Philip Schwadel, sociology, will serve as a senior researcher with the Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C. During his one-year appointment, which begins in August, he will lead a project exploring faith among American adolescents.
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Nicole Gray, English, and Kenneth Price, English and co-director of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, were awarded the Boydston Best Essay Prize by the Association for Documentary Editing. The award honors the best essay or review published in the previous two years. Gray and Price were honored for “The Letters in the Litter: Messy Boundaries and Other Conundrums in Editing Walt Whitman’s Correspondence,” which was published in the 2016 issue of Scholarly Editing.
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Brittany Duncan, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, received $549,951 from NSF for "CAREER: Drones in Public: Foundational Interaction Research."
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Margaret Jacobs, Department of History (along with Elizabeth Lorang, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities), received $290,123 from Council on Library and Information Resources for "Genoa Indian School Digital Reconciliation Project."
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Patrick Jones and William Thomas, Department of History (along with Aaron Johnson, Department of Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education), received $41,906 from the University of Illinois for "The Classroom and the Future of the Historical Record: Humanities Education in a Changing Climate for Knowledge Production."
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Information via the Office of Research and Economic Development's Accolades and Top Awards web pages.
