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CLAS Faculty Win Recognition |
Two faculty members and a graduate student in Human Development and Family Studies have been elected to offices in the family therapy section of the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR). They are assistant professors Rachel Tambling (elected secretary-treasurer) and Shayne Anderson (chair-elect for the section) and doctoral student Lindsay Edwards, who will serve as the student and new professional representative.
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Sara Harkness, professor of human development and family studies, and David Benson, professor and head of molecular and cell biology, have been selected as Jefferson Science Fellows to serve next year at the U.S. Department of State. They will begin their fellowships in August 2012. Jefferson fellows serve with the state department or USAID in Washington for a year and then remain available to the U.S. government as consultants on short-term projects. Harkness is also a professor of pediatrics and public health at the UConn Health Center.
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CLAS faculty have won five of the seven 2012 Excellence Awards from the American Association of University Professors at UConn. Fabiana Cardetti, assistant professor of mathematics, won the Teaching Promise award. Pamela Bedore, assistant professor of English, was cited for Teaching Innovation. The two Research Promise awards went to Daniel K. Mulkey, assistant professor of physiology and neurobiology, and Mark C. Urban, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology. Michael R. Willig, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and director of the Center for Environmental Science and Engineering, won a Research Excellence award.
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Virginia Hettinger, associate professor of political science, is the 2012 Honors Faculty Member of the Year. She was cited for her extraordinary contributions to the Honors Program, whose students have described her as committed, enthusiastic, and outstanding as a mentor and scholar.
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Amy Donahue, associate professor of public policy and chief operations officer for academic affairs in the provost's office, was named a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. The academy includes prominent senior public managers and academics who are asked to help propose solutions to the nation's public policy challenges. The Academy was chartered by Congress in 1967.
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Connecticut state historian Walter Woodward won the Homer D. Babbidge award from the Association for the Study of Connecticut History for his recent book, Prospero's America: John Winthrop, Jr., Alchemy, and the Creation of New England Culture, 1606-1676. The book is comprehensive and incisive, and "you not only feel you are discovering John Winthrop, Jr. for the first time, but that you are re-discovering early New England," according to the award citation.
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Davita Glasberg, professor of sociology and associate dean of CLAS, hass been appointed president of the U.S. chapter of Sociologos Sin Fronteras (Sociologists without Borders). The transnational group is partisan in favor of human rights, participatory democracy, equitable economies, peace, and sustainable ecosystems. It has chapters in Brazil, Chile, Iran, Canada, Spain (where it was founded in 2001), and the U.S.
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Dipak Dey, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Statistics and an associate dean of CLAS, has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Fellows of the association recognized for their "efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications."
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Sara Harkness, professor of human development and family studies, is the new editor of the Newsletter of the Temperament Consortium. This international network of researchers and clinicians use concepts and measurements of temperament in their work. Postdoctoral researcher Caroline Mavridis will be managing editor of the newsletter.
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Evelyn Simien, acting director of the Humanities Institute in CLAS and associate professor of political science, graduated from the HERS Bryn Mawr Summer Institute for advancing women leaders in higher education administration. She was among 64 participants from 49 institutions from 24 states. The institute's theme was "Women Leaders Today: Accepting the Challenge of Re-inventing Higher Education."
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Steven L. Suib, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, was named the 2011 winner of the Connecticut Medal of Science. Suib's research in solid state chemistry and the synthesis of novel materials has a strong environmental focus. He was cited for his "outstanding impact on the field of catalysis and materials science over the past 30 years."
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CLAS Students Collect Honors |
Journalism major Jesse Rifkin won the national grand prize in the 2012 National Society of Newspaper Columnists' contest for college columnists. Rifkin writes a weekly commentary for The Daily Campus and has written columns for The Washington Post and The Chicago Sun Times.
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Ten psychology graduate students in the Clinical Psychology Training Program were recognized by the Town of Mansfield for their work with Mansfield children and families at the Psychology Clinic on campus. they are: Laura Brennan, Megan Clarke, Caitlin Dombrowski, David Finitsis, Alex Hinnebush, Christy Irvine, Amanda Letard, Alyssa Orinstein, Viana Turcios-Cotta and Katherine Tyson. The students are trained and supervised in child and family therapy at the clinic.
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Six recent journalism students were awarded third place in government reporting by the New England Newspaper and Press Association for creating a complex database that was used by The Day newspaper of New London in a news analysis of former Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal. Students compiling the research were Christopher Duray, Jeremy Katz, Caitlin Emma, John Garrigan, John Kennedy, and Tom Crosby.
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Nikisha Patel is one of 29 "Young Botanists of the Year" honored by the Botanical Society of America. An honors student, she is advised by Prof. Kent Holsinger in ecology and evolutionary biology and has worked for two years on a project in the lab of EEB professor emeritus Gregory Anderson.
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CLAS students Romana Haider and Maggie McCarthy, both political science majors, and Navina Vemuri, an individualized major in international relations, won 2011 Global Citizenship Undergraduate Awards from the Provost's Office at UConn.
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First-year actuarial sciences PhD student Wenyuan Zheng has been named a James C. Hickman Scholar by the Society of Actuaries.The award is designed to encourage young scholars to attain both actuarial and PhD credentials. It is the top award of the Society of Actuaries to a graduate student.
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Katherine Tsantiris, CLAS '12, has won a highly competitive Udall Award. The $5,000 scholarship from the Morris K. and Stewart L. Udall Foundation is for college students committed to careers related to the environment, tribal public policy, or Native American health care.
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