December 17, 2007
Awards & Honors
Martha Lightfoot was
honored by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society with a Lifetime
Achievement Award presented at the organization’s MS Dinner of
Champions last month in Rochester. A frequent lecturer on MS disease
management, Lightfoot is an adult nurse practitioner in the Medical
Center’s MS clinic, one of the leading institutions in the field,
serving some 2,500 MS patients from Western New York and beyond.
For the fifth time since 1992, Eastman Professor of
Musicology Ralph Locke has won an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for excellence in music
writing. The award is presented annually by the American Society of
Composers, Authors, and Publishers. The new honor cites his article
“Liszt on the Artist in Society,” which appeared in the book Liszt and His World.
Irene Hegeman Richard,
associate professor of neurology and psychiatry, has been named senior
medical advisor to the Michael J. Fox Foundation, an organization dedicated
to improving the lives of people with Parkinson’s disease by
accelerating medical and scientific developments. She has worked closely
with foundation officials for the last three years, helping evaluate
research efforts and facilitating communication among scientific and
medical communities and the general public. Her appointment to the newly
created post comes at a time when the foundation is expanding its efforts
to fund both basic laboratory and patient-oriented research such as
clinical trials of new treatments for Parkinson’s disease.
Allan Schindler,
professor of composition at the Eastman School and director of the Eastman
Computer Music Center, has been awarded one of the most prestigious awards
in composition, a $10,000 commission from the Fromm Music Foundation at
Harvard University. Schindler’s Fromm commission work will be written
for marimba and eight-channel live computer processing. The composition
will be premiered, performed on international tours, and recorded on an
Albany Records SACD disc.
John Thomas, professor
of mechanical and aerospace sciences and of astronomy, has been named a
fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The AAAS
elected Thomas for his career of elucidating the physics of the sun and
other stars, and for the impact he has made on astrophysics as editor of
astrophysical journals. Thomas’s research has focused primarily on
the sun’s magnetic field and how that field gives rise to sunspots on
the sun’s surface.
Ching Tang has
received the 2007 Daniel E. Noble Award from IEEE, one of the largest
organizations in the world dedicated to the advancement of technology.
Tang, Doris Johns Cherry Professor and professor of chemical engineering,
chemistry, and physics, is the primary developer of the organic
light-emitting diode, which has spawned a multibillion-dollar industry.
A national search has led to the appointment of Shawn Newlands as chair
of the Department of Otolaryngology effective January 1. An expert in
head and neck oncologic surgery and an accomplished neuroscientist,
Newlands will succeed Arthur Hengerer, who has led otolaryngology since
1981.
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