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kudos: a selection of recent awards and honors received by Rutgers University-Newark faculty, alumni, and staff Elizabeth Abercrombie, professor, Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, co-authored “Relationship between Subthalamic Nucleus Neuronal Activity and Electrocortic ogram Is Altered in the R6/2 Mouse Model of Huntington's Disease,” published in The Journal of Physiology (May 8, 2015, DOI: 10.1113/JP270268), and “Age- dependent Alterations in the Cortical Entrainment of Subthalamic Nucleus Neurons in the Yac128 Mouse Model of Huntington's Disease,” published in Neurobiology of Disease (Vol. 78, 2015). more Mark Angelson, alumnus, School of Law, was inducted to the Rutgers Board of Governors for a five- year term. more Robert Apel, associate professor, School of Criminal Justice, co-authored “A Situational Model of Displacement and Diffusion Following the Introduction of Airport Metal Detectors,” published in Terrorism and Political Violence (Vol. 27, No. 1, 2015). more Jeremy Barnum, teaching assistant, School of Criminal Justice, Leslie Kennedy, University Professor, School of Criminal Justice, Joel Caplan, associate professor, School of Criminal Justice, and Eric Piza, alumnus, School of Criminal Justice, co- authored “Risk Terrain Modeling for Spatial Risk Assessment,” published in Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research (Vol. 17, No. 1, 2015). more April Benasich, professor, Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, and director, Infancy Studies Laboratory,

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kudos: a selection of recent awards and honors received by Rutgers University-Newark faculty, alumni, and staff

Elizabeth Abercrombie, professor, Center

for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience,

co-authored “Relationship between

Subthalamic

Nucleus

Neuronal

Activity and

Electrocortic

ogram Is

Altered in

the R6/2

Mouse Model of Huntington's Disease,”

published in The Journal of Physiology (May

8, 2015, DOI: 10.1113/JP270268), and “Age-

dependent Alterations in the Cortical

Entrainment of Subthalamic Nucleus

Neurons in the Yac128 Mouse Model of

Huntington's Disease,” published in

Neurobiology of Disease (Vol. 78, 2015). more

Mark

Angelson,

alumnus,

School of Law,

was inducted to

the Rutgers

Board of

Governors for a

five- year term.

more

Robert Apel, associate professor, School of

Criminal Justice, co-authored “A Situational

Model of Displacement and Diffusion

Following the Introduction of Airport Metal

Detectors,” published in Terrorism and

Political Violence (Vol. 27, No. 1, 2015). more

Jeremy Barnum, teaching assistant, School

of Criminal Justice, Leslie Kennedy,

University Professor, School of Criminal

Justice, Joel Caplan, associate professor,

School of Criminal Justice, and Eric Piza,

alumnus, School of Criminal Justice, co-

authored “Risk Terrain Modeling for Spatial

Risk Assessment,” published in Cityscape: A

Journal of Policy Development and Research

(Vol. 17, No. 1, 2015). more

April Benasich, professor, Center for

Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience,

and director, Infancy Studies Laboratory,

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was appointed the first holder of the

Elizabeth H. Solomon Endowed Chair in

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.

Benasich also co-authored “Tracking the

Attentional Blink Profile: A Cross-sectional

Study from Childhood to Adolescence,”

published in Psychological Research (Vol. 79,

No. 1, 2015). more

Cynthia Blum, professor, School of Law,

authored “Migrants with Retirement Plans:

The Challenge of Harmonizing Tax Rules,”

published in the Florida Tax Review (Vol. 17,

2015). more

Elise Boddie,

associate

professor, School

of Law,

authored “The

Sins of Innocence

in Standing

Doctrine,”

published in the

Vanderbilt Law

Review (Vol. 68,

No. 2, 2015). more

Paul Boxer,

associate

professor

and

graduate

director,

Department

of

Psychology,

Faculty of

Arts and Sciences,Michael Ostermann,

assistant professor and director of the

Evidence-Based Institute, School of

Criminal Justice, Joanna Kubik, graduate

fellow, School of Criminal Justice, and

Bonita Veysey, professor, School of

Criminal Justice, co-authored “Gang

Involvement Reduces the Effectiveness of

Evidence-Based Intervention for Justice-

Involved Youth,” published in Children and

Youth Services Review (Vol. 52, 2015); and

“Measuring Gang Involvement in a Justice-

Referred Sample of Youth in Treatment,”

published in Youth Violence and Juvenile

Justice (Vol. 13, No. 1, 2015). more

Anthony Braga, professor, School of

Criminal Justice, and Rod Brunson,

associate professor, School of Criminal

Justice, co-authored“The Police and Public

Discourse on

‘Black-on-

Black’

Violence,”

published in

New

Perspectives

in Policing

(Harvard

Kennedy

School and

National

Institute of

Justice, May 2015). Braga also is a guest

editor of the Journal of Research in Crime and

Delinquency (Vol. 52, No. 4, 2015) and co-

authored the following articles published

therein: “Reimagining Broken Windows:

From Theory to Policy,” “Can Policing

Disorder Reduce Crime? A Systematic

Review and Meta-analysis,” and

“Understanding the Mechanisms

Underlying Broken Windows Policing: The

Need for Evaluation Evidence.” more

Rod Brunson, associate professor, School of

Criminal Justice, and Anthony Braga,

professor, School of Criminal Justice, co-

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authored “The Police and Public Discourse

on ‘Black-on-Black’ Violence,” published in

New Perspectives in Policing (Harvard

Kennedy School and National Institute of

Justice, May 2015). Brunson also co-

authored “Procedural Injustice, Lost

Legitimacy, and Self-Help: Young Males’

Adaptations to Perceived Unfairness in

Urban Policing Tactics,” published in the

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice (Vol

31, No. 2, 2015). Moreover, he is the

recipient of a 2015 Rutgers Leadership in

Faculty Diversity Award for his

internationally recognized research on

police-community relations in urban

neighborhoods, as well as his dedication to

diversifying the field of criminal justice.

more

John

Cantwell,

professor,

Department

of

Management

& Global

Business,

Rutgers Business School, co-authored "New

Competence Creation in Multinational

Company Subunits: The Role of

International Knowledge," published in The

World Economy (Vol. 38, Issue 2, 2015).

Cantwell also was the keynote speaker at

the “Conference on Fueling Innovation in

the Global Economy” in Washington, D.C.,

May 2015, and the Asian Academy of

Management Biennial Conference in Hong

Kong, June 2015. more

Joel Caplan,

associate professor,

School of Criminal

Justice, Leslie

Kennedy,

University

Professor, School of

Criminal Justice,

Jeremy Barnum,

teaching assistant,

School of Criminal Justice, and Eric

Piza,alumnus, School of Criminal Justice,

co-authored “Risk Terrain Modeling for

Spatial Risk Assessment,” published in

Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and

Research (Vol. 17, No. 1, 2015). more

Ariane Chebel

d’Appollonia,

professor,

School of Public

Affairs and

Administration,

authored

Migrant

Mobilization and

Securitization in

the US and

Europe: How Does It Feel to Be a Threat?, a

part of the Europe in Transition - The NYU

European Studies Series (Palgrave

Macmillan, April 2015). more

Ko-lin Chin, professor, School of Criminal

Justice, co-authored The Chinese Heroin Trade

Cross-Border Drug Trafficking in Southeast

Asia and Beyond (NYU Press, 2015).

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Ronald Clarke,

University

Professor, School

of Criminal

Justice, co-

authored “Target

Suitability and the

Crime Drop,”

published in The

Criminal Act: The

Role and Influence

of Routine Activity

Theory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

Michael Cole, assistant professor, Center

for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience,

co-authored the following articles: “Early-

Course Unmedicated Schizophrenia

Patients Exhibit Elevated Prefrontal

Connectivity Associated with Longitudinal

Change,” published in The Journal of

Neuroscience (Vol. 35, No. 1, 2015); “N-

Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor Antagonist

Effects on Prefrontal Cortical Connectivity

Better Model Early Than Chronic

Schizophrenia,” published in Biological

Psychiatry (Vol. 77, Issue 6, 2015); “The

Behavioral Relevance of Task Information

in Human Prefrontal Cortex,” published in

Cerebral Cortex (April 13, 2015,

DOI:10.1093/cercor/bhv072); and “Reward

Motivation Enhances Task Coding in

Frontoparietal Cortex,” published in

Cerebral Cortex (January 19, 2015, DOI:

10.1093/cercor/bhu327). more

Farok Contractor,

professor, Department

of Management &

Global Business,

Rutgers Business

School, co-authored

“How the Alliance Pie

Is Split: Value

Appropriation by

Each Partner in Cross-Border Technology

Transfer Alliances,” published in the Journal

of World Business (Vol. 50, Issue 3, 2015), and

wrote “Punching Above Their Weight: The

Sources of Competitive Advantage for

Emerging Market Multinationals,”

published in the Handbook of Emerging

Market Multinational Corporations (Edward

Elgar Publishing, 2015). Contractor also was

a keynote speaker at the Nepalese Academy

of Management Conference in Kathmandu,

Nepal, March 2015. more

Kim Copeland, teaching assistant, School of

Criminal Justice, Joel Miller, associate

professor, School of Criminal Justice, and

Mercer Sullivan, associate professor, School

of Criminal Justice, co-authored “Keeping

Them off the Corner: How Probation

Officers Steer Offenders Away from Crime

Opportunities,” published in The Prison

Journal (Vol. 95, No. 2, 2015). more

John Farmer Jr., University Professor and

former dean,

School of Law,

along with nine law

school alumni,

received NJ Law

Journal’s inaugural

Lifetime

Achievement

Award. more

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Ruth Feldstein,

associate

professor,

Department of

History, Faculty

of Arts and

Sciences,

received a 2015

Rutgers Faculty

Scholar-Teacher

Award, which

recognizes

faculty members

who have made

outstanding contributions in research and

teaching. more

Leon Fraser, instructor and managing

director for executive education,

Department of Management & Global

Business, Rutgers Business School, received

a 2015 Rutgers Leadership in Faculty

Diversity Award for his role in the Rutgers

Business School’s Task Force on

Undergraduate Access and commitment to

student achievement both inside and

outside of the classroom. more

Lawrence Goldman, distinguished

practitioner in residence, School of Public

Affairs and Administration, was the

keynote speaker of the Snider Lecture Series

at the University of Toronto Scarborough in

April 2015. His speech focused on how the

arts and arts institutions change

individuals, societies, and cities.

Elizabeth Griffiths, associate professor,

School of Criminal Justice, co-authored the

second edition of Gangs in America's

Communities (SAGE Publications, 2015).

Cleopatra Grizzle, assistant professor,

School of Public Affairs and

Administration, authored “The

Determinants of Volunteering in Nordic

Countries: Evidence from the European

Values Survey,” published in the

International Journal of Public Administration

(Volume 38, Issue 5, 2015).

Anjum Gupta,

associate

professor, School

of Law,

authored “Nexus

Redux,” published

in the Indiana Law

Journal (Vol. 90,

No. 1, 2015). more

Yuliya Guseva, assistant professor, School

of Law, authored “KGB’s Legacy:

Transplanting Efficient Financial

Infrastructure without Efficiency,”

published in the University of Pennsylvania

Journal of International Law (Vol. 36, No. 2,

2015). more

Jeremy Hall,

associate

professor, School

of Public Affairs

and

Administration,

has been named

the program

chair of the

American Society

for Public

Administration’s 2016 Annual National

Conference in Seattle, Washington.

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G.L.A. Harris, alumna, School of Public

Affairs and Administration, published

Living Legends and Full Agency: Implications

of Repealing the Combat Exclusion Policy (CRC

Press, 2014).

Saeed Jones,

alumnus,

Graduate

School, received

the Pen/Joyce

Osterweil

Award for

Poetry for his

book entitled,

Prelude to Bruise

(Coffee House

Press, 2014).

more

Marc Kalan, assistant professor,

Department of Marketing, Rutgers Business

School, received the 2015 "Marketing

Professor of the Year" award from the

undergraduate Dean’s Advisory Council of

Rutgers Business School.

Leslie

Kennedy,

University

Professor,

School of

Criminal

Justice, Joel

Caplan,

associate

professor,

School of

Criminal Justice, Jeremy Barnum, teaching

assistant,School of Criminal Justice, and

Eric Piza, alumnus, School of Criminal

Justice, co-authored “Risk Terrain Modeling

for Spatial Risk Assessment,” published in

Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and

Research (Vol. 17, No. 1, 2015). more

Tibor Koós, associate research professor,

Center for Molecular and Behavioral

Neuroscience, co-authored the following

articles: “Novel Fast Adapting Interneurons

Mediate Cholinergic-Induced Fast GABAA

Inhibitory Postsynaptic Currents in Striatal

Spiny Neurons,” published in European

Journal of Neuroscience (May 9, 2015, DOI:

10.1111/ejn.12915); “Dopaminergic and

Cholinergic Modulation of Striatal Tyrosine

Hydroxylase Interneurons,” published in

Neuropharmacology (Vol. 95, 2015); and “Are

Striatal Tyrosine Hydroxylase Interneurons

Dopaminergic?,” published in The Journal of

Neuroscience (Vol. 35, No. 16, 2015). more

Bart

Krekelberg,

associate

professor and

associate

director,

Center for

Molecular and

Behavioral

Neuroscience,

received the

Board of

Trustees

Award for

Excellence in Research. This award honors

faculty members who have made

distinguished research contributions to their

discipline or society. He also co-authored

“Motion Detection Based on Recurrent

Network Dynamics,” published in Frontiers

in Systems Neuroscience (Vol. 8, 2014). more

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Joanna Kubik, graduate fellow, School of

Criminal Justice, Michael Ostermann,

assistant professor and director of the

Evidence-Based Institute, School of

Criminal Justice, Paul Boxer, associate

professor and graduate director,

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts

and Sciences, and Bonita Veysey, professor,

School of Criminal Justice, co-authored

“Gang Involvement Reduces the

Effectiveness of Evidence-Based

Intervention for Justice-Involved Youth,”

published in Children and Youth Services

Review (Vol. 52, 2015); and “Measuring

Gang Involvement in a Justice-Referred

Sample of Youth in Treatment,” published

in Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice (Vol. 13,

No. 1, 2015). more

Adam Kustka, associate professor,

Department of Earth and Environmental

Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Sciences,

received the 2015 Rutgers Board of Trustees

Research Fellowship for Scholarly

Excellence. This fellowship is for faculty

members who have recently been promoted

with tenure and whose work shows

exceptional promise. more

Daniel Levin,

professor,

Department of

Management &

Global Business,

Rutgers Business

School, and Neha

Shaw, assistant

professor,

Management &

Global Business,

Rutgers Business School, co-authored

“Performance Benefits From Providing

Assistance in Networks: Relationships That

Generate Learning,” published in the

Journal of Management (May 4, 2015, DOI:

0.1177/0149206315584822 ). more

Jenny Lockard,

assistant

professor,

Department of

Chemistry,

Faculty of Arts

and Sciences,

received the early

CAREER award

from the

National Science

Foundation to

study a new class

of porous materials called metal-organic

frameworks. more

Lindsey

McDougle,

assistant

professor,

School of Public

Affairs and

Administration,

co-authored

“Religious and

Secular Coping

Strategies and

Mortality Risk

among Older

Adults,” published in Social Indicators

Research (January 2015); and authored

“How Many Nonprofits Are There Really?

The Accuracy and Reliability of the Core

Files for Studying Nonprofit Location,”

published in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector

Quarterly (Vol. 44, No. 3, 2015). more

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Jody Miller, professor, School of Criminal

Justice, authored or co-authored the

following

articles/chapters:

“Culture,

Inequality, and

Gender

Relations among

Urban Black

Youth,”

published in The

Cultural Matrix:

Understanding

Black Youth

(Harvard

University Press, 2015); “Feminist and

Queer Perspectives on Qualitative

Methods,” published in The Routledge

Handbook of Qualitative Criminology

(Routledge, 2015); and “Gendered

Narratives of Self, Addiction, and Recovery

among Women Methamphetamine Users,”

published in Narrative Criminology:

Understanding Stories of Crime (New York

University Press, 2015). Miller also received

a 2015 Rutgers Faculty Scholar-Teacher

Award and a 2015 Rutgers Leadership in

Faculty Diversity Award. more

Joel Miller, associate professor, School of

Criminal Justice, Kim Copeland, teaching

assistant, School of Criminal Justice, and

Mercer Sullivan, associate professor, School

of Criminal Justice, co-authored “Keeping

Them off the Corner: How Probation

Officers Steer Offenders Away from Crime

Opportunities,” published in The Prison

Journal (Vol. 95, No. 2, 2015). more

Katherine Newcomer, alumna, School of

Law, authored The Phoenix and the Falcon

(AuthorHouse, 2014), a romance novel.

Arturo E. Osorio Fernandez, assistant

professor of professional practice,

Department of Management & Global

Business, Rutgers Business School, received

a 2015 Rutgers Leadership in Faculty

Diversity Award for his work with New

Jersey’s Hispanic and LGBTQ communities

to support a diverse relationship between

Newark residents and Rutgers University–

Newark. more

Michael Ostermann, assistant professor

and director of the Evidence-Based

Institute, School of Criminal Justice, Paul

Boxer, associate professor and graduate

director,

Department of

Psychology,

Faculty of Arts and

Sciences, Joanna

Kubik, graduate

fellow, School of

Criminal Justice,

and Bonita

Veysey, professor,

School of Criminal

Justice, co-authored “Gang Involvement

Reduces the Effectiveness of Evidence-

Based Intervention for Justice-Involved

Youth,” published in Children and Youth

Services Review (Vol. 52, 2015); and

“Measuring Gang Involvement in a Justice-

Referred Sample of Youth in Treatment,”

published in Youth Violence and Juvenile

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Justice (Vol. 13, No. 1, 2015). Ostermann also

authored “How Do Former Inmates

Perform in the Community? A Survival

Analysis of Rearrests, Reconvictions, and

Technical Parole Violations,” published in

Crime & Delinquency (Vol. 61, No. 2, 2015);

and co-authored “Serious Mental Illness,

Criminal Risk, Parole Supervision, and

Recidivism: Testing of Conditional Effects,”

published in Law and Human Behavior (Vol.

39, No. 1, 2015). more

Denis Paré, professor and director, Center

for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience,

co-authored the following articles:

“Incorporating 3D-printing Technology in

the Design of Head-Caps and Electrode

Drives for Recording Neurons in Multiple

Brain Regions,” published in the Journal of

Neurobiology (Vol. 113, No. 7, 2015);

“Synaptic Competition in the Lateral

Amygdala and the Stimulus Specificity of

Conditioned Fear: A Biophysical Modeling

Study,” published in Brain Structure and

Function (April 10, 2015, DOI:

10.1007/s00429-015-1037-4); and “Impact of

Basal Forebrain Cholinergic Inputs on

Basolateral Amygdala Neurons,” published

in The Journal of Neuroscience (Vol. 35, No. 2,

2015). more

Christa Parravani, alumna, Graduate

School, is the author of Her (Picador, 2014),

which Huffington Post identified as one of

the “21 Books from the Last 5 Years That

Every Woman Should Read.” more

Vincent

Pelote,

director of

operations,

Institute of

Jazz Studies,

received the

Jazz

Advocate’s

Award from

the New

Jersey Jazz

Society. more

Eric Piza, alumnus, School of Criminal

Justice, Leslie Kennedy, University

Professor, School of Criminal Justice, Joel

Caplan, associate professor, School of

Criminal Justice, and Jeremy Barnum,

teaching assistant, School of Criminal

Justice, co-authored “Risk Terrain Modeling

for Spatial Risk Assessment,” published in

Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and

Research (Vol. 17, No. 1, 2015). more

Andres Rengifo,

associate professor,

School of Criminal

Justice, co-authored

“The Unintended

Effects of Penal

Reform: African

American Presence,

Incarceration, and

the Abolition of

Discretionary

Parole in the

United States,”

published in Crime

& Delinquency (Vol. 61, No. 5, 205). more

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Norma Riccucci,

professor, School of

Public Affairs and

Administration,

was named

Rutgers Board of

Governors

Professor of Public

Administration, the

highest professorial

rank at Rutgers

University. more

Alan Sadovnik, Board of Governors

Distinguished Service Professor, School of

Public Affairs and Administration, co-

authored “A History of Informal, Out of

School Education,” published in National

Society for the Study of Education’s

Learning In and Across Contexts: Reimagining

Education (Vol. 113, Issue 2, 2014).

Carlos Seiglie,

professor and

chair, Department

of Economics,

Faculty of Arts

and Sciences, was

awarded a

Fulbright

Specialist grant in

economics to

conduct research

in France. more

Alan Shark, adjunct professor, School of

Public Affairs and Administration,

published the textbook Technology and

Public Management (Routledge, 2015).

Neha Shaw, assistant professor,

Department of Management & Global

Business, Rutgers Business School, and

Daniel Levin, professor, Management &

Global Business, Rutgers Business School,

co-authored “Performance Benefits From

Providing Assistance in Networks:

Relationships That Generate Learning,”

published in the Journal of Management (May

4, 2015, DOI: 0.1177/0149206315584822 ).

more

Phyllis Siegel, associate professor,

Department of Management and Global

Business, Rutgers Business School, received

the 2015 Warren I. Susman Award for

Excellence in Teaching. This award is given

to faculty members “in recognition of

outstanding service in stimulating and

guiding the intellectual development of

students at Rutgers University.” more

Roger Smeets, assistant professor,

Department of Management & Global

Business, Rutgers Business School, received

the 2015 Best Reviewer Award from the

Academy of International Business.

Genese Sodikoff, associate professor and

chair, Department of Sociology and

Anthropology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences,

garnered a New Directions Fellowship from

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a

proposal entitled, "Biodiversity Offsets and

Zoonosis in Madagascar." more

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Mercer Sullivan,

associate

professor, School

of Criminal Justice,

Joel Miller,

associate

professor, School

of Criminal Justice,

and Kim

Copeland,

teaching assistant,

School of Criminal

Justice, co-authored “Keeping Them off the

Corner: How Probation Officers Steer

Offenders Away from Crime

Opportunities,” published in The Prison

Journal (Vol. 95, No. 2, 2015). more

James Tepper, professor, Center for

Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, co-

authored the following articles: “Novel Fast

Adapting Interneurons Mediate

Cholinergic-Induced Fast GABAA

Inhibitory Postsynaptic Currents in Striatal

Spiny Neurons,” published in European

Journal of Neuroscience (May 9, 2015, DOI:

10.1111/ejn.12915); “Dopaminergic and

Cholinergic Modulation of Striatal Tyrosine

Hydroxylase Interneurons,” published in

Neuropharmacology (Vol. 95, 2015); “Are

Striatal Tyrosine Hydroxylase Interneurons

Dopaminergic?” published in The Journal of

Neuroscience (Vol. 35, No. 16, 2015); and

“Anatomical and Electrophysiological

Changes in Striatal TH Interneurons after

Loss of the Nigrostriatal Dopaminergic

Pathway,” published in Brain Structure and

Function (Vol. 220, Issue 1, 2015). more

Frank Thompson, professor, School of

Public Affairs and Administration, received

the 2015 American Society for Public

Administration (ASPA) Dwight Waldo

Award, which is presented to persons who

have made outstanding contributions to the

professional literature of public

administration over an extended career.

Thompson also received the 2015 Charles H.

Levine Memorial Award for Excellence in

Public Administration. Bestowed by ASPA

and the Network of Schools of Public

Policy, Affairs, and Administration, the

2015 Charles H. Levine Memorial Award

recognizes a public administration faculty

member who has demonstrated excellence

in teaching, research, and service to the

wider community.

Paul Tractenberg, professor, School of Law,

was honored by the Education Law Center,

of which he is the founding director. more

Gregg Van Ryzin, professor, School of

Public Affairs and Administration, co-

authored the second edition of Research

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Methods in Practice: Strategies for Description

and Causation (SAGE Publications, 2015).

Penny Venetis, clinical professor, School of

Law, was named executive vice president

and legal director of Legal Momentum, a

leading national nonprofit legal

organization that advances the rights of

women and girls through effective policy

advocacy, judicial education, and impact

litigation. more

Bonita

Veysey,

professor,

School of

Criminal

Justice,

Michael

Ostermann,

assistant

professor

and

director of the Evidence-Based Institute,

School of Criminal Justice, Paul Boxer,

associate professor and graduate director,

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts

and Sciences, and Joanna Kubik, graduate

fellow, School of Criminal Justice, co-

authored “Gang Involvement Reduces the

Effectiveness of Evidence-Based

Intervention for Justice-Involved Youth,”

published in Children and Youth Services

Review (Vol. 52, 2015); and “Measuring

Gang Involvement in a Justice-Referred

Sample of Youth in Treatment,” published

in Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice (Vol. 13,

No. 1, 2015). more

Sara Wakefield, assistant professor, School

of Criminal Justice, co-authored “Toward a

Criminology of Inmate Networks,”

published in Justice Quarterly (March 3,

2015, DOI:

10.1080/07418825.2015.1016090). more

Jessica Ware,

assistant professor,

Department of

Biological Sciences,

Faculty of Arts and

Sciences, received

the early CAREER

award from the National Science

Foundation to study the social structure of

lower-termite colonies emanating 140

million years ago. more

Reid Weisbord, vice dean, School of Law,

authored “Trust Term Extension,”

published in the Florida Law Review (Vol. 67,

2015). more

Jerome D.

Williams,

professor

and

Prudential

Chair in

Business,

Department

of

Marketing,

Rutgers

Business School, was appointed provost of

Rutgers University–Newark, effective

September 1, 2015. Williams also was one of

the lead authors of "Beyond Poverty: Social

Justice in a Global Marketplace," published

in the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing

(Vol. 30, No. 1, 2011), which received the

2015 Thomas C. Kinnear/Journal of Public

Policy & Marketing Award for outstanding

article on marketing and public policy

issues. more

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Laszlo

Zaborszky,

professor,

Center for

Molecular

and

Behavioral

Neuroscience,

co-authored

“Impact of

Basal

Forebrain

Cholinergic

Inputs on

Basolateral

Amygdala Neurons,” published in The

Journal of Neuroscience (Vol. 35, No. 2, 2015),

and “The Ventral Pallidum: Subregion-

Specific Functional Anatomy and Roles in

Motivated Behaviors,” published in Progress

in Neurobiology (Vol. 130, 2015). more

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