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.
Academic and Cultural Centers
Virginia Massey-Burzio, head of Resource
Services at Homewood's Milton S. Eisenhower Library, has
been selected for inclusion in the 2004-2005 edition of
Marquis Who's Who of American Women.
Homewood Student Affairs
Kimberly Strickler, assistant director of
Student Financial Services, has been selected as Mentoring
Scholarship winner for the 2004-2005 academic year by the
Maryland Association of Student Financial Aid
Administrators.
JHPIEGO
Kenneth M. Jones II has been named chief
financial officer. Jones joins JHPIEGO from Mirant Corp.,
an international energy marketing company, where he was
assistant to the senior vice president for finance and
accounting. He previously held financial positions with
Pfizer Inc. and Ford Motor Company. Jones received an MBA
from MIT, a master's degree in economics from SUNY Buffalo
and a bachelor's degree from Boston University.
Four new members have been appointed to the corporate
board of directors. They are Dwight Bush, principal
of Stuart Mill Capital, Arlington, Va.; Donna Ecton,
chairman and chief executive officer of EEI Inc., Paradise
Valley, Ariz.; Robert Mallett, senior vice president
for corporate af-fairs for Pfizer Inc., New York; and C.
Cathleen Raffaeli, managing partner of the Hamilton
White Group, Pound Ridge, N.Y.
Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
Nitu Kitchloo, assistant professor in the
Mathematics Department, is one of two recipients of the
31st Centennial Fellowship awarded by the American
Mathematical Society. The one-year fellowship was
established in 1973 to support research in mathematics.
Petar Maksimovic, assistant professor of
physics, has received a Sloan Research Fellowship to study
the collision of protons and antiprotons when they are
accelerated to the speed of light.
Greg Williamson, a poet and senior lecturer in
the Writing Seminars, is one of eight writers to receive a
2004 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy
of Arts and Letters. The $7,500 award honors writers of
exceptional accomplishment in any genre. The award will be
presented May 19 in New York.
Multidisciplinary
Peter Pronovost, associate professor of
anesthesiology and critical care medicine and medical
director of the Center for Innovations in Quality Patient
Care, and Eden Stotsky, health educator at the Colon Cancer
Center, have been chosen by The Daily Record as 2004 Health
Care Heroes. Pronovost is the physician winner; Stotsky,
the volunteer winner. Honorable mention recognition went to
Jeanne Charleston, School of Public Health; Sandy Dietzel,
Children's Center; and Lori Paine, Johns Hopkins Outpatient
Center.
Kapil Gupta, a graduate student in the Whiting
School's Department of Chemical and Biomolecular
Engineering, and Shoji Takashi, a graduate student in the
School of Medicine's Department of Biomedical Engineering,
are among the 16 winners of 2004 Student Research
Achievement Awards from the Biophysical Society. Both were
selected for the honor by the organization's Membrane
Biophysics Subgroup.
Nitze School of Advanced International
Studies
Two SAIS publications were recognized in the
19th Annual Admissions Advertising Awards sponsored by
Admissions Marketing Report. In categories for schools with
fewer than 2,000 students, SAISPHERE's 2002
leadership-themed issue was a silver winner, and the
2003-2004 Academic Catalog was a bronze winner.
School of Medicine
Charles Angell, assistant professor of
medicine, has received the Samuel Asper Award for Clinical
Excellence from the Maryland Chapter of the American
College of Physicians. The award recognizes individuals who
are consummate practitioners of the art and science of
medicine.
Benjamin Carson, professor of neurological
surgery and director of pediatric neurosurgery, has been
appointed to the President's Council on Bioethics. The
council, created in 2001, is charged with the task of
providing a moral and ethical lens through which to view
developments such as stem cell research and cloning.
Neil Powe, professor of medicine and director
of the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and
Clinical Research, has received the Mary Betty Stevens
Award for Excellence in Clinical Research from the Maryland
Chapter of the American College of Physicians. The late
Mary Betty Stevens was a faculty member at Johns Hopkins
who exemplified excellence in clinical research.
Ariel Roguin, a clinical fellow in cardiology,
has won the Melvin Judkins Young Clinical Investigator
Award from the American Heart Association. Roguin was
recognized for his research into the MRI safety of modern
pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillator
systems.
Noel Rose, professor of pathology and director
of the Center for Autoimmune Disease Research, has been
appointed chairman of the National Institutes of Health's
Autoimmune Disease Coordinating Committee. Rose will serve
as the principal adviser regarding coordination of
federally sponsored autoimmune disease research to Tommy
Thompson, health and human services secretary; Cristina
Beato, assistant secretary for health; and Elias Zerhouni,
director of the NIH.
Responding to the enormous growth and complexity of
residency and postdoctoral programs, the SOM has divided
responsibilities in the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs.
Julia McMillan has been named associate dean for
graduate medical education. She will be responsible for
house staff programs. McMillan, who is Pediatrics' vice
chairwoman for education and residency program director,
has been vice chairwoman of the Committee on Graduate
Medical Education. Levi Watkins, who formerly was
responsible for all graduate medical education, will
continue as associate dean for postdoctoral affairs with
responsibility for more than 1,200 postdoctoral fellows.
School of Nursing
Sara Angelino, a junior (traditional) student,
was elected president of the Council of State Presidents at
the National Student Nurses' Association recent annual
meeting in Nashville.
Sharon O'Neill has been promoted to assistant
professor.
Anne Outwater, a doctoral candidate, received
the Graduate Research Award 2004 from the Transcultural
Nursing Society. Her research is on the philosophy of care
in sub-Saharan Africa.
Cynda Rushton has been promoted to associate
professor.
Julie Stanik-Hutt has been promoted to
associate professor.
Faculty members Diane Aschenbrenner, Kathy
Kushto-Reese and Ron Berk received the first
annual Distinguished Fellows Presentation Award from the
International Society for Exploring Teaching and Learning
for their presentation titled "So You Want to Be a Star:
Professor Search!" made at the 33rd annual ISETL
conference.
Whiting School of Engineering
Ralph Etienne-Cummings, associate professor in
Electrical and Computer Engineering, will start a two-year
term in 2004 as a member of the board of governors of the
IEEE/Circuits and Systems Society. In addition,
Etienne-Cummings was recently profiled in the online
journal BlackEngineer.com.
Robert E. Green Jr., the Theophilus Halley
Smoot Professor of Engineering in the Department of
Materials Science and Engineering, received the 2004 NDE
Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society
for Optical Engineering at its annual symposium of
Nondestructive Evaluation for Health Monitoring and
Diagnostics, held last month in San Diego. The honor
recognizes Green's dedication to that field and his
commitment to educating students. Green is founder and
former director of the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation
and is also a member of the principal professional staff at
APL.
Omar Knio, professor of mechanical engineering,
has received the prestigious Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Research Award from the Alexander van Humboldt Foundation
of Germany. The award is bestowed in recognition of
lifetime achievements in science, for younger, outstanding
scientists and scholars who reside outside Germany.
Jerry Prince, professor of electrical and
computer engineering, was elected an IEEE Fellow in January
"for contributions to signal and image processing for
medical imaging."
Andrea Prosperetti, professor of mechanical
engineering, has won the Senior Award from the
International Conference on Multiphase Flow. This
prestigious award is granted every three years. Prosperetti
is invited to give the Award Lecture at the ICMF-2004, to
be held in Yokohama, Japan.
Avi Rubin, associate professor, Computer
Science, was named a Baltimorean of the Year by Baltimore
magazine for his role in the "debate over the future of
electronic voting systems." The feature appeared in its
January issue.
Lian Shen joins Civil Engineering as an
assistant professor. Shen's research interests include
ocean engineering, coastal processes and environmental
fluid flows, computational fluid dynamics, high-performance
computing and parallel computing. He received his doctorate
in fluid mechanics from MIT in 2000.
Rene Vidal joins Biomedical Engineering and the
Center for Imaging Science as an assistant professor. Vidal
received doctorates in electrical engineering and in
computer sciences from the University of California,
Berkeley, in 2000 and 2003. His research focuses on
inference problems in computer vision, machine learning,
robotics and control involving geometry, dynamics,
photometry and statistics.
James West, research professor, Electrical and
Computer Engineering, has received the John William
Struitt, 3rd Baron of Rayleigh 2003 Award from the Mexican
Institute of Acoustics and the 10th Mexican Congress on
Acoustics.
Four assistant professors have received prestigious
National Science Foundation CAREER Awards, which recognize
and support the early career-development activities of
scholars likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st
century. They are Jason Eisner, Computer Science,
for his research in finite-state machine learning on
strings and sequences; Justin Hanes, Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering, for his research in real-time
transport phenomena of nonviral DNA nanocarriers in live
cells; Allison Okamura, Mechanical Engineering, for
her research in haptic exploration and modeling of unknown
environments; and Lester Su, Mechanical Engineering,
for his research in application-driven combustion and fluid
flow imaging.
Assistant professors Jennifer Elisseeff,
Biomedical Engineering, and Allison Okamura,
Mechanical Engineering, have received Whitaker Biomedical
Engineering Research Grants. These grants were established
in 1976 when biomedical engineering did not fit well into
traditional grant programs to enable young investigators to
establish themselves and the field; this is the final year
the Whitaker Foundation will award these grants.
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