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PROFESSORS ROW 2008-2009 ACADEMIC YEAR
ART AND ART HISTORY
Associate Professor and Chair Cristelle Baskins was the editor
and chief contributor of Triumph of Marriage: Painted Cassoni
of the Renaissance, published by Gutenberg Periscope Press.
Associate Professor Daniel Abramson received a Paul Mellon
Centre for Studies in British Art (London) Senior Fellowship.
Painting (above): Giovanni di Ser Giovanni, Lo Scheggia (1406–1486),
Frederick III and Leonora of Portugal in Rome, 1452, Worcester Art
Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts.
BIOLOGY
Associate Professor
George Ellmore
received funding from
the Hummingbird Cay
Foundation to support
a tropical field ecology
trip to a remote
field station in the
Bahamas for ten days
of exploration, field research,
and seminars.
Professor Michael
Reed and graduate
student Alexander
“Sasha” Keyel
received a grant from
the Nuttall Ornithological
Club for grassland
bird research.
BIOMEDICAL
ENGINEERING
Mark Cronin-Golomb
was promoted to professor,
elevated to the
rank of senior member
in the Institute of Electrical
and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE), and
was elected a Fellow
of the Optical Society
of America (OSA).
Irene Georgakoudi received
tenure and was
promoted to associate
professor.
CHEMICAL AND
BIOLOGICAL
ENGINEERING
Professor and Chair
Nakho Sung was one
of three recipients of
the National Medal
of Honor, the highest
honor bestowed
to scientists and
engineers by the
Korean government.
The International Precious
Metals Institute
(IPMI) honored Professor
Maria Flytzani-
Stephanopoulos with
the Henry J. Albert
award, given annually
in recognition of
outstanding theoretical
and experimental
contributions to the
science and technology
of precious
metals. She was
also elected a fellow
of the American
Association for the
Advancement of
Science.
CHILD
DEVELOPMENT
Lecturer W. George
Scarlett, Iris Ponte,
G03, G08, and Jay
Singh, A08, coauthored
Approaches
to Behavior and
Classroom Management:
Integrating
Discipline and Care,
which was published
by Sage Publications.
Professor Don
C H E M I S T R Y
Associate Professor Samuel Kounaves
received the Massachusetts Columbus
Quincentennial Award for his work on the
Mars Lander Project. Assistant Professor
Charles Sykes was appointed to the Usen
Family Career Development Professorship,
a faculty development chair designed to
recognize an especially worthy junior faculty
member. He also received an Arnold
and Mabel Beckman Young Investigator
Award and an NSF CAREER award.
Wertlieb and Debbie
LeeKeenan, director
of the Eliot–Pearson
Children’s School,
received a grant from
Beginnings Preschool
that will advance
the Department of
Child Development’s
partnership with
the Medford Public
Schools and Community
Partnerships
for Children. Assistant
Professor Marina
Bers received a grant
from the Noonan
Medical Foundation
to extend her work at
Tufts Floating Hospital
for Children, where
she has been using
the Zora virtual community
to help organ
transplant patients
connect with other
such patients online.
The grant will allow
her to investigate the
impact this virtual
tool has had on both
medical adherence
and school transition.
CIVIL AND EN-
VIRONMENTAL
ENGINEERING
Three faculty
members received
grants from the
Kounaves
National Science
Foundation (NSF),
including Professor
Shafiqul Islam, who
received funding to
research the effects
of climate change
on precipitation over
the continental U.S.
and understand the
dipole nature of
precipitation variations
over the United
States and Canada;
Professor Masoud
Sanayei, for his research
on long-term
bridge design; and
Associate Professor
Chris Swan, for his
research on the role
of service learning in
engineering education.
In addition, Professor
Richard Vogel
received a grant from
the Water Resources
Research Center for
his research on freshwater
availability.
CLASSICS
Professor R. Bruce
Hitchner was awarded
a visiting fellowship
for Hilary Term 2010
at All Souls College in
Oxford, England. The
department, in collaboration
with the family
and friends of the late
Professor Miriam
S. Balmuth, hosted
its annual Miriam S.
Balmuth Lectures.
The featured speaker
was Andrew Wilson,
professor of the
Archaeology of the Roman
Empire at Oxford
University’s Institute
of Archaeology, whose
four lectures covered
a range of subjects
concerning economic
growth and contraction
in the Roman
World.
COMPUTER
SCIENCE
Adjunct faculty
member Marina Bers,
Professor Robert
Jacob, and graduate
student Mike Horn
received an interdisciplinary
National
Science Foundation
grant to investigate
the use of innovative
tangible programming
interfaces in early
childhood education
and child development.
Their project
is titled “Tangible
Programming in Early
Childhood: Revisiting
Developmental
Assumptions through
New Technologies.”
Professor Diane Souvaine
and graduate
student Mashhood
Ishaque received
NSF funding for their
research on geometric
data structures.
Professor Souvaine
was also appointed to
the National Science
Board, a position she
will hold until 2014.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF SAMUEL KOUNAVES
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QUAD ANGLE
PROFESSORS ROW
DRAMA
Laurence Senelick, the Fletcher Professor of Oratory and director
of graduate studies, delivered a lecture titled “When Jews
were in Fashion at the Moscow Art Theatre” at the Jewish
Theatre Conference in New York City. He was also a William
Evans Visiting Fellow at the University
of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand last
summer. Assistant Professor Monica
White Ndounou presented her research,
“Old Tropes/New Tricks: Staging Magic
and Spirituality in Lydia R. Diamond’s
Adaptation of Toni Morrison’s The
Ndounou
Bluest Eye,” at the Black Theatre Network
Conference held at Walt Disney World.
ECONOMICS
Professor Yannis
Ioannides won the
Tufts Distinguished
Scholar Award.
Professor Gilbert
Metcalf was appointed
to the National
Research Council’s
Committee on Health,
Environmental, and
Other External Costs
and Benefi ts of
Energy Production
and Consumption.
EDUCATION
Associate Professor
Bárbara M. Brizuela
was awarded a
Fulbright Fellowship to
conduct research and
lecture on algebra in
the early grades at
the National University
of Comahue in
Argentina. Lecturer
Steve Cohen testified
at hearings on 21st
Century Skills in
Washington, DC last
summer and also
authored a White
Paper for the National
History Center on the
proposed Massachusetts
Comprehensive
Assessment System
(MCAS) in history.
Senior Lecturer Judah
Schwartz, Lecturer
Linda Beardsley, and
Professor Roger Tobin
of the Department
of Physics presented
the accomplishments
of the university’s
Fulcrum Institute to
the National Science
Foundation, which
provides funding for
the institute.
ELECTRICAL
AND COMPUTER
ENGINEERING
Assistant Professor
Valencia Joyner
was awarded two
National Science
Foundation grants for
her research on highfrequency
circuits and
optical sensors for
communication and
biomedical imaging.
Professor Eric Miller
and Professor and
Chair Jeffrey Hopwood
each received NSF
support to investigate
environmental sensing
and remediation.
ENGINEERING
MANAGEMENT
The Tufts Gordon
Institute relocated to
200 Boston Avenue
in July 2008. The new
5,000 square-foot
facility is a selfcontained
suite which
includes two classrooms
with state-ofthe-art
AV technology,
three breakout areas
equipped with LCD
flat panel displays,
a kitchen and dining
area, and a lounge
space where students
can relax or work
together. The entire
suite has wireless
Internet access and
the main classroom
has power connections
for laptops at
each seat. The institute
also appointed
three distinguished
Professors of the
Practice: Partha
Ghosh, Sam Liggero
and Charlie Rabie.
These professors join
Dr. Arthur Winston,
who was appointed
as a Professor of the
Practice in 2006.
HISTORY
Mary Richardson
Professor of History
Ayesha Jalal’s book
Partisans of Allah:
Jihad in South Asia
was published by
the Harvard University
Press. She also
delivered keynote addresses
at the South
Asian Free Media
Regional Conference
in Bangladesh and
at a conference on
“Beauty in the Worlds
of Islam” at the
University of Texas at
Austin. Assistant Professor
Kris Manjapra
was named a Tufts
Neubauer Faculty Fellow.
David Ekbladh,
an assistant professor,
was awarded a
Smith Richardson
Foundation Book
Grant for his study,
The Great American
Mission: Modernization
and the Construction
of an American
World Order (which
will be published by
the Princeton University
Press in 2009),
and delivered lectures
at the Agrarian Studies
Workshop at Yale
University and the
annual meeting of the
Society for Historians
of American Foreign
Relations.
MATHEMATICS
Professor and Chair
Bruce Boghosian was
elected as a Foreign
Member of the National
Academy of Sciences
of the Republic
of Armenia. Professor
Christoph Borgers’
book, Mathematics
of Social Choice: Voting,
Compensation,
and Division, was
accepted for publication
by the Society for
Industrial and Applied
Mathematics (SIAM).
Dan Margalit, assistant
professor, gave
two talks in Tokyo last
ENGLISH
Associate Professor
Linda Bamber, G74,
published a collection
of poems, Metropolitan
Tang, with David R.
Godine Publishing.
The Cambridge
Bamber
University Press
published Associate
Professor Judith Haber’s latest book, Desire and Dramatic Form
in Early Modern England. Professor Joseph Litvak’s book, The
Un-Americans: Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture, will
be published by Duke University Press this fall.
summer at the “Topology
and Computer”
conference.
MECHANICAL
ENGINEERING
Vincent P. Manno,
associate provost and
professor, presented
his paper “Revising
the Power Generation
Curriculum—the
1000 MW Solution,”
at the International
Mechanical Engineering
Congress and
Exposition, held in
Boston. Professor
Chris Rogers received
funding from the
Kodosky Foundation
to initiate a new
program led by the
Center for Engineering
Education and Outreach
(CEEO). The program,
known as the
Program for Engineers
as Teachers (PET),
will fund research on
the effectiveness of
educational technologies
in K-12 and
college classrooms as
well as establish an
undergraduate minor
in engineering education
at Tufts.
OCCUPATIONAL
T H E R A P Y
Professor Sharan
Schwartzberg received
a Tufts Faculty
Research Award for
her Group Program
Outcome Study. Diana
Bailey, associate
professor, retired
after 21 years as a
faculty member. Assistant
Professor Gary
Bedell presented his
research, “Developing
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PHOTOS: KEVIN RADFORD (NDOUNOU); JOHN SOARES (BAMBER)

MUSIC
Austin Fletcher Professor of Music Jane Bernstein was appointed
president of the American Musicological Society. Associate
Professor David Locke published a large body of information on
Dagomba dancedrumming
online at
Dagomba drummers
dagomba.uit.tufts.edu.
Associate Professor
Janet Schmalfeldt
led a workshop on
Performance and
Analysis for the
New England
Conference of Music
Theorists at Yale
University.
Measures of Participation
and Environment:
Parent Perspectives”
at the American
Occupational Therapy
Association’s Annual
Conference in Houston,
Texas.
PHILOSOPHY
Lenore Stern Professor
in the Humanities
and Social Sciences
Mark Richard published
When Truth
Gives Out with Oxford
University Press. Daniel
Dennett, University
Professor and Austin
B. Fletcher Professor
of Philosophy, was
named the “Mind/
Brain/Behavior” Distinguished
Lecturer at
Harvard University and
delivered a series of
three lectures there.
PHYSICS
Professor Peggy
Cebe was awarded
two grants from the
National Science
Foundation, one of
which was a Special
Creativity Award.
These grants will
support her research
on semicrystalline
polymers and the summer
research program
she created for deaf
and hard-of-hearing
(DHH) college students.
She was also
recently elected as a
fellow of the American
Physical Society based
on her contributions to
polymer science and
her work with DHH
students. The High
Energy Physics Group
received a three-year
funding renewal grant
from the U.S. Department
of Energy’s Office
of Science to continue
their research on
neutrino oscillations
and searches for new
phenomena in particle
collisions at the highest
accessible energies.
The research
program is being led
by Professor Anthony
RESEARCH RECAP
Mann and Professor
Jacob Schneps.
PSYCHOLOGY
Associate Professor
Gina Kuperberg received
the Society of
Biological Psychiatry’s
A.E. Bennett Award
for her work exploring
the biological basis
of schizophrenia. She
was also honored
with the Joseph Zubin
Memorial Award for
Research in the Field
of Psychopathology.
Assistant Professor
Sam Sommers was
honored with the
Saleem Shah Award
for Early Career
Excellence in Psychology
and Law, which
is bestowed annually
by the American
Psychology-Law Society
and the American
Academy of Forensic
Psychology. Holly
A. Taylor, professor
and director of the
graduate program,
received the Northeastern
Association
of Graduate Schools
(NAGS) Graduate Faculty
Teaching Award
(Doctoral-Level).
STUDIO ART
Tony Schwensen,
a full-time faculty
member, presented
six performance videos
at Contemporary
Australia: Optimism,
an exhibition at the
Gallery of Modern Art
in Brisbane, Australia.
Full-time faculty member
Mary Ellen Strom
and collaborator Ann
Carlson presented
“Carlson/Strom: New
Performance View”
at the DeCordova Museum
and Sculpture
Park. The exhibition
included four performance
videos, as
well as a large-scale
installation titled
“Meadowlark.”
URBAN AND
ENVIRONMEN-
TAL POLICY
AND PLANNING
Julian Agyeman,
associate professor
and chair, was
selected by the
American Psychological
Association as a
member of the National
Task Force on
the Interface Between
Psychology and Global
Climate Change. He
was also invited by
Massachusetts Governor
Deval Patrick to
serve on the state’s
Climate Protection
and Green Economy
Advisory Board.
Assistant Professor
Justin Hollander’s
book Polluted and
Dangerous–America’s
Worst Abandoned
Properties and What
Can Be Done About
Them was published
by the University of
Vermont Press.
The Graduate Student Council (GSC) hosted the 13th annual Graduate Student Symposium on March 28, 2009.
During the day-long event, 28 graduate students presented their research to an audience of fellow students, faculty,
alumni, and other invited guests. The presenters came from 14 different graduate departments, and a panel
of faculty and alumni judges bestowed
awards for the top presentations. The
alumni who served as judges were
William Koster, G72, former CEO of the
Neurogen Corporation, and Kyna Hamill,
G06, a lecturer at Boston University’s
College of Arts and Sciences.
More information on the symposium,
including presentation abstracts, can be
found at ase.tufts.edu/gsc/gss/.
PHOTOS: COURTESY OF DAVID LOCKE (MUSIC); ALONSO NICHOLS (SYMPOSIUM)
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