Matthews Distinguished Professor Geoffrey Davies and Associate Professor Pam Mabrouk of the Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology have both been recognized by the campus community as outstanding professors. Professor Davies was selected as one of two inaugural recipients of the Lifetime Achievement in Teaching Award. Professor Mabrouk and Assistant Professor Philip Walsh have both been selected to receive Northeastern University Excellence in Teaching Awards for 2004.

Professor Andrei Zelevinsky was recently awarded a Humboldt Foundation Award for next year. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation grants up to100 Humboldt Research Awards annually to scientists and scholars from abroad with internationally recognized academic qualifications. The research award honors the academic achievements of the award winner's lifetime. Furthermore, award winners are invited to carry out research projects of their own choice in Germany in cooperation with colleagues for periods of between six months and one year.

Professor Patricia Mabrouk presented a talk entitled “Novel Green Approaches to the Synthesis of Conducting Polymers” for the Boston Regional Inorganic Chemistry Group on September 23.  Professor Mabrouk also gave a talk entitled “Inculcating Graduate Students Concerning the Value of Scientific Ethics” at the Independent Laboratories Testing Association on September 15.

Professor of History and Modern Languages Harlow Robinson was named the Matthews Distinguished Professor for 2006. Professor Robinson is an internationally recognized scholar in the field of Russian cultural studies. The Matthews Distinguished University Professorship is awarded annually to an outstanding Northeastern professor whose research commitment to teaching and scholarship is deemed truly exceptional by the Northeastern administration.
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Associate Professor Jeffrey Burds has been awarded the Christopher Browning Research Fellowship for the academic year 2004-2005 from the Holocaust Educational Foundation. The grant supports Professor Burds’s work on a project entitled "Idioms of Hate: Soviet Collaborators in the German War against Jewish-Bolshevism."

Professor Judith Hall delivered a symposium entitled "Proximal Influences in the Relation of Vertical Position to Smiling" (authors: J. A. Hall and M. Schmid Mast) at the Society of Experimental Social Psychology in Ft. Worth, Texas, on October 16th. Professor Hall also co-authored “Who is the boss and who is not? Accuracy of judging status” (Schmid Mast, M., & Hall, J. A., 2004 in the Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 28, 145-166.) She delivered a paper on Sept. 30th at the Ninth Annual Biennial Regenstrief Conference (Regenstrief Institute, Indiana University Medical School) entitled "Emotional Processes in Relationship-Centered Care." (Authors: R.Frankel, D. L. Roter, J. A. Hall, and D. Sluyter.) 

Matthews Distinguished University Professor Judith Tick was inducted as a fellow of the Humanities and Arts of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, on October 8th.  Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences is an international learned society composed of the world's leading scientists, scholars, artists, business people, and public leaders. Election to the academy is one of the highest honors in the United States and past fellows have included Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Albert Einstein.  Professor Tick represents Northeastern’s sole inductee to date.