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Lisa Nielson is much more than an award-winning teacher at �Ӱ���Ƶ, where she is frequently known as “Dr. N” among her students. She has also honed skills as a mentor, to the Nth degree. The Anisfield-Wolf SAGES Fellow is one of the winners of the 2016 J. Bruce Jackson, MD,…

In early April, there was a knock at the side door of the classroom where Amy Absher was teaching one of her SAGES courses. To the laughter of her students, Absher joked: “We’re not interested. We don’t want any.” The door then swung open, and in walked President Barbara R. Snyder to congratulate…

Jim Sheeler’s classes—and much of his journalistic career—center on telling untold stories; celebrating those who didn’t make headlines, but whose lives could fill volumes. On day one of his “Introduction to Journalism” class, students are given their first assignment: Observe, then write about,…

Peter Shulman, associate professor of history, won the senior Moroney Award for Scholarship on Postal History for an article he wrote last summer. His article, "Ben Franklin's Ghost: World Peace, American Slavery, and the Global Politics of Information before the Universal Postal Union," was…

Dave Lucas, the 2016 Baker-­Nord Center for the Humanities faculty affiliate, received a 2016 Cleveland Art Prize for his poetry. He was one of two winners of the Emerging Artist Award for which he will receive $10,000. The award is designated for “artists currently living, or who have resided,…

Like her former teachers at Yale University and her mentors at the Yale Center for British Art, Andrea Wolk Rager radiates an enthusiasm for art history that inspires her graduate students—the next generation of curators and professors—to develop and share their ideas about art. As an educator,…

Growing up in Lares, a rural town of Puerto Rico, Carlos Crespo-Hernández knew he loved science but was unsure how to turn that passion into a career. During his undergraduate years at the University of Puerto Rico, San Juan campus, though, he began conducting chemistry research. Then, through a…

ACES+, the continuation of Academic Careers in Engineering & Science (ACES) program, announced the recipients of the 2016 ADVANCE Opportunity Grant Awards. Thirteen proposals representing academic disciplines—ranging from biostatistics to engineering to pharmacology—have been awarded a total of…

Anant Madabhushi, professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics, was recently awarded U.S. patent 9,292,933, titled “Method and apparatus for shape based deformable segmentation of multiple overlapping objects.” The present…

Catherine Osborn, a research assistant and guest curator for the Dittrick Museum of Medical History, was selected at as Campus Student Employee of the Year. Osborn assists the chief curator and museum staff in creation of public museum exhibitions and exhibit concept and planning. She played a…