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Prize-worthy teachers

The 1999 Booth prizes for excellence in teaching were awarded to graduate students Rebecca Field, SM’95, mathematics; Juha Seppälä, economics; Jacqueline Stewart, AM’93, English language & literature; and Marko Zivkovic, AM’91, anthropology. Graduate students Ian Robertson, SM’94, mathematics; Aditya Unni, SM’99, chemistry; and Janine Wittwer, SM’94, mathematics, received the 1999 physical sciences teaching prizes.

A real sleeper

In June, the American Sleep Disorders Association honored Wallace Mendelson, professor of psychiatry and medicine, with its William C. Dement academic achievement award for his lifetime contributions to sleep medicine. Dement, MD’55, PhD’58, established the world’s first clinical sleep-disorders clinic.

Healthy ranking

For the third year in a row, the U of C Hospitals ranked 13th overall in the annual U.S. News & World Report survey of 7,000 hospitals. The U of C’s endocrinology, gastroenterology, and cancer programs each ranked seventh in the nation.

Divine gifts

Divinity School faculty members Catherine A. Brekus; Margaret M. Mitchell, AM’82, PhD’89; and Susan E. Schreiner have each received one-year Henry Luce III fellowships. They are writing books, respectively, on 18th-century evangelist Sarah Osborn, literary portraits of the Apostle Paul, and the search for
certainty.

Good grades for grad schools

The GSB held steady at sixth in the 1999 U.S. News & World Report’s ranking of graduate schools. The Law School fell to sixth from fourth, and the Pritzker School of Medicine remained 18th.

Expert educators

The 1999 faculty awards for excellence in graduate teaching went to Jonathan Abbatt, geophysical sciences; Philip Bohlman, music; Paul Friedrich, anthropology, linguistics and the Committee on Social Thought; and Lloyd Rudolph, political science. Senior lecturer Karen Teigiser, AM’71, received the SSA award for excellence in teaching, while the Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies named Don Coursey and Robert LaLonde, AB’80, professors of the year.

Probing proteins

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has awarded a $960,000 interdisciplinary science grant to U of C faculty members David Lynn, R. Stephen Berry, Tobin Sosnick, and Stephen Meredith, PhD’82, plus Pappannan Thiyagarajan, a scientist at Argonne. Their three-year project will study protein folding and may provide insight into the cause of Alzheimer’s disease.

Poetic revival

The University Library received a grant of $125,508 from the Save America’s Treasures program to restore its deteriorating Poetry magazine collection, which contains 120,000 pages of authors’ letters, editorial files, and original manuscripts. The grant will be used to repair the fragile originals, microfilm the archive, and digitize the first decade of the journal, founded in 1912.

Div School gains

The Divinity School welcomes two new scholars: Saba Mahmood has been appointed assistant professor of the history of religions as well as in anthropology, and Paul Mendes-Flohr has been appointed professor of modern Jewish thought.

Gender director

English professor Lauren Berlant has replaced historian Leora Auslander as director of the Center for Gender Studies. During Berlant’s three-year appointment, the Center will begin offering funds and space for new working groups composed of faculty and/or students.

Statistics say . . .

Three U of C faculty members were elected fellows of the American Statistical Association in August: education professor Larry V. Hedges, statistics chair Michael Stein, and associate professor of statistics Per Mykland.

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