Robert Boeckman Jr., Marshall D. Gates Jr. Professor of Chemistry, will receive a 2006 Arthur S. Cope Scholar Award, considered a top honor in organic chemistry. The American Chemical Society issues awards in each of approximately 50 categories to researchers throughout the nation at the end of each year, recognizing scientists who have distinguished themselves in a broad range of fields in chemistry.
William Scott Green, dean of the College, professor of religion, and Philip S. Bernstein Professor of Judaic Studies, has been selected to serve on a multidisciplinary panel assembled by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to advance entrepreneurship education in colleges and universities around the country. Through the Kauffman Panel on Entrepreneurship Curriculum in Higher Education, the foundation seeks to create a framework that becomes the gold standard for an exemplary university-level educational program in entrepreneurship.
Two Medical Center scientists who study ways to stop the microbes that cause cavities have been awarded international prizes for their research. Oral biologist Hyun (Michel) Koo and microbiologist Robert Marquis, both researchers in the Center for Oral Biology, will receive Distinguished Scientist Awards at a meeting in Australia in June of the International Association of Dental Research, the largest organization of dental researchers in the world. Koo, assistant professor of dentistry, will receive the Young Investigator Award. Marquis, professor of microbiology and immunology, will receive the Senior Investigator Award.
Lynne Orr and Kevin McFarland, professors of physics, have been elected fellows of the American Physical Society, the world's largest and most prestigious association of physicists. Less than one-half of 1 percent of the society's 40,000 members become fellows each year. Orr, a theoretical physicist, was elected "for her contributions to the phenomenology of the top quark and studies of gluon radiation in top quark production and decay." McFarland was elected a fellow for his "precision studies of the weak interactions of high-energy neutrinos."
A new book by Kathleen Parthé, professor of Russian and director of Russian Studies, that explores the impact of literature on Russian politics and national identity is one of only two works in Slavic Studies named to the annual list of Outstanding Academic Titles compiled by Choice, a publication of the American Library Association. The prestigious list, called the "Best of the Best," contains only 10 percent of the 6,600 works Choice reviews each year, with selections based on criteria that include overall excellence, importance in the field, originality, distinction as a first treatment of the subject, and value to undergraduate students. Parthé's book, Russia's Dangerous Texts: Politics Between the Lines is the first book since the collapse of the Soviet Union to re-evaluate Russian literary history.
Harry Reis, professor of psychology, has been elected president of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP). With a worldwide membership of more than 4,500 researchers, SPSP is the largest organization dedicated to advancing the science of social-personality psychology. He is president-elect this year, will serve as president in 2007, and past-president in 2008. Reis, who is among the leading scholars in the study of interpersonal relationships, is well-known for his studies of everyday social interaction using event-sampling techniques.
Pierre Tariot, professor of psychiatry, of medicine, and of neurology at the Medical Center, recently received the Turken Award, presented each year by the Alzheimer's Disease Center at the University of California at Los Angeles to a leading researcher nationally. Tariot helped design one of the largest Alzheimer's studies to date, a $60 million effort led by the National Institute on Aging to test whether new imaging techniques and other technology can be better used to assess and treat patients with memory loss and dementia. Patients in Rochester as well as dozens of other communities are taking part.
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