Honors for Arts & Sciences

Julian Bond, professor of history, received the National Civil Rights Museum’s annual Freedom Award, whose previous recipients include Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, Nelson Mandela and Colin Powell. James F. Childress, professor of ethics and medical education and director of the Institute for Practical Ethics, received U.Va.’s highest honor, the Thomas Jefferson Award, at Fall Convocation in October. He is the 47th recipient of the award that honors a member of the University community who exemplifies in character, work and influences the ideals of the University’s founder.

James N. Galloway, professor of environmental sciences, was appointed to the Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board by EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman. Galloway also was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his work in “biogeochemistry, especially for studies related to global nitrogen cycling, and for enhancing the application of scientific understanding about nitrogen.” George Garrett, professor emeritus of creative writing, has been named Poet Laureate of Virginia. Jerome McGann, the John Stewart Bryan University Professor of English, is the first winner of the Richard W. Lyman Award, a $25,000 national prize that honors leaders in the use of computers to expand traditional notions of humanities scholarship and teaching.

Jenny B. Sawyers (MFA, scene design ’02) was the Barbizon National Scene Design Award winner for her design of the U.Va. drama department’s production of “The Miser.” Vivian Thompson, assistant professor in both environmental sciences and politics, was appointed to the State Air Pollution Control Board by Gov. Mark R. Warner. Paul Walker, a member of the performance faculty in the music department, was awarded the William H. Scheide Prize by the American Bach Society for his book “Theories of Fugue from the Age of Josquin to the Age of Bach.” This prize, which includes the sum of $1,000, is awarded bienially to “a publication of exceptional merit on Bach or figures in his circle by a scholar in the early stages of his or her career.”