George Fulton was recently honored with the inaugural Regional Economic Models Inc. Career Achievement Award for Excellence in Economic and Demographic Analysis. Moving forward, the annual award is named in Fulton’s honor. He is director, Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics, U-M Department of Economics; and research professor and director, Center for Labor Market Research, Institute for Labor, Employment and the Economy. REMI is a group of economists involved in regional economic forecasting and policy analysis from 48 of the 50 states, Canada, and some countries outside of North America.
The London School of Economics and Political Science announces that the 2014 Lakatos Award for an outstanding contribution to the philosophy of science has been won jointly by Gordon Belot and David Malament. Belot is a professor of philosophy, LSA. He wins the award for his book “Geometric Possibility” (Oxford University Press, 2011). Each will win a prize of 7,500 pounds. A conference in honoring the award winners is in 2016.
Professor Emerita Shake Ketefian, School of Nursing, recently received the Angel of Mercy Award at the National American Arab Nurses Association’s annual awards banquet. Ketefian, who also served as an interim dean of UMSN, was selected for her lifelong commitment to the profession of nursing as a clinical nurse, scholar and educator. Her support continues through multiple scholarships for students with a focus on graduate and global nursing education.
Bhargav Bhatt, associate professor in LSA’s Department of Mathematics, recently was awarded a 2015 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering for his work in algebraic mathematics and number theory. The $875,000 fellowship awarded over five years is given to promising scientists early in their careers to foster creativity and enable risk-taking by recipients. Bhatt is the eighth Packard Fellow from U-M since the fellowship was established in 1988.
Deborah Loewenberg Ball has been named to the Commission on the Future of Undergraduate Education of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The aim of the commission is to study how well current students are served by today’s education system, and to identify challenges and opportunities that will be encountered by higher education in coming decades. Ball is the William H. Payne Collegiate Professor, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and dean of the School of Education.
