Recent Citations

• Michelle Prairie, CLAS '09, an economics major, is the only student from a public institution in New England named a Marshall Scholar for 2009. She will spend two years in the United Kingdom studying for two master's degrees in developmental economics.

• Debra A. Kendall, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, is a new fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

• Three CLAS faculty have won National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships for the coming year. Michael Lynch, professor of philosophy, will write a book defending an original theory of truth. Richard Wilson, the Gladstein Distinguished Chair in Human Rights, will complete a book on three United Nations tribunals. Frank Costigliola, professor of history, will be an NEH fellow in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

• Alexis Dudden, associate professor of history and director of the Foundations of Humanitarianism program, has won a Fulbright award to study in Japan and complete a book.

• Mwangi Samson Kimenyi, associate professor of economics, is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC for 2009.

• The Economics Department ranked in the top 20 nationally in three of 17 graduate fields reviewed in the article, “A Guide to Graduate Study in Economics” in the Southern Economic Journal . The department was ranked fourth in Law and Economics, 12 th in Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics, and 15 th in Agricultural and Natural Resources Economics.

• Kathryn Theiss, a PhD student in ecology and evolutionary biology, has won a prestigious national award, a Switzer Foundation fellowship, for young environmental leaders. She is studying the decline of two rare orchid species in Madagascar.

• Robert R. Birge, The Harold S. Schwenk, Sr., Distinguished Chair in Chemistry in CLAS, was awarded the 2009 Connecticut Medal of Science, the state’s highest award for scientists.

• Maria Giordina, associate professor of mathematics, is only the third person to win the Ruth I. Micheler Memorial Prize awarded by Cornell University and the Association of Women in Mathematics. The award will support her residency at Cornell to work on her research on infinite dimensional spaces.

• Diane Lilo-Martin in linguistics and Gregory Anderson in ecology and evolutionary biology were named 2009 Board of Trustees Distinguished Professors, the highest honor for faculty at UConn.

Endowed Chairs

Lynn Z. Bloom Aetna Chair of Writing Arnold Dashefsky Doris and Simon Konover Chair of Judaic Studies Robert R. Birge The Harold S. Schwenk, Sr. Distinguished Chair in Chemistry Robert Gross The James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History Richard A. Wilson The Judi and Gary Gladstein Distinguished Chair in Human Rights John A. Davis The Emiliana Pasca Noether Chair in Modern Italian History Kathleen Segerson Philip E. Austin Chair in Economics

The Office of State Archaeologist, the Office of State Historian, and the title of state ornithologist (Margaret Rubega) are held by CLAS faculty members.