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Professional organizations across numerous disciplines have recognized Rochester faculty contributions.

人妻少妇专区 faculty regularly earn regional, national, and international awards and honors for their professional contributions to research, scholarship, education, and community engagement.

As part of an ongoing series, we鈥檙e spotlighting their accomplishments.

Colleen Fogarty to lead Association of Departments of Family Medicine

Colleen Fogarty, the William Rocktaschel Chair in Family Medicine, was chosen by the to serve a three-year term in the sequential roles of president-elect, president, and board chair.

ADFM consists of institutional leaders from larger academic medical centers leading innovations in clinical care delivery, medical student education, resident training, and research.

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Gerald Gamm wins award for best paper on state politics

, a professor of political science and of and the associate chair of the , has won an award for the best paper presented at a professional conference in 2024 on the subject of state politics鈥攖ogether with his coauthor , the Eaton Professor of Political Science at Columbia University.

The prize, awarded annually by the of the , is for their paper 鈥淧arty Reform and the Origins of Abortion Politics.鈥�

Gamm鈥檚 research focuses on institutional development and historical change in the United States. Current subjects include Congress, state legislatures, party competition, and the relationship between partisan polarization and the rise of social issues, such as abortion, LGBTQ rights, gun rights, the Equal Rights Amendment, and the teaching of evolution in the 1960s and 1970s.

• Read about Gamm鈥檚 recent research on historical biases in state spending.

Jerome Jean-Gilles Jr. named AAPath Leadership Fellow听

, an associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, has been selected for the fifth cohort of the .

The year-long opportunity is designed to help mid-to-senior-level faculty develop skills for future academic administration.

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Jiebo Luo inducted into AIMBE College of Fellows

, a professor of 听and the Albert Arendt Hopeman Professor of Engineering, was inducted into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering鈥檚 (AIMBE) College of Fellows. College membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to engineering and medicine research, practice, or education, and to the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, making significant advancements in traditional fields of medical and biological engineering, or developing/implementing innovative approaches to bioengineering education.

Luo was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows for outstanding contributions to artificial intelligence and machine learning applications in medical image computing and predictive modeling of health outcomes.

Luo was formally inducted during a ceremony held during the AIMBE Annual Event on March 31, along with 171 colleagues who make up the AIMBE College of Fellows Class of 2025.

• Read about Luo鈥檚 work to use machine learning and data mining to understand public sentiment toward COVID-19.

Hans Malmstrom named Academy of Osseointegration Fellow

Hans Malmstrom, a professor of dentistry and chair of General Dentistry at the Eastman Institute for Oral Health, was inducted as a fellow of the (AO) at the organization鈥檚 annual meeting in March.

Malmstrom joins , including five from the Eastman Institute for Oral Health.

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Myra Mathis receives Courage to Heal Award

Myra Mathis 鈥�09, 鈥�15M (MD), an assistant professor of psychiatry, was honored by Thomas Jefferson University as a pioneer in compassionate and patient-centered care.

Mathis presented the Courage to Heal Medicine Grand Rounds at the university in February as part of the award ceremony.

An addiction psychiatrist, Mathis serves as medical director for Strong Recovery, UR Medicine’s outpatient dual-diagnosis clinic, which offers an opioid treatment program and a full range of addiction and psychiatric services.

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Mt. Hope Family Center earns AFP Gold Medal

continues to receive national recognition for its important work supporting children and families with evidence-based intervention and prevention services.

Jennie Noll, a professor of psychology and executive director of the Mt. Hope Family Center; Sheree Toth, a professor of psychology and psychiatry and former executive director of the Mt. Hope Family Center; and Dante Cicchetti, founder of the Mt. Hope Family Center and a professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota, will receive the 2025 American Psychological Foundation Gold Medal Award for Impact in Psychology.听 The APF, the philanthropic arm of the听 , administers scholarships and research grants to students and early career psychologists.

The award recognizes work that is impactful, innovative, and transformational. According to the APF, the award can be for a body of work in a particular field that has led to change or for one-moment-in-time psychology game changers. Gold medal recipients typically receive a monetary prize and a travel stipend to attend the APA Convention to receive a plaque. The MHFC recipients will donate their prize to the center.

• Learn more about Mt. Hope Family Center鈥檚 .

Andrew Nelson honored with New Investigator Award

Andrew Nelson, an assistant professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, was recognized by the with its New Investigator Award.

The honor celebrates excellence in research and encourages early-career researchers to participate in ISSFAL’s biennial congresses. Nelson鈥檚 research focus includes the role of lipids in human health and disease.

Michele Rucci鈥檚 study on blinking honored for excellence听听

A paper by Rochester scientists has been awarded the by the 听Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

, authored by , a professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and graduate students and Janis Intoy, was awarded the Biological Sciences honor for the research that found that blinking plays a pivotal role in allowing our brains to process visual information.

The annual is awarded to six research teams whose PNAS articles have made outstanding contributions to their field. According to the , papers were chosen from 3,200 research articles that appeared in the journal last year.

• Find out why blinking is so important.

Pablo Sierra Silva鈥檚 book included on Best Historical Materials list

‘s听new book, , was selected by the听 for its听2024 Best Historical Materials听listing.

The book, featuring an introduction and 118 documents in English and Spanish, was curated after a decade of teaching courses on the history of Latin America and the African diaspora at Rochester. It is the first bilingual source reader to be published on Mexican enslavement and freedom.

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RNA biologist Eric Wagner named 2024 AAAS fellow

, a professor of biochemistry and biophysics and codirector of the听,听was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world鈥檚 largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal听Science.

Wagner was selected for his contributions to the fields of molecular biology and biochemistry, particularly his research uncovering how human cells regulate the production of RNA from genes and how disruptions in this process lead to cancer and intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Wagner, a member of Wilmot Cancer Institute鈥檚听听research program, is one of 471 scientists, engineers, and innovators selected for the 2024 fellow class.

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Computer science researchers earn best paper award

Researchers from the Department of Computer Science won a best paper award at the听听(ASPLOS) 2025, a premier venue for computer systems. The paper, selected out of 912 entries, was authored by computer science PhD student Weikai Lin, Yu Feng 鈥�23, and 听, an associate professor of computer science.

The paper, 鈥淢etaSapiens: Real-Time Neural Rendering with Efficiency-Aware Pruning and Accelerated Foveated Rendering,鈥� proposes a new rendering system that leverages characteristics of the human visual system. For the first time, the system achieves real-time photorealistic rendering on untethered virtual reality devices. The team plans to extend the work to augmented reality, which poses an even greater problem than VR.

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