Charles Schweik, associate professor of Environmental Conservation and Public Policy, is one of three senior scholars worldwide to receive a new award honoring the late political economist Elinor Ostrom, the only woman to date to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Throughout her career, Ostrom, who died in 2012, focused on demonstrating that “collaboration is possible, frequent and occurs among individuals of different rationalities and in different contexts,” according to the website for the new award.
Maria José Botelho, assistant professor in the School of Education, was elected to the National Council of Teachers of English Assembly for Research’s executive board as its newsletter editor.
Baoshan Xing, professor of environmental and soil chemistry in the Stockbridge School of Agriculture, gave an invited talk on May 23 at the International Symposium on Agriculture and Environmental Health at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Health educator Amanda Collings Vann of the Center for Health Promotion has been appointed as a volunteer state coordinator for the BACCHUS Network, a nationally recognized leader in peer education development.