Awards & Honors

Victor Asal, Professor of Political Science

Andrew Berglund, Professor of Biological Sciences and director of the RNA Institute

Bradley Armour-Garb, Professor of Philosophy

Youqin Huang, Professor of Geography and Planning

Satyendra Kumar, Associate Vice President for Research & Economic Development and Director of the Ion Beam Lab

Liming Zhou, Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences

Rabi Ann Musah, Department of Chemistry, College of Arts & Sciences

Mathias Vuille, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, College of Arts & Sciences

Yiming Ying, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, College of Arts & Sciences

College of Arts and Sciences 

• Daniel Goodwin – Professor, Art & Art History
  “Job Security: A Multimodal Traveling Exhibition that Examines the Homeland Security Growth Industry in the U.S.”

• Alyssa Morey – Associate Professor, Communication
  “Advancing Communication Scholarship Using EEG: The FRN & Political Discussion”

• Ing-Nang Wang – Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
  “Aptamer-mediated capture-and-release for phage purification”

• Cara Pager – Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
  “Examination of pseudouridine on the Zika virus RNA genome”        

• Philip Goyal – Associate Professor,     Physics
  “Entanglement of Identical Quantum Particles: A First-Principles Approach        

• Jonathan Petruccelli – Assistant Professor, Physics
  “Polycapillary optics for x-ray coherence improvement for low dose phase mammography”        

• Arun Richard Chandrasekaran – Senior Research Scientist, The RNA Institute
  “Building 3D DNA Scaffolds for Analysis by Serial Femtosecond X-ray Crystallography”        

• Zai Liang – Professor, Sociology
  “Economic and Social Impact of COVID-19 and Anti-Asian Hate on Chinatown and Low-skilled Chinese Immigrants”        
   

College of Engineering and Applied Sciences

• Ming-Ching Chang – Associate Professor, Computer Science
  “Secure Artificial Intelligence with Fully Homomorphic Encryption for Deep Neural Networks”
   

Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy    

• Ashley Fox – Associate Professor, Public Administration and Policy
  “‘Universal’ Health Coverage: Do exclusion of immigrants and other ‘undesirable’ groups increase support for universalistic welfare policy?”        

• Lucy Sorensen – Associate Professor, Public Administration and Policy
  “School Building Conditions and Racial Disparities in Student Health”
   

School of Public Health

• Jon Paczkowski – Assistant Professor, Biomedical Sciences
  “Investigating the role of quorum sensing signaling plasticity in Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates”       

• Akiko Hosler – Associate Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
  “Evaluation of a Food Donation Collection and Redistribution Pilot“        

College of Arts and Sciences

• Christopher Wolff – Associate Professor, Anthropology
  “Adirondack Waters Survey: Underwater Archaeological Survey for Indigenous Watercraft”        

• Jennifer Burrell – Associate Professor, Anthropology
  “‘A Commitment to Primary Evidence’: Open Source Intelligence & Human Rights Investigations”

• Robert Rosenswig – Professor, Anthropology
  “Belize Paleoclimate-Human Adaptation Project'

• Archana Krishnan – Associate Professor, Communication
  “Open-Access Publication Support for mHealth Projects Examining Underserved HIV Population”

• Elliot Tetreault – Assistant Professor, English
  “Truth Be Told: Political Disinformation and Antiracist Queer Resistance”                    

• Christopher Pastore – Associate Professor, History
  “A Thousand Thousand Slimy Things: A Natural History of the Sea from the Bottom Up”           

• Kendra Smith-Howard – Associate Professor, History
  “Pioneers in Poison Control”      

• Pedro Cabán – Professor, Latin American, Caribbean and U.S. Latino Studies
  “Recalibrating the Colonial Formula” 
   

Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy

• Meredith Weiss – Professor, Political Science
  “Intersectional Activism in Asia: New Platforms, Modes, Messages, and Meanings”        

• Luis Luna-Reyes – Professor, Public Administration and Policy
  “Collaborative governance of regional systems: the Tug Hill region of New York State”
   

School of Education

• Aaron Leo – Staff Associate and Assistant Director of Research, NYKids
  “A gateway to the diploma: First-generation immigrants and refugees at community college”
   

School of Public Health    

• Janice Pata – Associate Professor, Biomedical Sciences
  “Structural snapshots of DNA replication by the Staphylococcus aureus DNA polymerase PolC”
   

School of Social Welfare    

• Nelia Quezada – Lecturer, Social Welfare
  “Exploring suicide risk and protective factors among Black urban youth”
       

University Libraries

• Yu-Hui Chen – Full Librarian, Collections
  “College-Bound Students’ Experiences and Perceptions of an Academic Library Web Portal”        

"New York City Urban Integrated Field Laboratories (IFL)" 

Team Leader: Jorge Gonzalez-Cruz – Atmospheric Sciences Research Center 

Team: 

• Chris Thorncroft – Atmospheric Sciences Research Center 

• Jeff Freedman – Atmospheric Sciences Research Center 

• Shao Lin – Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health 

"Super-enhancer regulation of cancer metabolism" 

Team Leader: Jason Herschkowitz – Biomedical Sciences, Cancer Research Center, School of Public Health 

Team: 

•  Douglas Conklin– Biomedical Sciences, School of Public Health 

• JoEllen Welsh – Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health 

• Ramune Reliene – Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health 

• BK Lee – Biomedical Sciences, School of Public Health 

"Proposal to establish the Institute for Microbial Stress Response" 

Team Leader: Cheryl Andam – Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences 

Team: 

• Thomas Begley – Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences 

• Alex Valm – Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences 

• Marlene Belfort – Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences 

• Alexander Ciota – Biomedical Sciences and Wadsworth Center 

• Nicholas Mantis – Biomedical Sciences and Wadsworth Center 

• Yanna Liang– Environmental & Sustainable Engineering, College of Engineering & Applied Sciences 

• Mathias Vuille – Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences 

"Center for Integrated Sensors, Screening, and Security (CIS3)" 

Team Leader: John Petrucelli – Physics, College of Arts and Sciences 

Team: 

• Alexander Khmaladze – Physics, College of Arts and Sciences 

• Benjamin Yankson – College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security & Cybersecurity 

• Brandon Behlendorf – College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security & Cybersecurity 

• Carolyn MacDonald – Physics, College of Arts and Sciences 

• DeeDee Bennett Gayle – College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security & Cybersecurity 

• Gary Ackerman – College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security & Cybersecurity 

• Igor Lednev – Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences 

• Jason D’Cruz – Philosophy, College of Arts and Sciences 

• Lee Spitzley – Information Security & Digital Forensics, School of Business 

• Ming-Ching Chang – Computer Science, College of Engineering & Applied Sciences 

• Petko Bognaov – Computer Science, College of Engineering & Applied Sciences 

• Sanjay Goel – Information Security & Digital Forensics, School of Business 

"Targeting Senescent Cells for Fibrotic Diseases"  

Team Leader: Melinda Larsen – Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences 

Team: 

• Gabrielle Fredman — Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Albany College of Medicine 

• Juan Andre Melendez — College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, SUNY Polytechnic Institute 

• Scott Tenenbaum — College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, SUNY Polytechnic Institute 

"Convergence Science for Extreme Weather Resiliency and Emergency Preparedness" 

Team Leader: Eric Stern – College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security & Cybersecurity 

Team: 

• Chris Thorncroft – Atmospheric Sciences Research Center 

• Ryan Torn – Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences 

• Amber Silver – College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security & Cybersecurity 

• Sheila Curran Bernard – History, College of Arts and Sciences 

• Jorge Gonzalez-Cruz – Atmospheric Sciences Research Center 

• Ryan Irwin – History, College of Arts and Sciences 

"NSF Institute for Resilient-AI in Crisis Decision-Making (INFORM)" 

Team Leader: Eric Stern – College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security & Cybersecurity 

Team: DeeDee Bennett Gayle – College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security & Cybersecurity 

"Climate adaptation through process understanding, risk assessment, education, and public dialogue" 

Team Leader: Mathias Vuille – Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences 

Team: 

• Alandeon Oliveira – Educational Theory & Practice, School of Education 

• Shao Lin – Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health 

• Fangqun Yu – Atmospheric Sciences Research Center 

• Catherine Lawson – Geography and Planning, College of Arts and Sciences 

"NYCAD: New York Center for Analytics in Disasters" 

Team Leader: DeeDee Bennett Gayle – College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security & Cybersecurity 

Team: 

• Dola Saha – Electrical & Computer Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences 

• Shao Lin – Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health  

• Jerald Brotzge – Atmospheric Sciences Research Center 

“Artificial Intelligence Institute for Secure and Trustworthy Cyber-Systems" 

Team Leader: George Berg – College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security & Cybersecurity 

Team: 

• Unal Tatar – College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security & Cybersecurity  

• Kajal Lahiri – Economics, School of Business  

• Pradeep Atrey – Computer Science, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences 

Milas, Antun – Professor, Mathematics and Statistics
College of Arts and Sciences
“Women in Algebra and Combinatorics. Northeast Conference Celebrating the Association for Women in Mathematics: 50 Years and Counting”

Ilka Kressner – Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and Chair of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
College of Arts and Sciences    
“Living in Languages Journal”

Aishwari Talhan – Research Scientist, Division for Research and Affiliate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering    
“A way towards animal-free surgical training and precision care: a haptic-based laser surgical simulator“

Miller, McKenzie
Psychology 
“Establishing Biomarkers of Cognitive Inflexibility and an Adjunct Cognitive-Remediation Therapy Intervention for Adults with Comorbid Eating and Exercise Pathology”
 

Matthew Hanson
Psychology 
“Barking up the Wrong Resource: Should our Recovery Activities Depend on our Needs?”
 

Esra Gules-Guctas
Political Science
“Naming and Blaming Automated Decision-Making Systems:  Analysis of Contesting Algorithmic Injustice”
 

Olivia Roig
History 
“Women in Punk: A Complex History”
 

Tyson Luneau 
History
“Reimagining the Colonial Urban Fabric: A Comparative Study of Algiers and Tunis Under French Rule”
 

Kaycie Haller
History 
“‘To Grow Men as well as Trees’: The Making of the Civilian Conservation Corps, American Citizenship, and Environment, 1933-1942”
    
Jordan Dyett 
School of Social Welfare
“A photovoice study among system(s) impacted individuals who have used substances”
 

Yi Lu 
Sociology 
“Parenting Model Minority: Class, Gender and family life of Chinese Immigrants”