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AAAS ELECTS 10 COLUMBIA SCHOLARS: The American Academy of
Arts and Sciences has elected 177 fellows and 30 foreign honorary
members to the 2002 class, and 10 University scholars are among
them. Election to the academy recognizes those who have made preeminent
contributions to their scholarly fields and professions, according
to Academy President Patricia Meyer Spacks.
The Columbia electees are Mark Cane, Vetlesen Professor of Earth
Climate Science; Ann Douglas, professor of English and comparative
literature; psychology professor Carol S. Dweck; Robert A. Ferguson,
George E. Woodberry Professor of Law and English and Comparative
Literature; William V. Harris, William R. Shepherd Professor of
History; architecture professor Steven Holl; philosophy professor
Philip S. Kitcher; Herbert Pardes, psychiatry professor and president
of New York Presbyterian Hospital; religion professor Wayne Proudfoot;
and James S. Polshek, architecture professor and former dean of
the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
PRIZED: Smile of Discontent: Humor, Gender and Nineteenth-Century
British Fiction (University of Chicago Press, 1999) by Adjunct
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature Eileen
Gillooly was awarded the Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Award
by the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature. The award
is presented annually to the book that makes the most significant
contribution to the study of narrative. Gillooly’s book argued
that literary humor became a prudent method for women to express
discontent within Victorian culture, which was fundamentally committed
to restricting female expression.
HONORED: Carol Gluck, the George Sansom Professor of History,
has been honored with the Fulbright Program 50th Anniversary Distinguished
Scholar Award by the Japan-United States Educational Commission.
The award was presented in recognition of her “scholarship
of the highest order” and contributions to international understanding
“in the true Fulbright spirit.” Gluck is a historian of
modern Japan in the departments of History and East Asian Languages
and Cultures and the East Asian Institute.
AWARDED: Colin Nuckolls, assistant professor of organic chemistry,
was awarded a 2002 Beckman Young Investigator Award for “Nanoscale
Energy Conversion, Electrical Conduction and Hierarchical Assembly.”
The Beckman Young Investigator Awards, established in 1991, provide
research support to the most promising young faculty members in
the first three years of tenure track appointments in academic and
nonprofit institutions who conduct fundamental research in the chemical
and life sciences.
T.P.C.
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