Faculty Awards

Indiana University's Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs has announced the winners of the Fran Snygg Endowment Fund and the Fran Snygg Grant for Artistic Collaboration. This year's recipients are Joseph Galvin from the Jacobs School of Music, and Gwendolyn Hamm, Elizabeth Shea and Selene Carter from the Department of Kinesiology in the Indiana University School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation.
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Nearly three dozen faculty from various Indiana University campuses have received New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities grants for 2010 to support expansion of their work into new disciplinary or interdisciplinary areas.
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The MacArthur Foundation is providing more than $727,000 for a project examining the development of systems thinking in middle school students and developing new curriculum for teachers across disciplines.
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Mohammad Torabi, Chancellor's Professor and chair of the Department of Applied Health Science in Indiana University's School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, received the Distinguished Service Award from Eta Sigma Gamma, the National Health Education Honorary, during its annual conference held in conjunction with the American School Health Association annual meeting in Denver.
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David Lohrmann, professor of school health promotion in the Department of Applied Health Science in Indiana University's School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, has been awarded the American School Health Association's Howe Award, the highest honor bestowed on a member of the organization for outstanding contributions and distinguished service in school health.
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Indiana University Bloomington biologist Ellen Ketterson is IU's newest fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the organization announced today (Dec. 17). Ketterson is invited to attend a special ceremony at the AAAS annual meeting in San Diego on Feb. 20, 2010. Her election brings the university's total number of AAAS fellows to 38.
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