Kudos to You

Awards and Recognition

The following Brandeis faculty members have recently garnered honors and/or recognition in their field.

James Haber
Professor of Biology
Received a five-year, $2.7 million MERIT (Method to Extend Research in Time) grant from the National Institutes of Health, for his research into the mechanisms by which broken chromosomes are repaired in budding yeast (2007).

Derek Isaacowitz
Associate Professor of Psychology
Received the American Psychological Association's Springer Early Achievement Award, which honors a psychologist whose work has made significant early-career contributions to understanding critical issues in adult development and aging (2006).

Jané Kondev
Associate Professor of Physics
Will spend the 2007-08 academic year as a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University studying chromosome structure and finishing his textbook "Physical Biology of the Cell."

Eve Marder
Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Neuroscience
Was among 72 new members and 18 foreign associates from 12 countries that were elected to the National Academy of Sciences, an honorific society of distinguished scholars engaged in scientific and engineering research (2007). Named president-elect of the 38,000-member Society for Neuroscience (2006).

Robert Meyer
Professor of Physics
Awarded the George W. Gray Medal by the British Liquid Crystal Society for contributions to liquid-crystal research and technology (2007).

Chris Miller
Professor of Biochemistry
Was among 72 new members and 18 foreign associates from 12 countries that were elected to the National Academy of Sciences, an honorific society of distinguished scholars engaged in scientific and engineering research (2007).

Daniela Nicastro
Assistant Professor of Biology
Named one of 20 Pew Scholars in the biomedical sciences nationwide by the Pew Charitable Trusts and the University of California at San Francisco (2007).

Oleg Viktorovich Ozerov
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Named one of 15 Camile Dreyfus Teacher-Scholars, an award given to young faculty who have made outstanding contributions to both research and pedagogy (2007).

Gina Turrigiano
Professor of Biology
Was a 2007 recipient of the Director's Pioneer Award from the National Institutes of Health. Pioneer Awards are designed to support individual scientists of exceptional creativity who propose pioneering — and possibly transforming approaches — to major challenges in biomedical and behavioral research (2007).