2011 Awards, Honors, and Presentations of Note
IPR associate and oncofertility specialist Teresa Woodruff is the recipient of a 2011 Richard Silverman CMIDD Research Award from Northwestern University’s Center for Molecular Innovation and Drug Discovery. The goal of the award is to enable investigators to obtain preliminary results that can be used to support research grant applications to federal funding agencies for more extensive projects.
Law professor and IPR fellow Dorothy Roberts was elected one of 10 new fellows of The Hastings Center, a nonpartisan research institute devoted to bioethics. She will join an elected association of leading researchers who have made a distinguished contribution to ethics and the life sciences.
The Women's Health Science Program for High School Girls and Beyond, which was co-founded by IPR associate and oncofertility specialist Teresa Woodruff, was recognized by President Barack Obama this year as a recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring.
Katherine Kaufer Christoffel, an IPR associate and pediatrician, was selected to receive the 2011 Benjamin Gingiss Award from the Bright Promises Foundation. The award recognizes lifetime achievement for an individual who has furthered the welfare of Illinois children.
IPR statistican Larry Hedges was nominated by President Barack Obama to the National Board for Education Sciences as one of its 15 voting members. The board advises and consults with the director of the Institute of Education Sciences (the Department of Education’s research arm) on educational policy and research priorities.
The paper, “Dynamic Public Opinion: Communication Effects
over Time,” by political scientists James Druckman, an
IPR fellow, and Dennis Chong, an IPR associate, was singled
out for two awards from the American Political Science Association (APSA). It received the Franklin L. Burdette/Pi Sigma
Alpha Award for the best paper presented at the previous
year’s annual meeting. The two IPR researchers received the
same award in 2007. In addition, they received the award for
best paper in political psychology also from the previous year.
Both awards were presented at APSA’s annual meeting this
September in Seattle. Druckman was also elected as chair of
APSA’s political psychology section for 2011–12.
IPR social psychologist Alice Eagly received the Metro Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin, where she is on leave
as a residential fellow at the Hans Arnhold Center in fall 2011. She also took home the Raymond A. Katzell Award from
the Society for Industrial and Organizational
Psychology, recognizing a
member whose research has made a
difference in peoples’ lives.
Several IPR associates were elected by students to the 2010-11 Faculty Honor Roll, sponsored by Northwestern's Associated Student Government. They include political scientists Daniel Galvin and Paul Friesema, sociologists Steven Epstein and Karrie Snyder, and Jeannette Colyvas and John Kretzmann in the School of Education and Social Policy.
Leemore Dafny, associate professor of management
and strategy, was appointed to the Congressional Budget
Office’s Panel of Health Advisers.
Media, technology, and society scholar Pablo J. Boczkowski, an IPR associate, received the 2011 Best Book Award from the Communication and Information Technology Section of the American Sociological Association for News at Work: Imitation in an Age of Information Abundance (University of Chicago Press, 2010).
IPR political scientist James Druckman received a Weinberg College Outstanding Freshman Advising Award. Presented annually, the Weinberg College Teaching Awards applaud excellence in instruction, significant contributions to curricular innovation, exemplary mentoring of research and independent study, and the fostering of a sense of community both inside and outside the classroom.
IPR developmental psychologist Lindsay Chase-Lansdale has been named the 2011 recipient of the award for Distinguished Contributions to Public Policy for Children by the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD). It was presented on March 31 at the society’s biennial meeting in Montreal. Read the article.
IPR associate Philip Greenland, preventive medicine researcher, received the Tripartite Legacy Faculty Prize, presented annually to the faculty member who has demonstrated excellence in research that emphasizes translational approaches, teaching, mentoring, and leadership.
IPR associate Jennifer Light has been invited to join the prestigious Institute for Advanced Study as a member in the School of Social Science for 2011-12. She is the first School of Communication faculty member to receive this honor.
The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern awarded IPR associate Daniel Diermeier the Chookaszian Prize in Risk Management for the research in his forthcoming book, Reputation Rules: Strategies for Building Your Company’s Most Valuable Asset (McGraw Hill). Diermeier is IBM Distinguished Professor of Regulation and Competitive Practice in Kellogg (March 2011).
IPR education economist David Figlio was the principal speaker at the Phi Beta Kappa honor society convocation at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va., on March 10. He advised students to "take the time to find that everything you observe connects to things you never even dreamed of."
Cognitive psychologist and IPR associate Sandra Waxman has been elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was inducted at the AAAS annual meeting in Washington D.C., February 19.
IPR social psychologist Alice Eagly and her University of Wisconsin colleague Sapna Cheryan spoke on "Gender Stereotypes: How They Discourage Unconventional Career Choices and Limit Opportunities" as part of the annual Allen L. Edwards Psychology Lecture Series at the University of Washington on February 16.
IPR economist Charles F. Manski delivered the Leverhulme Lecture on "Policy Analysis with Incredible Certitude" at the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London on February 9. More than 150 delegates attended the lecture, which was organized as part of the IFS public economics seminar series.
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