College faculty have received numerous awards and honors this past year. This includes both UB and SUNY awards, as well as those received from outside institutions and societies.
Luis De Jesus Baez
Department of Chemistry
Scialog: Negative Emission Science Fellow Beacon Fellow
Colleen Balukas
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Service Above Self, UB Pillar of Leadership Award. 2023.
Nominated: Exemplary Mentorship, UB Pillar of Leadership Award. 2023
Priya Banerjee
Department of Physics
National Science Foundation CAREER Award and
Biophysical Society Biopolymers in Vivo (BIV) subgroup Young Faculty Award
Jason Benedict
Department of Chemistry
University at Buffalo Teaching Innovation Award
Henry Berlin
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
2023 La corónica Book Award. Annual international prize for “the best monograph published on Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures,” awarded to Alone Together.
Maxim Bichuch
Department of Mathematics
Professor Joel Dean Award for Excellence in Teaching
Rebecca Chaleff
Department of Theatre and Dance
Cambridge University Press Prize, American Society for Theatre Research
Sherry Chemler
Department of Chemistry
SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities
Susan Clark
Department of Environment and Sustainability
UB Sustainability SLICE Award
Luis Colón
Department of Chemistry
Robert Holland, Jr. Award
Timothy Cook
Department of Chemistry
President Emeritus and Mrs. Meyerson Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring Award
Andrew Crooks
Department of Geography
Best Paper Award at the 5th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Simulation
Sophie Crooks Nowicki
Department of Geology
International Glaciological Society Richardson Medal
Paul Cullen
Department of Biological Sciences
UB Graduate School Distinguished Postdoc Mentor Award 2023
Jonathan Dewald
Department of History
Senior Fellow in Residence, The Munk School
Yige Dong
Department of Sociology
2023 Distinguished Scholarly Article Award of the Section on Labor and Labor Movements, American Sociological Association
2023 Outstanding Scholarly Article Award, Marxist Sociology Section, American Sociological Association
Cecil Foster
Department of Africana and American Studies
2022 Heritage Toronto Award for Derailed: The History of Black Railway Porters in Canada for Myseum of Toronto
Jeff Good
Department of Linguistics
Humboldt Research Award. Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung
David Gray
Department of Philosophy
2023 Academic Integrity Award, Faculty Distinction; UB Office of Academic Integrity
Melanie Green
Department of Communication
Top Paper, Mass Communication Division, International Communication Association conference
Lindsay Hahn
Department of Communication
Top Paper Award presented by the Mass Communication Division of the International Communication Association
Reviewer of the Year Award presented by the Journal of Media Psychology
Top Paper Award presented by the Communication and Social Cognition Division of the National Communication Association
Erin Hatton
Department of Sociology
Max Weber Award for Distinguished Scholarship, American Sociological Association Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section
Larry Hawk
Department of Psychology
UB Exceptional Scholar for Sustained Achievement Award
David Heppner
Department of Chemistry
Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) BTC K Scholar Award
David Herzberg
Department of History
Rorabaugh Prize, Alcohol and Drug History Society (for “a first or second monograph in the English language in the history of alcohol and drug studies”), for White Market Drugs
Yingjie Hu
Department of Geography
UB Exceptional Scholar: Young Investigator Award
Laura Kraning
Department of Media Study
New York State Council for the Arts Support for Artists Grant
SCI TT
Eero Laine
Department of Theatre and Dance
Excellence in Editing Award Honorable Mention, Association for Theatre in Higher Education, with Kevin Brown, Felipe Cervera, Kyoko Iwaki, and Kristof van Baarle
David Lee
Department of Communication
Top Paper Award in Communication Science & Biology, International Communication Association
Jieun Lee
Department of Political Science
David P. Baron Award for the best article published in Business and Politics in 2022.
Yan Liu
Department of History
2023 William H. Welch Medal from the American Association for the History of Medicine, awarded to "Healing with Poisons"
Ndubueze Mbah
Department of History
New York African Studies Association Best Book Prize for Emergent Masculinities
Christopher Mele
Department of Sociology
2023 Leedom B. Morrison Award, Heritage Commission of Delaware County, P.A.
Eduardo Mercado
Department of Psychology
Guggenheim Fellow
Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellow
Psychonomic Society Fellow
Sara Metcalf
Department of Geography
Outstanding Service Award, System Dynamics Society
Christina Milletti
Department of English
Patron's Prize for Fiction Pushcart Prize Nomination
Brenda Moore
Department of Sociology
Award from 6888th Monument Committee recognizing research on African American military women who served overseas during World War II.
Jackie Murray
Department of Classics
Fellowship, American Academy in Berlin
Ariel Nereson
Department of Theatre and Dance
Robert A. Schanke Theatre Research Award, Mid-America Theatre Conference, March 2023, Vera Mowry Roberts Research and Publication Award, American Theatre and Drama Society, July 2022
Yotam Ophir
Department of Communication
Top-Paper in Aging and Communication. National Communication Association, New Orleans, L.A.
Top-Paper in LGBTQ Interest Group. International Communication Association, Toronto, Canada.
Lora Park
Department of Psychology
Association for Psychological Science Fellow President-Elect, Society of Experimental Social Psychology
Jennifer Read
Department of Psychology
SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities
Erik Seeman
Department of History
Fulbright Research and Teaching Fellowship, Erfurt University, Erfurt, Germany
Kelly Tenzek
Department of Communication
National Survey of Religious Leaders (NSRL) Award
Top Paper Award, National Communication Assohciation Communication as Social Construction Division, New Orleans, LA.
Top Paper Panel, National Communication Association. Communication and Aging Division, New Orleans, LA.
Elizabeth Thomas
Department of Geology
Fulbright Scholar Award to Norway, Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen, Norway
Ann-Marie Torregrossa
Department of Psychology
2022 Epstein Research Award, Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior
Paul Vanouse
Department of Art
Award for Excellence, “Difference Machines”, Co-curators: Tina Rivers Ryan and Paul Vanouse, Best Exhibition with up to $10 Million Operating Budget, Association of Art Museum Curators, New York, N.Y.
Luis Velarde
Department of Chemistry
MAC Outstanding Faculty Award for Student Success
Zhen Wang
Department of Biological Sciences
Phytochemical Society of North America (PSNA) Arthur C. Neish Young Investigator Award
Victoria Wolcott
Department of History
New Deal Book Award for Living in the Future: Utopianism and the Long Civil Rights Movement
Janet Yang
Department of Communication
UB Exceptional Scholar Sustained Achievement Award
Juan Carlos Martinez Zaldivar
Department of Media Study
Latino Public Broadcasting New Media Fund, Grantee 2023
Hao Zeng
Department of Physics
UB Exceptional Scholar-Sustained Achievement Award
SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities
Katherine Zubovich
Department of History
Honourable Mention for the 2021 Alexander Nove Prize in Russian, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Studies of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies for book "Moscow Monumental"