NYU faculty members have received honors and awards from within the University and at the national and international levels.
2007-2008
Akshay Venkatesh , an associate professor at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, has been named a recipient of a 2007 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering. Venkatesh, 25, was one of 20 scientific researchers to receive a fellowship.
Katherine Hutchinson, Assistant Professor at New York University College of Nursing, has been awarded a $1.9 million (RO1) grant from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Nursing Research, to develop and test a mother-daughter HIV risk-reduction program in Jamaica over the course of four years.
Kyle Cranmer, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, has been awarded a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The award identifies outstanding scientists and engineers who will broadly advance science and the missions important to federal agencies.
John Canemaker, Professor and Director of animation in Tisch's Kanbar Institute of Film and Television, has been awarded an Emmy for his autobiographical animation The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation .
Four NYU faculty members were inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences this year; NYU School of Law Dean Richard Revesz; School of Medicine Professor Alexandra Leigh Joyner; Filmaker and Artisitic Director of Tisch's Kanbar Institute Spike Lee; Chair of Philosophy Stephen Schiffer; and Richard Sieburth, Professor of French and Comparative Literature.
Jacek Debiec, Center for Neural Science, was recently awarded the Neal E. Miller Young Investigator Award, given by the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research.
Roger S. Bagnall, Director of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) at NYU and Professor of Ancient History, has been named a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar for 2007-2008.
Sam Pollard, Professor of Undergraduate Film and Television at the TIsch School of Arts, was awarded an Emmy for Outstanding Pictue Editing for Nonfiction Programming for When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts.
Ronald Dworkin, NYU Law Professor, has been awarded the Holberg International Memorial Prize for 2007. The award, which carries a cash prize of $750,000 (555,000 euro), is given by the Ludvig Holberg Memorial Fund and recognizes outstanding scholarly work in the arts and humanities, social sciences, law, and theology. The official award ceremony for the Holberg Prize will take place on November 28 in Bergen, Norway.
Akshay Venkatesh, an Associate Professor at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, has been awarded the 2007-2008 Salem Prize. The prize was established by the widow of Raphael Salem and is awarded every year to a young mathematician judged to have done outstanding work in Salem’s field of interest—the theory of Fourier series, an infinite series used to solve differential equations.
Daniel Malamud, Professor of Basic Sciences at the New York University College of Dentistry, was recently awarded a five-year, $9,000,000 grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue developing a portable microfluidic “lab-on-a-chip” for rapid point-of-care detection of multiple bacterial and viral targets using oral fluids. Malamud joined NYUCD in the fall of 2005 and has been involved in HIV research for the past 15 years.
Yu Zhang, Assistant Professor of Biomaterials and Biomimetics at the NYU College of Dentistry, was recently awarded a three-year, $750,000 grant by the National Institute of Dental and Cranofacial Research at the National Institutes of Health to test his hypothesis that reformulating zirconia as a glass-ceramic composite will increase its fracture-resistance.
Mary Schmidt Campbell, Dean of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, has been selected by Governor Eliot Spitzer to chair the New York State Council on the Arts. As Chair, Dr. Campbell will lead the Council in its mission to perserve, sustain, and promote the extraodinary artistic and cultural heritage of New York State.