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Faculty Research Awards
The Graduate School is pleased to request nominations for the 2008 Faculty Research Awards.
Faculty Research Awards Competition
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences honors faculty members, annually, with the following Faculty Research Awards for their contributions to research and scholarship at Georgetown:
: to honor the contributions of a scholar to her/his field over the course of a career. The basis of this award is the standing which the faculty member enjoys in his or her scholarly discipline. Nominations should be accompanied by evidence that the nominees' work is recognized as distinguished and influential well beyond the Georgetown community. Moreover, nominees should be at a stage in their career appropriate for an assessment of long term contributions and influence. Normally, only one of these awards will be made each year and this prize can be received once by any single individual.
: to recognize a single distinguished achievement in scholarship and research. We do not wish to impose excessive limits on the kinds of achievements suitable for recognition. However, the types of achievement envisaged include the winning of a prestigious book prize, the receipt of distinguished awards from one's peers, or the receipt of a major center grant. It is expected that such achievements will be relatively recent, certainly within the last five years. Junior as well as senior faculty may be nominated for this award. A maximum of one award per year will be made. If circumstances warrant, this award can be received more than once.
The awards include a $10,000 cash prize, an award, and presentation and recognition at the Graduate Commencement ceremony in May.
A formal call for nominations is sent via e-mail from the Office of the Graduate Dean during the fall term. Only members of the Main Campus Ordinary Faculty are eligible to submit nominations.
Eligibility: we are soliciting nominations for these two awards from all of the members of the Main Campus ordinary faculty.
Nomination process: effective in 2008, nominations should be submitted to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences via our proposal routing system available at the following: https://www9.georgetown.edu/grad/gsas_www/gu_awards/
In addition to the on-line application, nominating officials/departments also should include a letter of nomination, a current version of the candidate's vita, and scholarly materials sufficient to allow evaluation of the her/his merits. All of the internally produced material can be uploaded directly to the system as separate documents. Supporting materials from other individuals or institutions should be submitted in hard copy to Maria Snyder (302 ICC).
Review process: Recipients of both awards will be selected by the Research Steering Committee. The Committee has the option of declining to make either or both of the awards in a given year if, in its judgment, no nomination is sufficiently compelling.
Nominations for the 2008 competition are due by Wednesday, January 30, 2008.
Previous years' recipients include:
During his 30 years at Georgetown, Professor Neale has made significant contributions to Biology and the life sciences. He established the largest natural science research laboratory on the main campus and has run it on major NIH funds for nearly his full tenure at the University. Additionally, he has initiated and generated support for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Hughes Undergraduate program, which he has personally directed for 14 years.
Dr. Neale’s greatest research contributions have come by characterizing and defining the importance of a dipeptide neurotransmitter found in the brain and in the peripheral nervous system. He has published more than forty peer-reviewed manuscripts on this neurotransmitter in the course of his career and an equal number on other scientific topics. His discoveries have generated a flurry of activity, both in academia and in pharmaceutical companies, directed at generating drugs that may be useful in the treatment of stroke and neuropathic pain. His most recent experiments point to the role that this same neurotransmitter may play in schizophrenia and drugs affecting its metabolism are being considered as likely candidates for the treatment of this devastating disease.
All of these ground breaking discoveries were driven by Professor Neale’s creative and tireless pursuit of his research goals over the past decades. He is now looked upon as one of the founding fathers of this particular area of life science research and he has earned the respect of his peers and colleagues across the globe.
Closer to home, in addition to his impressive research and writing, Professor Neale has shown himself to be a distinguished, indeed a beloved, teacher and a generous colleague. He has a long history of excellence in teaching and is the first professor ever to have received the College Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence in 1996. Additionally, he was awarded the title of D.C. Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in 1998 and was named the Sony Teaching Scholar from 1994-97. At the graduate level, he has trained fifteen successful Ph D graduates and has several graduate students currently in course.
Professor Neale also served as Chair of the Department of Biology for ten years. He has played important leadership roles on virtually every important University committee and has diligently labored to raise resources for new science facilities, for both teaching and research, at Georgetown.
Joseph Neale’s research career has continually honored Georgetown. It is mow only fitting that Georgetown honor his contributions with the recognition and respect that is so eminently deserved.
(Excerpted from the presentation speech given by Timothy A. Barbari, Associate Provost for Research and Dean of the Graduate School, at the 2007 Graduate Commencement ceremony on Friday, May 18, 2007)
2007 Distinguished Achievement in Research Award to James Freericks, Professor of Physics, in recognition of his selection as a Fellow of the American Physical Society
Each year, no more than one-half of one percent of the current membership of the Society are recognized by their peers for election to the status of Fellow. The citation accompanying Dr. Freericks’ election reads, “for seminal results in applying dynamical mean-field theory to bulk and multilayered strongly correlated electron systems, significantly advancing our understanding of transport, light scattering, ordered phases and photoemission.” Each of these contributions addresses some of the most challenging and important problems in computational materials science.
Professor Freericks regularly publishes important work in the top journals of the field several times a year. Over the past three years he has published 6 papers in Physical Review Letters, 2 in Applied Physics Letters and one in Reviews of Modern Physics. He was recently recognized with one of only four awards by NASA’s National Leadership Computing System Initiative which granted 900,000 hours of time on the supercomputer Columbia.
Dr. Freericks’s election as an APS fellow is the culmination of over a decade of exceptional research at Georgetown. It is particularly remarkable that these accomplishments have been accompanied by similar excellence in teaching and service. His educational efforts have been consistently innovative and successful. He has served as both Department Chair and Director of Graduate Studies.
Of the twenty seven newly elected Fellows in the Division of Condensed Matter Physics, only seventeen others are from American universities and all of these are from institutions with physics programs much larger than Georgetown’s. Professor Freericks’s election is wonderful evidence of the truth of President DeGioia’s statement that while Georgetown may not historically have done big science, its faculty clearly does good science. James Freericks does remarkable science and the Graduate School is proud to honor him with this award.
(Excerpted from the presentation speech given by Timothy A. Barbari, Associate Provost for Research and Dean of the Graduate School, at the 2007 Graduate Commencement ceremony on Friday, May 18, 2007)
2007 Distinguished Achievement in Research Award to Michael Kazin, Professor of History, for his book, A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings BryanThis monumental work is an exhaustively researched, finely nuanced, definitive political biography of the single most influential figure in the history of American populism. The attention that this book has already received suggests that it will become a standard point of reference for anyone seeking to understand Bryan’s political legacy as well as the broader historical trajectory of populism in the United States. Professor Kazin’s work sheds light on vital historical issues while at the same time addressing questions of great contemporary resonance about the socio-cultural identity and values of America, and about the relationship between religious faith and the pursuit of social justice.
The book has already received widespread acclaim in the country’s newspapers and periodicals. Writing in the Washington Post, Alan Wolfe contends that “Michael Kazin, already our leading scholar of populism, is now our best interpreter of its greatest practitioner. It would be hard to imagine a biography of any early 20th century political leader more relevant to the early 21st century than this one.” A colleague from another major American research university writes in support of the award, “[t]his is a superb book – elegantly written, beautifully researched, substantively important.
A Godly Hero follows a series of fine books written by Professor Kazin on American social and cultural history, ranging from the history of labor through treatments of the social and political turbulences of the 1960s. In addition to being a nationally recognized scholar, Professor Kazin has also established himself as one of our country’s leading public intellectuals. His reviews and commentaries appear regularly in such publications as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Times Literary Supplement and The New York Review of Books.
The publication of this book cements Michael Kazin’s position as one of the most influential historians of progressive forces in American social and cultural history and we gratefully honor him today with this Distinguished Research Achievement Award.
(Excerpted from the presentation speech given by Timothy A. Barbari, Associate Provost for Research and Dean of the Graduate School, at the 2007 Graduate Commencement ceremony on Friday, May 18, 2007)
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