Henrike Moll, associate professor of psychology, has earned the 2023 American Psychological Foundation Joseph B. Gittler Award. The prize, which includes $4,500, recognizes psychologists who make and are expected to continue making scholarly contributions to the philosophical foundations of psychological knowledge.
Juhi Jang, professor of mathematics, has received a Frontiers of Science Award at the inaugural International Congress of Basic Science held this past July in Beijing. The award recognizes her paper “Expanding large global solutions of the equations of compressible fluid mechanics,” co-authored with Mahir Hadžić of King’s College London and published in Inventiones mathematicae in 2018. Frontiers of Science Awards honor “top research, with an emphasis on achievements from the past five years which are both excellent and of outstanding scholarly value.”
A key figure in the Human Genome Project, he also invented technology used in COVID-19 tests.
John Platt, professor of Earth sciences, has been selected to receive the 2023 Career Contribution Award from the Structural Geology and Tectonics Division of the Geological Society of America. The award goes to an individual who has made numerous distinguished contributions that have advanced the science of structural geology or tectonics throughout their career.
USC Dornsife Magazine earned first and third place at the Los Angeles Press Club’s 65th annual Southern California Journalism Awards.
Christian Grose, professor of political science and public policy, has received the Alan Rosenthal Prize from the American Political Science Association. The prize, awarded annually, is meant to encourage young scholars to study questions that are important to legislators and legislative staff and to conduct research that could strengthen the practice of representative democracy. The association cited Grose’s journal article Social Lobbying, which he co-authored with his former PhD student Sara Sadhwani, who is now at Pomona College, Pamela Lopez of K Street Consulting and Antoine Yoshinaka of the University at Buffalo. The article won the Joseph Bernd Award earlier this year.
Joseph Boone, Gender Studies Professor in Media and Gender and professor of English and comparative literature, has won the 2023 Next Generation Indie Awards for First Novel (Over 90,000 Words) for Furnace Creek (Black Spring Press, 2023). The Next Generation Indie Awards is the world’s largest nonprofit awards program for independent publishers. Boone and other winners will be honored at a June 23 ceremony at the Newberry Library in Chicago.
Furnace Creek also received an Eric Hoffer Award honorable mention in the general fiction category and was a finalist in Foreward’s Indie Book of the Year competition for LGBT+ fiction.
Michael Inkpen, assistant professor of chemistry, has earned a Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation. The award, which supports early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization, includes nearly $670,000 over five years in support of his project “A Building Block Approach to Study Charge Transport: From Single-Molecule to Bulk.”
Jessica Marglin, Ruth Ziegler Chair in Jewish Studies and professor of religion, law and history, has been awarded the James Willard Hurst Book Prize by the Law and Society Association for The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship Across the Mediterranean (Princeton University Press, 2022). The prize recognizes “the best work in socio-legal history published in the previous year.”
Marglin also received the The Mediterranean Seminar Best Book Prize for The Shamama Case. The prize recognizes the best scholarly and trade publications published from 2020 through 2022, focusing on books that broke new ground conceptually or methodologically, were comparative or interdisciplinary and that emphasized the intercultural, interregional and inter-religious contact of the Mediterranean.
