Amy M. Cohn, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; professor of industrial and operations engineering in the College of Engineering; professor of health management and policy in the School of Public Health; and chief transformation officer at Michigan Medicine, has been named to the 2024 class of INFORMS Fellows, one of the highest honors in the field of operations research and analytics. INFORMS is the premier international association for the decision and data sciences.
Kristi Gamarel, John G. Searle Assistant Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, and associate professor of health behavior and health equity in the School of Public Health; and research associate professor in the Institute for Social Research’s Population Studies Center, has been awarded the 2024 National Institutes of Health Sexual & Gender Minority Mid-Career Investigator Award from the NIH Sexual and Gender Minority Research Office. It recognizes Gamarel’s substantial and outstanding research contributions to the field of sexual and gender minority research.
David Gerdes, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, professor of physics and of astronomy in LSA, has been made the namesake of asteroid 208117 by the International Astronomical Union. Gerdes, who also chairs LSA’s astronomy department, has made many contributions to NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt, and is a longtime collaborator of astronomer Marc Buie, who discovered the asteroid that was named for Gerdes.
Paul A. Green, a research professor in the U-M Transportation Research Institute and a research professor and lecturer I in the College of Engineering’s Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, has received the Arnold M. Small and Betty M. Sanders President’s Distinguished Service Award from the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. The award is for exemplary advancements to the human factors and ergonomics field by optimizing human well-being, reducing accidents and improving workplace efficiency.
Ruth Scodel, D. R. Shackleton Bailey Collegiate Professor Emerita of Greek and Latin, and professor emerita of Greek and Latin, was elected to the American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in North America. Election to the American Philosophical Society honors extraordinary accomplishments in all fields. It is unusual among learned societies because its membership is composed of top scholars from a wide variety of academic disciplines.
U-M’s Science Learning Center has been honored with the 2024 Frank L. Christ Outstanding Learning Center of the Year Award by the International College Learning Center Association. The award recognizes exemplary efforts in providing academic support and fostering student success within educational institutions across the nation.
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