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Associates Award for Creativity in Research

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Nomination Deadline: October 28, 2009. Please send materials to the Office of Research Advancement, CUB-325, Mail Code 0706.

Overview

The Associates Awards for Creativity in Research are the highest honors the university faculty can bestow on its members for distinguished intellectual and artistic achievements.

Creativity in research includes the written publication of ideas, artistic creation, and artistic performance. Creativity may stem from a single brilliant idea or from a signficant body of work that forms a coherent whole. Creativity in research leads to major impacts on a discipline, on the interface between different disciplines, or on the creation of viable new areas of scholarly inquiry.

2008 Recipients of The Associates Award for Creativity in Research

Edward J. McCaffery, Law

Edward McCaffery has had a major impact on a remarkable range of fields in the study of the law, but he is best known for his work in two areas: tax and gender equality; and the idea of a progressive consumption tax.

McCaffery, the Robert C. Packard Trustee Chair in Law, is the author of several books that combine a concern with equity and fairness with the use of cutting-edge techniques in behavioral economics and psychology.

Taxing Women shows how the tax code punishes working families by impeding married women’s entry into and continued participation in the world of paid work outside the home.

With his book Fair Not Flat: How To Make the Tax System Better and Simpler, McCaffery has become one of the leading spokesmen for a progressive consumption tax as a more efficient and fair system than the taxation of income and wealth.

Other work has been highly influential as well; McCaffery has been the third most-cited tax law professor in law reviews since 2000, according to a recent survey.

P. Daniel Dapkus, Engineering

Professor Daniel Dapkus’ pathbreaking research in photonics technologies has shaped the development of many commercial light-emitting devices, from fiber optics to cellular phones.

Dapkus, the William M. Keck Professor of Engineering and Chair of the Electrical Engineering – Electrophysics department in the Viterbi School of Engineering, has led the development of several key technologies in the photonics field. He designed the first metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) system capable of fabricating the complex multilayer materials required for the high performance solar cells that are used in virtually all defense and communications satellites. Today, nearly every laser used in fiber optic communications, in DVD recorders, and point-of-sale product scanners traces its technological roots to the innovative MOCVD work led by Professor Dapkus.

Additionally, Dapkus has made fundamental contributions to the development of vertical cavity surface emitting lasers, which are part of almost every laser printer and computer mouse, and the heart of a key component of high-speed optical data links.

Dapkus, the author of over 400 published papers, was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.in 2004.

Previous Recipients

1963
Busemann, Herbert, Letters, Arts, and Sciences
Webb, John L., Pharmacology

1964
Anton, Bruce R., Letters, Arts, and Sciences
Giulford, J. P., Letters, Arts and Sciences

1965
Lovell, Colin R., Letters, Arts, and Sciences
McElderry, Bruce R., Letters, Arts, and Sciences

1966
Christensen, Francis, Letters, Arts, and Sciences
Hartman, Olga, Biological Sciences

1967
Bandy, Orville L., Letters, Arts, and Sciences
Waterman, John T., Letters, Arts, and Sciences

1968
Brodie, Arnold F., Biological Sciences
Golomb, Solomon W., Electrical Engineering/Systems

1969
Grings, William W., Psychology
Spitzer, William G., Physics, Astronomy, Electrophysics

1970
Adamson, Arthur W., Chemistry
Schulz, Max F., English

1971
Bavetta, Lucien A., Dentistry
Porto, Sergio P. S., Letters, Arts, and Sciences

1973
Dunn, Arnold, Biological Sciences
Moote, A. Lloyd, History

1974
Greene, Donald J., English
Taylor, Howard S., Chemistry

1975
Dales, Richard C., History
Moore, Sally F., Letters, Arts, and Sciences
Vogt, Peter K., Microbiology

1976
Hellwarth, Robert W., Electrical Engineering
McClelland, Charles A., Letters, Arts, and Sciences
Parker, Hershel, Letters, Arts, and Sciences

1977
Stephens, Philip J., Chemistry

1978
Bessman, Samuel P., Pharmacology & Nutrition
Schnepp, Otto O., Letters, Arts, and Sciences

1979
Bau, Robert, Chemistry
Birren, James E., Psychology

1980
Ritcheson, Charles, History
Slavkin, Harold C., Dentistry
Stone, Christopher D., Law

1981
O'Toole, James, Management & Organization
Warshel, Arieh, Chemistry

1982
Cope, Jackson I., Letters, Arts, and Sciences
Heidelberger, Charles, Medicine

1983
Jones, Peter A., Biological Chemistry
Wittig, Curt F., Physics

1984
Benson, Sydner W., Chemistry
Maki, Kazumi, Physics

1985
Finch, Caleb E., Gerontology
Olah, George A., Chemistry

1986
Reed, Christopher A., Chemistry
Rosenau, James N., International Relations

1987
Massry, Shaul G., Medicine
Pollack, Daniel, Music

1988
Benedict, William F., Pediatrics
Reed, Irving S., Electrical Engineering

1989
Banner, Lois W., S.W.M.S.
Lawler III, Edward E., Business Administration

1990
Dalton, Larry R., Chemistry
Goldstein, Joshua S., International Relations

1991
Bengston, Vern L., Gerontology
Breuer, Melvin A., Electrical Engineering

1992
Susskind, Miram M., Molecular Biology
Waterman, Michael S., Biological Sciences

1993
Aki, Kei, Geological Sciences
Dear, Micheal J., Geography

1994
Resnik, Judith, Law
Garmire, Elsa, Electrical Engineering

1995
Bergman, Richard N., Physiology & Biophysics
Kinder, Marsha, Cinema Television

1996
Adleman, Leonard, Computer Science
Pike, Malcolm, Preventive Medicine

1997
Klein, Malcolm W., Letters, Arts and Sciences
Aoun, Joseph, Letters, Arts and Sciences

1998
Barnouw, Dagmar, Letters, Arts and Sciences
Lai, Michael, Microbiology

1999
Biederman, Irving, Letters, Arts and Sciences
Shih, Jean C., Pharmacy

2000
Prakash, G.K. Surya, Chemistry
Thompson, Richard F., Psychology & Biological Sciences

2001
Myron F. Goodman, Molecular Biology
William H. Steier, Electrical Engineering

2002
Barry Glassner, Sociology
Charles G. Sammis, Geophysics/Materials Science

2003
Adrian Raine, Psychology
John E. Wills, Jr., Chinese History

2004
Terence Langdon, Engineering
Elyn Saks, Law

2005
Stephen Hartke, Music
Larry Swanson, Biological Sciences, Psychology & Neurology

2006
Theodore Berger, Biomedical Engineering
David James, Critical Studies

2007
Cheng-Ming Choung, Pathology
Mark Thompson, Chemistry

2008
Nicos Petasis, Chemistry
Nicholas Warner, Physics

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