Awards Peretz Friedmann, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Aerospace Engineering, has been selected to present the 2009 Dryden Lectureship in Research for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. The lectureship emphasizes the importance of basic research to advancement in aeronautics and astronautics. Patricia Wittkopp, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and assistant professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology, LSA, has received a 2008 Sloan Research Fellowship. Grants of $50,000 for a two-year period are administered by each fellow’s institution to enhance careers in selected fields of science. Jane Blumenthal, director of Health Sciences Libraries for the University Library, has been elected to the board of directors of the Medical Library Association (MLA) for a three-year term beginning in May. MLA is a nonprofit, educational organization founded in 1898 with more than 4,500 health sciences information professional members worldwide. Daniel E. Atkins, a professor in the School of Information and in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and the inaugural director of the Office of Cyberinfrastructure at the National Science Foundation, has received the biannual Paul Evan Peters Award from the Coalition for Networked Information, the Association of Research Libraries and EDUCAUSE. The award recognizes notable, lasting achievements in the creation and innovative use of information resources and services that advance scholarship and intellectual productivity through communication networks. Kelly Sisson, a doctoral candidate in American culture, LSA, has been awarded a research fellowship by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Sisson will conduct research at the library of the New York Historical Society for her dissertation, “King Corn in American Culture, 1862-1936.”
