Susan Hermiller, mathematics, was named a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. Fellows are members who have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics.
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."
Leen-Kiat Soh, computer science and engineering, earned an honorable mention in the 2018 National Center for Women and Information Technology Engagement Excellence Awards. His team received the award for their work on a National Science Foundation-supported project focused on improving learning and performance in computing instruction.
Casey Kelly, communication studies, has earned the Karl R. Wallace Memorial Award for Outstanding Scholarship from the National Communication Association. The award is presented to scholars who have completed a doctorate within the past 10 years or who are well advanced in doctoral studies in rhetoric and public address. The award will be presented at the National Communication Association’s annual meeting, November 7-11, in Salt Lake City.
Suzette Person, computer science and engineering, earned a Test of Time award from the Association for Computing Machinery's Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering for a paper she co-wrote. The Test of Time Award is given annually recognizing highly influential papers published 10 years ago. The article, “Differential Symbolic Execution," was published in Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering.
Gil Renberg, classics and religious studies, earned one of three Charles J. Goodwin Awards of Merit, named in honor of a long-time member and generous benefactor of the Society for Classical Studies. The awards are given for outstanding contributions to classical scholarship published by a member of the society during the three years before the current calendar year.
Angela DeLuccia, doctoral student in sociology, has been selected to participate in one of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s leadership development programs, designed to equip leaders across the country — in every sector and field — to collaborate, break down silos and use their influence to make communities healthier and more equitable. DeLuccia was selected for Health Policy Research Scholars. Designed for second-year doctoral students from underrepresented populations and disadvantaged backgrounds, Health Policy Research Scholars helps researchers from all fields—from economics to epidemiology—apply their work to policies that advance equity and health while building a diverse field of leaders who reflect our changing national demographics. The four- to five-year program provides participants with an annual stipend of up to $30,000.
Robert Hall, graduate student in communication studies, won a both a Top Four Paper in Interpersonal and Family Communication Interest Group for the Central States Communication Association and the Nancy Burrell Award for Top Student Paper for his paper, “Between friends, an 'implicit trust': Exploring the (non)disclosure of private mental health-related information in friendships.” The paper will be presented at the association’s annual meeting in April 2019 in Omaha.
