The National Science Foundation recently recognized Thayer School of Engineering Professor Petia Vlahovska for excellence as an emerging teacher and researcher, the College announced in a Feb. 26 press release. The award, issued by the NSF's Faculty Early Career Development Program, supports new professors who combine classroom instruction with hands-on laboratory work to train future scientists. Vlahovska's research seeks to broaden the understanding of biological cell mechanisms by integrating engineering and biophysics, the release said. The work has important implications for biomedicine, including targeted drug delivery, Vlahovska said in the press release.
Columbia University has named Cornell University vice provost and philosophy professor Michele Moody-Adams the new dean of Columbia College, the university's largest undergraduate school, Bloomberg reported on Feb. 26. Moody-Adams will replace Austin Quigley, who will retire on July 1 after 14 years in the position, Columbia said in an e-mail to Bloomberg. In addition to overseeing the undergraduate curriculum at Cornell, Moody-Adams has also taught at Wellesley College, Indiana University in Bloomington and the University of Rochester.
The American Pain Society will honor Dartmouth Medical School professor Joyce DeLeo for important research in the area of pain, DMS announced on Thursday. DeLeo is the 2009 recipient of the Frederick W. L. Kerr Basic Science Research Award, and will be honored at the society's meeting in May. DeLeo's investigations of the nervous and immune systems could yield new drug therapy treatments for acute and chronic pain, according the press release. DeLeo is the director of the Neuroscience Center at Dartmouth and was a proponent of establishing the Program in Experimental and Molecular Medicine for graduate studies at DMS. DeLeo has taught at Dartmouth since 1991.
