Goharian and Lederman honored with 2009 Julia Beveridge Awards
The Julia Beveridge Award is named after the first registrar of Armour Institute, which later became IIT. Julia Beveridge was widely recognized for her contributions to the institution and for her strong leadership and determination. The annual presentation of this award recognizes the importance of such commitment to the university and it evokes the memory of all that Beveridge exemplified as a teacher, administrator and human being.
Winners were honored at the Julia Beveridge Awards ceremony at 3 pm on Tuesday, March 24 in the MTCC Ballroom. The Julia Beveridge Committee and Women's Services presented two of five 2009 Julia Beveridge Awards to CSL recipients:
Nazli Goharian (Faculty Award)
Nazli Goharian is currently a clinical associate professor of computer science at IIT. Her research spans the domains of information retrieval, text classification and information security, and she has published more than 40 publications in these areas. Prior to joining IIT, Goharian was the project manager for data warehouse conferencing at MCI Worldcom. A member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and IEEE, she is active in multiple conference program committees for both organizations. Goharian received IIT's College of Science and Letters Dean's Excellence Award in Teaching in 2005 and the computer science department's Teacher of the Year Award in 2002, 2003 and 2007.
Judith Sweeney Lederman (Student's Choice Award)
Judith Sweeney Lederman is currently the director of Teacher Education in the Department of Mathematics and Science Education at IIT. Prior to her appointment at IIT, she was a science teacher educator at Oregon State University, the University of Rhode Island and Providence College. For 20 years, Lederman taught secondary level physics and biology, as well as bilingual elementary science. She has offered more than 600 national and international presentations and publications on the teaching and learning of Scientific Inquiry and Nature of Science in both formal and informal settings, and is the co-author of an elementary science teaching methods text. A past president of the Council for Elementary Science International (CESI), Lederman has also served as chair of the Association of Science Teacher Educators (ASTE) Committee on Informal Science Education and was member of the equity committee for the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST). She has been honored with the Rhode Island State Teacher of the Year Award, the Milken Foundation National Educators Award, the State Presidential Award, the Christa McAuliffe Fellowship and the Toyota TAPESTRY Award, among others.
IIT alumna and Acting Director of the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Barbara A. Bowman delivered the keynote speech for the ceremony.
Visit IIT Today to view other recipients of the 2009 Julia Beveridge Award.
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