Faculty from USC have been honored recently with major awards. Here are some listed from university announcements:
Drs. Ian Ehrenreich and Peter Ralph received Sloan Fellowships for 2015. Only 126 early career scholars were selected. They will be awarded $50,000 for research purposes. Both are in the field of computational and evolutionary molecular biology.
Michael Waterman was awarded the Daniel David Prize. He and two other scientists will share the $1 million dollar prize. The distinguished professor is a leader in the field of biological analysis. He is a member of the National Academy of Science, National Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the AAAS and a Guggenheim Fellow.
The Adams Prize in European History was received by Dr. Daniela Bleichmar, She also received the 2014 Levinson Prize
Drs. Francis Bonahan and Shang-Hua Teng are the two newest Simon Fellows.
Mark Thompson was honored with the American Chemical Society Award in Chemistry of Materials and was named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
Dr. Sri Narayan received the Pauchon Research Foundation Award of $10,000 in the field of chemistry.
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David Kang was awarded a 2015 MacArthur Foundation Grant. It is often called the “genius grant”. Dr. Kang is Director of the USC East Asian Studies Center.
Order of the Academic Palms has been bestowed on Peggy Kamuf. by the French government.
Dion Dickman has received the Whitehall Fellowship in Neuroscience and the Mallinckrodt Foundation Award.
Dr. Myron Goodman has won the Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomic Society Award.
American Chemical Society Award for Creative Research and Applications of Iodine Chemistry was received by Dr. Karl Christie.
Dr. G. K. Surya Prakash has won numerous awards. He is a new Fellow of the American Chemical Society.
Three Dornsife professors received Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities for 2015-16, John Pollini, Steven Ross and Jacques Hymans.
Dr. Thomas Jordan was honored with the Geological Society of America President’s Medal.
The American Political Science Association honored Dr. Suzanne Hudson with the Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant of $45,000 and she was awarded a Dedelus Foundation Serrion Fellowship of $30,000.
Dr. Matthew Pratt has three new honors. He was awarded the Susan Komen Career Research Grant, the Gin New Investigator Award from ACS and the American Cancer Society Research Scholar Award.
Two National Science Foundation Career Awards were received by Dr. Maryam Shanechi of Viterbi in different fields.
Drs. Ketan Savla and Stacey Finley were named 2015 Emerging Scholars, also from Viterbi.
Professor Doris Sung has been named a United States Artists Fellow, one of only 34 selected. This includes a prizeof $50,000.
The Royal Statistical Society has honored Professor Jinchi Lv of the Marshall School with the 2015 Guy Medal. He also received a National Science Foundation Career Award.
Gail Peter Borden is a new Fellow of the AIA.
Lawrence Scarpa, FAIA, received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Service from the AIA.
The Director of the Andrus Gerontology Center at USC, Dr. Kelvin Davies, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine in the U.K.
The Gates Foundation Grant recipient is Professor Beth Smith. The grant award is $100,000.
Professor Jason Squire was inducted into the Dettao Masters Academy of China.
The Library of Congress selected the documentary by Professor Mark Harris of SCA for the National Film Registry.
ASCA selected three SC professors for 2015 Arichitectural Education Awards for 2015, J. Steele, K. Konis and D. Sung.