Issue 27, Special Edition, September 2022 |
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From the Founding Director |
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We begin our second decade focused on those scholars around the world who exhibit renowned excellence in their work. The purpose of the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study is to make this extraordinary excellence an integral part of Texas A&M University, providing a continual flow of ideas, an influx of research expertise, and inspiration to us all. Some Fellows have helped elevate Texas A&M even further by choosing to join A&M’s faculty and attracting other accomplished individuals to our campus in the process.
We begin the new decade with the largest class of Fellows that the Hagler Institute has ever brought to Texas A&M University. On September 19, 2022, in the Bethancourt Ballroom. I announced fourteen 2022-2023 Fellows and one Distinguished Lecturer, coming to us from four countries and representing fields of study ranging from law to quantum science. Summarized in this newsletter, these scholars’ credentials and accomplishments speak for themselves.
The new members of the Hagler Institute are recipients of many research awards and elections to prominent professional societies. Some of the awards are recognized as prestigious within respective fields of study, but not well known outside of those professions. However, the Nobel Prize is well-known by all, and the Hagler Institute welcomes its 4th Nobel Prize winner, Professor Michael Young, a biologist who made path-breaking contributions in the field of circadian rhythms.
I am aware of how fortunate I have been as the Founding Director of this Institute to have the support of people in every aspect of this university system. My heartfelt thanks go out to the Board of Regents, who authorized the establishment of this institute on December 2, 2010; to Chancellor John Sharp, who provided the majority of the funding for the Institute for its first five years; to President M. Katherine Banks, who arranged for our quality offices in the heart of the campus in Rudder Tower; and to alumnus Jon Hagler ’58, whose significant endowment helped ensure the existence of the Institute for the life of Texas A&M University. I want to also thank Vice President for Research, Jack Baldauf, and numerous A&M faculty and alumni who provide support for this Institute. The faculty who have nominated Fellows and have served on our Faculty Advisory Board have done so as volunteers. I thank Professor Ed Fry for providing significant data on nominees that have assisted the Faculty Advisory Board in their evaluations throughout the first decade. Many former leaders and administrators of Texas A&M University have helped make this Institute a success, and our prestigious External Advisory Board, Chaired by Norm Augustine, has offered invaluable guidance.
Unsung heroes, Susan Wolff and her Research Communications staff, have expertly fostered the public vision of our endeavors through preparations of our annual reports, Cornerstone, and irreplaceable assistance with our induction galas. Anyone who has dealt with the Hagler Institute knows that I have a devoted and capable staff in Associate Director Clifford Fry and Assistant Director Amanda Scott. While the staff is small, its attention to detail and remarkable impact is not. We have recently added to our staff on a part-time basis, Ms. Kay Choate, a highly competent and experienced individual as an Event Assistant, who will hereafter play a key role in event planning.
As the institute starts a new decade of operation, I give thanks to my great team and to all of you. While we can pause to reflect on our significant success and overall progress, I remind everyone, we are just getting warmed up. I challenge us all to push forward with the aim of further accelerating the elevation of this university we all love so much.
Carpe Diem!
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GUY BERTRAND
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and
Biochemistry
University of California San Diego
Director, UCSD/CNRS Joint Research Chemistry
Laboratory
Guy Bertrand, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, and director, UCSD/CNRS Joint Research Chemistry Laboratory. He is known for the discovery of stable carbenes—divalent carbon species. Bertrand is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the French Academy of Sciences, the European Academy of Sciences, the Academia Europea and the French Academy of Technology. Bertrand has received the Senior Humboldt Research Award Reinvitation, the Grand Prix Le Bel of the French Chemical Society, the Sir Roland Nyholm Lectureship and Medal of the RSC, the Japanese Society for Promotion of Science Award, the Médalle d’Argenet du CNRS, the French-German Senior Humboldt Award and the International Council on Main Group Chemistry Award. In addition, he is an elected “Member Correspondant” of the French Academy of Sciences.
Bertrand will collaborate with faculty/researchers and students in the College of Arts & Sciences.
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HUI CAO
John C. Malone Professor of Applied Physics
Professor of Physics and Professor of
Electrical Engineering
Yale University
Hui Cao is the John C. Malone Professor of Applied Physics, professor of physics and professor of electrical engineering at Yale University. She is a member of both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Cao is recognized for her pioneering works in fundamental physics and practical applications of complex, chaotic and disordered systems. She won the American Physical Society Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, and shared the Willis E. Lamb Medal for Laser Physics and Quantum Optics. Hui Cao’s research interests and activities are in the areas of mesoscopic physics, complex photonic materials and devices, nanophotonics, and biophotonics.
Cao will collaborate with researchers in the Institute of Quantum Science and Engineering.
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JOHN MICHAEL CULLEN
Distinguished Professor
Associate, Toxicology Faculty
Adjunct Senior Researcher
Hammer Institute, College of Veterinary Medicine
North Carolina State University
John Michael Cullen, distinguished professor, associate in the toxicology faculty and adjunct senior researcher in the Hammer Institute at North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine, specializes in veterinary pathology and toxicologic pathology of the liver. His research focuses on drug-induced hepatic disease and animal models of viral hepatitis. He is a fellow in the International Academy of Toxicologic Pathologists and a diplomate and distinguished member of the American College of Veterinary Pathology. Cullen received the BSTP Gopinath Lecture Award from the British Society of Toxicological Pathology and the R. Ferrell Distinguished Lecturer Award from the CL Davis Association.
Cullen will collaborate with faculty/researchers and residents in the School of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences and the Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory.
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ODILE EISENSTEIN
Director de Recherche CNRS Emeritus, Institut
Charles Gerhardt Montpellier
CTMM group Universite de Montpellier
Hylleraas Center for Quantum Molecular Science
University of Oslo, Norway
Odile Eisenstein, director de Recherche CNRS Emeritus at the Institut Charles Gerhardt Montpellier, CTMM group Universite de Montpellier and Hylleraas Center for Quantum Molecular Science, University of Oslo, is known best for computational studies of structure, bounding and reactivity in inorganic and organometallic chemistry and their application to problems in catalysis and bioinorganic and materials chemistry. She is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and received the Centenary Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Award in Organometallic Chemistry from the American Chemical Society, the Sir Edward Frankland Medal and Lectureship from the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Grand Prix Le Bel from the French Chemical Society. In addition, Eisenstein received the Silver Medal from the French National Scientific Research Center—one of the highest CNRS awards.
Eisenstein will collaborate with faculty, researchers and students in the College of Arts & Sciences, the Laboratory of Molecular Simulation, High Performance Research Computing, and Advanced Computing Enablement.
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DIMITAR FILEV
Henry Ford Technical Fellow
Ford Research and Innovation Center
Dimitar Filev, Henry Ford Technical Fellow, Ford Research and Innovation Center, is known for his research in computational intelligence, AI and intelligent control and their applications to autonomous driving, vehicle systems and automotive engineering. His research has had significant impact in automotive research and practice in the fields of intelligent information and control systems. Filev is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and received the Norbert Wiener Award from IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society; the Outstanding Industrial Applications Award, International Fuzzy Systems Association; and the Pioneers’ Award, IEEE computation intelligence Society.
Filev will collaborate with faculty, researchers and students in the College of Engineering and across the university.
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HOWARD FRUMKIN
Senior Vice President, the Trust for Public Land
Professor Emeritus of Environmental and
Occupational Sciences
School of Public Health
University of Washington
Howard Frumkin, senior vice president, the Trust for Public Land and professor emeritus of Environmental and Occupational Sciences at the University of Washington School of Public Health, is a leading researcher in planetary health, health and nature and environmental health. Frumkin is an internist, environmental and occupational medicine specialist and epidemiologist. His research interests include public health aspects of the built environment, climate change, energy policy and nature contact. He has served on the boards of the Bulitt Foundation, the Seattle Parks Foundation, the Washington Global Health Alliance, the American Public Health Association, the US Green Building Council, the Children and Nature Network and Physicians for Social Responsibility. Frumkin is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and is a fellow in the American College of Physicians, the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and the Collegium Ramazzini.
Frumkin will collaborate with faculty, researchers and students in the School of Public Health.
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SEBASTIAN (BAS) JONKMAN
Professor and Holder of the Integral Hydraulic
Engineering Chair
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Sebastian (Bas) Jonkman, professor and holder of the Integral Hydraulic Engineering Chair at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, is a world expert on hydraulic structures and flood risk. He led Dutch efforts on the feasibility design of the Texas A&M University coordinated work on the coastal spine (Ike Dike) project forecast to be the largest US Corps of Engineers project. Jonkman is a member of the Dutch Royal Society of Engineering. He was nominated as a Top 10 Engineer of the Year by the Royal Dutch Society of Engineering and received Best Paper Award from both the Journal of Flood Risk Management and the Society of Risk Analysis. Jonkman is an advisor for Rijkswaterstaat (Dutch government), a member of the Dutch Expertise Network on Flood Protection (ENW) and is the chairman of the Civil Engineering department of the Dutch Association of Engineers (KIVI).
Jonkman will collaborate with faculty, researchers and students at Texas A&M University at Galveston and the Institute for a Disaster Resilient Texas.
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MARK O’MALLEY
Leverhulme Professor
Power Systems
Imperial College London
Mark O’Malley, Leverhulme Professor of Power Systems at Imperial College London, is a globally recognized expert on wind energy systems integration into smart grids. He is founding director of the Electricity Research Centre—a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional industry supported research activity. He is an international member of the National Academy of Engineering, a member of the Royal Irish Academy and the European Academies Science Advisory Council Energy Steering Panel. O’Malley is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the Institution of Engineering Technology and the Institution of Engineers of Ireland.
O’Malley will collaborate with faculty, researchers and students in the College of Engineering.
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LAWRENCE QUE JR.
Regents Professor
University of Minnesota
Lawrence Que Jr. is a Regents Professor at the University of Minnesota. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow in the American Chemical Society. Que has received the American Chemical Society’s Alfred Bader Award in Bioorganic or Bioinorganic Chemistry, the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms Award, the International Award from the Japan Society for Coordination Chemistry and the American Chemical Society’s Award in Inorganic Chemistry. In addition, he received the National Institutes of Health MERIT Award. Que is known for his work in understanding how non-heme iron centers activate oxygen to carry out a diverse array of metabolically important reactions.
Que will collaborate with faculty and students in the College of Arts & Sciences and the Department of Biochemistry/Biophysics in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
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JEAN-PAUL RODRIGUE
Professor
Department of Global Studies and Geography
Hofstra University
Jean-Paul Rodrigue, professor, Department of Global Studies and Geography, Hofstra University, is a leading transportation geographer covering mobility, freight distribution, containerization, logistics and transport terminals (particularly ports). He is a board member of the University Transportation Research Center, Region II, City University of New York and is a lead member of the PortEconomics.eu initiative as well as of the International Association of Maritime Economics. In addition he is the New York team leader for the MetroFreight project about city logistics. Rodrigue received the Edward L. Ullman Award for outstanding contribution to the field of transport geography by the American Association of Geographers.
Rodrigue will collaborate with faculty, researchers and students at Texas A&M University at Galveston and the College of Engineering.
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DONALD L. SPARKS
S. Hallock du Pont Chair
Francis Alison Professor
University of Delaware
Donald L. Sparks holds the S. Hallock du Pont Chair in Soil and Environmental Chemistry at the University of Delaware and is a Francis Alison Professor. His research has been cross-disciplinary, contributing not only to the field of soil science, but also to geochemistry, environmental chemistry and environmental engineering. Sparks is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Soil Science Society of America, American Society of Agronomy, Geochemical Society of America and the European Association of Geochemistry. He received the Geochemistry Medal, American Chemical Society; the Liebig Medal, International Union of Soil Sciences; the Einstein Professor from the Chinese Academy of Sciences; the Sterling B. Hendricks Memorial Lecturer and Medal, USDA/ARS; the Environmental Quality Research Award, American Society of Agronomy; and the Pioneer in Clay Science Award, Clay Minerals Society.
Sparks will collaborate with researchers and students in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
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MADHAVI SUNDER
Frank Sherry Professor of Intellectual
Property
Associate Dean for International and
Graduate Programs
Georgetown Law Center
Madhavi Sunder, Frank Sherry Professor of Intellectual Property and associate dean for International and Graduate Programs, Georgetown Law Center, is an internationally recognized scholar in copyright, technology and trademark law. Her groundbreaking work built the foundation for understanding intellectual property’s social effects and its role in crafting cultural relations. Sunder, according to the Stanford Law Review, has been recognized as author of one of the 20 Top Most Cited IP Articles of the Decade and also Most Cited International IP Article of the Decade. The California-Berkeley Law Review named her the co-author of the Top 20 Most Cited IP Article of the Decade in 2014. She received a Mellon Foundation grant to study academic branding and was named Carnegie Corporation Scholar and one of the Top 4 Young IP Scholars, Lawrence
Lessig, Harvard Law School.
Sunder will collaborate with the School of Law.
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MICHAEL YOUNG
Richard and Jeanne Fisher Professor
Head of the Laboratory of Genetics
Vice President for Academic Affairs
The Rockefeller University
Michael Young, Richard and Jeanne Fisher Professor and head of the Laboratory of Genetics at The Rockefeller University, is also the university’s vice president for academic affairs. Young is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society and an honorary member of the Physiological Society of London. Along with colleagues Jeffrey Hall and Michael Rosbash, Young received the 2009 Gruber Neuroscience Prize, 2011 Horwitz Prize, 2012 Canada Gairdner International Award, 2012 Massry Prize, 2013 Shaw Prize, 2013 Wiley Prize and 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries of molecular mechanisms that control circadian rhythms.
Young will collaborate with researchers in the College of Arts & Sciences as well as other disciplines across the university.
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DAVID ZILBERMAN
Professor and Holder, Robinson Chair
Department of Agricultural and Resource
Economics
University of California, Berkeley
David Zilberman, professor and holder of the Robinson Chair in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, is best known for agricultural and environmental policy; the economics of innovation and risk; and water, biotechnology and climate change. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the European Academy of Sciences and Art. Zilberman is a fellow in both the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) and the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. Zilberman has received the Wolf Prize in Agriculture, Wolf Foundation; the AAEA’s Quality of Research Discover Award; the AAEA’s Publication of Enduring Quality Award; and the International Cannes Prize for Water and the Economy, UNESCO.
Zilberman will collaborate with faculty, researchers and students in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, as well as across campus.
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2022-23 Distinguished Lecturer |
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CATHERINE DULAC
Higgins Professor of Molecular and Cellular
Biology
Lee and Ezpeleta Professor of Arts and Sciences
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Harvard University
Catherine Dulac is Higgins Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Lee and Ezpeleta Professor of Arts and Sciences, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University. Dulac’s work explores the molecular biology of pheromone detection and signaling in mammals, the neural mechanisms underlying age-, species-, and sex-specific behaviors, and the role of genomic imprinting in the developing and adult brain. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is a member of the French Academy of Sciences, Institute of France and a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur.
Dulac will collaborate with faculty, researchers and students in the College of Arts & Sciences, the schools of medicine and veterinary medicine & biomedical sciences.
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Dr. Clifford L. Fry, Associate Director
Hagler Institute for Advanced Study
at Texas A&M University
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