January 6, 2005

Honors

Mark S. Daskin, professor of industrial engineering and management sciences, has been elected president of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences for 2006. He will serve as president-elect in 2005 and past president in 2007.

Daskin’s research interests are in the application and development of operations research techniques for the analysis of transportation, logistics and manufacturing problems. In addition to numerous journal articles, he is author of a textbook “Network and Discrete Location: Models, Algorithms, and Applications.”

Martin Eichenbaum, professor of economics and former chair of the department of economics, has been named the Ethel and John Lindgren Professor.

Eichenbaum’s interest in aggregate economic fluctuations is reflected in his work on the impact of monetary and fiscal policy on business cycles, the impact of technology shocks on economic activity, and the causes and  onsequences of currency crises.

Jonathon Glassman, associate professor of history, has been named the Wayne V. Jones Research Professor in History.

A specialist on 19th and 20th century East Africa and comparative race and slavery issues, Glassman is author of “Feasts and Riot: Revelry, Rebellion and Popular Consciousness on the Swahili Coast, 1856-1888” which was awarded the Melville J. Herskovits Prize of the African Studies Association in 1996.

Laura Hein, professor of history, has been named the Gerald F. and Marjorie G. Fitzgerald Junior Professor of Economic History.

A specialist in the history of Japan and its international relations in the 20th century, Hein recently completed “Reasonable Men, Powerful Words: Political Culture and Expertise in Twentieth Century Japan.”

James T. Lindgren, professor of law, has been named the Benjamin Mazur Research Professor for the 2004-05 academic year.

Lindgren has been called one of the leading scholars in the New Legal Empiricists movement. Most of his current projects examine the roles that viewpoint diversity plays in American society. An influential scholar in the area of blackmail and extortion, he has also published in legal history, legal education, criminal law and trusts and estates.

Lawrence Lokken, Hugh Culverhouse Eminent Scholar in Taxation at the University of Florida College of Law, has been named the Visiting Harry J. Horrow Professor in Internation-al Law. He is serving a one-year term through Aug. 31.

Lokken has served as a consultant to a United Nations ad hoc group of experts on international tax matters and as a research consultant in the International Tax Program at Harvard University.

Andreas Matouschek, associate professor of biochemistry, molecular biology and cell biology and director of the Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Graduate Program, has been named the Soretta and Henry Shapiro Research Professor in Molecular Biology.

Matouschek is director of the Cancer Cell Biology Program at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University. With a focus on the mechanism of protein unfolding by intracellular molecular machines, his research suggests novel mechanisms through which the cell regulates protein localization and activity.

Kelly E. Mayo, professor and chair of biochemistry, molecular biology and cell biology and professor of neurobiology and physiology, has been named the William Deering Professor in Biological Sciences. He also is director of the Northwestern University Center for Reproductive Science.

Mayo’s research is focused on cellular signaling and gene regulation in the neuroendocrine system.

Dwight A. McBride, associate professor and chair of African American Studies and associate professor of English, has been named the Leon Forrest Professor.

Widely published in the areas of race theory and black cultural studies, McBride is recognized for his research on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues, as well as 18th and 19th century African American literature and culture. His most recent book is “Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch: Essays on Race and Sexuality.”