outstanding Referee Award, American Physical Society, 2009
Anthony Chan Outstanding College Associate, Martel College, 2008-09
Marj Corcoran Distinguished Scientist Award, University of Wisconsin, 2008
Stan Dodds Distinguished Faculty Associate, Wiess College, 2008-09
Barry Dunning Work highlighted in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany, 2008; Distinguished Faculty Associate, Jones College, 2008-09
Arthur Few Award from the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research for Science Advisory, 2008
James Hannon Distinguished Faculty Associate, Wiess College, 2008-09
Huey Huang Co-authored “Structures of tansmembrane pores induced by Bax derived peptides”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2008; Editorial Board Member, Biophysical Journal
Randy Hulet PI on new multi-investigator DARPA grant to simulate correlated fermionic systems with ultra-cold gases and optical lattices; work featured in Science, “The Mad Dash to Make Light Crystals”, April , 2008
Chris Johns-Krull Distinguished Faculty Associate, Brown College, 2008-09
Ching-Hwa Kiang Named “Researcher of the Year” in Small Times magazine’s annual Best of Small Tech Awards competition
Neal Lane Public Welfare Medal, National Academy of Sciences, 2009; Karl T. Compton Medal for Leadership in Physics, The American Institute of Physics, 2009; Alumni Gold Medal, The Association of Rice Alumni, 2009; Distinguished Faculty Associate, Wiess College, 2008-09
Emilia Morosan Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, 2008
Doug Natelson Named one of the nation’s top 20 scientists under age 40 by Discover magazine, 2008; Science blog highlighted in Physics World
Peter Nordlander Fellow of the American Association for the Advance of Science, 2008
Patricia Reiff Athelstan Spilhaus Award, American Geophysical Union, 2009
Qimiao Si Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2008; “Quantum criticality in heavy-fermion metals,” Nature Physics, March 2008
Paul Stevenson Distinguished Faculty Associate, Brown College, 2008-09