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Judith M. Bennett
Bennett, the Francis Stuart Chapin, Jr. professor of history, received the 1998 Otto Grundler Prize, a major international award for medieval studies offered by Western Michigan University. Bennett was honored for her book Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World. 1300-1600. Bennett shared the award with Diane Cole Ahl of Lafayette College.
Doris Betts
Betts, alumni distinguised professor of English, received the 1998 North Caroliniana Society Award for contributions to North Carolina's literary and cultural heritage. The award recognizes North Carolinians whose work brings credit to their home state. Betts also has had a 133-page book on her fiction published by Elizabeth Evans, former head of the English department at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The book presents biographical information on Betts, who teaches creative writing, and critical analyses of her nine books, including her most recent, the novel, The Sharp Teeth of Love. Evans and Betts grew up together in Statesville.
Margaret A. Blanchard
Kenan professor of journalism and mass communication, Blanchard received an award recognizing outstanding scholarship in freedom of expression from the National Communication Association. Blanchard and 21 others were honored for scholarship, teaching and service.
Carl Bose, Nancy Chescheir, Dan Nakayama,
Robert Valley
Faculty members in the School of Medicine, the four contributed to Critical Care of the Surgical Newborn, published by Futura Publishing Company. Nakayama, professor of surgery and pediatrics, was an editor of the book, intended as a guide for critical care practitioners as well as perinatologists and obstetricians who make inutero diagnoses.
Kenneth F. Bott
Professor of microbiology and immunology, Bott has been elected fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. The academy is the only honorific leadership group devoted entirely to microbiologists and the science of microbiology. More than 1,300 fellows from 27 countries have been elected to membership for demonstrating scientific excellence, originality, leadership, high ethical standards and scholarly and creative achievement.
Joseph M. DeSimone, Michael L. Minion
These two faculty members received Sloan Research Fellowships, a prize given to 100 young scientists and economists throughout the U.S. Sloan fellows are chosen based on "exceptional promise" to contribute to the advancement of knowledge. Twenty-three former Sloan fellows have receive Nobel prizes. DeSimone is the Mary Ann Smith professor of chemistry. Minion is an assistant professor of mathematics.
William Droegemueller
Former chair of obstetrics and gynecology, Droegemueller was recognized in a landmark collection by the Journal of the American Medical Association. His article, "The Battered-Child Syndrome," was republished last year in the journal's "One Hundred Years of Landmark Articles, Celebrating the Sesquicentennial of the American Medical Association."
Robert J. Duronio
Assistant professor of biology, Duronio is one of four U.S. researchers to receive a $200,000 Damon Runyon Scholar Award from the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Foundation's Cancer Research Fund. The two-year stipend helps outstanding young biomedical scientists start independent cancer research laboratories at universities. Duronio's research involves studying cell multiplication during development, a field known as developmental genetics.
Ernest L. Eliel
William Rand Kenan professor of chemistry emeritus, Eliel was voted one of the 75 most "Distinguished Contributors to the Chemical Enterprise" by readers of Chemical & Engineering News. The designation ranks the scientist with such famous researchers as George Washington Carver, Marie Curie and Linus Pauling. Chemical & Engineering News is the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society with 155,000 members.
George S. Fishman
Professor of operations research, Fishman was awarded the Lanchester Prize by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. The prize, considered the most prestigious award by the operations research community for work published in a given year, honored Fishman's book, Monte Carlo: Concepts, Algorithms and Applications. The book also won the 1997 Outstanding Simulation Publication Award by the institute's College on Simulation.
Christopher C. Fordham III
Chancellor emeritus and professor of medicine and social medicine, Fordham was one of 40 members to receive master status from the American College of Physicians at its annual meeting in San Diego last month. The college has six classes of membership -- medical student member, associate, member, fellow, master and honorary fellow -- each reflecting various stages of physicians' careers. A fellow is nominated for master in recognition of personal character, position of honor and influence, and prominence in practice, medical research, science or the art of medicine.
Edward G. Holley
William Rand Kenan Jr. professor emeritus of information and library science, Holley is the 1998 winner of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) award for professional contributions to library and information science education as evidenced by regular and sustained service. Although retired since December 1995, Holley continues his professional activities by attending conferences, making invited presentations, serving on dissertation committees and writing a history of the University's emergence as a research university.
Jonathan Howes
Special assistant to the chancellor and professor of planning and public policy, Howes was elected chairman of the board of the National Academy of Public Administration. He is among 500 fellows chosen for distinguished public-service careers. The academy is an independent, nonpartisan organization chartered by Congress to help improve governance at federal, state and local levels. Its principal activities involve analyzing specific public functions, programs and agencies, and identifying emerging governance issues.
David G. Kaufman
Professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, Kaufman has been elected vice president-elect of the Federation of American Societies of Experimental Biology. Following a one-year term as vice president, Kaufman will serve as the organization's president for a year. The federation, founded in 1912, represents more than 56,000 scientists in 17 member societies. It represents medical and biological scientists by publicly disseminating the results of biological research and advocating for scientists through publications and scientific meetings that enhance the exchange of knowledge.
Clark Spencer Larsen
Professor of anthropology, Larsen had his book, Bioarchaeology: Interpreting Behavior from the Human Skeleton, published by Cambridge University Press. The book offers new options, such as examining human skeletal and dental tissues, for determining the quality of life among once-living populations.
Theodore H. Leinbaugh
Professor of English, Leinbaugh recently was chosen to serve on the British Ambassador's Advisory Council for the Marshall Scholarship Association. Leinbaugh also will chair the southeastern regional Marshall Scholarships Selection Committee. Established in 1953, the Marshall Scholarships are Great Britain's way of thanking this country for U.S. aid it received after World War II. Valued at about $30,000 annually, each scholarship covers tuition, books, travel and living expenses for at least two years of graduate study in Britain.
William E. Leuchtenburg
Leuchtenburg, the William Rand Keenan Jr. professor of history, received a prize for the best article on the U.S. Supreme Court written in 1997. His article, entitled "The Nine Justices Respond to the 1937 Crisis" appeared in the 1997 Journal of Supreme Court History.
Jeffrey A. Lieberman
Professor of psychiatry and vice chair for research, Lieberman was awarded the 1998 American Psychiatric Association Award for Research in Psychiatry. First awarded as the Hofheimer Prize, the award is given in recognition of a single significant contribution, body of work or a lifetime contribution that has had a major impact on the field and/or altered the practice of psychiatry. The award is shared with Robert W. McCarley of Harvard University.
Gary B. Mesibov
Director of the Division for the Treatment of Education and Autistic and related Communication Handicapped Children (TEACCH), Mesibov has been honored by the American Psychological Association with its Distinguished Professional Contributions to Public Service award.
John Michael Papanikolas, Kevin M. Weeks
Researchers in the Department of Chemistry, Papanikolas and Weeks received Research Innovation Awards from Research Corp., a foundation for the advancement of science. The awards encourage research that transcends the ordinary and offers promise for significant discovery by beginning faculty in doctorate-granting departments of chemistry, physics and astronomy.
Frederick O. Mueller
Professor and chairman of physical education, exercise and sport science, Mueller has been named winner of the Dr. Ernst Jokl Sports Medicine Award for 1997. The award, presented annually by the United States Sports Academy, is given for lasting contributions to the growth and development of sports medicine through practice or scholarship. Mueller is being honored for his many years of maintaining a nationwide system for collecting information on catastrophic sports injuries and deaths. Statistics he compiled on football injuries and deaths helped lead to rule changes and improved coaching credited with saving dozens of lives a year in the United States.
William D. Perreault
William R. Kenan Jr. professor of business, Perreault has received two of the American Marketing Association's most prestigious awards: the Irwin Distinguished Marketing Educator Award and the Gilbert A. Churchill Jr. Award for Lifetime Achievement in Marketing Research. The marketing educator award, whose recipients are universally acknowledged as long-standing leaders in the field, recognizes extensive and sustained contributions to marketing education. The Churchill Award is presented by the AMA's Marketing Research Special Interest Group to recognize distinguished contributors to the field of market research. Perreault, only the second recipient of the Churchill Award, was honored for his work as a scholar, journal editor and textbook author.
Della Pollock
Associate professor of communication studies, had her recently edited book, Exceptional Spaces: Essays in Performance and History, published by UNC Press.
Barry K. Popkin
Professor of nutrition, Popkin received the Kellogg Prize for Outstanding Research in International Nutrition from the Society for International Nutrition Research. The Society cited Popkin's productive research career, his devotion to teaching and training and his contributions to institutional development at home and abroad.
Ralph S. Quatrano
John N. Couch professor of biology, Quatrano has been named to a five-year term as editor of The Plant Cell, one of the world's top biological science journals. The appointment, made by the executive committee of the American Society of Plant Physiologists, begins July 1 and will run through June of 2003. The society publishes the journal.
Timothy R. Sanford
Director of institutional research and clinical associate professor of education, Sanford was honored at the Association for Institutional Research's annual forum for completing a three-year term on its board of directors. Sanford served as vice president, president and immediate past president during his tenure on the board. The association is an international organization for people interested in management research, policy analysis and planning. It has 2,800 members in 50 states and 32 countries.
Stephen Shaban, Bradford B. Walters
Faculty members in the School of Medicine, Walters and Shaban were installed as officers at the Durham-Orange Medical Society. Walters, associate professor of surgery and a neurosurgeon, was installed as district councilor. Shaban, assistant professor of surgery and a urologist, was installed as president-elect.
Asgeir Sigurdsson
Graduate program director for the Department of Endodontics, Sigurdsson received the Edward M. Osetek Educator Award from the American Association of Endodontists. The award recognizeds association members who demonstrate they are outstanding educators through the quality of students and the impact on endodontics, earn the respect of students and faculty, and receive invitations to present endodontics seminars.
Elin O'Hara Slavick
Assistant professor of art, Slavick was chosen from among more than 200 applicants for the 12th annual "Women in the Visual Arts" juried exhibit in New Haven, Conn.
James R. Sorenson
Professor of health behavior and health education, Sorenson was one of 85 international human genome researchers recently asked by the National Institutes of Health to evaluate the National Human Genome Research Institute's new five-year plan. The institute, along with a similar organization in the U.S. Department of Defense, is overseeing and funding research to map and sequence the entire human genome, called the Human Genome Project. The project began in 1990.
UNC Press
Five books have received honors..The Organization of American Historians awarded its James A. Rawley Prize for 1998 to Contempt and Pity: Social Policy and the Image of the Damaged Black Psyche, 1880-1996 by Daryl Michael Scott. The prize is given annually to the best book dealing with the history of race relations in the United States. Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery and Freedom in the American South, by Mark M. Smith, was selected as the co-winner of the 1998 Avery O. Craven Award given each year to the most original book on the Civil War/Reconstruction era. Three books received honors from the American Historical Association: Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia won the John B. Dunning Prize for the best book on U.S. history by a young scholar; Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960 was the co-winner of the Wesley-Logan Prize for the best book on African Diaspora history; and The People's Welfare: Law and Regulation in 19th-Century America won the Littleton-Griswold Prize for the best book on law and society.
Peter White
Director of N.C. Botancial Garden, White has been elected vice-chair of the board for "Discover Life in America," a non-profit group formed to find funding for and organize the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATNI). Modeled after a project in Costa Rica, ATBI will make Great Smokey Mountains National Park the first North American site to be completely inventoried for all its life forms.
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