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Margaret Newell Book Wins James A. Rawley Prize
Margaret Ellen Newell, professor and vice chair, Department of History, has received the 2016 James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians (OAH). The award, presented…

History of Art Professor Named 2016 Guggenheim Fellow
Julia F. Andrews, professor, history of art, is in very good company. Since their creation in 1925 by former U.S. Sen. Simon Guggenheim and his wife, Guggenheim Fellowships have been awarded to an…

Eleven ASC Scholars and Teachers Receive 2016 Distinguished OAA Awards
Eleven Arts and Sciences scholars and teachers — covering the diverse range of disciplines in arts and humanities, natural and physical sciences and social and behavioral sciences — won top…

ASC Students Win Competition at Clinton Global Initiative University
Nima Dahir and Jackson Frazier (economics and mathematics) and fellow student Abd Al-Rahman Traboulsi (biomedical engineering), won the Resolution Social Venture Challenge (SVC) at the 2016…

Thirty-eight ASC Students Earn Top Undergraduate Research Prizes
Arts and Sciences undergraduates — including aspiring dancers, writers and historians; physicists, Earth scientists and biologists; economists, psychologists and journalists — were among the…

Arts and Sciences Graduate Programs Rank Among Nation’s Top
Five graduate disciplines within the College of Arts and Sciences are newly ranked among the nation’s top, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2017 edition of “America’s Best Graduate…

Four BETHA Grants Awarded to College of Arts and Sciences Projects
Four of the six proposals chosen for funding in the 2016 Battelle Engineering, Technology and Human Affairs (BETHA) Endowment annual grant competition are from the College of Arts and Sciences.…

Chuan Xue's NSF CAREER Award Supports Work on Processes Related to Neurodegenerative Diseases
Chuan Xue, assistant professor of mathematics, has received the National Science Foundation's top award supporting the work of the nation’s most promising junior researchers. Her selection…

Adriana Dawes' NSF CAREER Award Supports Cell Biology Research
Adriana Dawes, assistant professor of mathematics and molecular genetics, has received the top award given by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in support the work of the nation’s most…