Fall Convocation celebrates faculty excellence and achievements

Published: Oct. 27, 2022

The annual Fall Convocation Awards and Presentations Celebrating Faculty Achievements on Oct. 13, 2022, honored 95 faculty members for their excellence in teaching, scholarship, leadership and service. Faculty recently tenured or promoted and faculty receiving the Provost's Achievement Award were recognized.

Vice Provost Michele Moses and the Office of Faculty Affairs hosted this annual awards ceremony, in coordination with Chancellor Philip DiStefano and Provost Russell Moore, who opened the event with welcoming remarks.

Below is a list of this year's awardees.

Provost’s Faculty Achievement Awards

Pre-tenure faculty

Eleanor Browne, Chemistry, for her paper “Effect of heterogeneous oxidative aging on light absorption by biomass-burning organic aerosol” and accompanying short video

Sherri Cook, Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, for her article “Drivers of sustained sanitation access: social network and demographic predictors of latrine reconstruction after flooding disasters”

Rafael Frongillo, Computer Science, for his article “Elicitation complexity of statistical properties”

Adam Holewinski, Chemical and Biological Engineering, for his article “Selective Interactions between Free-Atom-like d-States in Single-Atom Alloy Catalysts and Near-Frontier Molecular Orbitals”

Edward Vincent Taylor, Education, for his co-authored chapter “Multiple Ways of Knowing: Re-Imagining Disciplinary Learning” in the Handbook of the Cultural Foundations of Learning

Post-tenure faculty

Mimi Engel, Education, for her project on fostering important academic, social, emotional, language and self-regulatory skills among all students, resulting in the journal article “Kindergarten in a Large Urban District”

Philip Fernbach, Business, for his series of papers representing a program of research on knowledge overconfidence, extremism and the community of knowledge.

Paul Romatschke, Physics, for his body of work on the subject of relativistic viscous hydrodynamics and co-authored book Relativistic Fluid Dynamics In and Out of Equilibrium: And Applications to Relativistic Nuclear Collision

Douglas Spencer, Law, for his project on voting rights and redistricting, resulting in the law review article “Models, Race, and the Law”

Julia Staffel, Philosophy, for her three articles for a new project in epistemology that challenges established theories about the nature of human reasoning

Faculty receiving tenure

Chunmei Ban, Mechanical Engineering
Agnès Beaudry, Mathematics
Samuel L. Boyd, Religious Studies
Melissa L. Braaten, Education
Jed Brown, Computer Science
Jed R. Brubaker, Information Science
Lijun Chen, Computer Science
Joëlle M. Cruz, Communication
Zoe R. Donaldson, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology & Psychology and Neuroscience
John Andrew Evans, Aerospace Engineering Sciences
Casey Fiesler, Information Science
Ian Grooms, Applied Mathematics
Eve-Lyn S. Hinckley, Environmental Studies
Mija H. Hubler, Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering
Bethy Leonardi, Education
Benjamin Levin, Law
Ben Livneh, Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering
Henry B. Lovejoy, History
Ann-Marie Madigan, Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences
Robert A. Marshall, Aerospace Engineering Sciences
Tomoko Matsuo, Aerospace Engineering Sciences
Samira K. Mehta, Women and Gender Studies
Irina Overeem, Geological Sciences
Dennis V. Perepelitsa, Physics
Andrew Q. Philips, Political Science
David Requiro, Music
Nancy Rodríguez, Applied Mathematics
Erin E. Schauster, Advertising, Public Relations and Media Design
Julio C. Sepúlveda, Geological Sciences
Sandeep Sharma, Chemistry
Scott Skinner-Thompson, Law
Joel Swanson, Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics & Society
Scott A. Taylor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Brian Valente-Quinn, French & Italian
Stephen Voida, Information Science
Philip Bradley White, University Libraries
Majid Zamani, Computer Science