Robert Moffitt and his wife, Emily
Agree, an associate professor in the School of Public
Health
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The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences recently
honored three professors at an event held at Evergreen
House. Robert Moffitt,
Department of Economics, and George Rose,
Department of
Biophysics, were named to Krieger-Eisenhower
Professorships, and Riccardo Giacconi,
Department of Physics
and Astronomy, was recognized as University
Professor.
Robert Moffitt has studied and described trends in
labor economics and applied microeconometrics for 30 years.
His research has provided insight into U.S. labor force
issues, particularly working and welfare mothers and how
their work decisions influence their children. He has been
a major force in examining the structures and effects of
one of the largest social and political movements of the
1990s: welfare reform.
Moffitt is the chief editor of the American
Economic Review and past editor of the Review of
Economics and Statistics and Journal of Human
Resources. He has served on more than 15 advisory
committees and boards and is an active participant in
federal and state policy gatherings on welfare reform and
other social policies. He has received numerous awards
including the Robert J. Lampman Memorial Lectureship from
the University of Wisconsin, the MERIT Award from the
National Institutes of Health and title of National
Associate from the National Academy of Sciences.
Since arriving at Johns Hopkins in 1995, he has served
with distinction as professor in the departments of
Economics, Population Dynamics, and
Population and Family Health Sciences. In addition, he
is a faculty affiliate in the Institute
for Policy Studies.
George Rose
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George Rose is an expert in biophysics and
biophysical
chemistry. His lab has made significant contributions in
discovering the properties of protein molecules. Using
computer modeling and mathematical algorithms, Rose focuses
primarily on analyzing and simulating folded and unfolded
protein structure. His work has been featured in more than
100 publications, and he serves on the editorial advisory
board of Protein Science and as the consulting
editor for Proteins, Structure, Function, and
Bioinformatics. In 2002, he was a Guggenheim
Fellow.
Rose has served Hopkins with distinction, first as
professor of biophysics and biochemistry at the School of
Medicine and, since 2002, as professor of biophysics in the
Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. Currently, he is chair
of the Jenkins Department of Biophysics with a joint
appointment as professor of biophysics and biochemistry in
the School of Medicine.
President William R. Brody and
Riccardo Giacconi
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Riccardo Giacconi has revolutionized the discipline
of
astrophysics using the X-ray region of the spectrum to
discover fundamental properties of black holes, neutron
stars, clusters of galaxies and quasars. In 2002, he was
the co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics for this
groundbreaking research. His tremendous contributions to
astrophysics have been recognized through the array of
honors bestowed upon him by the scientific community. In
addition to the Nobel Prize, he has received the 2003
National Medal of Science, the United States' top
scientific recognition; the Wolf Prize in physics; the Gold
Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society; and the NASA
Exceptional Scientific Achievement Award. He has been
awarded honorary degrees from universities around the
world, including the universities of Warsaw, Rome and
Uppsala, Sweden.
Giacconi has brought honor and prestige to The Johns
Hopkins University, first as director of the
Space Telescope Science
Institute, and after as professor of physics and
astronomy and as research professor.
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