At the 12th annual Fall Convocation Awards and Presentations Celebrating Faculty Achievements Oct. 6, 2017, the campus honored faculty who were recently tenured or promoted, and faculty receiving the Provost's Achievement Award. Additional recognition went to several teaching professors.
Pre-tenure faculty
Alexia Brunet Marks (School of Law) has been granted this award for her law review article, 鈥淎 New Government Recipe for Food Safety Regulations.鈥�
Austin Okigbo (College of Music) has been granted this award for his book, Music, Culture, and the Politics of Health: Ethnography of a South African AIDS Choir.
Elias Sacks (Department of Religious Studies) has been granted this award for his book, Moses Mendelssohn鈥檚 Living Script: Philosophy, Practice, History, Judaism.
Leah Sprain (Department of Communication) has been granted this award for her article, 鈥淐ommunicating openness in deliberation.鈥�
Post-tenure faculty
Nabil Echchaibi (Department of Media Studies) has been granted this award for his book, Voicing Diasporas: Ethnic Radio in Paris and Berlin Between Cultural Renewal and Retention.
Noah Fierer (Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) has been granted this award for his gathering of articles using molecular techniques to examine fungi and bacteria that reside in homes.
Mahmoud Hussein (Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences) has been granted this award for his article, 鈥淣anophonic metamaterial: Thermal conductivity reduction by local resonance.鈥�
Carter Pann (College of Music) has been granted this award for his composition, The Mechanics: Six from the Shop Floor.
Sean Shaheen (Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering) has been granted this award for his research into flexible solar cells, including 鈥淓xperimental demonstration of photon upconversion via cooperative energy pooling.鈥�
Deborah Whitehead (Department of Religious Studies) has been granted this award for her book, William James, Pragmatism, and American Culture.
Rui Yi (Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology) has been granted this award for his article, 鈥淔oxc1 reinforces quiescence in self-renewing hair follicle stem cells.鈥�
Teaching professors
Janet deGrazia
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Anne Dougherty
Applied Mathematics
John Drumheller
College of Music
Michael Dubson
Physics
Leland Giovannelli
Herbst Program of Humanities in Engineering
Tracy Jennings
Leeds School of Business
Kevin McMahon
Leeds School of Business
Catherine Milburn
Leeds School of Business
Susan Morley
Leeds School of Business
Rolf Norgaard
Program for Writing and Rhetoric
Derek Reamon
Mechanical Engineering
Lori Seward
Leeds School of Business
