IN THIS COLUMN
Colin Milburn, English, Cinema and Digital Media, Science and Technology Studies
Hemant Bhargava, Graduate School of Management
Kim Elsbach, Graduate School of Management
Gary S. May, chancellor
Susan Ustin, Department of Land, Air and Water Resources
Lynn Kimsey, Department of Entomology and Nematology
Robert Kimsey, Department of Entomology and Nematology
Walter Leal, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Bryan Jenkins, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering
Professor Colin Milburn has been named the inaugural recipient of the Letters and Science Dean’s Prize for Distinguished Contributions to the Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Milburn’s analysis focuses on the relationships amongst literature, science and tradition, and contains work in science fiction, the historical past of science, nanotechnology, video video games and the digital humanities.
“Professor Milburn embodies what makes the College of Letters and Science great: a fierce passion for the liberal arts and sciences, a true belief in the production and dissemination of original ideas, and a deep commitment to the public good,” stated Ari Kelman, interim dean. The prize features a privately funded award of $10,000.
Milburn holds appointments within the departments of English and Cinema and Digital Media, and is the director of Science and Technology Studies. He was the inaugural appointee to the Gary Snyder Chair Science and the Humanities, in 2012.
His latest books embrace Respawn: Gamers, Hackers and Technogenic Life and Mondo Nano: Fun and Games within the World of Digital Matter.
Read extra on this article by Jeffrey Day on the College of Letters and Science web site.
BhargavaProfessor Hemant Bhargava of the Graduate School of Management and two-co-authors are nonetheless making information for his or her pioneering paper on promoting mechanisms in web serps, printed in 2007.
Thirteen years later, “Implementing Sponsored Search in Web Search Engines: Computational Evaluation of Alternative Mechanisms,” is the recipient of the Test of Time Paper Award for publications dated 2003-07, from the Informs Journal of Computing.
Bhargava joined the GSM school in 2003 and has held the Jerome and Elsie Suran Chair in Technology Management since 2011. He wrote the award-profitable paper with Juan Feng, professor within the Department of Information Systems, College of Business, City University of Hong Kong; and David M. Pennock, a principal researcher with Microsoft Research.
“In the early 2000s, as we started this collaboration, internet search engines were only a few years young ... [and] we puzzled over how free search engines like Google could make money, never imagining today’s annual revenues well over $100 billion.” the co-authors stated in a retrospective.
According to the Informs journal, “The paper stories intensive computational simulations, permitting the authors to check anticipated income obtained from quite a lot of advert-placement methods. The research gives insights into the impression of consideration decay and different key elements.
“This highly cited paper continues to be an important reference for the community of researchers studying this rapidly growing sector of the advertising market. The work is a very nice example of the reach of operations research techniques into the new economy.”
Read the authors’ retrospective, “A Look Back: How Web Search Ads Emerged, Transformed Business,” on the Graduate School of Management web site.
Professor of administration Kim Elsbach, who holds the Stephen G. Newberry Endowed Chair in Leadership within the Graduate School of Management, has managed her method into the highest 20 (10 girls and 10 males) Long Distance All-Stars in U.S. Masters Swimming.
She gained seven nationwide championships in 2019 — three open-water occasions and 4 postals, or one-hour swims in a pool — incomes 91 factors, tops within the 55- to 59-year-previous division and second-highest among the many all-stars.
Chancellor Gary S. May has been named the recipient of two nationwide awards:
Excellence in Education Award, from the National Medical Fellowships and the NMF Bay Area Council, which informed the chancellor: “Your leadership in higher education, passion for mentorship, advocacy of diversity in STEM and contributions to the field of engineering makes you a true champion in your field. You are someone our young scholars should emulate as professionals and individuals.”
Career Services Champion Award, from the National Association of Colleges and Employers, which presents the award yearly to a school or college president or chancellor from an accredited establishment of upper schooling who helps the institution of, and demonstrates ahead-considering management in assist of, profession providers/schooling.
UstinSusan Ustin, Distinguished Professor emeritus of environmental and useful resource sciences within the Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, and affiliate director of the John Muir Institute of the Environment, has been elected a fellow of the Ecological Society of America, acknowledged for pioneering using distant sensing expertise for detecting adjustments in plant neighborhood traits, organic variety and land use, and for her continued affect on the sphere of ecology.
The Pacific Branch of the Entomological Society of America switched its annual assembly to a digital format this 12 months, which meant digital award shows for 3 school members:
Lynn Kimsey, professor, Department of Entomology and Nematology, recipient of the department’s highest honor, the C.W. Woodworth Award, named after Charles William Woodworth (1865-1940), who based the UC Berkeley Department of Entomology. Kimsey is a UC Davis alumna, incomes her undergraduate diploma in 1975 and doctorate in 1979, and joined the college in 1989. She has administered the college’s world-famend Bohart Museum of Entomology since 1990.
Robert Kimsey, forensic entomologist and affiliate adjunct professor, Department of Entomology and Nematology, recipient of the Distinction in Student Mentoring Award. He is holds two UC Davis levels, Bachelor of Science, 1977, and doctorate, 1984, and joined the college in 1990.
Walter Leal, chemical ecologist and distinguished professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, and former chair, Department of Entomology (now the Department of Entomology and Nematology), recipient of the Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching. A member of the college since 2000, Leal has taught insect physiology for 13 years and biochemistry for six years.
The Pacific Branch takes in 11 western states, U.S. territories, and components of Canada and Mexico.
Read extra in regards to the recipients on this weblog put up by Kathy Keatley Garvey, communications specialist with the Department of Entomology and Nematology.
JenkinsThe American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers introduced Bryan Jenkins because the recipient of the 2020 James R. and Karen A. Gilley Academic Leadership Award, given yearly to a division head in an accredited organic and-or agricultural engineering program all over the world.
“This award better recognizes the outstanding faculty, students and staff of the department,” stated Jenkins, chair of the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering since 2014. “I have been privileged to work in a great department and a great university.”
His duties as chair have included overseeing the division’s 100th anniversary celebration (in 2015) and the hiring of eight school members. All the whereas, he has continued his educating, mentorship, analysis and professional service in vitality programs and the conversion of biomass to vitality.
A college member for 30 years, he holds the title of Distinguished Professor and is fellow of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers. He is the recipient of an Outstanding Achievement Award from the U.S. Department of Energy, the Linneborn Prize from the European Union and the Outstanding Senior Faculty Research Award from the College of Engineering.
Read extra on this article by Noah Pflueger-Peters on the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering web site.
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