Sigma Xi Members in the News 2013
Sigma Xi Members in the News for December 2013
Stephen J. Morewitz (SX 2000), Ph.D., won a 2013 San Jose State University Annual Book Award for co-editing the Handbook of Forensic Sociology and Psychology (with Mark L. Goldstein) (New York: Springer, 2013). This is the the first handbook of forensic sociology and the first book to analyze forensic sociology curriculum content and practice guidelines in the fields of civil, criminal, immigration, and military law.
Sigma Xi Members in the News for November 2013
The Dr. Allan W. Hook (SX 1978) Endowed Wild Basin Creative Research Fund has been established at St. Edwards University. Made possible by the generosity of Dr. Allan W. Hook and Rosemary Guzman Hook, the fund will support creative research by students in the schools of Natural Sciences, Education, Behavioral and Social Sciences, Management and Business, and Humanities. The fund will also offer research opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students from other institutions that are based at the university’s Wild Basin Creative Research Center and the Balcones Canyonlands Preserve system.
Robert Boily (SX 2005), recipient of the 2008 John P. McGovern Science and Society Award, has been presented with the Medal of the National Assembly of Quebec, and he was decorated Knight of the Order of Academic Palms by the Government of France
Sigma Xi Members in the News for September 2013
Dan Howard (SX 1986) is the new Executive VP and Provost at New Mexico State University.
Sigma Xi Members in the News for August 2013
Sustaining Member Samantha Marquez (SX 2011) was recently named a 2013 Davidson Fellow Laureate and recipient of a $50,000 scholarship for her development of Celloidosomes®, a cell self-assembly process for bioengineering 3-dimensional tissues in a core-shell structure.
Ralph V. Rogers, Jr. (SX 2006) has been named provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Nova Southeastern University (Fort Lauderdale, FL).
Sigma Xi sustaining member France Cordova (SX 1993) has been nominated by President Obama to head the National Science Foundation.
Sigma Xi Members in the News for July 2013
Former Michigan State University provost and executive vice president Kim A. Wilcox (SX 1989) has been selected to serve as the next chancellor of the University of California, Riverside.
Sigma Xi Members in the News for May 2013
David V. Rosowsky (SX 1992), an engineering dean at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY) will become the next provost and senior vice president at the University of Vermont. He starts at UVM on August 1, 2013.
The White House and NASA say they will honor America's first woman in space, Sally Ride (SX 1978), by giving her a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom and putting her name on the camera she helped get installed on the International Space Station.
Florida Institute of Technology Ph.D. candidate Lorian Schweikert (SX 2012), Biological Sciences Department, was recently awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship for $126,000 for her proposal, "Adaptive Plasticity of the Retina in Response to Environmental Cues." Schweikert is pursuing a doctorate in marine biology, researching Atlantic tarpon at Florida Tech, and expects to graduate in spring 2015. Her advisor is Michael Grace, Biological Science Department professor and associate dean of Florida Tech's College of Science.
John Barthell (SX 1996) will serve as the University of Central Oklahoma's next provost and vice president for Academic Affairs. Barthell, who currently serves as the dean of Central's College of Mathematics and Science, will officially take the position July 1, 2013.
Sigma Xi Members in the News for April 2013
Congratulations to Fred Gould (SX 1982) for being awarded the 2013 Borlaug Service to Society and Environment Award.
Katepalli R. Sreenivasan (SX 1981) has been appointed as President of the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly).
Nicholas P. Jones (SX 1988), dean of the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, has been named executive vice president and provost at Penn State University. Jones will assume his new position July 1, 2013.
Sigma Xi Members in the News for March 2013
Stephen J. Morewitz (SX 2000) , Ph.D., is profiled about his book, Chronic Disorders in Children and Adolescents (with Mark L. Goldstein) (New York: Springer), seven other books, two forthcoming books, Handbook of Forensic Sociology and Psychology (with Mark L. Goldstein) (New York: Springer) and Kidnapping: New Research and Clinical Perspectives (New York: Springer), and one play, Steamship Quanza (with Susan Lieberman) in the Winter 2013 issue of the California State University, East Bay Alumni Magazine.
Kathy Cruz-Uribe (SX 1990), who has served as California State University Monterey Bay's provost and vice president of academic affairs since 2007, will assume her new position as chancellor of Indiana University East on July 1, 2013.
Creighton University has named Edward “Ed” R. O’Connor (SX 2001) its first provost effective July 1, 2013. O’Connor comes from Quinnipiac University in Hamden, CT where he has served as professor and dean of the School of Health Sciences since 2007.
Virginia Tech deputy provost Daniel A. Wubah (SX 1992) has been named provost at Washington & Lee University. Wubah will become the university's chief academic officer on July 1, 2013.
Sigma Xi Members in the News for February 2013
Washington University has selected Holden Thorp (SX 2004), the chancellor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, to be the next provost. He will step into the job after his four-year tenure at North Carolina draws to a close on June 30, 2013.
Dr. Jean-Lou Chameau (SX 1982), who has served as the California Institute of Technology’s president since 2006, will depart the institution later this year to become the next president of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, in Saudi Arabia.
Sigma Xi Members in the News for January 2013
Domenico Grasso (SX 2001), vice president for research and dean of the Graduate College of the University of Vermont, will become the next provost of the University of Delaware. His appointment will be effective August 15, 2013.