Honors

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.

George Garrett, professor emeritus of creative writing, has been named Poet Laureate of Virginia.

Jacob Goeree, associate professor of economics, received a Sloan Research Fellowship, which includes a grant for $40,000.

Michael E. Mann, assistant professor of environmental sciences, was named as one of Scientific American’s first “Top 50” award-winners, recognizing his research into global climate change and its policy implications.

Jerome McGann, John Stewart Bryan University Professor of English, was one of five scholars to be honored with the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s second annual Distinguished Achievement Award in the humanities.  The award, for significant contributions to teaching and research, will provide up to $1.5 million to strengthen the University’s humanities scholarship and teaching through programs McGann is affiliated with.  McGann received a new Rockefeller Foundation award for innovative use of information technology and the Modern  Language Association’s James Russell Lowell Prize for his book “Radiant Textuality: Literature after the World Wide Web.” The prize is awarded annually for an outstanding literary or linguistic study, a critical edition of an important work or a critical biography.  McGann also will receive $175,000 to complete his online archive of the poetry and paintings of Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti through the new Scholarly Editions program of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Michael Menaker, Commonwealth Professor of Biology, was named by Gov. Mark R. Warner as one of eight Outstanding Scientists and Industrialists of 2003.

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.”

Sean Driscoll and Katie Hamm, both third-year Political and Social Thought majors, are among 76 Truman Scholarship recipients for 2003.  The program is a $30,000 merit-based grant for college juniors who wish to receive financial support for graduate or professional study leading to careers in government.  The University has now had 22 students receive this award.

Three students have been named Goldwater Scholars.  William H. Harman (Chemistry ’04), Yvonne M. Mowery (Biology/Biochemistry ’04) and Anna M. Palumbo (Biology/Music ’04) were honored by the program that supports individuals who intend to pursue careers in natural sciences or mathematics. Richard Barnes (Mathematics ’04) received an honorable mention.

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.”