Awards and Honors
2016
June 2016 Will serve as The General Chair of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) as the first time woman to hold this position for the General Chair of the IFAC Symposium on Advances in Control Education (ACE2016)
May 2016 Invited Keynote Speaker at 3 International Workshops in Taiwan, Hungary and Czech Republic
January 2016 Elected Member of AWM G. Humpreys Award Committee
January 2016 Elected Member of MAA Haimo Distinguished Teaching Committee
January 2016 Elected Member of the Board of Governors of IEEE SSIT
2015
October 2015 Elected to Receive the Chancellor's Club Teaching Professorship from the University of Kansas
May 2015 Interview for IEEE Women in Engineering Magazine
March 2015 Elected by the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) Board of Governors to represent the CSS on the IEEE Technical Activities Board Ad Hoc Committee on Technical Support for Humanitarian Activities
January 2015 Elected by the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) Board of Governors to represent the Society on the IEEE-USA Career & Workforce Policy Committee as External Member
January 2015 Reelected by the IEEE CSS Board of Governors Liaison Representative to the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT)
January 2015 Reelected by IEEE Membership Committee Member of the 9 voting member IEEE Women in Engineering Committee
2014
May 2014 Elected to 3-year term as Member of the KU Faculty Senate and University Senate
April 2014 Featured in Lawrence Journal World article on research and teaching.
March 2014 Elected by the SIAM Council the Chair of the SIAM Conference on Control Theory & Its Applications to be held in Paris, France, July 8-10, 2015
February 2014 Appointed by KU Provost Courtesy Professor of Aerospace Department
January 2014 Elected Member of the IEEE Women in Engineering Committee (WIEC).
January 2014 Elected Program Director of the SIAM Activity Group on Control and Systems Theory (SIAG/CST)
January 2014 Elected by the General Council of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) as Member of the Technical Board with 39 Technical Committees
2013
December 2013 Served as IEEE WIE Delegate to the UNESCO/IGU Workshop on Women in Engineering in Africa and the Arab States
July 2013 Elected a Fellow of IFAC for "important contributions to stochastic adaptive control, inspiring vision of control as a field that spans science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and for her commitment to control education"
March 2013 Elected Member of the IEEE - USA Communications Committee
March 2013 Appointed Member of the Society of Social Implication of Technology (SSIT) Board of Governors Google Group
February 2013 Invited Speaker at the Public Library in Independence, Kansas
January 2013 Invited Panelist at IEEE Women in Engineering/Google Joint Conference "Enhancing the Sustainability of Women in Technology," Google, Mountain View, CA
January 2013 Member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Society of Social Implication of Technology (SSIT)
January 2013 Elected IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) Liaison to IEEE Society of Social Implication of Technology (SSIT)
2012
October 2012 Elected Chair of the Education Liaison Initiative
June 2012 Invited Panelist on the Panel Session at the IFAC International Symposium on Advances in Education, Nizhny, Russia
March 2012 Outstanding Education Service Award “in recognition of your exemplary dedication and outstanding service in education," The Intercultural & Interfaith Dialog Student Association
March 2012 Elected to the KU Women’s Hall of Fame Selection Committee
January 2012 Invited Mentor for two women participating in the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) Workshop at the American Mathematical Society (AMS) Meeting, Boston, MA
2011
December 2011 Reelected for the 4th term as IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) Liaison to the IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Committee
December 2011 Reelected for the 10th term to the Technical Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) as the Chair of the Technical Committee on Control Education
October 2011 Keynote Speaker at the Orientation for International Students at KU
September 2011 Plenary Speaker at the Conference on Applications of Mathematics, Zakopane, Poland
September 2011 Plenary Speaker at the 6th Ph.D. and Young Scientists Conference “Young Scientists Towards the Challenges of Modern Technology," Warsaw, Poland
August 2011 Reelected for the second term to the Technical Board (of 40 technical committees) of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) with 52 national organization members, as the Chair of the Technical Committee on Control Education (the only chair representing U.S.A among 40 chairs) by the IFAC Council at its meeting at the 2011 IFAC Congress in Milan, Italy.
August 2011 Reelected for the second term to the IFAC Awards Committee as the chair of the Harold Chestnut Control Engineering Textbook Prize Selection Committee (the only reelected member on the Awards Committee).
August 2011 The Organizer and Moderator of the Panel Session on “Preparing Tomorrow’s Scientists and Engineers for the Challenges of the 21st Century” with 15 panelists representing 50 countries/members of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) at the 2011 IFAC World Congress in Milan, Italy
August 2011 Lawrence Journal World article: “Watershed moments shaped Professor Bozenna Pasik-Duncan’s love for teaching, mathematics"
July 2011 Elected Member of the Organizing Committee of the SIAM Conference on Control Theory and Its Applications, Baltimore, MD
June 2011 Elected Member of the SIAM Group on Control Election Committee
May 2011 Steeples Service to Kansas Award, recognized at the 2011 Graduation Ceremony. The Award recognizes “outstanding service by KU faculty to other Kansans”
May 2011 Invited Panelist on the Panel Session “Future Directions in Systems Theory and Control”, International Workshop in Honor of 60th Birthday of Edwardo Sontag, Rutgers University, NJ
2010
2010-2011 Member of the Editorial Board for the 2011 IFAC World Congress
September 2010 Plenary Speaker at the Conference on Applications of Mathematics, Zakopane, Poland
2010 Past President of President of KU’s Alpha Pi Chapter of Phi Beta Delta; the honor society for international education and scholarship
2010 Elected Member of the KU Faculty Senate
September 2009 Plenary Speaker with Inauguration Talk: “The Beauty of a Field that Spans Science and Engineering” at the Ph.D. and Young Scientists Conference “Young Scientists Towards the Challenges of Modern Technology”, Warsaw, Poland
November 2009-2011 Elected IEEE Control Systems Society Board of Governors as Liaison to the IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Committee
2009
July 2009 Editor-in-Chief of IFAC Control Resources Publications, elected by the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Council
2009-2011 Member of the IFAC Awards Board
Spring 2009 Inducted to The KU Women’s Hall of Fame
2008
Fall 2008 Sabbatical leave, visiting several research institutions
2008-2009 President of KU’s Alpha Pi Chapter of Phi of Phi Beta Delta; the honor society for international education and scholarship
2008 Chair for the 2008-2011 Triennium International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Harold Chestnut Control Engineering Textbook Prize Award Committee
2008 Member of the IFAC Awards Committee
2008 Chair, the IFAC Technical Committee on Control Education for the 2008-2011 Triennium
2008 Member of the IFAC Technical Board for the 2008-2011 Triennium
2006 - 2000
2006 Delegate elected by the Board of Governors of the Control Systems Society to represent the Society in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) Women in Engineering Committee (WIEC) at the Semiannual Meeting of the Committee in April in Los Angeles.
2008-2009 Fourth term elected Chair of the Technical Committee on Control Education of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS)
2008 Elected to the KU Faculty Senate
2007-2008 Third term co-Chair of the International Federation of Automatic Control Committee on Control Education appointed by the Board of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)
2007-2008 Second term Elected Member at Large of the Board of Friends for the Lied Center
2007-2008 Second term Member of the IEEE Women in Engineering Committee as the elected IEEE Control Systems Society Liaison
2007-2008 Fourth term elected Chair of the American Automatic Control Council (AACC) Technical Committee on Control Education
2007 Second nomination by the president of CSS for J. R. Ragazzini Award
2006-2009 Elected member of the KU University Distinguished Professors Committee
2006-2009 Elected member of the KU Faculty Senate Research Committee
2006 Appointed Member of the IEEE Women in Engineering Committee as the Elected
IEEE Control Systems Society Liaison
2005 Nominated for Chancellor's Teaching Award
2004, 2000 Nominated twice for Higuchi/Endowment Research Achievement Awards
2004 14th Louise Hay Award (pdf), the Association for Women in Mathematics
2003 Selected by the Dean to represent the KU at the First Forum of the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning on Preparing the Future Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Faculty , November 2003, Madison, Wisconsin
2003 Elected Member of the Board for Friends of the Lied Center in Lawrence
2003 Outstanding Educator 2003, Torch Chapter, Mortar Board National Honor Society
2002 Frank B. Morrison Teaching Award for distinguished teaching and the profound impact made in students' lives, University of Kansas
2002 HOPE or Honor for an Outstanding Progressive Educator Award, the first time mathematics professor had received the award
2002 Phi Beta Delta, Honor Society for International Scholars
2001 Elected a Fellow of IEEE for outstanding contributions to Identification and Stochastic Adaptive Control
2000 Leader of Control Systems Delegation to China, sponsored by the People to People Ambassador Programs
2000 IEEE Control Systems Society Distinguished Member Award
2000 IEEE Third Millennium Medal for outstanding achievements and contributions
2000 Inclusion in the fourth edition on Who's Who Among America's Teachers, 2000
1999 - earlier
1996 Inclusion in the fourth edition on Who's Who Among America's Teachers, 1996
1996 W. T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence and Advising in Public Outreach
1996 Senior Member of the IEEE Control Society
1999 G. Baley Price Award for Excellence in Teaching, Mathematics Graduate Students Association, University of Kansas
1991-1993 Career Advancement Award from NSF
1982 International Research Exchange Fellowship to U.S.A.
1980 (fall) On leave - Semester on Optimal Control, Banach International Center of Mathematics, Warsaw
1980 Award for research excellence from the Polish Central Planning Committee
1977-1978 Teaching Award and salary supplement from the Warsaw School of Economics
1978 Chancellor Award for outstanding Ph. D. dissertation from the Warsaw School of Economics
1976 Chancellor Research Award from the Warsaw School of Economics
1973-1980 Grant from the Polish Central Planning Committee
1975 National Teaching Award from the Ministry of Higher Education and Sciences - the highest National Teaching Award for Teaching and Research Excellence