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Internal Awards Review Committee

IARC 2022-2024

Science & Medicine

Terrah Akard, Ph.D., R.N., C.P.N.P., F.A.A.N.

Associate Professor of Nursing and Medicine; Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Graduate School

Sarah Brown-Schmidt, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology and Human Development

Wenbiao Chen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics

Larisa DeSantis, Ph.D., M.E.M.
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences; Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Martin Egli, Ph.D.

Professor of Biochemistry

Shane Hutson, Ph.D., M.S.
Professor of Physics and Biological Sciences; Chair, Physics and Astronomy

Ethan Lee, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology; Professor of Pharmacology

Shelagh Mulvaney, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Nursing; Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics

Robert Scherrer, Ph.D., M.A.

Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Ben Spiller, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Pharmacology; Associate Professor of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology

Engineering

Douglas Adams, Ph.D., M.S.
Daniel F. Flowers Professor; Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Associate Provost; Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Robert Bodenheimer, Ph.D., M.S.
Professor of Computer Science; Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering; Director, Scientific Computing Minor Program

Hiba Baroud, Ph.D.

Littlejohn Dean’s Faculty Fellow ;Associate Chair, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Associate Professor of Computer Science; Director of Graduate Recruiting for Civil Engineering

Audrey Bowden, Ph.D.

Dorothy J. Wingfield Phillips Chancellor’s Faculty Fellow ;Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering

Benoit Dawant, Ph.D., M.S.

Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering; Professor of Electrical Engineering;Professor of Computer Science; Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences; Professor of Neurological Surgery; Professor or Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery; Director, Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE)

E. Duco Jansen, Ph.D., M.S.

Senior Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Faculty Affairs ;Professor of Biomedical Engineering ;Professor of Neurological Surgery

Shihong Lin, Ph.D., M.S.

Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Director of Graduate Recruiting for Environmental Engineering

Jason Valentine, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering; Deputy Director, Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE)

Robert Webster, Ph.D., M.S.
Richard A. Schroeder Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Professor of Electrical Engineering; Professor of Otolaryngology; Professor of Neurological Surgery; Professor of Urologic Surgery; Professor of Medicine

Sharon Weiss, Ph.D., M.S.
Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering; Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Materials Science & Engineering; Professor of Physics; Director of Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering

Social Sciences

Brent Evans, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Public Policy and Higher Education, Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations; Program Director, Higher Education Administration

Beth Shinn, Ph.D.

Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair, Department of Human and Organizational Development; Professor, Department of Human and Organizational Development

Larry Isaac, Ph.D.

Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Sociology & Political Economy; Professor of American Studies

Noam Lupu, Ph.D., M.A.

Associate Professor of Political Science; Associate Director, Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP)

Evelyn Patterson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Sociology; Associate Professor of Law; Affiliated Faculty, Centers for Medicine, Health and Society for the Study of Democratic Institutions; Health Policy Associate, Center for Health Policy at Meharry Medical College

Kamal Saggi, Ph.D.

Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs; Frances & John Downing Family Chair; Professor of Economics

Arts & Humanities

Joy Calico, Ph.D., M.M.

Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Musicology

David Michelson, Ph.D., M.A.

Associate Professor of the History of Christianity; Associate Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Studies, History, and Islamic Studies

Vesna Pavlocić, M.F.A.

 

Associate Professor of Art at Vanderbilt University

Doug Shadle, Ph.D., M.A.

Associate Professor of Musicology

Helmut Smith, Ph.D.

Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of History; Professor of German Studies

Holly Tucker, Ph.D., M.A.

Mellon Foundation Chair of the Humanities; Professor of French; Director of the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities

Kim Welch, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of History; Associate Professor of Law

Previous Review Committees

Douglas Adams

Daniel F. Flowers Professor; Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Associate Provost; Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Robert Bodenheimer
Professor of Computer Science; Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering; Director, Scientific Computing Minor Program

Amy Booth
Professor of Psychology and Human Development

Peter Cummings

Associate Dean for Research; John R. Hall Professor of Chemical Engineering; Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Larisa DeSantis

Associate Professor of Biological Sciences; Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Ellen Goldring

Executive Associate Dean; Patricia and Rodes Hart Chair, Professor of Education and Leadership

Shane Hutson

Professor of Physics and Biological Sciences; Chair, Physics and Astronomy

Noam Lupu

Associate Professor of Political Science; Associate Director of the Latin American Public Opinion Project

Velma McBride Murry

University Professor of Peabody College, Department of Human and Organizational Development; University Professor of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Department of Health Policy

Charles Sanders

Associate Dean for Research; Professor of Biochemistry & Medicine; Aileen M. & Annie Mary Lyle Chair, Cardiovascular Research

Christopher Vanags

Director of Research Initiatives, Peabody College; Research Assistant Professor, Earth and Atmospherical Sciences

Robert Webster

Richard A. Schroeder Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Professor of Electrical Engineering; Professor of Otolaryngology; Professor of Neurological Surgery; Professor of Urologic Surgery; Professor of Medicine

Sharon Weiss

Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering; Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Materials Science & Engineering; Professor of Physics; Director of Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering

Richard Willis

Senior Associate Dean for the Faculty; Anne Marie and Thomas B. Walker, Jr., Professor of Accounting

Terrah Foster Akard
Associate Professor of Nursing and Medicine, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Graduate School

Joshua Caldwell

Flowers Family Chancellor's Faculty Fellow in Engineering, Associate Professor of Medical Engineering, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Materials Science

Joy Calico

Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Musicology

Wenbiao Chen

Associate Professor of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics

Brent Evans

Associate Professor of Leadership, Policy, & Organizations

Cindy Kam

Professor; William R. Kenan, Jr. Chair; Director of Research on Individuals, Politics & Society Lab; Professor of Psychology (by courtesy); Professor of Medicine, Health & Society (by courtesy)

Bennett Landman

Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Professor of Computer Science; Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences; Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; Professor of Biomedical Informatics; Professor of Neurology; Chancellor Faculty Fellow

Shelagh Mulvaney

Associate Professor, School of Nursing and Department of Biomedical Informatics

Ann Richmond

Professor of Pharmacology, Ingram Professor of Cancer Research

Kamal Saggi

Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs, Frances and John Downing Family Chair, Professor of Economics

Robert Scherrer 

Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Jason Valentine

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering; Deputy Director, Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE)

Richard H. Willis

Senior Associate Dean for the Faculty; Anne Marie and Thomas B. Walker, Jr.; Professor of Accounting