Office of the Dean
Mellon College of Science
Carnegie Mellon University
4400 Fifth Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Voice:
412-268-7699
Fax:
412-268-3268
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The awards below include recent national and international honors received by the Mellon College of Science faculty, as well as university distinctions such endowed chairs.
1999–2007
Biology
| Name |
Award |
| Alison Barth |
Sloan Research Fellowship Award, 2003 |
| Justin Crowley |
Searle Scholar, 2004 |
| Justin Crowley |
Sloan Research Fellowship Award, 2006 |
| Marie Dannie Durand |
David and Lucile Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering, 2002 |
| Elizabeth Jones |
HHMI Professor, 2003 |
| Elizabeth Jones |
University Professor, 2002 |
| Elizabeth Jones |
Dr. Frederick A. Schwertz Distinguished Professor of Life Sciences Endowed Chair, 2001 |
| Brooke McCartney |
Basil O'Connor Starter Scholar Research Award from the March of Dimes, 2005 |
| Robert Murphy |
Selected to chair prestigious Biodata management and Analysis Study Section of the Center for Scientific Review at the National Institutes of Health, 2005 |
| Robert Murphy |
Selected to chair prestigious Biodata management and Analysis Study Section of the Center for Scientific Review at the National Institutes of Health, 2005 |
| Robert Murphy |
Elected Fellow, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, 2007 |
| Russell Schwartz |
Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award, National Science Foundation, 2004 |
| Russell Schwartz |
Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), 2005 |
| Stephanie Tristram-Nagle |
Avanti Award in Lipids, Biophysical Society, 2003 |
| Nathan N. Urban |
Scientific American 50, 2005 |
Chemistry
| Name |
Award |
| Catalina Achim |
Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, 2003 |
| Catalina Achim |
Sloan Research Fellowship, 2006 |
| Bruce Armitage |
Non-tenured Faculty Award, 3M Corporation, 2001 |
| Guy Berry |
University Professor, 2002 |
| Guy Berry |
PMSE Fellow, American Chemical Society, 2003 |
| Aksel Bothner-By |
Gunther-Laukien Prize for NMR Research, 2002 |
| Terrence Collins |
Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award, 1999 |
| Terrence Collins |
Thomas Lord Professor of Chemistry Chair, 2002 |
| Terrence Collins |
ACS Pittsburgh Section Award, 2004 |
| Terrence Collins |
Baylor University/ACS Students Affiliates for Outstanding Achievements in Green Chemistry, 2004 |
| Terrence Collins |
Created Fellow of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemists, |
| Terrence Collins |
Excellence in Catalysis Award from the Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York, 2007 |
| Colin Horwitz |
Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award, 1999 |
| Morton Kaplan |
Deputy Council Chairperson (elected), S.T.A.R. Collaboration, 2002 |
| Paul Karol |
Fellow of the International Union Of Pure and Applied Chemistry, 2001 |
| Truman Kohman |
Asteroid No. 4177 was named "Kohman" in his honor, 2001 |
| Truman Kohman |
John A. Brashear Memorial Award of the Amateur Astronomers Association of Pittsburgh, 2000 |
| Krzysztof Matyjaszewski |
Alexander von Humboldt Prize for U.S. Senior Scientists, 1999 |
| Krzysztof Matyjaszewski |
PMSE Fellow, American Chemical Society, 2001 |
| Krzysztof Matyjaszewski |
National Professorship of Poland, 2001 |
| Krzysztof Matyjaszewski |
ACS Award in Polymer Science, 2002 |
| Krzysztof Matyjaszewski |
ACS Pittsburgh Section Award, 2002 |
| Krzysztof Matyjaszewski |
Cooperative Research Award in Polymer Science and Engineering, American Chemical Society, 2004 |
| Krzysztof Matyjaszewski |
University Professor, 2004 |
| Krzysztof Matyjaszewski |
Foundation for Polish Science Award, 2004 |
| Krzysztof Matyjaszewski |
Elected Foreign Member of Polish Academy of Science, 2005 |
| Krzysztof Matyjaszewski |
Japanese Society for Promotion of Science Fellow, 2005 |
| Krzysztof Matyjaszewski |
National Academy of Engineering, 2006 |
| Krzysztof Matyjaszewski |
Honorary Degree (Doctorate Honoris Causa), Russian Academy of Sciences, 2006 |
| Krzysztof Matyjaszewski |
ACS Herman F. Mark Senior Scholar Award, 2007 |
| Richard McCullough |
ACS Akron Section Award, 2002 |
| Richard McCullough |
Carnegie Science Center Start-up Entrepreneur Award, 2006 |
| Richard McCullough |
ACS Pittsburgh Award, 2007 |
| Eckard Münck |
ACS Alfred Bader Award in Bioinorganic Chemistry, 2007 |
| Gary D. Patterson |
Charles C. Price Fellow, Chemical Heritage Foundation, 2004–2005 |
| Newell Washburn |
Non-tenured Faculty Award, 3M Corp., 2006 |
| David Yaron |
Editor’s Choice Award and Classic Award, Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Tearching (MERLOT), 2003 |
| David Yaron |
“Digital Dozen” from the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for the ChemCollective Virtual Laboratory, 2005 |
Mathematical Sciences
| Name |
Award |
| Peter Andrews |
Herbrand Award for Advances in Automated Reasoning, 2003 |
| Egon Balas |
EURO Gold Medal, the Association of European Operational Research Societies, 2002 |
| Egon Balas |
Elected to the National Academy of Engineering, 2006 |
| Egon Balas |
Inducted by IFORS (International Federation of Operational Reseach Societies) into the Operational Research Hall of Fame, 2006 |
| Gérard Cornuéjols |
University Professor, 2002 |
| Gérard Cornuéjols |
Co-winner of the Fulkerson Prize, 2001 |
| Irene Fonseca |
Mellon College of Science Chair, 2003 |
| Irene Fonseca |
Advisory Committee, Switzerland’s École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 2004 |
| Irene Fonseca |
Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer at SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) Meeting, 2006 |
| James Greenberg |
Visiting Research Professor at the United States Naval Academy, |
| David Kinderlehrer |
Twenty-fourth William Spencer Lecturer, Kansas State University, |
| Morton Gurtin |
Agostinelli Prize, Academia dei Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, 2002 |
| Morton Gurtin |
Timoshenko Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2004 |
| Roy Nicolaides |
Alexander M. Knaster Professorship for Head of Mathematical Sciences, 2006 |
| Kavita Ramanan |
Erlang Prize for Young Applied Probablists, awarded by the Applied Probability Society of INFORMS, 2006 |
| Ernest Schimmerling |
Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award for mathematical research at the University of Paris, 2005 |
| Steven Shreve |
Best new book in quantitative finance, Wilmott magazine (a trade publication in quantitative finance), 2005 |
| Steven Shreve |
Orion Hoch Professorship in MCS, 2006 |
Physics
| Name |
Award |
| Roy Briere |
Co-Spokesperson of the CLEO Dectector Collaboration (elected), 2005; Re-elected 2006 |
| Randall Feenstra |
Humboldt Foundation Award, 2000 |
| Fred Gilman |
Appointed Chair of the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel to the Department of Energy, 2000 |
| Richard Griffiths |
Recognized by President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa for Contributions as one of the Directores of SALT (Southern African Large Telescope), 2005 |
| Robert Griffiths |
Yan Ji Ci Chair Professorship, University of Science and Technology of China, |
| Sara Majetich |
Eminent Scientist of the Year Award, International Research Promotion Council, 2000 |
| Sara Majetich |
IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer, 2007 |
| Curtis Meyer |
Board of Directors of Jefferson Lab Users Group (elected), 2002 |
| Curtis Meyer |
Fellow of the American Physical Society (elected), 2004 |
| John Nagle |
Avanti Award in Lipids, Biophysical Society, 2003 |
| John Nagle |
Chair of Users Meeting of the Cornell High Energy Sychrotron Source (CHESS), 2002 |
| John Nagle |
Users Executive Committee (elected), Cornell High Energy Synchroton (CHESS), 2001 |
| Reinhard Schumacher |
Chairman of the CLAS Collaboration, Jefferson Lab, 2002 |
| Robert Sekerka |
President of the International Organization for Crystal Growth (elected), 2002; Re-elected 2005 |
| Stephanie Tristram-Nagle |
Avanti Award in Lipids, Biophysical Society, 2003 |
| Hugh Young |
Andrew Carnegie Society Recognition Award, 2007 |
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