The University of Michigan’s 11-member IPE Foundations Experience Team received the 2019 Midwest Interprofessional Practice, Education, and Research Center Demonstration Model Award. Frank Ascione of the Center for IPE nominated the team, which is led by Laura Smith of UM-Flint, in part for “innovative solutions to teaching IPE principles to our large and diverse group of health science students.” Other team members are Melissa Gross (Kinesiology), Olivia Anderson (Public Health), Karen Farris (Pharmacy), Mark Fitzgerald (Dentistry), Debbie Mattison (Social Work), Laurel Moore (Medicine), Peggy Ursuy (Nursing), Tazin Daniels (Center for Research on Teaching and Learning), Ghaidaa Najjar and Vani Patterson (Michigan Center for IPE). The award was presented in September at the 2019 MIPERC conference in Grand Rapids.
Francesca Schironi, professor of classical studies, won a Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit from the Society for Classical Studies for her book, “The Best of the Grammarians: Aristarchus of Samothrace on the Iliad.” The society’s prize award noted, “‘The Best of the Grammarians’ is a monumental study that is unlikely to be surpassed for generations to come.” The Charles J. Goodwin Awards of Merit are presented for outstanding contributions to classical scholarship. The book was published by University of Michigan Press.
Diane Kaplan Vinokur, associate professor emerita of social work in the School of Social Work, and two colleagues won the Alliance for Nonprofit Management’s 2019 Terry McAdam Book Award for their book, “Shared Space and the New Nonprofit Workplace.” They will accept the award during the Alliance for Nonprofit Management’s annual conference Oct. 23-25 in St. Louis, Missouri. Kaplan Vinokur authored the book with China Brotsky, who has more than 35 years of experience in nonprofit management, real estate and finance; and Sarah M. Eisinger, who has more than 20 years of experience in the nonprofit, real estate, community development and philanthropic fields.
Bradley Taylor, associate director of the Museum Studies Program, received the President’s Award at the Michigan Museums Association’s 2019 annual conference in Grand Rapids. The award recognizes exemplary support of MMA, service to the Michigan museums field and a career of distinction. The association praised Taylor as an extraordinary teacher who helped shape U-M’s graduate certificate program and helped create an equally successful undergraduate minor. It noted he is a scholar whose research has focused on topics such as authenticity and the limitations of digital surrogates, the history of Henry Ford’s British collection and the power of art in Detroit’s Heidelberg Project.
Karen E. Smith, M.S. Keeler II Professor of Mathematics, associate chair and professor of mathematics, LSA, has been named a 2020 Association for Women in Mathematics Fellow. She is part of the third class of AWM Fellows. The executive committee of the Association for Women in Mathematics established the fellowship program to recognize people who have demonstrated a sustained commitment to the support and advancement of women in the mathematical sciences. Smith and the other fellows will be recognized Jan. 16 during the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Denver, Colorado.
Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, a lecturer in the Department of American Culture, Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies, was one of 36 winners of the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Detroit. She was awarded a $25,000 grant for “Beyond Vincent Chin: Legacies in Action and Art,” an anthology of essays by Asian-American activists, and a digital arts archive that enables Asian-American activists, artists and allies to reflect on the landmark Vincent Chin case. Additionally, Wang was also recently named a Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights Detroit Equity Action Lab Race and Justice reporting fellow. The fellows each receive mini grants of $1,000 to report on arts and culture in Detroit.
— Compiled by Ann Zaniewski, The University Record
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