Daniel Gorenstein Award Recipients

2019
Michael Greenberg, Distinguished Professor, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
Lecture: Risk-Informing Environmental Health Policy: Five Decades of Opportunities with Mixed Success.

2018
Jay Feinman, Distinguished Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School
Lecture: Why Insurance Works, and Why It Doesn’t.

2017
Andrew Norris, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, School of Engineering
Lecture: Pushing the Physical Limits of Sound Waves in Theory and in Practice: Acoustic Cloaking and Other Strange Phenomena.

2016
Jolie Cizewski, Professor of Physics, School of Arts and Sciences
Lecture: Explosions in the Cosmos and Synthesis of the Atomic Elements.

2015
James Turner Johnson, Professor of Religion, School of Arts and Sciences
Lecture: The Role of the Study of Religion in a Secular University and a Secular Society.

2014
Cheryl A. Wall, Board of Governors Professor of English, Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English, School of Arts and Sciences
Lecture: Ralph Ellison and "The Mystery of American Identity."

2013
Allan Horwitz, Board of Governors Professor of Sociology, School of Arts and Sciences Lecture: Creating Normality and Abnormality: Psychiatry and the Construction of Mental Illness.

2012
Joachim Kohn, Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, School of Arts and Sciences and Director, New Jersey Center for Biomaterials
Lecure: From Chemistry to Regenerative Medicine: Restoring Function, Preserving the Quality of Life.

2011
Daniel Hart, Professor of Psychology and Childhood Studies, Camden Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Director, Center for Children and Childhood Studies
Lecture: What Do Kids Have to Do with It? How Populations with Lots of Children Affect Youth Development in Camden, the Country, and Around the World.

2010
Yogesh Jaluria, Board of Governors Professor, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, School of Engineering
Lecture: Buoyancy Driven Flows in Nature and Technology.

2009
Barbara Lee, Professor of Human Resource Management
Lecture: Academic Freedom Reconsidered.

2008
Ziva Galili, Professor of History, School of Arts and Sciences
Lecture: Travels in the Past: From Moscow to Kibbutz Afikim and Back.

2007
Richard Falk, Professor of Mathematics, School of Arts and Sciences
Lecture: Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Approximation.

2006
Sandra L. Harris, Professor of Clinical Psychology, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Professor of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences–New Brunswick, and Executive Director, Douglass Development Disabilities Center
Lecture: Evidence-Based Treatment for Autism: What We Know and What We Hope to Learn.

2005
Allen H. Conney, Professor of Chemical Biology, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, and Director of the Susan L. Cullman Laboratory for Cancer Research
Lecture: It’s Better to Prevent Cancer than to Treat It: Some Studies on Prevention.

2004
Glenn Shafer, Professor of Accounting and Information Systems, School of Business Newark and New Brunswick
Lecture: The Empirical Meaning of Probability, from Jakob Bernoulli to the Efficient Market Hypothesis.

2003
David Mechanic, Director of the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research
Lecture: Barriers to Health Care Reform.

2002
Joanna Burger, Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Faculty of Arts and Sciences-New Brunswick
Lecture: From Ecology to Public Policy: A Naturalist Along the Jersey Shore.

2001
Noémie Koller, Professor of Physics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences-New Brunswick
Lecture: The Dance of Nuclear Spins.

2000
Brent D. Ruben, Professor of Communication, School of Communication, Information, and Library Studies, and Executive Director, Quality Communication Improvement Program, Center for Organizational Development and Leadership
Lecture: The Ivory Tower- 2000: Images, Ironies, Opportunities.

1999
Lloyd C. Gardner, Charles and Mary Beard Professor of History, Faculty of Arts and Sciences–New Brunswick
Lecture: Do We Learn from History and Should We?

1998
Robert L. Wilson, Mathematics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences–New Brunswick
Lecture: That's All??-The Gorenstein Program and Other Classification Results.

1997
G. Terence Wilson, Oscar Krisen Buros Professor of Psychology, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology
Lecture: Weight and Eating Disorders: Too Fat Trying to be Too Thin.

1996
Hans Fisher, Professor of Nutrition, Cook College
Lecture: The Development of a Novel Treatment Strategy for Alcoholism: the Synergism Between Undergraduate Education and Research.

1995
George L. Levine, Kenneth Burke Professor of English, Faculty of Arts and Sciences–New Brunswick
Lecture: Darwin and Pain: How Science Made Reading Shakespeare Nauseating.

1994
Gerald N. Grob, Henry E. Sigerist Professor of the History of Medicine, Institute of Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, Faculty of Arts and Sciences–New Brunswick
Lecture: The Mentally Ill in America: Retrospect and Prospect.