Accolades and Top Awards information from the Office of Research and Economic Development:
Michael Lippman, classics and religious studies, received an Award for Excellence in Teaching of the Classics at the College Level from the Society for Classical Studies. The award recognizes teaching excellence in classical subject matter and the design and implementation of new courses and programs. Lippman was selected for his innovative pedagogy, which results in profound, personal and critical engagement among his students.
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Gil Renberg, classics and religious studies, earned one of three Charles J. Goodwin Awards of Merit from the Society for Classical Studies. The awards, named for a longtime member and generous benefactor of the society, honor outstanding contributions to classical scholarship published by a member during the three years before the current calendar year. Renberg was honored for his book “Where Dreams May Come.”
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Six university professors received named and university professorships from the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor during a Nov. 13 celebration. These professorships, one of the highest forms of recognition bestowed on faculty, recognize outstanding faculty members for research and teaching contributions and promise for future excellence. The new honorees are:
- Joy Castro, Willa Cather Professor, English and ethnic studies
- Carrick Detweiler, Rosowski Associate Professor, computer science and engineering
- Katrina Jagodinsky, Rosowski Associate Professor, history
- Debra Hope, Aaron Douglas Professor, psychology
- Rick Bevins, Chancellor’s Professorship, psychology
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Clark Archer, natural resources, and David Wishart, geography, co-authored “Atlas of Nebraska,” which received a Nebraska Book Award from the Nebraska Center for the Book and the Nebraska Library Commission.
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Kristen Hoerl, communication studies, won the 2018 Book Award from the American Studies Division of the National Communication Association for “The Bad Sixties: Hollywood Memories of the Counterculture, Antiwar, and Black Power Movements.” The book focuses on fictionalized portrayals of 1960s activism in popular television and film.
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Department of Chemistry/Department of Biochemistry
- D. Berkowitz, P. Dussault, T. Helikar, R. Powers, $321,028, National Strategic Research Institute, Medical Countermeasure Drug Discovery and Development
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Department of Physics and Astronomy
- D. Umstadter, S. Banerjee, $499,280, Department of Energy, Laboratory Study of Nonlinear QED in Intense Laser-matter Interactions
- D. Umstadter, G. Golovin, B. Shadwick, $432,000, DOE, Controlled Injection of Electrons for Improved Performance of Laser-wakefield Acceleration
- M. Centurion, $700,847, DOE, Capturing Ultrafast Electron Driven Chemical Reactions in Molecules
- D. Umstadter, $1,000,000, DOE, LaserNetUS
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Department of Sociology
- R. Abadie, K. Dombrowski, P. Habecker, $412,763, U.S. DHHS-National Institute on Drug Abuse, Assessing the Effects of Hurricane Maria on Opioid Agonist Treatment Access among PWID in Rural Puerto Rico
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Institute for Ethnic Studies/Department of History
- J. Jones, $216,106, National Endowment for the Humanities, To Enter Africa from America: The United States, Africa and the New Imperialism, 1862-1919
