Awards
Hannah Rosen, assistant research scientist, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, recently was selected by the Organization of American Historians to receive the 2010 Avery O. Craven Award, given annually for the most original book on the coming of the Civil War, the Civil War years, or the era of Reconstruction, with the exception of works of purely military history. Her book is “Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South.”
Dr. Ivan Maillard, research assistant professor of life sciences, Life Sciences Institute, assistant professor of internal medicine and assistant professor of cell and developmental biology, Medical School, is one of 15 scientists recently named to receive two-year, $200,000 grants from the Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research. The awards were created in 1997 to advance the careers of gifted young scientists involved in cancer research. Maillard, a member of the Center for Stem Cell Biology at LSI, performs research that seeks to provide insight into diseases such as leukemia and other cancers.
Eric Rabkin, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and professor of English language and literature, has been presented the Pilgrim Award for lifetime contributions to science fiction and fiction studies by the Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA). The SFRA promotes scholarship, teaching and professional discourse through awards, publication and its annual conference.
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James Wight, the F.E. Richart Jr. Collegiate Professor of Civil Engineering, has begun serving a two-year term as American Concrete Institute vice president. Later he will serve one year as president and a final year as past-president. Wight is known for his work in earthquake-resistant design of concrete structures.
