Recent Citations

• Research rankings by the National Science Foundation (NSF) place psychology at UConn third nationally in federal research funding.

• Alan R. Bennett, CLAS ’69, managing partner in the Washington, DC, law firm Ropes & Gray, won the 2007 UConn Distinguished Alumni Award.

• Changfeng Gui, professor of mathematics, was awarded the 2007 Provost's Research Excellence Award. Four years ago Gui won the PIMS Research Prize, one of the highest awards in mathematics.

• Ann Bucklin and Hans Dam, professors of marine sciences, were elected to the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering. Faculty members Michael Neumann, mathematics; Jeffrey Ogbar, history; and Kathleen Segerson, economics; were elected to the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh, professor of political science and associate dean of CLAS, was elected CAAS vice president.

• Michael Neumann, professor and department head of mathematics, and John Salamone, professor of psychology, were named Board of Trustees Distinguished Professors for 2007.

• Ronald L. Mallett, professor of physics, won the Alumni Fellow Award from Penn State University, where he received his bachelor’s master’s, and PhD degrees in physics. The Alumni Fellow Award is the highest award given by the Penn State Alumni Association. His primary research interests are in general relativity and gravitation, black holes, relativistic astrophysics, and quantum cosmology, and he is the author of Time Traveler: A Scientist’s Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality.

• Audiology professor Frank Musiek was awarded the James Jerger Career Award for Reserch in Audiology, the highest award in the field, by the American Academy of Audiology.

• Amy Howell, professor of chemistry, was named Educator of the Year by the Undergraduate Student Government.

• John Davis, the Emliana Pasca Noether Chair in Modern Italian History, was named a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in London.

• Krissa A. Skogen, a PhD candidate in ecology and evolutionary biology, was chosen as a 2007 fellow of the national Environmental Leadership Program.

• Samantha Sherwood, CLAS ’08, an honors student in human development and family studies, was awarded first prize by Yale University’s Roosevelt Institution for her policy proposal on expanding family leave policy in the U.S. This national competition was judged by three Yale policy professors and the executive director of the Policy Studies Organization.
• Evelyn M. Simien, assistant professor of political science, received the Anna Julia Cooper Teaching Award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists.

Endowed Chairs

Lynn Z. Bloom Aetna Chair of Writing Arnold Dashefsky Doris and Simon Konover Chair of Judaic Studies Robert R. Birge The Harold S. Schwenk, Sr. Distinguished Chair in Chemistry Robert Gross The James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History Richard A. Wilson The Judi and Gary Gladstein Distinguished Chair in Human Rights John A. Davis The Emiliana Pasca Noether Chair in Modern Italian History

The Office of State Archaeologist, the Office of State Historian, and the title of state ornithologist (Margaret Rubega) are held by CLAS faculty members.