For the Record: Cheers
Cheers is a monthly listing of honors and
awards received by faculty, staff and students plus recent
appointments and promotions. Contributions must be
submitted in writing and be accompanied by a phone
number.
Applied Physics Laboratory
Dave Dunham, an astronomer in the Space
Department, has been selected by the American
Astronautical Society as its 2003 Dirk Brouwer Award
recipient. The award is given annually to recognize
significant contributions to space flight mechanics and
astrodynamics. Dunham was recognized for his unique and
sustained contributions in designing innovative
trajectories for deep-space science missions.
Dan Henderson, an engineer in the Power
Projection Systems Department, received the Rear Adm.
Grady Jackson Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of
his sustained tactical accomplishments. The award
recognizes a lifetime of success and commitment dedicated
to the men and women of the electronic attack
community.
Ark Lew, of the Space Department, has received
the Office of Technology Transfer's second Wave of
Contribution for Innovation Award. The honor, presented by
Wayne Swann of OTT, recognized Lew's efforts to support
innovation and commitment to the Lab.
Ed Roelof, a physicist in the Space
Department, has been elected a fellow of the American
Geophysical Union for his continued innovative research in
space physics and founding of the energetic neutral atom
imaging field. Fellows of the union are scientists who
have attained eminence in some branch of geophysics. The
total number of fellows elected each year may not exceed
0.1 percent of the total membership.
Robin Vaughan, an aerospace engineer in the
Space Department, has been named Engineer of the Year by
the Baltimore chapter of the American Institute of
Aeronautics and Astronautics. She was cited for her work
as guidance and control lead engineer for the MESSENGER
spacecraft.
Cliff Ratliff, APL's NATO Seasparrow Project
Manager of the Air Defense Systems Department, recently
accepted the Evolved Seasparrow Missile Test and
Evaluation Team Award on behalf of the Laboratory.
Presented May 12 in Dresden, Germany, to 12 government
organizations and companies, the award recognizes the
cooperative spirit of the ESSM team.
The Lab and Joe Mazzafro and Mike
Vlahos, both of the National Security Analysis
Department, were honored June 28 with the Golden Candle
Award from Open Source Solutions for sustained excellence
in the integration of Open Source Intelligence in their
all-source analytic efforts supporting DoD.
Health Divisions Administration
Kim Hoppe has joined the Johns Hopkins
Children's Center as the associate director of
communications and public affairs. Hoppe spent nearly 10
years as a senior newsroom producer, medical news producer
and newscast producer at the Baltimore CBS and ABC
television stations and during that time received an Emmy
award nomination for television production. Most recently,
she was the media relations manager for an international
franchising company headquartered near Washington, D.C.
Joann Rodgers, deputy director of the Office
of Corporate Communications, has been appointed to the
Select Committee on the Public Understanding of Science of
Sigma Xi, the national scientific research society.
Nitze School of Advanced International
Studies
Azar Nafisi, research associate, has won the
2004 Book Sense Book of the Year award for adult
nonfiction for Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in
Books (Random House). The award was announced by the
American Booksellers Association during the Celebration of
Bookselling at BookExpo America 2004, held last month in
Chicago. Nafisi is director of the Dialogue Project, a
professorial lecturer and a Foreign Policy Institute
visiting fellow.
School of Nursing
Lori Edwards, instructor, received a 2004
Maryland Association for Higher Education Outstanding
Educator Award in the faculty category.
Renee Milligan, adjunct faculty, received the
Linowes Leadership Award on June 8 at the NBC4 studios in
Washington, D.C.
Phyllis Henderson Morgan, postdoctoral fellow,
received a 2004 Oncology Nursing Society Foundation
Nursing Research Grant for her research on
African-American women's breast cancer treatment.
Julie Stanik-Hutt, associate professor, has
attained certification as a critical care clinical nurse
specialist.
Kathleen White, associate professor and
director of faculty practice, was named to the board of
CareFirst Inc.
Kathleen Becker, assistant professor, received
the State Award for Excellence for Nurse Practitioners,
and Marion D'Lugoff, assistant professor, received the
State Award for Excellence for Nurse Practitioner
Advocate, both at the 19th annual conference of the
American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.
Miyong Kim, associate professor, and Daniel
Sheridan, assistant professor, have been named fellows of
the American Academy of Nursing. They will be formally
inducted into the academy at its annual meeting and
conference in November.
Linda Pugh, associate professor and director
of the baccalaureate program, and Kathleen White,
associate professor and director of faculty practice, were
both named with joint appointments as clinical nurse
specialists in the Department of Nursing at The Johns
Hopkins Hospital in recognition of their contributions to
the development and implementation of the Johns Hopkins
Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Model and Guidelines,
published in the International Journal of Nursing
Education Scholarship. These are the first associate CNS
appointments from the School of Nursing to the
hospital.
University Administration
Robert Lindgren, vice president for
development and alumni relations, has been elected to the
board of CASE, the Council for Advancement and Support of
Education.
Lynne Lochte, HopkinsOne program director, has
been named by Baltimore Smart CEO as one of the top
certified public accountants in Maryland. The honor
recognizes technical expertise, leadership, innovation,
significant accomplishment and relationship development.
The recipients were selected by a poll of the magazine's
more than 18,000 business owners readers and more than
10,000 members of the Maryland Association of Certified
Public Accountants.
Whiting School of Engineering
Justin Hanes, associate professor in the
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has
been selected to participate in the National Academy of
Engineering's Frontiers of Engineering program.The
symposium, to be held in September at the National
Academies of Sciences and Engineering's Arnold and Mabel
Beckman Center in Irvine, Calif., will bring together
engineers ages 30 to 45 who are performing cutting-edge
engineering research and technical work in a variety of
disciplines. The 86 participants were nominated by fellow
engineers and organizations and chosen from a field of
more than 170 applicants.
En Ma, professor in the Department of
Materials Science and Engineering, has been selected as
the recipient of the ASM International 2004 Materials
Science Research Silver Medal. Ma is cited for "important
experimental and theoretical contributions in the study of
metastable and nanocrystalline materials." Presentation of
this award will take place at the ASM Committee/Council
Awards Luncheon on Oct. 18 in Columbus, Ohio.
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