A&S Seymour Simches Award for Distinguished Teaching and Advising
Pearl Robinson, Political Science   

Donald R. Woods Lectureship Award for Lifetime Achievement in Chemical Engineering
Milo Koretsky, appointed this spring as the first McDonnell Family Bridge Professor, has been honored with the Donald R. Woods Lectureship Award for Lifetime Achievement in Chemical Engineering Pedagogy from the American Society for Engineering Education. The award recognizes “outstanding achievement through improvements of lasting influence to chemical engineering education.” Koretsky, who came to Tufts from Oregon State University, is a bridge between the School of Engineering and School of Arts and Sciences, and will teach in both the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and the Department of Education. He will work closely with the university’s Institute for Research on Learning and Instruction, launched in 2018 through a gift from the James S. McDonnell Family Foundation.

Faculty Research Awards Committee Distinguished Scholar Award
Elizabeth Foster, History     

Faculty/Staff DEIJ Service Award
Ryan Rideau, Center for Education, Learning, and Teaching
Ayanna Thomas, Psychology       

Gerald R. Gill Distinguished Service Award
Kris Manjapra, History and Studies in Race, Colonialism and Diaspora

Harvard Medal for Extraordinary Service (2020)
Leila T. Fawaz, Issam M. Fares Professor of Lebanese and Eastern Mediterranean Studies at Tufts, was one of three recipients of the 2020 Harvard Medal in recognition for her extraordinary service to Harvard University. The award ceremony, postponed from last year, will take place on June 4 as part of the Harvard Commencement Ceremonies this year. First awarded by the Harvard Alumni Association in 1981, the Harvard Medal recognizes extraordinary service to the university in a variety of areas, such as teaching, fundraising, leadership, and innovation.

Henry and Madeline Fischer Award
Ron Lasser, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Matthew Panzer, Chemical and Biological Engineering

LEF Fellow
Khary Saeed Jones, professor of the practice in the Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, has been named a LEF Fellow by the Harvard Film Study Center at the same time his work-in-progress, “Night Fight,” won a grant from LEF’s Moving Image Fund. “Night Fight” explores the interior life of a Black man living amid COVID-19, the racial reckoning catalyzed by the murder of George Floyd, and the countdown to the 2020 presidential election. Read more about Jones here.

Lerman-Neubauer Prize
Christopher Manos, Economics

Lillian and Joseph Leibner Award
Alisha Rankin, History   

Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award
Alecia McGregor, Community Health