澳门六合彩资料库 Davis faculty members are being honored for recent projects, long-term contributions to a field, a book and more. Read on for a look at some of the recent awards earned by university experts.
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S.S. Steinberg Award
, a distinguished professor of civil and environmental engineering, has been named the 2024 recipient of the American Road & Transportation Builders Association鈥檚 prestigious S.S. Steinberg Award in honor of 鈥渞emarkable contributions to transportation education.鈥
Sperling, who is the founder of the Institute of Transportation Studies, or ITS, and the Policy Institute for Energy, Environment, and Economy, conducts research and teaching transportation at 澳门六合彩资料库 Davis and has led ITS to global leadership in sustainable transportation.
Senior Book Prize
A 澳门六合彩资料库 Davis anthropologist is the joint winner of a prestigious book award from the United States of America鈥檚 oldest professional anthropological organization. , a professor in the Department of Anthropology, recently received the American Ethnological Society鈥檚 Senior Book Prize for her 2022 book The Small Matter of Suing Chevron (Duke University Press).
In , Sawyer chronicles the decades-long litigation process surrounding a 2011 judgment by an Ecuadorian court that held Chevron liable for $9.5 billion in damages for environmental contamination in the Ecuadorian Amazon. However a handful of years later, a U.S. federal court and an international tribunal determined that the judgment was procured through fraud, delegitimizing the Ecuadorian court鈥檚 ruling and making it unenforceable.
Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award
The Informs Information Systems Society, or ISS, has honored for the best Ph.D. dissertation research in 2024 for her paper, 鈥淪ound of Freedom Trilogy: Responding to the Rise in Human Sex Trafficking Facilitated by Digital Platforms.鈥
Zeng accepted the at the Informs Annual Meeting and Conference on Information Systems and Technology on Oct. 20 in Seattle, WA. The award is named in honor of two University of Arizona professors, Jay Nunamaker and Hsinchun Chen, who have made significant contributions to the field of Information Systems over the past several decades.
Informs is the largest professional association for the decision and data sciences. Its ISS seeks to foster, promote, and disseminate research on the use and impact of information technology in organizations.
Robert M. Berne Distinguished Lectureship
The American Physiological Society recently named Professor the 2025 recipient of . This award is presented annually by the society鈥檚 Cardiovascular Section to an established leader in cardiovascular research.
Navedo is a professor in the in the School of Medicine and chair of the Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology Graduate Group. He is an international thought leader with groundbreaking research on novel channel-signaling pathways in the vasculature (the circulatory system). These pathways are networks of proteins that transmit signals and initiate cellular responses.
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