{"id":562132,"date":"2023-06-23T11:14:38","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T15:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=562132"},"modified":"2025-11-19T07:58:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T12:58:54","slug":"may-june-2023-faculty-awards-accolades-562132","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/may-june-2023-faculty-awards-accolades-562132\/","title":{"rendered":"Honors and awards showcase faculty achievements across disciplines"},"content":{"rendered":"
Know of a faculty member receiving an award or honor? Contact us<\/a>\u00a0so we can help share the news.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n 做厙勛圖<\/a>\u00a0faculty regularly earn regional, national, and international awards and honors for their professional contributions to research, scholarship, education, and community engagement.<\/p>\n As part of an ongoing series, we\u2019re spotlighting their accomplishments.<\/p>\n Scott Abramson<\/a>, an associate professor in the Department of Political Science<\/a>, has won the Outstanding Article Award in International History and Politics<\/a> for \u201cHistorical Border Changes, State Building, and Contemporary Trust in Europe<\/a>,\u201d published in the American Political Science Review<\/em>. The prize is given by the International History and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA)<\/a>.<\/p>\n The article, coauthored with David Carter<\/a> \u201909 (PhD) at Washington University in St. Louis and Luwei Ying<\/a> at the University of California, Los Angeles, demonstrates that people who live in areas with more frequent historical border changes exhibit lower levels of political and social trust\u2014compared to people from neighboring locales without historical border changes.<\/p>\n The APSA committee members were \u201cuniformly impressed with the way the article assembled and rigorously analyzed an array of historical and contemporary data to make an important theoretical contribution.\u201d<\/p>\n Abramson\u2019s work intersects at international relations and comparative politics, seeking to understand the causes of political order, the evolution of the international system, and the origins of the institutions that make up the modern territorial state. He\u2019s currently working on a series of papers that advance tools for preference elicitation in political science, including a project this summer that investigates voter bias when women run for public office.<\/p>\n Roberto Hernandez-Alejandro, a professor of surgery and chief of abdominal transplantation, was honored with the 2023 REAL Advancing in Liver Transplantation Award<\/a> by the International Liver Transplantation Society (ILTS) for his efforts to expand education in Asia and Latin America. He also has been appointed chair of the Scientific Program for the 2024 American Transplant Congress, to be held in Philadelphia in May.<\/p>\n Jeremy Jamieson<\/a>, a professor in the Department of Psychology<\/a>, has been named a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science<\/a> (APS). Fellow status is awarded to APS members who have made sustained outstanding contributions to the science of psychology in the areas of research, teaching, service, or application. Jamieson, who joined the University in 2012, heads up Rochester\u2019s\u00a0Social Stress Lab<\/a> where he studies stress regulation and the effects of stress on decision-making.<\/p>\n He and his colleagues recently developed and successfully tested a 30-minute online training module<\/a> that teaches teenagers to recognize their stress responses\u2014sweaty palms, a racing heart, for example\u2014as a positive driving force rather than as something to be feared or tamped down. In an earlier, related study<\/a>, Jamieson showed that college students who were taught to reinterpret their stress response as performance-enhancing were less anxious and generally healthier.<\/p>\n The author of nearly 60 articles and book chapters, Jamieson generally focuses his research on optimizing people\u2019s stress responses.<\/p>\n Maiken Nedergaard<\/a>, a professor of neurology and co-director of the Center for Translational Neuromedicine<\/a>, received the Anders Jahre Award<\/a> from the University of Oslo for her research on astrocytes and the glymphatic system, which \u201chas far-reaching implications both for understanding how the brain normally works and what goes wrong when the brain is affected by disease.\u201d<\/p>\n Nedergaard, who joined the University of Rochester in 2003 and is also a faculty member at the University of Copenhagen, first described the glymphatic system in 2012. Her discovery of the system, through which the brain removes the metabolic and other waste products it creates through its normal activity, was honored as one of Science Magazine\u2019s ten \u201cBreakthroughs of the Year\u201d in 2013. Since then, she has demonstrated that the glymphatic system clears away protein waste products that are implicated in neurodegenerative diseases and that the failure of this system might cause dementia. She further discovered that the glymphatic system operates primarily while we sleep and removes toxic proteins associated with Alzheimer\u2019s disease. These findings fundamentally changed scientists\u2019 understanding of the biological purpose of sleep and opened the doors to new potential treatments for neurological disorders. Missy Pfohl Smith, director of the undergraduate dance and movement program<\/a> and the Institute for Performing Arts<\/a>, was recently named as a member of the New York State DanceForce<\/a>, a consortium of dance activists committed to increasing the quantity and quality of dance activity throughout New York State. Each volunteer member receives annual funding to create projects that bring dance artists to upstate New York communities in customized residencies.<\/p>\n Pfohl Smith is a choreographer, performer, and collaborative artist who founded and serves as artistic director for BIODANCE<\/a>, a contemporary repertory company. As a faculty member, she has been instrumental in securing grant funding and bringing guest artists to the University. Under her leadership, the dance and movement program has developed a bachelor\u2019s degree in dance (with concentrations in creative expression and performance or in dance studies), a dance minor, and a movement studies minor, as well as new academic clusters and interdisciplinary collaborations across campus.<\/p>\n M. Patricia Rivera, a noted lung cancer specialist who serves in many leadership roles at the University of Rochester Medical Center and Wilmot Cancer Institute, is the new president of the American Thoracic Society<\/a> (ATS) for 2023\u201324. Rivera is the first Latino woman and the first University faculty member \u00a0to lead the large, international organization\u2014the world\u2019s leading medical society dedicated to advancing respiratory health.<\/p>\n At ATS, Rivera will be able to collaborate with Margaret-Ann Carno, a professor of clinical nursing with the School of Nursing, who has been elected as chair of the Nursing Assembly for ATS<\/a>. Carno is a pediatric nurse practitioner for Pediatric Sleep Medicine Services at Golisano Children\u2019s Hospital and is one of only a few PhD-prepared nurses to be board-certified by the American Board of Sleep Medicine.<\/p>\n Lainie Ross<\/a>, the chair of health humanities and bioethics<\/a>, received the honorary degree during the May 12 commencement ceremony at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. Ross is internationally recognized for her work in the field.<\/p>\n Ross\u2019s core areas of expertise include ethical and policy issues in pediatrics, clinical decision making, death and organ transplantation, genetics\/genomics, clinical research ethics, and human subject protections. She has published five books, more than 225 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, and is currently writing a sixth book examining ethical issues related to siblings in health care.<\/p>\n Judith Smetana<\/a>, a professor in the Department of Psychology<\/a>, has been recognized with the Award for Distinguished Contribution to Developmental Science<\/a>\u00a0from the Jean Piaget Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n Established in 1970, the society\u2014named in honor of Swiss developmentalist Piaget\u2014has an international, interdisciplinary membership of scholars, teachers, and researchers who are exploring the nature of the developmental construction of human knowledge.<\/p>\n Smetana, who joined the Rochester faculty in 1979, is an expert in the development of children\u2019s moral and social knowledge, teen\u2013parent relationships, and parenting beliefs and practices.<\/p>\n \u201cShe taught us that the roots of parent-adolescent conflict inhere not in what parents and teenagers disagree about, but in how they frame the issues,\u201d wrote one of Smetana\u2019s peer nominators for the award. \u201cBy extending this work to diverse populations and reaching similar conclusions, Judi has demonstrated something that is fundamental to the very nature of adolescence.\u201d<\/p>\n The author of\u00a0Adolescents, Families, and Social Development: How Teens Construct Their Worlds<\/em><\/a> (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) and the coeditor of three editions of the Handbook of Moral Development<\/em><\/a> (Routledge, 2023) and more than 200 articles, Smetana has served as the editor of the academic journal\u00a0Child Development Perspectives from 2018 to 2023. <\/em>She is a fellow of both the American Psychological Association (2016) and the Association for Psychological Science (2007).<\/p>\nScott Abramson wins American Political Science Association\u2019s outstanding article award<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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\nRoberto Hernandez-Alejandro recognized by ILTS, American Transplant Congress<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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\nJeremy Jamieson named a fellow of the Association for Psychological Sciences<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Maiken Nedergaard receives the 2023 Anders Jahre Award for research<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nNedergaard\u2019s recent work examines how certain patterns of neuronal signaling and activity; support cells in the brain called astrocytes; and the smooth muscle cells that control blood flow in the brain all work together to turn the glymphatic system on and off.<\/p>\n\n
\nMissy Pfohl Smith joins New York State DanceForce<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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\nM. Patricia Rivera and Margaret-Ann Carno appointed to leadership roles with the American Thoracic Society<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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\nLainie Ross receives honorary doctorate of humanities<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Judith Smetana receives Jean Piaget Society award<\/strong><\/h3>\n