Awards
Dr. Alan Sugar, associate chair and professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Medical School, has received the Paton Society Award from the Eye Bank Association of America. The award is the organization’s highest honor for corneal physicians, and is presented annually to an ophthalmologist in recognition of outstanding contributions to the Eye Bank’s development and for exemplifying the precepts of Dr. R. Townley Paton, the father of modern eye banking. Sugar currently is the principal investigator of the Corneal Donor Study, a national multi-center prospective study funded by the National Eye Institute.
Hannah Rosen, assistant research scientist and director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender’s program area in Gender, Race and History, has received three awards for her book “Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South” (University of North Carolina, 2009). They are the First Book Prize by The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, the 2010 Avery O. Craven Award from the Organization of American Historians and the 2010 Willie Lee Rose Prize from the Southern Association of Women’s Historians.
