STATE UNIVERSITIES
Six EMU professors honored with Ronald Collins awards
Eastern Michigan University recently honored six professors at the 39th annual Academic Awards celebration for their excellence in teaching, research and service to the university. These faculty members were honored with The Ronald W. Collins Distinguished Faculty Award, which is the highest honor a faculty member can receive at EMU. The recipients include Jesse Kauffman, Theresa Heck-Seibert, Jacqueline LaRose, Ramona Caponegro, Raul Leon and Jamil Baghdachi.
Wayne State celebrates new social work building
The Wayne State University School of Social Work is preparing to open its new location. The new building provides faculty, students and community members with space for urban research, clinical instruction and community engagement activities. It hosts a technology training center with instructional software. The project also includes the completion of a media center for online learning, video conferencing and continuing education. The school hopes to engage the entire metro Detroit community through lectures and forums.
PEER INSTITUTIONS
Iowa’s Hardin Library receives $6.5M grant, prestigious designation
The University of Iowa’s Hardin Library for the Health Sciences has been awarded a five year, $6.5 million grant to serve as a Regional Medical Library in the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. The Network consists of eight Regional Medical Libraries, and Hardin will serve the Greater Midwest Region.
UNL College of Law to offer new programs
The University of Nebraska College of Law Space, Cyber and Telecommunications program will launch three executive certificate programs. These programs are designed for practicing attorneys who already have a law or foreign law degree interested in specializing and expanding in one of these emerging areas. The space, cyber and telecommunication certification programs will build on the successful LL.M. and J.S.D. degrees in space, cyber and telecommunications law.
Rutgers creates two new endowed chairs
Rutgers University approved the creation of two new endowed chairs. The Joachim Messing Endowed Chair in Molecular Genetics — named for the director of the Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Joachim Messing — will recognize, retain and recruit molecular genetic scholars and researchers to teach at the Waksman Institute. The chair is made possible by $1.6 million in donations. Rutgers also received a $1.5 million gift from Motorola Solutions Inc. to create the Gregory Q. Brown Chair in Cell Biology and Neuroscience.
