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Recognition for Dartmouth faculty, staff, and students
Susan
Ackerman, professor and chair of religion and professor of women's and gender studies,
received a 2006 Lambda Literary Award for the best book in lesbian, gay,
bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) studies for her book, When Heroes Love:
The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David (Columbia
University Press, 2005). The Lambda Literary Foundation is the country's
leading organization for LGBT literature. Ackerman's interests include the
representation of women in the Bible and the roles of women in the religion of
ancient Israel and the religions of Israel's neighbors. She is the author of
three books and teaches undergraduate courses including, Women in the Bible,
Patterns of Religious Experience, and Religion of Israel: The Hebrew Bible (Old
Testament).
George J.
Demko, professor of geography emeritus and former
director of the Rockefeller
Center, was recently appointed to the Editorial Panel of the University of
Wales Press for the publishing house's book series on European crime fiction.
Demko is an expert in the genre, specifically the geography of mystery novels.
His undergraduate seminar, Landscapes of Murder: The Geography of Mystery
Fiction, focused on the role that place plays in the mystery novel. Though
retired from teaching, Demko currently gives seminars on crime fiction to
Dartmouth alumni clubs across the United States. He is the author of numerous
books, including Reordering the World: Geopolitical perspectives on the
21st Century (1999) and Population Under Duress: The Geodemography of
Post-Soviet Russia (1999), as well as many articles on international crime
fiction.
William A. Nelson, associate professor of psychiatry and
associate professor of community and family medicine at Dartmouth Medical School (DMS), was
awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Elmhurst College
(Elmhurst, Ill.) on May 28. The degree recognized Nelson's teaching,
scholarship and research in the field of health care ethics. Nelson is the
former chief of the Ethics Education Service in the National Center for Ethics
in Health Care. In 2004, the Veterans Health Administration—where Nelson worked
for 28 years—established the annual William A. Nelson Award for Excellence in
Health Care Ethics, a national competitive award in recognition of his efforts
fostering clinical and organizational ethical practices. Nelson is also the
director of Community and Family Medicine's Rural Ethics Initiatives at
DMS.
James
N. Weinstein, professor and chair of the Department of Orthopaedic
Surgery at Dartmouth Medical School and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, has been
named the recipient of the 2006 Wiltse Lifetime Achievement Award by the
International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine. Weinstein is only the
7th person to receive this prestigious international honor, which comes with a
cash award of $50,000. Weinstein is currently leading the 10-year, $21 million
SPORT (Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial) clinical trial, which is
examining the relative efficacy of surgical versus non-surgical treatment for
the three most commonly diagnosed lumbar spine conditions. He is also a
director of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, editor-in-chief of
Spine, and the author of more than 250 publications.
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