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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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