Kudos: Read about faculty, staff and student awards, appointments and achievements
Elsa Filosa, assistant professor of Italian, has received the Villa I Tatti Fellowship for 2014-15 from the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence. The fellowship is awarded annually to 15 scholars worldwide whose research focuses on the Italian Renaissance. It is the most prestigious and competitive fellowship a scholar can receive in this field.
Earl E. Fitz, professor of Portuguese, Spanish and comparative literature, is the author of Machado de Assis and Female Characterization: The Novels, published by Bucknell University Press (2015). He is co-translator, with Gregory Rabassa, of the Portuguese novel Saint Christopher: A Novella, published by Tagus Press (2015).
Two researchers in the Department of Biomedical Informatics were recognized at the American Medical Informatics Association’s 2015 Summit on Clinical Research Informatics held in San Francisco.
Huan Mo, a postdoctoral research fellow, won the Best Paper Award for “A Prototype for Executable and Portable Electronic Clinical Quality Measures Using the KNIME Analytics Platform.” Laura Wiley, a graduate student, received the Best Student Paper Award for “Phenotyping Adverse Drug Reactions: Statin-Related Myotoxicity.” Both are in Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics Joshua Denny’s group.
Lorrie Moore, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English and a distinguished American fiction writer, has been appointed to a three-year term as a vice president for literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The purpose of this prestigious academy, an honor society of 250 architects, composers, artists and writers, is to foster and sustain an interest in literature, music and the fine arts by identifying and encouraging individual artists.
Kristin Torrey, director of Greek Life, has been named to the Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors Foundation board of directors. Torrey joins a group of 14 campus-based professionals, national headquarters staff members and volunteers for a two-year term.
The American Institute of Mathematical Sciences has dedicated a special issue of its journal to Glenn F. Webb, professor of mathematics, on the occasion of his 70thbirthday. View the special issue here.