New Books
Handbook for the Humanities by Janetta Rebold Benton, MA ’69, and Robert DiYanni (Pearson/Prentice Hall Publishers)
American Hero: John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States, by David Bruce Smith, BA '79, illustrated by Clarice Smith, BFA '76, MFA '79, honorary doctorate 2012 (Belle Isle Books)
Baltimore and Ohio: The Passenger Trains and Services of America’s First Common Carrier Railroad, 1827-1971 by Joseph J. Snyder, BA ’68 (Juniper House Library Publications)
Reinventing Professionalism: Journalism and News in Global Perspective by Silvio Waisbord, professor of media and public affairs (Polity Books)
The Handbook of Global Health Communication, co-edited by Silvio Waisbord, professor of media and public affairs, with Rafael Obregon (Wiley-Blackwell)
Awards and Recognition
Karen Ahlquist, associate professor of music, won the 2013 Irving Lowens Article Award from the Society for American Music for her composition "Musical Assimilation and the 'German Element' at the Cincinnati Saengerfest, 1879."
Elizabeth Chacko, chair of the Department of Geography, has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for fall 2013. She will travel to Singapore, where she will be affiliated with the National University of Singapore.
John Lill, associate professor of biology, received a $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for his collaborative research on what ecological factors cause insects, such as the silver spotted skipper butterfly, to change their diets.
Thomas Mallon, director of the Creative Writing program, and author, most recently of Watergate: A Novel (Pantheon), is a finalist in the 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
Michael O'Donnell, instructor in the Department of Speech and Hearing, was chosen by student athletes to receive the Professor of the Year award for his contributions to their academic success.
Alex Pyron, the Robert Griggs assistant professor of biology, has been awarded a $15,750 research grant from the National Geographic Society to conduct fieldwork in the jungles of Sri Lanka where he hopes to discover new species of rainforest lizards using DNA sequencing technology.
Alexandra Ratzlaff, BA ’03, received a Fulbright Grant to travel to Israel to conduct research on the “Roman Impact on a Multi-Ethnic Region: Achziv (Ecdippa) in the Western Galilee during the Roman Period”.
Akos Vertes, deputy chair of the Department of Chemistry, received the 2012 Hillebrand Prize from the Chemical Society of Washington.
Kerry Washington, BA ’98, was honored as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Entertainer of the Year by Examiner.com.
The Documentary History of the First Federal Congress (DHFFC), volumes 18-20, produced by Columbian College’s First Federal Congress Project, will receive the Society for History in the Federal Government’s Thomas Jefferson Prize for excellence in a documentary edition. This will be the third time that DHFFC volumes have received the award.