Faculty Highlights

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  Softic Exhibition

  Four of Tanja Softic's prints were accepted to the International Print Triennial exhibition in Krakow that opens in July.

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  Seeley Fellowship

  History professor Samantha Seeley has been awarded a Kluge Fellowship from The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress for her book project, “Race and Removal in the Early American Republic.”

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  Nelson Exhibition

  Photography professor Brittany Nelson's work will be featured in the new exhibition "Science Fictions " at Crush Curatorial Gallery in New York City.

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  Erkulwater Award

  Political Science professor Jennifer Erkulwater is the recipient of the 2017 Best Paper in Identity Politics Award from the annual Northeastern Political Science Association conference for her paper titled "The Social Security Act and the Origins of Political Identity among People with Disabilities, 1935-1950."

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  Ross Book

  Math professor Bill Ross published Finite Blashke Products and Their Connections.

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  Outka Exhibition

  English professor Elizabeth Outka developed the exhibition "Pandemic: Richmond," now on view at the Valentine.

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  Yellin Grant History professor Eric Yellin received a grant from the Dirksen Congressional Center to research the political, cultural, and social meanings of Social Security after World War II.
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  Nolin Article

  Chemistry professor Kristine Nolin, along with undergraduate co-authors, published "Friedel-Crafts alkylation of benzo[b]furan with activated cyclopropanes catalyzed by a calcium(II) complex" in the journal Tetrahedron Letters.

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  Ayers receives 2018 Avery O. Craven Award

  Edward Ayers, Tucker Boatwright Professor of the Humanities and president emeritus, was awarded the 2018 Avery O. Craven Award for his book The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America.

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  Hilliker Grant

  Biology professor Angie Hilliker was awarded a NIH grant for research on production of proteins.