Faculty and Staff Awards & Honors
Luis Figueroa, associate professor
of history, and Lisa-Anne Foster, associate professor of
biology, were named joint winners of the 2005 Dean Arthur H. Hughes
Award for Achievement in Teaching during the annual Honors Day
ceremony. The Hughes Award, established in honor of longtime dean of
faculty and two-time acting President Arthur Hughes, recognizes
relatively new and/or junior members of the faculty for achievement in
teaching.
Rebecca Goldstein, visiting
professor of philosophy, has been selected as a fellow of The American
Academy of Arts and Sciences. This year’s 196 fellows and 17 foreign
honorary members include Nobel Prize-winning physicist Eric Cornell of
the University of Colorado, Supreme Court Chief Justice William
Rehnquist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist Horton Foote. Fellows
and foreign honorary members are nominated and elected to the Academy
by the current membership, comprising scholars and practitioners from
mathematics, physics, biological sciences, social sciences, humanities
and the arts, public affairs, and business.
Jeffry Walker of the Austin Arts
Center has been awarded the 2005 Elizabeth L. Mahaffey Arts
Administration Fellowship by the Arts Division of the Connecticut
Commission on Culture and Tourism. This award "annually recognizes one
Connecticut arts administrator of exceptional accomplishment."
Criteria for the award includes: record of accomplishment in the field
of arts administration; impact on the organization for which the
individual works; and potential for continued career achievement.
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