From left, Distinguished Professor Natalia Molina and University Professor Hanna Reisler. (Photos: Mike Glier; Courtesy of Women in Science and Engineering.)<\/p>\n
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Reisler and Molina named University Professor and Distinguished Professor<\/p>\n
The selective awards recognize significant accomplishments by leading scholars in their fields. [2\u00bd min read]<\/p>\n
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April 12, 2021<\/p>\n
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Two USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences faculty members have been recognized by the university for their outstanding achievements.\u00a0Hanna Reisler, professor of chemistry, has been named University Professor, and\u00a0Natalia Molina, professor of American studies and ethnicity, has been named Distinguished Professor.
\n\u201cThese exceptional faculty members have brought great distinction to the university,\u201d wrote USC Provost Charles Zukoski Zukoski in an April 5 email to the university community lauding Molina, Reisler and three other USC faculty members. \u201cRecognizing each of them is an honor for President [Carol L.] Folt and me, and we look forward to celebrating their achievements at the annual Academic Honors Convocation this month.\u201d
\nThe distinction of University Professor is awarded selectively by the president based on multidisciplinary interests and significant accomplishments in several disciplines. Distinguished Professor is selectively awarded to those whose accomplishments have brought special renown to USC.
\nUniversity Professor recognized globally
\nReisler, who holds the Lloyd Armstrong Jr. Chair in Science and Engineering, is an internationally recognized chemist. She studies detailed mechanisms of chemical reactions in the gas and condensed phases by using laser and molecular-beam techniques, research which is relevant to environmental, atmospheric and combustion chemistry as well as to the fundamental chemistry of new energy sources.
\nShe is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society. She has received numerous awards and honors, including an NSF CAREER Award, an NSF Faculty Award for Women Scientists, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Max Planck Research Award and the American Physical Society Herbert P. Broida Prize. She helped found the\u00a0Women in Science and Engineering Program\u00a0at USC.
\nDistinguished Professor, author, MacArthur Fellow
\nMolina is the author of two award-winning books,\u00a0Fit to be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939\u00a0and\u00a0How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts, in which she coins the term \u201cracial scripts\u201d to demonstrate how ideas about race are easily adopted and adapted to apply to different racialized groups. Her research continues to explore the themes of race, space, labor, immigration, gender and urban history.
\nIn 2020, she was\u00a0named a MacArthur Fellow. Her work has further been supported by various organizations, including the Ford, Mellon and Rockefeller foundations, and she has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Huntington Library. She is a distinguished lecturer for the Organization of American Historians and in 2018 was the Organization of American Historians China Residency scholar. She has also been the recipient of various awards for her diversity work, including by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education.
\nExceptional scholars
\nIn addition to Reisler and Molina, John Brooks Slaughter of the\u00a0USC Rossier School of Education\u00a0and the\u00a0USC Viterbi School of Engineering, and Berislav Zlokovic of the\u00a0Keck School of Medicine of USC\u00a0were named University Professors, and Alan Willner of USC Viterbi was named a Distinguished Professor.
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