The article, “Rewriting Frankenstein Contracts: Workout Prohibitions in Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities” by Anna Gelpern, associate professor at the School of Law–Newark, was selected for presentation at the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum.

Yuri Gershtein, professor of physics and astronomy, has been elected the U.S. Physics Coordinator of the CMS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.

Annette Gordon-Reed, professor of history at Rutgers–Newark, won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in history for her landmark work, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. The book also received the National Book Award for nonfiction in the fall of 2008.

Gary Heiman, professor of genetics, was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the American Psychopathological Association.

Jody Hey, professsor of genetics, was elected president of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution.

Angela Howard, professor of art history, is an American Council of Learned Societies, American Research in the Humanities in China 2008 Fellow, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

John P. Hughes, professor of physics and astronomy, is a fellow of the American Physical Society.

Allan Punzalan Isaac, professor of American studies, joined the editorial board of the Journal of Asian American Studies and became associate editor of Signs: Journal of Women and Society. He was also elected to the Executive Board of the Center of Lesbian and Gay Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center for a three-year term.

Ben Sifuentes-Jauregui, professor of American studies, was elected to the Modern Language Association’s Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the United States and Canada in September 2008 for a three-year term.

James T. Johnson, professor of religion, will be honored at a Distinguished Scholars Panel devoted to his work at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association. Johnson is widely recognized as the foremost historian of the just war tradition and as an interpreter of the contemporary implications of both the just war and jihad traditions. His influence has crossed disciplinary lines and, as demonstrated by the affiliations of the contributors to the panel, has been especially significant in areas of political science and international relations. The papers prepared for this Distinguished Scholars Panel are to be published as a thematic focus by the Journal of Military Ethics.

Valery Kiryukhin, professor of physics and astronomy, received a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel research award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany. Award winners are honored for their outstanding research record and invited to spend a period of up to one year cooperating on a long-term research project with specialist colleagues at a research institution in Germany.

Gregory Lastowka, professor of law at Camden, received the Rutgers Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence.

T.J. Jackson Lears, professor of history, was appointed Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies in Berlin, fall 2009. Lears and Stephen Stich have been elected fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the nation’s pre-eminent learned society and research institution. Lears is Board of Governors Professor of History and editor-in-chief of the Raritan Review, a quarterly journal of essays, poetry, and fiction. Stich is Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science. He is also Honorary Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield in England.

Barbara Lee, professor of human resource management, won the Daniel Gorenstein Award. The award was established in 1993 by the family, friends, and colleagues of Daniel Gorenstein to commemorate his innovative mathematical research, skillful and enthusiastic exposition of his field, and service to Rutgers.

Alan Leslie, professor of psychology, has been elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was awarded the New Jersey Psychological Association's 2008 Distinguished Researcher Award.

Michael Littman, professor of computer science, is serving as one of two program co-chairs of the International Conference on Machine Learning 2009 and is a member of the editorial board of the new Journal, Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning.

Regina Y. Liu, professor of statistics, received a Fulbright Award, 2008-2009.

Thomas Loughman, who received his Ph.D. from the Department of  Art History, has been appointed deputy director of the Clark Institute in Williamstown, MA.

David Maiullo, physics support specialist in the School of Arts and Sciences, will receive the Distinguished Service Citation from the American Association of Physics Teachers. The group cites Maiullo’s efforts to make physics interesting and accessible by leading workshops for high school physics teachers and presenting physics demonstrations at schools and street fairs.

Tara Matise and Gary Heiman, professors of Genetics, and Steve Buyske, professor of statistics, were featured in the Daily Targum, and Rutgers Research Highlights,  for their PAGE (Population Architecture using Genomics and Epidemiology) grant. Rutgers Magazine, Winter 2009, also cited Matise’s research into computational genetics.

Charlotte Markey, Camden College of Arts and Sciences associate professor of psychology; Sarah Ricks, clinical professor at the School of Law–Camden; and Robert Schindler, professor of marketing at the School of Business–Camden, have won the annual Chancellor's Awards for Teaching Excellence. In each case, the selection committee noted the exemplary commitment to exceptional teaching displayed by the recipients.

Hajimu Masuda, who earned his B.A. from the Department of History,  and is a graduate student at Cornell, has published a revised version of his 2005 honors thesis in Diplomatic History as "Rumors of War: Immigration Disputes and the Social Construction of American-Japanese Relations, 1905–1913." Masuda worked with Michael Adas and David Foglesong at Rutgers.

Alexandre Morozov, who has a joint appointment as professor of physics and astronomy and in the BioMaPs Institute for Quantitative Biology, and Jian Song, professor of mathematics, have won Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowships for 2009. These two-year fellowships are given to early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field. Morozov also received funding for his first grant proposal to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). His proposal was rated in the 99.5 percentile in the NIH study section (the highest in this section), where most of the proposals came from more senior scientists.