Honors for Arts & Sciences
Applause and accolades for students, faculty and alumni
Sarah Buckley (Environmental Thought and Practice, Political Philosophy ’09) and Grayson Lambert (Foreign Affairs, Government ’09) won the first Sen. John W. Warner Public Leadership Awards for students who intend to hold public office.
Novelist and short story writer Edward P. Jones (MA Creative Writing ’81) was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
JoAnne Mancini (History ’90) won the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s 2008 Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art for her book Pre-Modernism: Art-World Change and American Culture from the Civil War to the Armory Show.
Irina Mitrea, associate professor of mathematics, won the Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize from the Association for Women in Mathematics.
George T. Rodeheaver III (PhD Chemistry ’73), distinguished professor in the Department of Plastic Surgery, received the University of Virginia Patent Foundation’s 2008 Edlich-Henderson Inventor of the Year award for his innovative wound-healing technology.
The Z Society recognized Christopher Ross Walters (Economics, Philosophy ’08) with an Edgar F. Shannon Award as best graduate of the College.
Charles Wright, Souder Family Professor of English, received the Library of Congress’ 2008 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry for lifetime achievement.
