Awards and Recognitions
April 13, 2020
Tarunjit Butalia, civil, environmental, and geodetic engineering
SI affiliated faculty
Tarunjit Butalia received a College of Engineering 2020 Award for Distinguished Outreach Achievements (for two decades of Coal Combustion Program) and the 2020 David C. McCarthy Engineering Teaching Award (for distingushed teaching across COE classes). 
March 16, 2020
Clark Larsen, anthropology
SI affiliated faculty
Distinguished University Professor and Sustainability Institute Affiliated Faculty, Clark Larsen, anthropology was awarded the 2019 Cozzarelli Prize from the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This is an honor given to just six authors out of more than 3,300 submitted papers last year. The winners represent exceptional scientific achievement, originality and innovation in their fields.
March 30, 2020
Katrina Cornish, horticulture and crop science
SI faculty advisory board
The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the induction of Katrina Cornish, horticulture and crop science and SI faculty advisory board, to its College of Fellows.Election to the AIMBE College of Fellows is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to a medical and biological engineer. The College of Fellows is comprised of the top two percent of medical and biological engineers.Dr. Cornish was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows for “high-performance, natural allergy-safe latex for medical and consumer products, supporting developing countries.”
March 18, 2020
Bart Elmore, history
SI Core Faculty
Bartow J. Elmore’s book "SEED MONEY: Monsanto's Past and the Future of Food" (W. W. Norton) has been selected for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, given annually to aid in the completion of significant works of nonfiction on American topics of political or social concern. These awards assist in closing the gap between the time and money an author has and the time and money that finishing a book requires. Drawing on documents acquired via Freedom of Information Act requests, confidential files housed in corporate archives, sensitive interviews with company employees, courtroom testimony, and field research in Vietnam, Brazil, and beyond, "Seed Money" exposes how a company that once made Agent Orange and PCBs survived its complicated chemical past to seed our food future.   
March 1, 2020
Nick Breyfogle, history
SI affiliated faculty
The book, published with Cambridge University Press, is an anthology that is the first sustained examination of American involvement in World War II through an environmental lens, focusing on how the War remade American landscapes, institutions and environmental thinking and how wartime developments shaped the contours of postwar American environments and environmental thinking. The book contains a chapter by Kip Curtis, history, and also is co-edited by Peter Mansoor, history; Thomas Robertson, US Education Foundation, Nepal; and Richard P. Tucker, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
March 1, 2020
Andrea Grottoli, earth sciences
SI affiliated faculty
Andrea Grottoli, professor of earth sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded a prestigious 2020 – 2021 U.S. Fulbright Award to France. The research Grottoli will be conducting is in collaboration with the team of Jean-Pierre Gattuso at Sarbonne University’s Oceanographic Laboratory in Villfrance-Sur-Mer and will be a study on Mediterranean corals to determine how they are able to persist in stressful environments and how their survival can be enhanced through this century. The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. 
Feb. 15, 2020
Jordan Clark, civil, environmental, and geodetic engineering
SI Core Faculty
The article was published Feb. 15, 2020, in Energy and Buildings. Clark’s research showed how total peak power demand in the country could be reduced by almost 10% with smart ventilation. Energy and Buildings is an international journal publishing articles presenting new research results and new proven practice aimed at reducing the energy needs of a building and improving indoor environment quality.
Feb. 13, 2020
Ian Howat, earth sciences
affiliated faculty
Ian Howat, professor in the School of Earth Sciences and director of the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, has received the university's Distinguished Scholar Award. He is among the world’s leaders in the study of glaciers and ice sheets, using a wide range of observations from remote sensing and field studies to understand the dynamics and behavior of large ice sheets and how they respond to climate change.
Jan. 31, 2020
David Williams, engineering
affiliated faculty
The Council of the Royal Microscopical Society has unanimously voted to award Dean David B. Williams with an Honorary Fellowship. Since 1840, only 272 have been awarded to scholars from a variety of scientific disciplines worldwide. Professor Williams is synonymous with Analytical Transmission Electron Microscopy (ATEM) having pioneered its development and applications to a broad range of materials.Over the past 45 years his work has led to a new understanding of materials and microstructural evolution, including segregation, precipitation phenomena, phase diagrams and phase transformations in metals and alloys. Among his achievements, Professor Williams is widely recognized for his prolific research in Al alloy metallurgy – particularly in his pioneering research into Al-Li alloys, as well as fundamental research in EELS and STEM-EDX microanalysis.
Jan. 23, 2020
Lonnie G. Thompson, earth sciences
affiliated faculty
Lonnie Thompson was recognized by the Columbus Foundation as a True Original, which is an award celebrating those among us who expand our horizon as a community through groundbreaking, original work. Recipients received a $5,000 grant to make to the nonprofit of their choice.