Dear Colleagues,

We have so much to celebrate at this time of year; four faculty members in the College were elevated to distinguished rank: Professor of Mathematics Michael J. Larsen, Professor of Political Science William R. Thomson, Professor of Biology Curtis M. Lively, and Professor Geoffrey C. Fox, Physics.  Professor John Hanson, Department of History, received the 2011 IU John W. Ryan Award for Distinguished Contributions to International Programs and Studies.  Jill Robinson, senior lecturer in Chemistry, received the 2011 IU President’s Award for Teaching. And both 2011 Lieber Memorial Teaching Associate Awards went to doctoral students in the College, Emily A. Bowman (Sociology) and Michael T. Mosier (Spanish and Portuguese).
Heartiest congratulations to Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences Olaf Sporns,  Professor of English George Hutchinson, and Maurice Manning, poet and associate professor of English, on being named 2011 Fellows of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

This will be the final faculty-staff newsletter for the 2010-2011 academic year.  Faculty and staff will continue to receive regular updates from the Themester office over the summer months.

All best,

David Zaret
Interim Dean, IU College of Arts and Sciences

• Advisor of the Year, other awards announced
• Richard DiMarchi delivers 2011 Distinguished Faculty Research lecture
• Four undergrads receive prestigious scholarships
• Pollock honored at Cyclotron ceremony
• International conference examines the “New Antisemitism”
• Undergrad Erin Chapman and others honored at convocation
• First intact fossil of ancient plant discovered
• In the theatre, “Anything Goes”
• Students in Free Enterprise group wins regional competition
• Horowitz honored by American Physical Society
• High altitude balloon launch a first for Bloomington (pictures of the launch here; video here)
• Kirkwood Observatory reopens for seasonal stargazing
• Geography professors win NASA grant to study Bangladesh climate change
• Faculty win New Frontiers grants
• Cullather book earns Hawley Prize
• Alum’s documentary looks at immigration for the Mexican side
• Innes elected to American Academy of Microbiology
• Rising CO2 causing plants to release less water
  
• An IU first: doctoral student is a Harvard Society Fellow
• Mathematician Katz solves 65-year-old problem
• IMP major starts a new blog, “SuperFOOD me”
• Michael McRaith (’86 English and Psychology) to lead new Federal Insurance Office
• Carl Ipsen named faculty director of Collins

• More News
• The Book Nook & Other Publications