Awards, Honors and Recognitions
Matthew Dwyer, Sebastian Elbaum and Gregg Rothermel, computer science and engineering, were named to AMiner’s Most Influential Scholars list for the field of software engineering. The list honors the most-cited scholars from the top venues in the field.
David Hage, chemistry, received the 2017 International Society for Molecular Recognition Pierce Award in Affinity Technology at the group’s 22nd Affinity Conference. Hage received a cash prize and an invitation to present a lecture during the conference, which focuses on biomolecular affinity interactions.
Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, English, opened an invited, one-woman show of her work at the Museum of Future in Berlin, Germany, on Oct. 28. Foster, a prolific filmmaker and film scholar, focuses on a range of cinematic areas including gender, race, ecofeminism and class studies.
Publishing Awards
Jonis Agee, English, and David Wishart, geography, are Nebraska Book Award winners for books published in 2016. Agee was honored in the fiction category for “The Bones of Paradise: A Novel,” and Wishart in the nonfiction reference category for “Great Plains Indians.”
Nicole Buan, biochemistry; Myra Cohen and Massimiliano Pierobon, computer science and engineering; and Christine Kelly, mathematics, along with graduate students Zahmeeth Sakkaff, Mikaela Cashman and J. L. Callett, received the best paper award during the Association for Computing Machinery International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication. The paper, “End-to-End Molecular Communication Channels in Cell Metabolism: An Information Theoretic Study,” was the result of an interdisciplinary, National Science Foundation-funded research project between the biochemistry and mathematics departments.
Compiled by the Office of Research and published November 1, 2017.
