Accolades

Updated 1:00 PM May 19, 2003

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Accolades

Awards

Edwards

Paul Edwards, associate professor in the School of Information, has been named a Carnegie Scholar by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The two-year award of almost $100,000 will support his work on a book about South African "technopolitics"the strategic practice of designing or implementing technologies to enact political goals. Edwards also is director of the University's Program in Science, Technology and Society.

Peretz Friedmann, the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Aerospace Engineering, has been awarded the 2003 Spirit of St. Louis Medal by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). The medal, established in 1929 by Philip D. Ball, ASME members and the citizens of St. Louis, is awarded annually for meritorious service in the advancement of aeronautics and astronautics.

Goold

Dr. Susan Dorr Goold, associate professor of internal medicine and associate director of ethics and health policy, Program in Society and Medicine, is part of a team recently honored with a Paul Ellwood Award from the Foundation for Accountability (FACCT) for designing a game to help people better understand health insurance and become more involved in its design. Goold and Dr. Marion Danis of the National Institutes of Health accepted the award May 1 in Washington, D.C., in recognition of their game, CHAT (Choosing Health Plans All Together). CHAT presents a full menu of possible health care optionsmore than a dozen types of services, each with varying levels of coveragethat must be chosen within the limited budget of a typical health insurance premium. Groups of players decide what to include and what to eliminate from their plans.

Joan Iverson Nassauer, professor of landscape architecture, led a research team whose project, "Aesthetic Initiative Measurement System," recently received the Excellence in Environmental Research Award during the biennial Federal Highway Administration 2003 Environmental Excellence Award competition. The project focused on measuring aesthetic values of highway corridor landscapes.

Appointments

The Global Ethnic Literatures Seminar has selected its fellows for 2003-04: Professor James Porter, classical studies; Associate Professors Janet Hart, anthropology, and Jarrod Hayes, romance languages and literatures; Assistant Professor Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, history and American culture; and graduate student instructors Claire Decoteau, sociology, Asli Fatima Gur, sociology, Asli Igsiz, romance languages and literatures, Ulrike Peters, Germanic languages and literatures, and Michal Rahfaldt, music.

The Michigan Society of Fellows has selected four new fellows to serve three-year appointments as postdoctoral scholars and assistant professors, beginning with the fall semester: Matthew Hull, anthropology, University of Chicago; Stella Nair, history of art, University of California, Berkeley; Shanan Peters, geological sciences, University of Chicago; and Neil Safier, history, The Johns Hopkins University. During their tenure at U-M, the fellows will teach selected courses in their affiliated departments and continue scholarly research.

The Record welcomes submissions for Accolades, including photographs. Publication is at the discretion of the editor. Please send entries to urecord@umich.edu.

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