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Angela Clark-Taylor, director of the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women, was named treasurer of the National Women’s Studies Association. Clark-Taylor’s appointment came through a special election to fill vacant seats on the association’s governing council. Her term will be from November 2020 to N...

Craig Lanier Allen, the postdoctoral fellow in African American history in the Department of History, has received an inaugural Emerging Voices Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). Allen is a historian of the United States in the 20th century, focusing on foreign relatio...

Like many scientists before him, Walter Boron’s medical discoveries are founded in basic scientific research, figuring out how things work. His breakthrough happened early, as a graduate student at Washington University in the mid-1970s. His first publication reporting the initial example of the act...

Melvyn C. Goldstein, the John Reynolds Harkness Professor of Anthropology and co-director of the Center for Research on Tibet at ���ϳԹ��� (���ϳԹ���), is widely considered to be the world’s leading scholar of Tibet in anthropology. He is the first Western anthropologist to conduct ...

���ϳԹ��� engineer and researcher Umut Gurkan has been named a senior member of the August 2020 class of The National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Gurkan is the Warren E. Rupp Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in the Case School of Engineering, where h...

Georgia Cowart, professor of music, was elected to honorary membership in the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music (SSCM) by the organization’s governing board. Honorary members are chosen for “their outstanding contribution to the study and presentation of seventeenth-century music.” She is one o...

The inaugural class of ���ϳԹ��� Translational Fellows has been selected. The program was open to senior doctoral students and postdocs working with a principal investigator on a ���ϳԹ���-based technology with the potential for commercialization. The program seeks to provide traini...

The Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship has announced the selection of the 2020-21 Veale Entrepreneurship Fellows. This program supports faculty, staff or teams to create new initiatives, including specific types of engagement efforts, research proposals and formal or informal educational activitie...

The Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship at Kelvin Smith Library has announced the selection of the 2020-21 Freedman Faculty Fellows. The program supports full-time, board-appointed, tenured or tenure-track faculty, and clinical research faculty at the rank of assistant professor or above. The fe...

���ϳԹ��� Provost and Executive Vice President Ben Vinson III has been elected vice president of the Research Division of the American Historical Association (AHA). According to AHA Executive Director James Grossman, Vinson will play an integral role in promoting historical s...