Awards
Brian Jacob, professor Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, will be presented the David N. Kershaw Award and Prize for his contributions to the field of public policy analysis and management. Jacob, the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy, professor of economics and director of the Center for Local, State and Urban Policy at the Ford School, will receive the award Nov. 7 from the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management at its Fall Research Conference in Los Angeles. Jacob, also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, focuses his work on urban school reform, emphasizing standards and accountability initiatives.
Paula Allen-Meares, Norma Radin Collegiate Professor of Social Work, professor of education and dean emeritus of the School of Social Work, was presented Sept. 23 with the Spirit of Detroit Award in recognition of exceptional achievement, outstanding leadership and dedication to improving the quality of life by the City Council of Detroit. Also, she will be presented with the Education Award on Nov. 1 at the Chicago Defender’s Annual Newsmaker Awards 2008.
Louis Burgio, professor of social work, has been selected as the recipient of the 2008 M. Powell Lawton Award by the Gerontological Society of America. The award will be conferred in November. It is presented annually to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution from applied research that has benefited older people and their care.
Lecturer Gary Stauffer will be awarded the Michael Stratton Practitioners Award in November at the Annual International Association for Experiential Education conference in Vancouver, Wash. The award honors an experiential practitioner who has demonstrated consistently high levels of performance that brings about significant change and impacts the lives of students, participants or clients.
Three faculty members in the Department of Political Science recently received awards at the 2008 American Political Science Association Meeting in Boston. John Jackson received the Career Achievement Award in Political Methodology, Robert Salmond received the Carl Albert Award for the best dissertation on legislative politics and Anna Grzymala-Busse received the Gregory Leubbert Award for the best paper on comparative politics, co-authored with Keith Darden of Yale University.
Dr. Sahar Swidan, adjunct clinical associate professor of pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, and owner of Pharmacy Solutions in Ann Arbor, received the Good Neighbor Pharmacy Pharmacist of the Year Award at the AmerisourceBergen National Healthcare Conference & Exposition in Las Vegas.
