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.
Bayview Medical Center
Eric Howell, assistant professor of medicine and
director of the Collaborative Inpatient
Medicine Service, has been elected to the board of directors
of the Society of Hospital Medicine. He
recently received SHM's Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Antony Rosen, professor and director of
Rheumatology in the Department of Medicine, has been
selected as recipient of the 2009 Mary Betty Stevens Award
presented by the American College of
Physicians, Maryland Chapter. Named for one of the world's
foremost rheumatologists, the award
recognizes significant contributions through clinical
research. Rosen, an internationally renowned basic
scientist in cell biology, pathology and immunology, directs
the rheumatology division that is ranked
No. 1 in the country by U.S. News & World Report. He
also is deputy director for innovation for the
Department of Medicine at Bayview. Rosen and his colleagues
work on defining the mechanisms of the
autoimmune rheumatic diseases, with a particular focus on
understanding how these diseases get
started and cause damage to the body's tissues.
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Miriam Alexander, director of the General
Preventive Medicine Residency Program and
assistant professor in the Department of Population, Family
and Reproductive Health, has been named
president of the American College of Preventive Medicine.
She will begin serving a two-year term as
president on Feb. 1, 2011, followed by a two-year term as
immediate past president.
Chongzhi Di, a doctoral candidate, is this
year's recipient of the Biostatistics Department's
Margaret Merrell Award for Excellence in Research.
Diane E. Griffin, professor and the Alfred and
Jill Sommer Chair of the W. Harry Feinstone
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, was
inducted March 12 into the Maryland
Women's Hall of Fame. Griffin, also the founding director of
the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research
Institute, came to the university as a virology fellow in
1970 after earning her medical and doctoral
degrees from Stanford University School of Medicine. Upon
completing her postdoctoral work, she
was named an assistant professor and later professor of
medicine and neurology. She served as a
Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator from 1973 to
1979. Griffin is the principal investigator
on a variety of grants from the National Institutes of
Health and the Bill & Melinda Gates and Dana
foundations. Her research focuses on how viruses cause
disease, especially alpha-viruses, acute
encephalitis and measles. She is also a member of the
National Academy of Sciences, the American
Academy of Microbiology and the Institute of Medicine.
Nicholas Reich, a doctoral candidate, is this
year's recipient of the Biostatistics Department's
Helen Abbey Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
Joyce Epstein, principal research scientist in
the Center for Social Organization of Schools, has
received the Elizabeth Cohen Award for Applied Research in
the Sociology of Education from the
Sociology of Education Special Interest Group of the
American Educational Research Association. The
honor was presented this month at the 90th annual meeting of
AERA, held in San Diego.
In addition, Epstein and James McPartland, also
a principal research scientist with CSOS, were
among 44 scholars selected as fellows by AERA in recognition
of their exceptional scientific or
scholarly contributions to education research or significant
contributions to the field through the
development of research opportunities and settings. They
were inducted on April 14 during the AERA
meeting.
Multidisciplinary
Three women from Johns Hopkins have been named by
The Daily Record to its list of Maryland's
Top 100 Women of 2009, a recognition honoring women who are
making an impact through their
leadership, community service and mentoring. They are
Lynn Goldman, a pediatrician and professor in
the Bloomberg School of Public Health's Department of
Environmental Health Sciences, who is
principal investigator for the Johns Hopkins University
Center for the National Children's Study and
co-principal investigator of the National Study Center for
Preparedness and Critical Event Response;
Martha Hill, dean of the School of Nursing, who is
known for her work and research in preventing and
treating hypertension and its complications, particularly
among young, urban African-American men;
and Rhonda Ulmer, community health advocate for Johns
Hopkins HealthCare. The honorees will be
recognized at an event to be held May 11 in Baltimore.
Recipients of the 2009 Diversity Recognition Awards
will be honored at a ceremony at noon on
Tuesday, May 12, in Homewood's Shriver Hall. Individual
awards will be presented by President Ron
Daniels to C. Michael Armstrong and Beverly
White-Seals, Johns Hopkins Medicine board of trustees;
Juan Arvelo and William Gray, Applied Physics
Laboratory; Rosa Asitimbay, Johns Hopkins Home Care
Group; Frederick Brancati and Neil Powe,
School of Medicine; Francesca Dominici, Bloomberg
School of Public Health; Ahreum Kim, Peabody
Conservatory; and Melodye Thomas, Bayview Medical
Center.
Group awards will be presented to the Center for
Talented Youth's disability management team:
Mary "Liz" Albert, Katherine Kidd, Melissa Kistler, Linda
Noell, Andrew Moss and Jim Smerbeck; and
to Engineers Without Borders at the Whiting School of
Engineering: William Ball, Edward Bouwer,
Kristen Downs, Ryan M. Harrison, Karen Nie, Carolyn
Purington, Jessica Shaio, Yourong "Sophie" Su,
Linda Wan, Yujie Wang, Mike Wheeler, Shane Woolwine, Jane
Yee and Jie Zhang.
Peabody Institute
Zane Forshee, a doctoral candidate in guitar
studying with Julian Gray, has received a Fulbright
grant to spend nine months in Alicante, Spain, starting in
September. Forshee, who also teaches
classical guitar at the Peabody Preparatory, will study the
solo guitar works of several Spanish
composers with guitarist Ignacio Rodes at the Oscar Espla
Conservatory in preparation for a new
recording. In addition, he will conduct research for a book
on the solo guitar works of Vicente
Ascencio (1908-1979), with whom Rodes worked closely.
Adam Golka, a graduate performance diploma
candidate studying piano with Leon Fleisher, has
been named the 2009 Max I. Allen Classical Fellow by the
American Pianists Association. Golka
received the prestigious fellowship, one of two, following
solo, chamber, lieder and concerto
performances in Indianapolis.
Colin Sorgi, a senior studying with Herbert
Greenberg, has been awarded the first prize in this
year's Marbury Prize Competition for undergraduate violin.
Sorgi will perform at the Marbury Prize
Recital on Tuesday, April 21, in Goodwin Recital Hall. Vieen
Leung, a junior studying with Victor
Danchenko, was awarded second prize in the competition.
SAIS
Jakub Grygiel, the George H.W. Bush Associate
Professor of International Relations, has been
accepted as a 2009-2010 academic fellow with the Foundation
for the Defense of Democracies in
Washington, D.C. As an FDD fellow, he will participate in a
unique educational program that focuses on
the threat of terrorism to democracy. The FDD Academic
Fellowship Program, which takes place in
Israel for 10 days this spring, consists of an intensive
series of lectures by academics, diplomats and
military officials from India, Israel, Jordan, Turkey and
the United States, as well as field trips to
military, police and immigration facilities throughout
Israel. The goal is to educate participants about
terrorism and how democratic states combat the threat.
School of Education
Yolanda Abel, assistant professor in the
Department of Teacher Preparation, has been selected
by Phi Delta Kappa International for inclusion in the PDK
2009-2010 Class of Emerging Leaders.
Founded in 1906, Phi Delta Kappa is a professional
association for educators whose mission is to
promote high-quality education--in particular, publicly
supported education — as essential to the
development and maintenance of a democratic way of life. PDK
has chapters in the United States,
Europe and Asia. Emerging leaders are those under 40 who are
considered the next generation of
educational leaders and policy-makers.
School of Medicine
Robert Cotter, professor of pharmacology and
molecular sciences and director of the Middle
Atlantic Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, has received the
American Chemical Society's Analytical
Division Award in Chemical Instrumentation for his landmark
advances in the field. Cotter was among
the first to use mass spectrometers to analyze proteins and
since has made significant improvements
in the technology. For example, he led a team that produced
a shoebox-sized, miniaturized mass
spectrometer, which typically is as big as a refrigerator.
The miniature was sent on a space mission to
Mars.
Rebekah Gundry, a research fellow in the
Department of Medicine's Division of Cardiology, is
one of only four recipients nationwide of a Pathway to
Independence Award from the NIH's National
Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. The grant provides
approximately $950,000 over five years to
support Gundry's research to track the differentiation of
embryonic stem cells toward heart muscle
cells. She also received a research grant from BD
Biosciences, an international life sciences company,
that provides $25,000 worth of the firm's reagents, which
are substances used in a chemical
reactions to detect, measure, examine or produce other
substances.
Dengke Ma, a doctoral candidate in neuroscience,
and Jared Parker, a doctoral candidate in
biophysics and biophysical chemistry, are among just 13
graduate students from North America to
receive 2009 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Awards
from the Basic Sciences Division of the
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. They were
recognized for the quality, originality
and significance of their work.
Luca Vricella has been named chief of Pediatric
Cardiac Surgery in the Division of Cardiac
Surgery.
Georgia Vogelsang, professor of oncology, has
received the Lifetime Achievement Award from
the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation
for her work on chronic graft vs. host
disease, or GVHD. She is the first woman to receive this
honor, which recognizes dedication to seeing
patients with chronic GVHD and developing new strategies to
treat it.
School of Nursing
Elizabeth Jordan, assistant professor, and
Shirley Van Zandt, instructor, both of the
Department of Community Public Health, have been named 2009
Health Care Heroes by The Daily
Record in the category of Community Outreach for their Birth
Companions program. Since 1997,
specially trained Johns Hopkins nursing students have
provided free doula care, including education,
prenatal visits and massages and breathing exercises during
labor, to poor women in the greater
Baltimore area.
Rosemary Mortimer, instructor in Acute and
Chronic Care, has received the 2009 Leader of
Leaders Award from the National Student Nurses' Association.
The recipient is nominated by the
students, and the award includes an expense-paid trip to the
NSNA Annual Convention in Nashville,
Tenn., where Mortimer was awarded a plaque at the Plenary
Session on April 16.
Sheridan Libraries / JHU Museums
Gabrielle Dean, the Council on Library and
Information Resources postdoctoral fellow in the
Rare Books and Manuscripts Department at the Sheridan
Libraries, has been awarded the Fredson
Bowers Memorial Prize by the Society for Textual
Scholarship. The prize is given out every two years
and recognizes an outstanding essay or article in textual
studies. Dean won for her article "Grid
Games: Gertrude Stein's Diagrams and Detectives," which
appeared in the April 2008 issue of the
journal Modernism/modernity.
University Administration
Deborah Hillard has been named director of the
Faculty and Staff Assistance Program. Hillard
joined Johns Hopkins six years ago and recently has been
directing the Johns Hopkins Student
Assistance Program for medical and professional students. In
her new role, she will direct the clinical
and administrative functions of both programs, FASAP and
JHSAP.
Whiting School of Engineering
Lori Graham-Brady, associate professor in the
Department of Civil Engineering, is a recipient of
the 2009 American Society of Civil Engineers' Walter L.
Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize. In
selecting Graham-Brady for the award, the ASCE committee
noted that "she has become one of the
top researchers in the field of stochastic mechanics. She
was one of the first to develop tools for
micromechanics of materials with random microstructure. This
focus on materials has been a new and
very fruitful direction for probabilistic mechanics."
Rene Vidal, assistant professor in the
Department of Biomedical Engineering and director of the
Vision Dynamics and Learning Lab, is the recipient of a 2009
Office of Naval Research Young
Investigator Award for "An Optimization Framework for
Simultaneous Object Categorization and
Segmentation." The Young Investigator Program recognizes
outstanding new faculty members at
institutions of higher education, supports their research
and encourages their teaching and research
careers.
Noah Cowan, assistant professor in Mechanical
Engineering; Jeff Gray, assistant professor in
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; and Rachel
Karchin, assistant professor in Biomedical
Engineering, are recipients of National Science Foundation
Faculty Early Career Development awards,
given in recognition of young scientists' commitment to
research and education.
Cowan's award for "Sensory Guidance of Locomotion: From
Neurons to Newton's Laws" will
support his research in the ways nervous systems transform
sensory signals into motor commands to
guide locomotion. This research provides a scientific
foundation for the development of biomorphic
robots for critical applications such as disaster recovery,
space exploration and security, and may lead
to enhanced neural prostheses and brain-machine interfaces.
Gray's award for "Structure Prediction of Proteins on
Solid Surfaces" will support the
development of computational tools that can accurately
predict the structure of proteins when they
interact with interfaces--tools that are invaluable to the
growth and evolution of devices at the
interfaces of biology and solid-state nanotechnology. His
award will also support an educational
outreach program for middle and high school students in
Baltimore, including the development of new
course materials that will be distributed nationally.
Karchin's award for "Modeling Missense Mutation
Research" will enable the development of
computational models for missense mutant function prediction
that will be used to explore the
importance of biological context in protein response to
missense mutation (such as loss or gain of
activity). Additionally, the award will fund an outreach
program for high school students (targeting
groups underrepresented in science) to introduce them to the
field of computational biology.
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