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AAAS ELECTS 10 COLUMBIA SCHOLARS: The American Academy of
Arts and Sciences has elected 177 fellows and 30 foreign honorary
members to the 2002 class, and 10 University scholars are among
them. Election to the academy recognizes those who have made
preeminent contributions to their scholarly fields and professions,
according to Academy President Patricia Meyer Spacks.
The Columbia electees are Mark Cane, Vetlesen Professor of Earth
Climate Science; Ann Douglas, professor of English and comparative
literature; psychology professor Carol S. Dweck; Robert A.
Ferguson, George E. Woodberry Professor of Law and English and
Comparative Literature; William V. Harris, William R. Shepherd
Professor of History; architecture professor Steven Holl;
philosophy professor Philip S. Kitcher; Herbert Pardes, psychiatry
professor and president of New York Presbyterian Hospital; religion
professor Wayne Proudfoot; and James S. Polshek, architecture
professor and former dean of the School of Architecture, Planning
and Preservation.
PRIZED: Smile of Discontent: Humor, Gender and
Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (University of Chicago
Press, 1999) by Adjunct Associate Professor of English and
Comparative Literature Eileen Gillooly was awarded the Barbara
Perkins and George Perkins Award by the Society for the Study of
Narrative Literature. The award is presented annually to the book
that makes the most significant contribution to the study of
narrative. Gillooly’s book argued that literary humor became
a prudent method for women to express discontent within Victorian
culture, which was fundamentally committed to restricting female
expression.
HONORED: Carol Gluck, the George Sansom Professor of
History, has been honored with the Fulbright Program 50th
Anniversary Distinguished Scholar Award by the Japan-United States
Educational Commission. The award was presented in recognition of
her “scholarship of the highest order” and
contributions to international understanding “in the true
Fulbright spirit.” Gluck is a historian of modern Japan in
the departments of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures
and the East Asian Institute.
AWARDED: Colin Nuckolls, assistant professor of organic
chemistry, was awarded a 2002 Beckman Young Investigator Award for
“Nanoscale Energy Conversion, Electrical Conduction and
Hierarchical Assembly.” The Beckman Young Investigator
Awards, established in 1991, provide research support to the most
promising young faculty members in the first three years of tenure
track appointments in academic and nonprofit institutions who
conduct fundamental research in the chemical and life sciences.
T.P.C.
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