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Compiled by the College Deans Offices THE UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND RESEARCH HONORS & AWARDS 2012

UNIVERSITY of Rhode Island AWARD The Digital Forensics and Cyber Security Center: The National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security have selected URI as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education. COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES CAROLINE GOTTSCHALK DRUSHKE, assistant professor in writing and rhetoric, was named a Rhode Island Campus Compact Engaged Scholars Statewide Faculty Fellow. JASON DWYER, assistant professor of chemistry, received an NSF CAREER Award, and U.S. provisional patent application for “Novel Process for Electroless Plating of Gold on a Surface.” TIMOTHY GEORGE, professor of history, received a Fulbright research grant to Japan. RENEE HOBBS, founding director of the Harrington School of Communication and Media and interim director of the graduate program in library and information studies, was designated the Digital Literacy Fellow by the American Library Association (ALA). She worked with the ALAOffice of Information Technology Policy to design and implement a national series of public and online conversations to explore how to define and assess digital literacy competencies among public, school and academic librarians and the users they serve. GALEN JOHNSON, philosophy professor and department chair was appointed as an Inaugural member of the Honorary Advisory Board for

the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center, Duquesne University. He was also appointed to the jury for the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR), Université Paris IV – Sorbonne, Paris, France for Dr. Emmanuel de Saint Aubert. [Jury for French holders of a Doctorat to qualify to occupy a university chair, formerly titled Doctorat d’État [Doctor of State]. ERIK LOOMIS, assistant professor of history, won the Grey Towers Scholar in Residence Fellowship from the United States Forest Service (USFS). This was a writing fellowship from the USFS to work for three weeks in January at Grey Towers, the home of former USFS head Gifford Pinchot in Milford, Pennsylvania. BERNICE LOTT, emeritus professor of psychology, was the winner of the American Psychological Association’s “Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest, Senior Career Award.” BRETT LUCHT, professor of chemistry, was issued a patent for “Novel Electrolyte for Lithium Batteries.” He was also elected as Member at Large to the Board of the Battery Division of the Electrochemical Society. ANNU P. MATTHEW, professor of art, was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for travel, research and teaching in India. RONALD ONORATO, professor and chair of art and art history, was awarded a Swan Point Cemetery Private Grant for research and survey of major grave monuments. JIMMIE OXLEY, professor of chemistry, received a Distinguished

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