Eugene Rogers, associate professor of music in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, was recently appointed national chair of the Diversity Initiatives Committee of the American Choral Directors Association, by the ACDA executive committee. Plans call for the committee chairs to attend the ACDA leadership conference June 3-4 in Minneapolis.
Anna Grzymala-Busse, Ronald and Eileen Weiser Professor of European and Eurasian Studies and professor of political science, received a 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship for the project, “The Dictator’s Curse? Authoritarian Party Collapse and the Nation State.” The fellowship, sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, supports scholarly research and writing in the social sciences and humanities aimed at addressing some of the world’s most urgent challenges to U.S. democracy and international order. She is director of the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.
H. Luke Shaefer’s new book, “$2 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America,” has been awarded the 2016 Hilllman Prize for book journalism. Shaefer, associate professor in the School of Social Work and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, wrote the book with Kathryn Edin, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. The Hillman Prize honors journalists who pursue investigative reporting and deep storytelling in service of the common good.
Melissa Levine, lead copyright officer at the University of Michigan Library, has been selected by the Coalition to Advance Learning in Archives, Libraries and Museums to participate in a learning cohort that will strengthen connections across sectors by attending three major sector conferences and engaging in virtual activities together throughout 2016. The Collective Wisdom: Libraries, Archives, and Museums Conference Exchange, sponsored by the coalition, will offer an opportunity to break down barriers and support connections across libraries, archives and museums.
H. Scott Fogler, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Vennema Professor of Chemical Engineering, and professor of chemical engineering, College of Engineering, has received an honorary doctorate degree from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain. Fogler is regarded as a towering figure in the world of chemical engineering for his outstanding career in teaching, research and technology transfer. His ideas have been a source of inspiration for the URV’s School of Chemical Engineering, which awarded the honorary degree April 15 in a ceremony at the Rector’s Offices.
