College of Agriculture and Natural Resources

• Daniel Civco, a professor in the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, received the 2010 SAIC/Estes Memorial Teaching Award of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. The award recognizes individual achievement in the promotion of remote sensing and GIS technology, and applications through educational efforts.

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

• Manisha Desai, associate professor of sociology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, received a Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad grant for 2010-11, which supports research and training efforts overseas that focus on non-Western foreign languages and area studies. Director of the Women's Studies Program, she will conduct research on the manifestations and impact of contradictory commitments to gender and environmental market-based development on the policies and practices of the state, the activism of social movements, and the lives of ordinary men and women in Gujarat, India.
• Anna Mae Duane, associate professor of English in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, received a Fulbright award for spring 2011. She will lecture on American literature at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium and will work on a collective biography of the alumni of the New York African Free School.
• David A. Kenny, professor of psychology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, is the recipient of the Distinguished Career Award from the International Association for Relationship Research.
• Stephanie Milan, assistant professor of clinical psychology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, is one of five UConn faculty members have received a Fulbright Scholar award for the 2010-11 academic year. She will spend six months in Kenya, teaching and consulting on course development in the new Master's Program in Clinical Psychology at the University of Nairobi. Milan will also conduct a collaborative research project with department faculty to develop locally validated measures of children's mental health.
• Frank E. Musiek, professor and director of auditory research in communications sciences in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, won the highest award of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, the 2010 Award of Excellence, for his "incomparable contributions to the science and practice of neuroaudiology."
• Mark Overmyer-Velazquez, associate professor of history in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, is one of five UConn faculty members have received a Fulbright Scholar award for the 2010-11 academic year. He will spend the 2011 spring semester at the Pontificia Universidad Católica in Chile, where he will conduct research on how domestic and international flow and regulation of migrants unites the contemporary histories of both Chile and the United States.
• Steven Suib, department head and Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Chemistry in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, is leading a $1.8 million project funded by the Department of Energy to develop new biofuel sources, catalysts, and reactors that would be suitable for the Northeast.
• Marine sciences assistant professor Michael Whitney has received a five-year, $599,786 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Grant from the National Science Foundation to develop improved modeling techniques and to study the effects of freshwater inflows to Long Island Sound.

Neag School of Education

• Eliana Rojas, assistant professor-in-residence in the curriculum and instruction department, Neag School of Education, is one of five UConn faculty members who received a Fulbright Scholar award for the 2010-11 academic year. She was awarded the grant to spend January 2011 working with faculty and graduate assistants in mathematics, engineering, statistics, and economics at the Universidad Austral de Chile. Her work will focus on "Pedagogical Competencies in Higher Education."

School of Engineering

• Tai-Hsi Fan, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the School of Engineering, won a five-year National Science Foundation Early Career Development (CAREER) Grant for research centered on the aggregation of antibodies.
• Ali Gokirmak and Helena Silva, assistant professors of electrical and computer engineering in the School of Engineering, received a $512,000 three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Energy in support of research on silicon nanostructures.
• Yu Lei, assistant professor of chemical engineering in the School of Engineering, has received a $400,000 collaborative grant from the National Science Foundation to support research focused on the development of a superior device for the detection of pathogenic bacteria in food.
• A team of faculty researchers, led by Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, UTC Chair and professor of computer science and engineering in the School of Engineering, has secured a nearly $400,000 Department of Education Graduate Assistantship in Areas of National Need (GAANN) Grant in the area of cloud computing.
• Yong Wang, assistant professor of chemical, materials, and biomolecular engineering in the School of Engineering, has received a National Science Foundation Early Career Development (CAREER) Award of $480,000 through NSF's Division of Materials Research to support research aimed at creating a new generation of tissue-like biomaterials, using chemical and biomolecular engineering tools.

School of Fine Arts

• Michael Bradford, associate professor of playwriting in the dramatic arts department, School of Fine Arts, is one of five UConn faculty members who received a Fulbright Scholar award for the 2010-11 academic year. He will spend five months in Spain conducting research and completing the theatrical play that he is writing about Spanish writer Federico Garcia Lorca.
• Kathryn Myers, professor of painting in the art and art history department, School of Fine Arts, is one of five UConn faculty members who received a Fulbright Scholar award for the 2010-11 academic year. She will spend the 2011 spring semester in India, Sri Lanka, and Nepal, conducting research to broaden the scope of a course she teaches called "Contemporary Indian Art and Popular Culture."

School of Law

• Angel Oquendo, George J. and Helen M. England Professor of Law in the School of Law, received a Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad grant for 2010-11. The grant supports research and training efforts overseas that focus on non-Western foreign languages and area studies. He will investigate the emerging field of trans-individual rights in Brazil, Panama, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Colombia, and the Dominican Republic.

School of Pharmacy

• M. Kyle Hadden, assistant professor of medicinal chemistry at the School of Pharmacy and member of the Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center at the UConn Health Center, received a prestigious V Scholar grant from the V Foundation for Cancer Research in 2010.

UConn Health Center

• Joanna Douglass, associate professor in the Division of Pediatric Dentistry at the School of Dental Medicine, was recognized as the 2010 Pediatric Dentist of the Year by the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry. The award recognizes a pediatric dentist who has made significant contributions to the dental profession and the specialty of pediatric dentistry through clinical practice, academics or policy development.
• Cato T. Laurencin, vice president for health affairs at the University of Connecticut Health Center and dean of the medical school as well as the Van Dusen Endowed Chair Professor in Academic Medicine and Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Chemical, Biomolecular and Materials Engineering, was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, among the nation's highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. He is also a fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society. The BMES bestows this honor in recognition of outstanding contributions and achievements in biomedical engineering.
• Jay R. Lieberman, professor and chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and director of the UConn Health Center's New England Musculoskeletal Institute, was presented with the Marshall R. Urist Award for Excellence in Tissue Regeneration Research in 2011. The award recognizes investigators who have demonstrated major achievements in the area of tissue regeneration.
• Lakshmi S. Nair, assistant professor and researcher in the Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery and Chemical, Materials and Biomolecular Engineering, received two grants from the U.S. Army to further her study of regenerative biomaterials to regrow musculoskeletal tissue. The grants total more than $760,000.
• David Rowe, a professor of genetics and developmental biology and director of the Center for Regenerative Medicine and Skeletal Development in the School of Dental Medicine, was named the recipient of the 2010 UConn Health Center Board of Directors Faculty Recognition Award. The award recognizes Rowe's outstanding contributions to research, teaching, and mentoring.