New faculty fellowships were awarded to
Joel Blecher (Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress),
Judy Huixia Wang (American Statistical Association Fellow),
Abby Wilkerson (Association for the Study of Food and Society Fellow),
Daqing Yang (Max Planck Institute Research Fellow for the History of Science in Berlin) and
Diane Cline (Harvard Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies). Cline also received a Fulbright Scholarship for her research in Greece.
Andrei Alexandru received a $298,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to support his work on nuclear physics calculations from QCD.
Christopher Brick was awarded a $195,122 grant from the National Archives and Records Administration for his research relating to the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project.
Jennifer Chang won the 2018 Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award and had her poem, “We Found the Body of a Young Deer Once,” published in the April 23 edition of
The New Yorker.
Steve Elfers won a Pulitzer Prize for his work on interactive video at the U.S. border for the USA Today Network.
Adam Smith was awarded a three-year $351,266 research grant from the National Science Foundation for his research on the effects of social behavior on brain evolution in bees.
Gregory Squires received the 2018 Urban Affairs Association award for his contribution to the field of urban affairs.
