Our programs in the arts, humanities and social sciences receive national recognition as well. Indeed, in one instance Lewis & Clark received the top national accolade. In November of 2008, Jerusha Detweiler-Bedell, associate professor of psychology, was named the U.S. Professor of the Year in the category of Baccalaureate Colleges by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The CASE/Carnegie prize is the only national award for excellence in undergraduate teaching and mentoring. Professor Detweiler-Bedell was recognized for a scholarly approach to teaching, as she integrates meaningful research experiences for students into her courses.
The story of success continues.
In 2008...
Karen Gross, assistant professor of English, received the Arnold L. and Lois S. Graves Award in the Humanities from the American Council of Learned Societies, one of the premier humanities teaching honors in the liberal arts colleges sector.
Four College of Arts & Sciences faculty members won the Graves Award between 1998 and 2006:
Alan Cole, professor of religious studies (1998)
Nora Beck, professor of music (2000)
Rebecca Copenhaver, associate professor of philosophy (2004)
David Campion, assistant professor of history (2006)
Mary Szybist, assistant professor of English, was awarded a prestigious Creative Writing Fellowship in poetry by the National Endowment for the Arts. These highly competitive Fellowships are given to published creative writers of exceptional talent. Professor Szybist was also selected by Poet Laureate Kay Ryan for one of two Witter Bynner Fellowships in Poetry from the Library of Congress. In just the past few months, her poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Tin House, Poetry, and The Iowa Review.
David Campion, associate professor of history, received a grant from Fulbright Scholar Program to work with Universities in Hong Kong on development of their general education curricula. Only five awards were made by Fulbright as part of the foundation's Building General Education Curriculum in Hong Kong Universities Program.
The College also embarked on a process to train the professoriate of the future. With support from a grant of $450,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the College of Arts & Sciences has established a teaching post-doctoral program in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. The post-doctoral fellows are trained—and mentored—as teachers and scholars, enriching our curriculum and research enterprise with fresh ideas and new opportunities to pursue our interdisciplinary agenda. This year's Mellon Fellow is Marie Sarita Gaytan.
Our students also shine
Ian Feis ’12 received the 2008 Youth Activist Award from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Washington for his work as a founding member of his high school’s Gay-Straight Alliance.
Selena Jorgensen’08, currently at Harvard University Medical School, won the annual Rudolph Virchow Award from the Society for Medical Anthropology for best undergraduate paper. Her work was titled “The Little Clinic That Could: Neoliberalism, Structural Violence, and Community Resistance in Portland, Oregon.”
Dante Perez ’11, an international affairs major, received a Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute summer internship. According to the Institute, “Every summer, 32 promising Latino undergraduates from across the country are selected for an eight-week program in the nation’s capital. While in D.C., interns work in the offices of U.S. representatives.
Rory Sullivan ’10, a history major, was Lewis & Clark’s first recipient of a Shear-Mellon Fellowship at the McNeil Center for Early American History at the University of Pennsylvania.
Ben Brysacz ‘09, a political science major, was named Truman Scholar, the College’s ninth in the past 16 years. Truman Scholars are selected for their intellectual ability, leadership potential and likelihood of “making a difference.” Recipients must have outstanding communication skills, be in the top quarter of their class and be committed to careers in government or the public sector. The 65 Scholars were selected from among 595 candidates nominated by 283 colleges and universities.
No comments:
Post a Comment