Award
Professor Daphna Oyserman will receive the 2009 Society for Social Work Excellence in Research Award Jan. 16 for her article “Identity-Based Motivation and Health,” published in the Journal of Personality & Social Psychology. In conferring the award, the society recognized the significance of the problem addressed in her research, the rigor of the analysis, and its contribution to knowledge in social work and social welfare.
Marie O’Neill, an assistant professor of Environmental Health Sciences and Epidemiology at the School of Public Health, has been selected to receive a National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Outstanding New Environmental Scientists award. She is among six young investigators to earn the highly competitive award in 2008. The grant funds five years of research at $250,000 per year. O’Neill is studying exposures of pregnant women to air pollution in Mexico City and the link to preterm births through in vitro and in vivo studies of inflammatory response to air pollutants.
Assistant Professor Sean Joe was selected to be the 2009 recipient of the Edwin Shneidman Award from the American Association of Suicidology for outstanding contributions in research to the field of suicide studies. The award will be presented in April at the 42nd American Association of Suicidology Conference in San Francisco, where he will give an address.
