Eric Davis, professor of political science (NB), is the recipient of a 2005-06 AAUP Outstanding Faculty Research Award.

Christopher Dougherty, associate dean (Camden), has been elected president-elect of the Association for Continuing Higher Education, an organization dedicated to serving the entire spectrum of continuing higher education in the United States and internationally. 

Maurice J. Elias, professor of psychology (NB), was awarded the 2005 School Psychology Review Editorial Appreciation award by the National Association of School Psychologists for his contributions to the advancement of school and child-oriented psychology through leadership and service.

Allan Espiritu, assistant professor of fine arts (Camden), has had his work published in the PRINT magazine 2005 Regional Design Annual. His winning work features a collection of 300 different promotional packages on Espiritu’s own gallery exhibit of poster art highlighting lyrics from Madonna’s pop songs.

Douglas E. Eveleigh, professor of biochemistry and microbiology and Endowed Chair in of Applied Microbiology at School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (formerly Cook College), was presented the Waksman Award by the Theobald Smith Society, New Jersey Branch, at the society's spring meeting. He presented the Waksman Lecture, "Guns, Germs and Rutgers," at the meeting.

Rochel Gelman, professor of psychology (NB), has been selected to receive the Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Child Development Award from the Society for Research in Child Development. The award recognizes outstanding scientific contributions to the understanding of children's development. The society will present Gelman with the award at its March 2007 meeting in Boston.

Howard Gillette, professor of history (Camden) and director of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities, received the Class of 1962 Presidential Public Service Award, a universitywide honor, for his leadership in planning and directing the center and for his lifelong commitment to revitalizing the city of Camden. Additionally, Gillette’s recent book, “Camden After the Fall: Decline and Renewal in a Post-Industrial City” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005), was named a 2006 Honor Book by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.

Daniel Hart, professor of psychology (Camden) and director of the Center for Children and Childhood Studies, is the winner of the Anna M. Sample Memorial Advocacy Award from the Community Planning and Advocacy Council.

Bill Hlubik, county agent for Agricultural and Resource Management Agents (NB), won first place with his team in the National Association of County Agricultural Agents’ annual Communications Awards video category for an episode of the “If Plants Could Talk” program, featuring a trip to Longwood Gardens.

Alison Isenberg, associate professor of history (NB), received a fellowship from the Stanford Research Institute of Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and a research grant from the Fitch Foundation to spend academic year 2006-07 at Stanford pursuing her work on “second-hand cities.”

Lucille A. Joel, professor at the College of Nursing (Newark), has been elected president of the Board of Trustees of the Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools. 

Temma Kaplan, professor of history (NB), was awarded a senior fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies for 2006-07 for her project “Grotesque Humor:  Race, Sex and Colonialism in Trade Cards and the Satirical Press.”

Kenneth E. Kendall, professor of management at the School of Business-Camden, has been elected  president-elect, and then a one-year term as president, effective April 1, 2007, of the Decision Sciences Institute, an international professional association dedicated to advancing knowledge and improving instruction in all business and related disciplines. 

Dennis Kent, professor of geological sciences (NB), is the 2006 European Geosciences Union Peregrinus Medalist for his contributions and leadership in palaeomagnetism.

Arthur Klinghoffer, professor of political science (Camden) has received a Fulbright fellowship to teach human rights at the College of Law of the University of Goa in India for the 2006-07 academic year. 

Gabriel Kotliar, professor of physics and astronomy (NB), shared the 2006 Agilent Technologies Europhysics Prize for outstanding achievement in condensed matter physics. Considered one of the most prestigious physics prizes in Europe, the $41,000 award recognizes Kotliar and three colleagues from French and German institutions for the development and application of dynamical mean-field theory. The theory explains properties of materials that had previously been poorly understood and will promote advances in electronic, electrical, and materials engineering.

Dorothy Kozlowski, director of the Willets Health Center (NB), became president of the American College Health Association, an organization of nearly 1,000 institutions of higher education, with an additional 2,500 individual members dedicated to health promotion, advocacy, and leadership. 

Martin D. Kruskal, professor of mathematics (NB), was presented with the 2006 AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize, one of the highest distinctions in mathematics, by the American Mathematical Society for his paper on the theory of solitons, inverse scattering transforms, and nonlinear completely integrable systems. 

Howard Latin, professor, School of Law-Newark, spent the 2006 spring semester as the Distinguished Environmental Law Scholar at Lewis & Clark Law School.