kudos: a selection of recent awards and honors received by Rutgers-Newark faculty and staff

Roland V. Anglin has

been appointed director

of the Joseph C.

Cornwall Center for

Metropolitan Studies,

School of Public Affairs

and Administration.

Anglin comes to the

Cornwall Center from

the Edward J. Bloustein

School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers-

New Brunswick where he was Faculty Fellow

since 2000. For seven years he served as the

executive director of Bloustein’s Initiative for

Regional and Community Transformation.

Katalin Balog, associate

professor, philosophy,

Faculty of Arts and Sciences,

has received a Fulbright

grant to conduct research at

Collegium Budapest in

Hungary.

Edna Y. Baugh, assistant director, Clinical

Administration, School of Law-Newark, was

selected as the recipient of the Oranges and

Maplewood NAACP 2012 President’s Award for

her contributions to promoting diversity, civil

rights and social justice.

April Benasich,

professor,

Center for

Molecular and

Behavioral

Neuroscience,

is co-editor

(with R. Holly

Fitch) of Developmental Dyslexia: Early Precursors,

Neurobehaviorial Markers, and Biological

Substrates (Brookes Publishing Co., March 2012).

She also was one of three scientists to speak at

the United Nations on World Autism

Awareness Day, April 2, 2012.

Frances Bouchoux,

senior associate

dean, School of Law-

Newark, was

appointed 2011-2012

chair of the Amicus

Committee of the

National

Association of

Women Judges.

Anthony Braga, professor, School of Criminal

Justice, has been elected to serve as executive

counselor of the Division of Experimental

Criminology of the American Society of

Criminology. Also the Boston Police

Department’s Safe Street Teams hot spots

policing program, which Braga helped design,

monitor and evaluate, received the Community

Policing Award and the Excellence in Law

Enforcement Research Award from the

International Association of Chiefs of Police.

György Buzsaki, Rutgers Board of Governors

Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience, Center

for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, was

noted in the 2011-2012 winter issue of Inside New

Jersey, The Star-Ledger magazine, as one of New

Jersey’s 20 “brainiest” for his exceptional

intellect and accomplishments.

Edna Cadmus, clinical

professor, College of

Nursing, has been

selected to be inducted

as a Fellow of the

American Academy of

Nursing.

John Cantwell, professor, Rutgers Business

School, is the editor of the Journal of International

Business Studies, which has been ranked in the

Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports as one

of the top three journals in the business category

for citation impact.

Joel Caplan, assistant

professor, School of

Criminal Justice,

received the Academy of

Criminal Justice Sciences

Donal MacNamara

Award for Outstanding

Journal Publication,

“Risk Terrain

Modeling: Brokering

Criminological Theory and GIS Methods for

Crime Forecasting” (Justice Quarterly 2011, Vol.

28, No. 2), which he co-authored with Leslie

Kennedy and Joel Miller. Caplan also received

the Advancing Victim-Centered Knowledge

Scholarly Paper Award from the National

Center for Victims of Crime.

Kornel Chang, assistant professor, history,

Faculty of Arts and Sciences, is the recipient of a

Charles Warren Fellowship to study “The

Politics of Knowledge in Universities and in the

State” at the Charles Warren Center for Studies

in American History at Harvard University.

Ariane Chebel

d’Appollonia,

associate professor,

School of Public

Affairs and

Administration, is the

author of Frontiers of

Fear: Immigration and

Insecurity in the United

States and Europe

(Cornell University

Press, March 2012).

Ronald V. Clarke, professor, School of Criminal

Justice, was honored with a Festschrift, The

Reasoning Criminologist: Essays in Honour of

Ronald V. Clarke (Routledge, 2011).

Steven J. Diner,

immediate past

chancellor of

Rutgers-Newark,

was appointed

University

Professor in

December 2011.

Jon Dubin, professor and associate dean for

clinical education, School of Law-Newark, was

selected to be a member of the Administrative

Conference of the United States Social Security

Disability Adjudication Project Working Group.

Kyle Farmbry, associate professor, School Public

Affairs and Administration, was named one of

six Louis O. Kelso Fellows for the 2012-2013

academic year. He will be studying broad-based

employee ownership plans and their use in

poverty alleviation and community-wealth

creation.

John Farmer Jr., dean,

School of Law-

Newark, has been

selected to receive the

2012 William J.

Brennan Award from

the Association of the

Federal Bar of New

Jersey.

Alexander Gates, vice chancellor for research

and professor, earth and environmental science,

Faculty of Arts and Sciences, was recognized for

Encyclopedia of Pollution, which he co-authored

with Robert

Blauvelt.

Encyclopedia of

Pollution was

named one of

two runners-up

in the Nonfiction

category of the 2012 Green Book Festival’s

annual competition “honoring books that

contribute to greater understanding, respect for

and positive action on the changing worldwide

environment.” The publication also was selected

as a Library Journal “Best Reference Source.”

Deanna Gray-Miceli, assistant professor,

College of Nursing, has been selected to be

inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy

of Nursing.

Anjum Gupta, assistant professor, School of

Law-Newark, and director, Immigration Rights

Clinic, was elected to the national Board of

Directors of the Clinical Legal Education

Association for a three-year term.

William L.

Holzemer, dean,

College of

Nursing, was

honored with

Japan’s Order of

the Rising Sun,

Gold Rays with

Neck Ribbon, for his outstanding contributions

to the development of nursing science and the

education of nursing professionals in Japan. He

also was inducted into the 2012 International

Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame.

Marc Holzer, dean,

School of Public

Affairs and

Administration,

was named the

2012 Messick

Fellow at the

School of Public

Policy and

Administration –

University of Delaware. He also has been

honored as a Fellow of the National Academy of

Public Administration and is the co-author of

“Restating the Relevance of Comparative Public

Administration.” published in the Public

Administration Review (2011).

Lucille A. Joel,

professor, College

of Nursing,

received the

Distinguished

Alumni Award

from the Alumni

Association of the

Teachers College

of Columbia

University. She

also was awarded the Bergen Regional Medical

Center Benefactor Award for her outstanding

accomplishments and dedication to the patients

and residents of Bergen Regional Medical

Center. Moreover, Joel’s book, Advanced Practice

Nursing: Essentials for Role Development (F. A.

Davis Company, 2009), has been nominated for

inclusion on the list of the Top 50 Must-Read

Books for Nurses in 2012.

John P. Joergensen, professor, School of Law-

Newark, has been appointed director of the law

library.

Tayari Jones,

associate

professor,

English and

Master of Fine

Arts in

Creative

Writing

Program,

Faculty of Arts

and Sciences, is a recipient of the 2011-2012

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

Fellowship at Harvard University where she

will focus on writing a new novel, Dear History.

Richard Keevey, Distinguished Practitioner in

Residence, School of Public Affairs and

Administration, has been honored as a Fellow of

the National Academy of Public Administration.

Leslie Kennedy,

University Professor,

School of Criminal

Justice, received the

Academy of Criminal

Justice Sciences Donal

MacNamara Award

for Outstanding

Journal Publication,

“Risk Terrain Modeling: Brokering

Criminological Theory and GIS Methods for

Crime Forecasting” (Justice Quarterly 2011, Vol.

28, No. 2), which he co-authored with Joel

Caplan and Joel Miller.

Joel Miller, assistant

professor, School of

Criminal Justice, received

the Academy of Criminal

Justice Sciences Donal

MacNamara Award for

Outstanding Journal

Publication, “Risk Terrain

Modeling: Brokering

Criminological Theory

and GIS Methods for Crime Forecasting” (Justice

Quarterly 2011, Vol. 28, No. 2), which he co-

authored with Joel Caplan and Leslie Kennedy.

Larry Miller, assistant professor, School of

Public Affairs and Administration, has been

named a senior research affiliate by the Center

on Reinventing Public Education at the

University of Washington.

Eduardo Moncada,

assistant professor,

political science,

Faculty of Arts and

Sciences, is a Fellow of

the New York

University

Postdoctoral and

Transition Program for

Academic Diversity

at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School.

Dan Morgenstern, recently retired director of

the Institute of Jazz Studies, was awarded the

Rutgers University Award, one of the

university’s highest recognitions, for his

exceptional contributions to Rutgers. He also

was noted in the 2011-2012 winter issue of Inside

New Jersey, The Star-Ledger magazine, as one of

New Jersey’s 20 “brainiest” for his exceptional

intellect and accomplishments.

dt ogilvie, professor, Rutgers Business School,

and founding director, The Center for Urban

Entrepreneurship and Economic Development,

has been appointed dean of the E. Philip

Saunders College of Business at Rochester

Institute of Technology, effective August 1, 2012.

Thomas J. O’Reilly has

been appointed director

of The Police Institute,

School of Criminal

Justice. O’Reilly comes

to Rutgers from the

United States

Department of Justice

where he served as a

senior policy advisor

for the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of

Justice Programs, since 2006, and director of the

Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting

Initiative Program Management Office since

2010.

Sanjay K. Pandey, professor, School of Public

Affairs and Administration, is the co-author of

four articles: “Setting the Table: How

Transformational Leadership Fosters

Performance Information Use” published in the

Journal of Public Administration Research and

Theory (Vol. 22, No. 1), “Understanding

Affective

Organization

Commitment: The

Importance of

Institutional Context”

published in the

American Review of

Public Administration

(Vol. 41, No. 6),

“Further Dissecting

the Black Box of

Citizen Participation: When Does Citizen

Involvement Lead to Good Outcomes?”

published in the Public Administration Review

(Vol. 71, No. 6), and “Pulling the Levers:

Transformational Leadership, Public Service

Motivation and Mission Valence” published in

the Public Administration Review (Vol. 72, No. 2).

Jayne Anne Phillips, director, Master of Fine

Arts in Creative Writing Program, received

Rutgers’ Faculty Scholar-Teacher Award.

Norma Riccucci,

professor and director

of the PhD program,

School of Public

Affairs and

Administration, has

been honored as a

Fellow of the National

Academy of Public

Administration. Also,

her book, Public Administration: Traditions of

Inquiry and Philosophies of Knowledge, was the

winner of the 2012 Best Book Award from the

Section on Public Administration Research of

the American Society for Public Administration.

Dale Rogers, professor, Rutgers Business

School, and co-director, Center for Supply Chain

Management, received the 2012 Distinguished

Service Award from the International

Warehouse Logistics Association.

Alan Shark,

assistant professor,

School of Public

Affairs and

Administration,

received the 2012

National Champion

Award from the

National

Association for State

Chief Information

Officers and has been honored as a Fellow of the

National Academy of Public Administration.

Shark also was the keynote speaker of

“Partnerships for Change: Domestic Violence,

Sexual Abuse and Stalking,” co-sponsored by

the Oklahoma Coalition Against Domestic

Violence and the Oklahoma Office of the

Attorney General, and “Responding to Domestic

Violent,” co-sponsored by the Attorney General

and New Mexico Coalition Against Domestic

Violence.

Maggie Shiffrar,

professor,

psychology, Faculty

of Arts and Sciences,

has been appointed

dean of the

Graduate School—

Newark.

Shirley Smoyak, professor, College of Nursing,

has been named a recipient of the Lifetime

Achievement Award given by the Network for

Psychiatric Nurse Researchers, a division of the

Royal College of Nursing in London, England.

She also received an honorary doctor of humane

letters from Kingston University and St.

George’s University, University of London.

Moreover, Smoyak received an honorary

fellowship from the Royal College of Nursing,

Liverpool, England.

Paula Tallal, co-

director, Center for

Molecular and

Behavioral

Neuroscience, was

noted in the 2011-2012

winter issue of Inside

New Jersey, The Star-

Ledger magazine, as

one of New Jersey’s 20

“brainiest” for her

exceptional intellect

and accomplishments.

George C. Thomas,

Board of Governors

Professor of Law

and Judge

Alexander P. Waugh

Sr. Distinguished

Scholar, School of

Law-Newark,

received the Rutgers

School of Law-

Newark Alumni Association 2012 Distinguished

Service Award.

Frank Thompson,

professor, School of

Public Affairs and

Administration,

received the 2012

Donald C. Stone

Distinguished Scholar

Award from the Section

on Intergovernmental

Administration and Management of the

American Society for Public Administration. He

also has been honored as a Fellow of the

National Academy of Public Administration and

chaired the Mosher Award Committee to select

the best article written by an academician for the

2011 volume of the Public Administration Review.

Joseph Voccaturo, assistant director, Physical

Plant, accepted a Platinum Award from

Meadowlink on behalf of Rutgers Newark

Commuter Transit and Parking Services for its

successful efforts to reduce the number of single

occupancy vehicles on the roads.

Jerome Williams,

Prudential Chair in

Business, Rutgers

Business School, and

research director of The

Center for Urban

Entrepreneurship and

Economic

Development, was

elected chair of the

Board of Trustees of the American Marketing

Association Foundation for a two-year term.

Junius Williams, director, Abbott Leadership

Institute, received the Call to Service Award

from President Barack Obama’s Council on

Service and Civic Engagement.

Allan Wolper, professor, arts, culture and

media, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, garnered

first place for best Public Affairs/Radio Category

from the New York Association of Black

Journalists for his interview of former Harlem

drug king Frank Lucas.

Yahong Zhang,

assistant professor,

School of Public

Affairs and

Administration, was

selected to receive

the 2012 Julia J.

Henderson

International Award

by the Section for

Women on Public

Administration of the American Society for

Public Administration. She also has co-authored

two articles: “Participatory Budgeting in Local

Government” Evidence from New Jersey

Municipalities” published in the Public

Performance and Management Review (Vol. 35, No.

2), and “Knowledge and Skills for Policy-

Making: Stories from Local Public Managers in

Florida” published in the Journal of Public Affairs

Education (Vol. 18, No.1).

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