UMass Amherst Faculty, Student Recognized
April 26, 2007
| Contact: | Daniel J. Fitzgibbons 413/545-0444 |
AMHERST, Mass. – University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty members have been recognized for their accomplishments and achievements in recent weeks:
Max Page, associate professor in the art department, has been awarded a Howard Foundation fellowship for the 2007-08 academic year. He is one of 12 fellows selected from among 237 artists and scholars nominated from the fields of visual arts, media studies and the history of art and architecture.
The $25,000 fellowships are awarded by the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation and are administered by Brown University.
Page, who teaches urban, architectural and public history, will use the award for his book project titled “Priceless: The History and Politics of Historic Preservation.”
Anna Nagurney, the John F. Smith Memorial Professor at the Isenberg School of Management, is one of five new fellows elected by the Regional Science Association International (RSAI).
Founded in 1954, RSAI seeks to foster the exchange of ideas and research in order to facilitate new insights for dealing with regional problems. The award was created in 2001 to honor an elite group of the association’s members who have impacted the field of regional science through scholarly and focused research contributions.
Michael J. Constantino, assistant professor of psychology, has been selected to receive the American Psychological Foundation’s Division 29 (Psychotherapy) 2007 Early Career Award. The award will be presented at the 115th annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in August.
The award recognizes promising contributions by a Division 29 member with 10 or fewer years of postdoctoral experience.
John Clark, professor of environmental toxicology and chemistry in the department of veterinary and animal sciences, was elected a fellow of the American Chemical Society by the Division of Agrochemicals at the 233rd national meeting in Chicago on March 25-29.
The lifetime achievement award is in recognition of outstanding contributions in the endeavors of the ACS division and to the science of agrochemistry.
Susan Shapiro, associate professor in the department of Judaic and Near Eastern studies, has been awarded the Master Visiting Professorship in Jewish Studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, where she will teach “Post-Holocaust Philosophy and Theology” during the spring 2008 semester.
The upper-level seminar, which Shapiro teaches on campus, focuses on a subject that she has researched for some time.
While in Rome, Shapiro plans to do research at the Gregorian and Vatican libraries.
Mary Andrianopoulos, associate professor of communication disorders, gave an invited keynote address at the first annual Symposium on Voice and Swallowing and their Disorders held April 20-22 in Athens, Greece.
Andrianopoulos spoke on “Neuropathological Issues Affecting Swallowing and Therapy for Neuropathology of Voice.”
Michael Carolan, of Belchertown, a student in the MFA Program for Poets and Writers, recently won second place in the essay category in The Atlantic magazine’s writing contest.
The magazine awarded $500 to Carolan for his article, “Breaking Point: The Search for a Post-War Grandfather and America’s Treatment of its Psychically Wounded.”
Françoise N. Hamlin, assistant professor of history, was awarded the Charles Warren Faculty Fellowship in American History from Harvard University for the 2007-08 academic year.
Hamlin received the fellowship for her project on the civil rights movement in Clarksdale, Miss., where she plans to complete a manuscript for publication. The project evolved from her dissertation completed at Yale University in 2004.
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