Honors & Achievements of UD faculty & staff
Sunita Chandrasekaran, assistant professor of computer science, won a 2016 IEEE-CS TCHPC Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers in High Performance Computing. She is one of just three winners nationwide and the only one affiliated with an academic institution.
P. Gabrielle Foreman, the Ned B. Allen Professor of English, has received the 10th Modern Language Association Prize for a Bibliography, Archive or Digital Project for the UD-led Colored Conventions Project, which brings 19th century black organizing to life in a digital space.
Jason Gleghorn, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, has been honored with a Rising Star Award from the Biomedical Engineering Society. One of just 10 researchers in the nation to receive the honor, Gleghorn was recognized for his work on lung development.
Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food, by adjunct history and Jewish studies professor Roger Horowitz, has been named an Outstanding Academic Book for 2016 by the American Library Association journal Choice. Kosher USA also has received the Jewish Book Council’s National Jewish Book Award in the category of American Jewish Studies.
Anderson Janotti, assistant professor in materials science and engineering, has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award to develop computational models of defects in materials that are used for energy, electronics and optoelectronics applications.
Deb Jaisi, assistant professor of plant and soil sciences, has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award to locate the sources of phosphorus compounds and study the degraded products they leave behind in soil and water.
Mark Moline and Neil Sturchio, faculty members in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment, have received Project of the Year awards from the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program. Moline, professor and director of the School of Marine Science and Public Policy, was part of a team honored for its resource conservation and resiliency project. Sturchio, professor and chair of the Department of Geological Sciences, was part of a team recognized for its environmental restoration project.
Karen Rosenberg, professor of anthropology, has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for her “distinguished contributions to understanding the evolution of human childbirth… and for leadership in professional associations and teaching.”
Michela Taufer, the David L. and Beverly J.C. Mills Chair of Computer and Information Sciences, has been elected general chair of the 2019 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis.
A paper co-authored by Erik Thostenson, EG98M, 04PhD, associate professor in the College of Engineering, and published in the Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation is among the most cited, downloaded and shared articles of 2016 within materials science and engineering.
Jackie Wilson, assistant education professor and director of UD’s Delaware Academy for School Leadership, will facilitate a national project launched by the School Superintendents’ Association to provide support for women in school leadership.
Cathy Wu, the Unidel Edward G. Jefferson Chair of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, director of UD’s Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, director of the Protein Information Resource, and professor of computer and information sciences and biological sciences, has been named a 2016 Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters. The designation, which she also received in 2014 and 2015, places her among the top 1 percent of researchers most cited for their subject field and year of publication in Reuters’ academic citation indexing and search service, Web of Knowledge.
Rui Zhang, assistant professor of computer science, has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award, “Secure Database-Driven Dynamic Spectrum Sharing,” to address issues of security and privacy surrounding radio spectrum sharing.
