Recent Faculty Honors and Awards
Brooklyn College faculty garner national and international honors and awards in the fields of education, technology, the arts, literature, the natural and social sciences, law and economics, among others. Recent accolades include:
Carolina Bank Muñoz, Sociology, was awarded the Terry Book Award for best book of the year by the Academy of Management for her book, Transnational Tortillas: Race, Gender, and Shop-floor Politics in Mexico and the United States (Cornell University Press, 2008).
Gregory Boutis, Physics, was awarded $941,014 from the National Institutes of Health for the project “Probing Dynamics of Water in Elastin by Q-Space Imaging and Multiple Quantum NMR.”
Edwin G. Burrows, History, had his most recent book, Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War (Basic Books, 2008), named the best book on the American Revolution published during the previous year by the Fraunces Tavern Museum.
Maria Contel, Chemistry, received a $471,000 award from the National Institutes of Health for the project “Organogold Phosphorus-containing Compounds as Antitumor Agents.”
Constantin Crânganu, Geology, received an award of $296,881 from the U.S. Department of Energy to fund the project “Carbon Dioxide Sealing Capacity: Textural or Compositional Controls.”
Robert Curran, Physical Education and Exercise Science, and Health and Nutrition Sciences, was awarded the High Performance Award from the USA Swimming High Performance Network, the highly screened network of practitioners qualified to work with the USA National Swimming Team.
Betsy Eastwood, Health and Nutrition Sciences, and Jeffrey Birnbaum, M.D.,
M.P.H., SUNY Downstate Medical Center, received a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Special Project of National Significance Program, for a project titled “Peer Outreach Worker Entry and Retention: Enhancing Access to and Retention in Quality HIV Care for Women of Color.” The project is funded at $500,000 for each of five years, September 2009–August 2014.
Dan Eshel, Biology received an award of $39,580 from the National Institutes of Health to fund the project “Signaling Pathways and Microtubule Function.”
Brian Gibney, Chemistry, received an award of $435,195 from the National Institutes of Health for the project “Thermodynamics of Coupled Binding of Zn(II) and DNA to a Zinc Finger Tumor Suppressor.”
Sandra Kingan, Anthony Clement and Jun Hu, Mathematics, received a $32,500 award from the City University of New York for the project “The Gap Project: Closing Gaps in Gateway Mathematics Courses.”
Hong-Jen Lin, Economics, received a one-year PSC-CUNY grant to study “Cost and Profit Efficiencies of Banks in China.”
Vanessa Pérez Rosario, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, was awarded a 2009 Library Scholars Summer Grant from the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard, where she explored the archives at the university’s Houghton and Schlesinger Libraries for a book project on Julia de Burgos. She also received a publication grant from the American Association of University Women, July 2009–June 2010.
Juergen Polle, Biology, received a subgrant award of about $931,000 as a partner in the National Alliance for Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts, which in January received a $44 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.
Laura Reigada, Psychology, was awarded the Goldman Scholar in Pediatric Research honor from the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America for the highest scoring grant.
