Recognition for Dartmouth faculty, staff, and students
Susannah Heschel, the Eli Black Professor of Jewish
Studies, has been chosen to receive an honorary doctorate from the
Augustana Theologische Hochschule, a Protestant seminary in Bavaria, Germany.
She will visit the seminary to give a lecture and receive the doctorate in
spring 2008. Heschel
examines Jewish-Christian relations in Germany during the 19th and 20th
centuries and has also written extensively on feminist issues related to Jewish
studies. She received the John M. Manley Huntington Memorial Award for Newly
Promoted Faculty from the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences last spring,
and her new book, The Aryan Jesus: Christians, Nazis and the
Bible, is forthcoming from Princeton University Press.
Timothy Lahey, assistant professor of medicine at Dartmouth Medical
School, has been awarded the Infectious Disease Society of America
ERF/NFID Astellas Young Investigator Award. This award is given to two junior
faculty members selected from a national competition based on “consideration of
each applicant’s commitment to clinical and laboratory investigation, the
research program envisioned by the applicant, and creativity, originality, and
excellence in prior performance.” The $50,000 award is used to defray salary
and laboratory expenses. Lahey
is pursuing a project titled, “Protecting HIV-specific CD4+ T cells from
apoptosis,” in which he will explore novel means of boosting immune responses
to HIV while protecting critical responder cells from clonal deletion by
HIV.
Jonathan Skinner, the John Sloan Dickey Third Century Professor in
Economics and a professor of community and family medicine at
Dartmouth Medical School, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM).
IOM President Harvey V. Fineberg said in a statement, “Members are elected
through a highly selective process that recognizes people who have made major
contributions to the advancement of the medical sciences, health care, and
public health. Election is considered one of the highest honors in the fields
of medicine and health.” Skinner is
part of the interdisciplinary Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and
Clinical Practice and his work has examined efficiency and equity in the U.S.
health care system. He has studied the geographic variations in health-care
expenditures across the United States, finding that regions with the most rapid
growth in health-care spending did not necessarily have the greatest
improvement in survival, suggesting that improving health care is about
smarter, rather than more spending.
Brad Taylor, assistant professor of biological sciences,
received the 2007 H.B. Hynes Award for New Investigators from the North
American Benthological Society (NABS). The award recognizes Taylor’s outstanding published
paper, “Loss of a harvested fish species disrupts carbon flow in a diverse
tropical river” (Taylor, B.W., A.S. Flecker, and R.O. Hall, Jr., 2006,
Science 313:833-836). The NABS is an international scientific
organization that promotes understanding of the biotic communities of lake and
stream bottoms and their role in aquatic ecosystems. Taylor’s research
interests range from ecosystem ecology to evolutionary ecology. This is his
first term as a faculty member at Dartmouth, and he is teaching Aquatic
Ecology.
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