Yeidy Rivero‘s 2015 book, “Broadcasting Modernity: Cuban Commercial Television, 1950-1960,” has been awarded the Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award of 2016. Rivero is professor of American culture and professor of screen arts and cultures, LSA. The Kovacs Award, presented through the Society of Cinema and Media Studies, is called the most prestigious book award of the profession. 

Homer Neal, Samuel A. Goudsmit Professor of Physics and director of the ATLAS Project at CERN on Jan. 1 became 2016 American Physical Society president. At U-M, Neal has served as interim president and vice president for research, and as chair of the physics department. He also has served as vice president for academic affairs and provost at Stony Brook University, and dean for research and graduate development at Indiana University. Neal was a member of the board of directors of Ford Motor Co. for 18 years, and has served on numerous advisory committees for national labs and other scientific institutions.

The American Council of Learned Societies has announced that Richard Janko is among the recipients of the 2016 Collaborative Research Fellowships. Supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the program funds small teams of scholars who pursue a major scholarly product. The nine projects funded this year include one by Janko, the Gerald F. Else Distinguished University Professor of Classical Studies, LSA, and Mirjam Kotwick, lecturer at The New School. Helped by new technologies, they will produce a new critical edition and English translation of the Derveni papyrus, the oldest European book to be reconstructed, after having been broken into 266 pieces and carbonized on a funeral pyre in ca. 330 BCE.