Accolades
Melissa Homestead, English and women’s and gender studies, earned a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. During the one-year period, she will finish a book focused on the relationship between novelist Willa Cather and her longtime partner Edith Lewis.
Massimiliano Pierobon, computer science and engineering, and Yansha Deng, a visiting postdoctoral scholar at Nebraska in 2016, were among the co-authors on a paper that received the 2017 Best Paper award at the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers’ Global Communications Conference. The paper, “A Microfluidic Feed Forward Loop Pulse Generator for Molecular Communication,” is based on research Deng started at Nebraska and an idea Pierobon began developing in graduate school.
Philip Sapirstein, art history and digital humanities, and classics and religious studies, received a National Endowment for the Humanities-Mellon Fellowship for Digital Publication. During his fellowship, Sapirstein will design an interactive virtual museum of the Hera temple at Olympia.
Kwame Dawes, English, has been named to the Academy of American Poets’ Board of Chancellors, an honor held by some of the nation’s most distinguished poets. Dawes will be a consultant on artistic programming, serve as a judge for the organization’s poetry prizes and act as a global ambassador.
Top Sponsored Programs
Department of English
- K. Price
- $14,916
- University of Iowa
- Fame and Infamy: Walt Whitman’s Old Age Correspondence
Department of English/University Libraries
- K. Dawes, L. Dawes
- $150,000
- Ford Foundation
- African Poetry Digital Project
Accolades and Top Sponsored Programs via the Office of Research and Economic Development.
