Recent honors and awards for 91±¬ÁÏ faculty and staff include a top young innovator, a new endowed faculty fellow, research grants awarded and a career achievement award in environmental political science.
Several honors, grant awards in 2020 for Nadya Peek of HCDE
, 91±¬ÁÏ assistant professor of human centered design and engineering, received an honor in 2020 as well as several research grants. MIT Review in June named her to its annual list of , celebrating those whose work “has the greatest potential to transform the world.”
Peek leads the 91±¬ÁÏ’s , a research group that uses machine precision to assist human creativity, and co-directs the .
In recent months, Peek received a from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to study testing and verification of quality control strategies for manufactured products responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. She and a University of California colleague also were awarded a two-year National Science Foundation to research digital manufacturing tools for low-volume manufacturing.
Peek is a co-principal investigator on a $2 million, three-year grant from the NSF’s Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation Program, announced in October, to develop distributed chemical manufacturing using synthetic biology. 91±¬ÁÏ chemical engineering professor is the project lead, along with 91±¬ÁÏ chemistry assistant professor and chemical engineering associate professor .
Also, Peek and , professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, will share a three-year NSF to develop open source, customizable “co-bots,” or collaborative robots designed to work alongside humans in scientific work as well as other fields such as advanced fabrication and quality control.
Read more at Peeks’ page on the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering .
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Miranda Belarde-Lewis a new iSchool endowed faculty fellow
, assistant professor in the 91±¬ÁÏ Information School, has been named the inaugural .
Belarde-Lewis (Zuni/Tlingit) is an independent curator as well as a professor of North American Indigenous Knowledge with the iSchool, and her work examines the role of social media in protecting, perpetuating and documenting Native American information and knowledge.
The award comes with funds Belarde-Lewis can use to apply for grants, bring speakers to campus and the community, or help with her research.
is the former longtime director of the 91±¬ÁÏ’s Odegaard Undergraduate Library and was the iSchool’s Distinguished Alumna for 2020.
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American Political Science Association honors Aseem Prakash
, 91±¬ÁÏ professor of political science, has received the 2020 from the American Political Science Association’s Science, Technology and Environmental Politics division.
(1933-2012) was a well-known American political scientist, who received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Prakash, who knew Ostrom and her husband well, is the Walker Family Professor for the Arts and Sciences and directs the 91±¬ÁÏ-based . The award was announced in the summer.