Larry Bartels, May Werthan Shayne Professor of Public Policy and Social Science, and Randolph Blake, Centennial Professor of Psychology, were elected to the National Academy of Science. Election is considered one of the highest honors accorded U.S. scientists.

Blackett

Richard Blackett, Andrew Jackson Professor of American History, has been named the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at Oxford University for 2013-14.

Colin Dayan, Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities, has been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Fryd

Vivien Green Fryd, professor of history of art, has been awarded the visiting professorship at the John F. Kennedy Institute at the Freie Universität Berlin for fall 2012.

The Smithsonian has appointed Gary Gerstle, James Stahlman Professor of History, as Goldman Sachs Visiting Scholar for 2012. He will work with curators to develop a permanent exhibit on immigration for the National Museum of American History.

Hamilton

Joseph H. Hamilton, Landon C. Garland Distinguished Professor of Physics, has been elected a member of the Academia Europaea, a nongovernmental association of independent scientists and scholars in arts and sciences.

Julian F. Hillyer, assistant professor of biological sciences, is the 2012 recipient of the Recognition Award in Insect Physiology, Biochemistry and Toxicology from the Southeastern branch of the Entomological Society of America. The award recognizes and encourages innovation in insect research.

Hillyer

Associate Professor of Political Science Cindy Kam received the Emerging Scholar Award from the Elections, Voting Behavior and Public Opinion section of the American Political Science Association and the Erik H. Erikson Early Career Award from the International Society of Political Psychology.

Jonathan Lamb, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, and William Luis, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Spanish, received 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship Awards. The two are among only 181 scholars, artists and scientists chosen from nearly 3,000 applicants.

Sokrates T. Pantelides, University Distinguished Professor of Physics and Engineering, was honored for career achievement at the 27th Panhellenic Conference on Solid State Physics and Materials Science, held at his birthplace, Limassol, Cyprus.

M. L. Sandoz, senior lecturer in communication studies, was named 2011 SEC Debate Director of the Year.

Seligson

Mitchell Seligson, Centennial Professor of Political Science and director of the Latin American Public Opinion Project, has been confirmed to the General Assembly of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights, the IIHR’s highest governing body. He is one of only four U.S. members.

Beth Bachmann, assistant professor of English, has won the Poetry Society of America’s 2011 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award for a manuscript in progress.

Assistant Professor of Physics Kirill Bolotin has received a Faculty Early Career Development award from the National Science Foundation. The five-year award supports exploration into the conductivity of graphene, a recently discovered material that conducts electricity better than copper, has mechanical strength greater than steel and can be patterned into structures smaller than a virus.

Professor of Physics David Ernst has won the 2011 Distinguished Professional Mentor Award from the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS).

Steven D. Hollon, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Psychology, has received the 2011 Florence Halpern Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Clinical Psychology from the Society of Clinical Psychology—APA Division 12.

McLean with students

John McLean, assistant professor of chemistry, was recognized for excellence in teaching by Vanderbilt student members of the American Chemical Society.

The American Council of Learned Societies announced Elizabeth Shih Meadows, MA’06, PhD’10, lecturer in English, was named to the ACLS New Faculty Fellows Program for 2011 and that Edward N. Wright-Rios, associate professor of history, was awarded an ACLS 2011 Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship. ACLS is a private, nonprofit federation of 71 national scholarly organizations.

Randall

Alice Randall, writer-in-residence in African American and diaspora studies, was invited to spend a month at the famed Yaddo artists’ community in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Randall used the residency to revise her fourth novel, inFATuation, which draws on her research into soul food and research being done at Vanderbilt on personalized medicine. James Baldwin, Saul Bellow, Langston Hughes and other distinguished writers have also served residencies at Yaddo.

Furbish

Three Arts and Science faculty members were called to the podium to receive awards from Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos during Vanderbilt‘s Spring Faculty Assembly. Robert Barsky, professor of French and comparative literature, was awarded the Alexander Heard Distinguished Service Professor Award. David Furbish, professor of Earth and environmental sciences, received the Harvie Branscomb Distinguished Professor Award. Bunmi Olatunji, associate professor of psychology, received the Ellen Gregg Ingalls Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching. This award is determined by the chancellor based on nominations from students.

Barbara Tsakirgis, (right) associate professor of classics and history of art, was presented with the Vanderbilt University Alumni Association Alumni Education Award. The award is given annually by the association’s board of directors to a full-time faculty member who has contributed substantially to alumni education programs. She received the award during a surprise classroom visit by, from left, Associate Vice Chancellor for Alumni Relations James Stofan, Dean Carolyn Dever, and Alumni Association board member Elizabeth Clarke Gerken, BE’90, MBA’92.

A. V. Ramayya (left)

Jeremy Atack, professor of economics and history, was named president-elect of the Economic History Association.

Kate Daniels

Associate Professor of English and poet Kate Daniels received the 2011 Hanes Award for Poetry, an award given by the Fellowship of Southern Writers for outstanding literary achievement by a Southern poet.

Novelist Tony Earley, Samuel Milton Fleming Professor of English, has been elected a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.

Tony Earley, Samuel Milton Fleming Professor of English, and Todd R. Graham, professor of biological sciences, received 2010 Chancellor’s Awards for Research. The university-wide honor recognizes excellence in research, scholarship or creative expression.

Ellen Fanning, Stevenson Professor of Biological Sciences, was elected a fellow by the American Academy of Microbiology.

Gary Gerstle, James Stahlman Professor of History, has been named the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University for the 2012-2013 academic year.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) elected four College of Arts and Science faculty as fellows. John Gore, Hertha Ramsey Cress Chair in Medicine and professor of physics; Jeffrey Johnston, professor of chemistry; Michael Stone, professor and chair of chemistry; and John Wikswo, Gordon A. Cain University Professor and A.B. Learned Professor of Living State Physics, were honored for distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.

Shaul Kelner

The Association for Jewish Studies recognized a book by Shaul Kelner, assistant professor of sociology and Jewish studies, as outstanding scholarship in the field of Jewish studies. Kelner received the 2010 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award for Tours That Bind: Diaspora, Pilgrimage and Israeli Birthright Tourism.

Elizabeth Lunbeck, Nelson Tyrone Jr. Professor of History and chair of the department, was named Distinguished Psychoanalytic Educator by the International Forum of Psychoanalytic Education.

Terry Page, professor of biological sciences, was honored with the 2010 university-wide Madison Sarratt Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

Professor of French Virginia Scott received the university’s Thomas Jefferson Award, made annually for distinguished service to the institution.

The U.S. Agency for International Development has awarded a $2.9 million award to Mitchell A. Seligson, Centennial Professor of Political Science, for work on a Latin American Democratic Indicators Monitoring System for El Salvador.

Tracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting

Tracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Distinguished Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies and French, was named one of the top 100 young leaders of the African American community by The Root, an online magazine founded by scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. Sharpley-Whiting is director of the African American and Diaspora Studies program and director of the William T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies.

Claire Sisco King, assistant professor of communication studies, received Vanderbilt’s 2010 Ellen Gregg Ingalls Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching.

The College of Arts and Science awarded the annual Jeffrey Nordhaus Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching to Mark Wollaeger, professor of English (humanities), Prasad Polavarapu, professor of chemistry (natural sciences), and Michael Bess, Chancellor’s Professor of History (social sciences). The Ernest A. Jones Faculty Advisor Award was presented to David Furbish, professor of Earth and environmental sciences. The Harriet S. Gilliam Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Senior Lecturer went to Steve Baskauf, senior lecturer in biological sciences and the Alumni Outstanding Pre-Major Advisor Award was presented to Scott Zeman, CASPAR adviser and senior lecturer in philosophy.

Professor of History William Caferro has been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. He was one of 180 fellows named from a field of more than 3,000 applicants.

The American Academy of Religion named Making Transcendents: Ascetics and Social Memory in Early Medieval China by Professor of Asian Studies Robert Ford Campany the 2010 AAR Best Book in Historical Studies.

Celso Castilho, assistant professor of history, was awarded the 2009 American Historical Association/Conference for Latin American History Lewis Hanke Award.

Julia Cohen, assistant professor of Jewish studies and assistant professor of history, has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for her proposed collection, The Sephardic Studies Reader.

Farahany

Nita Farahany, associate professor of law and philosophy, has been appointed to the Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues by President Barack Obama.

Barbara Hahn, Distinguished Professor of German, received the 2010 Margherita von Brentano Prize from the Free University of Berlin for her work in reconstructing the history of intellectual women from the beginning of the 19th century to the early 21st century.

Mark Hosford, associate professor of art, received a Tennessee Arts Commission 2010 Individual Arts Fellowship in Visual Arts. The award is one of the highest honors a Tennessee artist can receive.

Larry Isaac, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, received the ASA Culture Section’s 2010 Clifford Geertz prize for best article and the 2010 Southern Sociological Society’s Distinguished Lecturer Award.

Hosford

Professor of History Jane Landers has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship. Landers will use this, her third NEH fellowship, to study African Kingdoms, Black Republics and Free Black Towns in the Iberian Atlantic. She has also been awarded a 2010 Gilder Lehrman Research Award and a Vanderbilt International Office International Curriculum grant.

Jennifer F. Reinganum, E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Economics, has been named secretary/treasurer of the American Law and Economics Association.

Robert Scherrer

Robert Scherrer, chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, received the 2010 Klopsteg Memorial Award from the American Association of Physics Teachers for his science fiction writing. The award recognizes extraordinary accomplishment in communicating the excitement of physics to the public.

The Department of Sociology in the College of Arts and Science was awarded the 2009 Seal of Approval for Gender Scholarship by the Sociologists for Women in Society in recognition of a commitment to gender equity.

Dan Cornfield, professor of sociology and political science, was awarded the 2010 Susan C. Eaton Scholar-Practitioner Grant by the Labor and Employment Relations Association for his book project on Nashville music careers supported by Vanderbilt’s Curb Center.

Professor of Psychology Steven Hollon received the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Clinical Psychology from the Society of Clinical Psychology (APA Division 12) in recognition for his body of work on cognitive therapy for depression.

Sarah Igo, associate professor of history and political science, has been awarded a Teagle Foundation Grant of $392,000 to co-direct a three-year project, the National Forum on the Future of Liberal Education.

Li

Tong Li, professor of economics and chair of the department, has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to support his work on analyzing auction data, studying bidders’ strategic behavior, and addressing policy-related questions using game-theoretic models and state-of-art econometric methods.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry John McLean has been awarded a $2.7 million Grand Opportunity grant from the National Institutes of Health as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Olatunji

Bunmi Olatunji, assistant professor of psychology, won the David Shakow Early Career Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Clinical Psychology from the clinical psychology division of the American Psychological Association. Olatunji was also awarded the President’s New Researcher Award from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.

Sokrates Pantelides, William A. and Nancy F. McMinn Professor of Physics, received a $1,556,399 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Grant Opportunity for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI) program. Additionally, he and Kálmán Varga, assistant professor of physics, are co-primary investigators on a new grant from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

Daniel Usner, Jr., Holland M. McTyeire Professor of History, has been elected president of the American Society for Ethnohistory for 2010-11.

The College of Arts and Science honored several faculty with 2009 teaching awards. Associate Professor of French Virginia Scott received the Jeffrey Nordhaus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in the Humanities; Professor of Chemistry Sandra Rosenthal received the Jeffrey Nordhaus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in the Natural Sciences; and Assistant Professor of Psychology Adriane Seiffert received the Jeffrey Nordhaus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in the Social Sciences. The Harriet S. Gilliam Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer was awarded to Andrea Hearn, lecturer in the Department of English. Associate Professor of Communication Studies Bonnie Dow was honored with the Ernest A. Jones Faculty Advisor Award, and the Alumni Outstanding Freshman Advisor Award was presented to Daniel Solomon, senior lecturer of classical studies.

James Dickerson

James Dickerson, assistant professor of physics, has been awarded a new, three-year research grant of more than $360,000 from the Office of Naval Research.

Marshall Eakin, professor of history, has been appointed director of the Ingram Scholars Program.

John Geer, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, has been invited by Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy to spend fall 2009 as a fellow of the center.

Bill Ivey, director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy, was honored with the Music for Life award given by NAMM, the trade association of the international music products industry. The award is the highest honor that NAMM bestows and recognizes extraordinary contributions to the mission of creating more active music makers.

Professor of Political Science David Lewis’ The Politics of Presidential Appointments has won the 2009 Richard E. Neustadt Award, given by the American Political Science Association for the best book on the U.S. presidency published during the previous year.

Scrivere la pittura: La ‘funzione Longhi’ nella letteratura italiana by Andrea Mirabile, professor of Italian, has been published by Angelo Longo Editore.

Jesse Peterson, assistant professor of mathematics, has won a $50,000 research fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation aimed at encouraging promising young scholars. He is one of 118 researchers in physics, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, neuroscience and economics chosen at the early stages of their careers because of their “exceptional promise to contribute to the advancement of knowledge.”

Carol Swain, professor of political science and law, has been reappointed to the Tennessee Advisory Committee of the United States Commission on Civil Rights.

Robert B. Talisse, associate professor of philosophy, will be a visiting scholar at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York for 2009–2010.

Cecelia Tichi

Cecelia Tichi, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English, is this year’s Hubbell Medal winner. This lifetime achievement award is given by the American Literature Section of the Modern Language Association for significantly advancing the study of American literature.

Four College of Arts and Science faculty members were honored with university-wide awards for teaching excellence and service. Tiffany Tung, assistant professor of anthropology, received the Madison Sarratt Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. John Geer, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, was awarded the Ellen Gregg Ingalls Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching. The Joe B. Wyatt Distinguished University Professor Award to honor faculty whose contributions span multiple academic disciplines was given to Dana Nelson, the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English. The Alexander Heard Distinguished Service Professor Award was given to C. Neal Tate, professor and chair of political science and professor of law (see story on Tate on page 4).

At the fall faculty assembly, David A. Weintraub, professor of astronomy, received the university’s Thomas Jefferson Award for distinguished service through contributions as a faculty member in the councils and government of the university. Individual Chancellor’s Awards for Research were presented to Yanqin Fan, professor of economics and mathematics, and James G. Patton, professor of biological sciences. The research team of Gordon D. Logan, Centennial Professor of Psychology, Thomas J. Palmeri, associate professor of psychology, and Jeffrey D. Schall, E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Neuroscience, was also honored with the Chancellor’s Award for Research.

Cambridge University Press has published Universal Human Rights in a World of Difference by Brooke Ackerly, associate professor of political science.

Jeremy Atack, professor of economics and professor of history, co-edited The Origins and Development of Financial Markets and Institutions, published by Cambridge University Press.

Darryl Bornhop, professor of chemistry, was named one of 10 finalists for the Association for Laboratory Automation’s annual innovation award. 

The Blue Star by Tony Earley, Samuel Milton Fleming Associate Professor of English, was recognized by The New York Times Book Review as one of the “100 Notable Books of 2008.” USA Today named it one of the top 10 books of 2008.

Tony Earley and The Blue Star

Brandt Eichman, assistant professor of biological sciences and assistant professor of biochemistry, has received the Young Investigator Award from scientific research society Sigma XI. 

Fanning

Ellen Fanning, Stevenson Professor of Biological Sciences, and Thomas J. Weiler, professor of physics, have been awarded Humboldt Research Awards in recognition of lifetime achievements. 

Seeing Mexico Photographed: The Work of Horne, Casasola, Modotti and Álvarez Bravo by Leonard Folgarait, professor of history of art, was published by Yale University Press. 

American Crucible by Gary Gerstle, James G. Stahlman Professor of American History, has been chosen as a Best Book for a Transformative New Year by NPR’s Fresh Air. 

Jennifer Lena, assistant professor of sociology, and Sarah Igo, associate professor of history, will serve as co-chairs of the Culture Network of the Social Science History Association from October 2008-2011. 

Gerstle

The Divine Nature of Power by Tracy G. Miller, associate professor of history of art, received the Southeastern College Art Conference Award for Excellence in Scholarly Research and Publication. 

Assistant Professor of History Catherine Molineux’s Pleasures of the Smoke has been named co-winner of the 2008 James L. Clifford Prize from American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. 

Michael Nelson, adjunct professor of political science, won the V.O. Key Book Award for How the South Joined the Gambling Nation: The Politics of State Policy Innovation.

Moses Ochonu, assistant professor of history, has been awarded a Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Grant.

Thomas Schwartz, professor of history, has been awarded the 2008 Annual Alumni Education Award from the Vanderbilt Alumni Association. He has also received the Book Award by Chi Chapter of the Kappa Alpha Order. 

John Sloop, professor of communication studies and associate dean of the College of Arts and Science, has been awarded the prestigious 2008 Charles H. Woolbert Research Award by the National Communications Association. Sloop was honored for his influential 1995 co-authored essay, “The Critique of Vernacular Discourse.” 

Gary Sulikowski, Stevenson Professor of Chemistry, has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Robert Talisse, associate professor of philosophy, and Scott Aikin, PhD’06, have published Pragmatism: A Guide for the Perplexed.

Sulikowski

David Petrain, assistant professor of classics, and Tracy G. Miller, associate professor of history of art, have been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities. 

Elizabeth Zechmeister, assistant professor of political science, has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant for research on “The Effects of Terrorist Threats on Democratic Support in Liberal and Illiberal Democracies.”

The College of Arts and Science presented 2008 teaching awards to faculty members in a variety of disciplines. Nathalie Debrauwere-Miller, assistant professor of French, received the Jeffrey Nordhaus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in the Humanities;Terry Page, professor of biological sciences, received the Jeffrey Nordhaus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in the Natural Sciences; and Katherine Crawford, associate professor of history, received the Jeffrey Nordhaus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in the Social Sciences. The Harriet S. Gilliam Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer was awarded to Michelle Sulikowski, senior lecturer in chemistry. The Ernest A. Jones Faculty Adviser Award was presented to Roger E. Moore, senior lecturer in English. The Alumni Outstanding Freshman Adviser Award was presented to Senior Lecturer Julia Fesmire of the Women’s and Gender Studies program. Gregg Horowitz, associate professor of philosophy, received the 2008 Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching. Jon Kaas, Centennial Professor of Psychology, was honored with the 2008 Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring. Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards were awarded to Danielle Kurin, anthropology, and Matt Whitt, philosophy.

Michael Bess, Chancellor’s Professor of History, and Jay Bloom, assistant professor of history of art, have received 2008 fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). ACLS fellowships and grants are awarded to individual scholars for excellence in research in the humanities and related social sciences.

William Caferro, professor of history, received the 2009 Otto Gründler Prize for his book, John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth Century Italy. 

Anastasia Curwood, assistant professor of African American and diaspora studies, received the Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship for junior faculty.

Ellen Fanning, Stevenson Professor of Molecular Biology, has been named a fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She was also recently elected to the German National Academy of Science (Duetsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina), the world’s oldest continuously existing academy for medicine and natural sciences.

The trade paperback version of Investing in College: A Guide for the Perplexed by Malcolm Getz, associate professor of economics, was published by Harvard University Press in September. Harvard first published the hardcover edition in March 2007.

Victoria Greene, professor of physics, has been appointed executive dean in the College of Arts and Science.

Arts, Inc., a cultural assessment of the U.S. arts system by Bill Ivey, director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy, has been published by the University of California Press.

John Janusek, associate professor of anthropology, has received a Dumbarton Oaks Fellowship in Pre-Columbian Studies for 2008–2009.

Gary Jensen, professor of sociology, has been appointed editor of the journal, Homicide Studies.

David E. Lewis, professor of political science, has been awarded the Herbert A. Simon Best Book Award for The Politics of Presidential Appointments: Political Control and Bureaucratic Performance. 

Richard Lloyd, assistant professor of sociology, has been appointed consulting editor of the American Journal of Sociology.

John McLean, assistant professor of chemistry, received a 2008 research award from the American Society for Mass Spectrometry and a 2008 Starter Grant Award from the Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh/Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh.

Dana Nelson, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English and American studies, has been elected to the American Antiquarian Society.

Antonis Rokas, assistant professor of biological sciences, has been named a 2008 Searle Scholar. The honor, given to exceptional young faculty in the biomedical sciences and chemistry, is accompanied by a $300,000 research grant. 

Allison Schachter, assistant professor of Jewish studies and English, was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities summer grant.

Robert Scherrer, professor of physics and chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, co-authored “The End of Cosmology,” the cover story of the March 2008 Scientific American journal. 

Robert B. Talisse, associate professor of philosophy and political science, has been appointed editor of Public Affairs Quarterly.

Lenn E. Goodman and his wife, Roberta Goodman

Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos honored several arts and science professors with 2008 faculty awards. David Wood, Centennial Professor of Philosophy, received the Joe B. Wyatt Distinguished University Professor Award, given annually in honor of faculty whose contributions span multiple academic disciplines. Daniel B. Cornfield, professor of sociology and director of the Vanderbilt Center for Nashville Studies, received the Harvie Branscomb Distinguished Professor Award for distinguished accomplishments at furthering the aims of Vanderbilt University. Stephen G. Buckles, senior lecturer in economics, received the Madison Sarratt Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. The 2008 Thomas Jefferson Award, made annually for distinguished service through extraordinary contributions in the councils and government of the university, was awarded to Randolph Blake, Centennial Professor of Psychology. Douglas G. McMahon, professor of biological sciences and director of graduate studies, Tracy G. Miller, associate professor of history of art, Frank Tong, associate professor of psychology, and Mark A. Wollaeger, professor of English, were honored with 2008 Chancellor’s Awards for Research. Lenn E. Goodman, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and professor of philosophy, received the Earl Sutherland Prize for Achievement in Research, given annually for achievements in research, scholarship or creative expression that have had significant critical reception and recognition nationally or internationally.

Andreas Berlind, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, received one million cpu-hours of computing time on the TeraGrid, a National Science Foundation-funded program. Berlind will use the research time on national supercomputers to simulate the evolution of dark matter.  

The first Chancellor’s Chair in History was awarded to Michael Bess, professor of history, who specializes in twentieth-century European history.  

Barbara Hahn, Distinguished Professor of German, and Michael Bess, Chancellor’s Professor of History, have been awarded 2008 Guggenheim Fellowships. These competitive awards provide funding in the arts, sciences and other forms of scholarship. 

Tom D. Dillehay, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and department chair, has been named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The academy annually elects as new fellows the finest minds and most influential leaders of our day.   

In Defense of Negativity: Attack Ads in Presidential Campaigns by John Geer, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, has been awarded the Goldsmith Book Prize of the Shorenstein Center at Harvard University. The prize goes to an academic book that best improves government.  

Larry Isaac, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and professor of American studies, received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Award for 2008.  

Molly Miller, professor of earth and environmental sciences, received the 2007 Chancellor’s Cup, given annually in recognition of the greatest contribution outside the classroom to undergraduate student-faculty relations.

“Endangered Still Life, #7” by Ron Porter, senior lecturer in art, took top prize in the Red Clay Survey at the Huntsville Museum of Art.

Dieter Sevin, professor of Germanic languages and literatures and chair of the department, was awarded the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (das Bundesverdienstkreuz). The Order of Merit is the highest tribute of the Federal Republic of Germany for services to the nation.   

Photo by Daniel Dubois.