Kudos is an occasional column that recognizes Dartmouth faculty, students, and staff who have received awards or other honors. Did you or a colleague recently receive an award or honor? Please tell us about it: dartmouth.news@dartmouth.edu.
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The International Society for the Performing Arts has awarded the 2024 Patrick Hayes Award for transformative leadership.
, the ISPA called the Howard Gilman ’44 Executive Director of the “a visionary leader” whose “leadership role at organizations across the United States is only matched by her commitment to mentoring young professionals in the performing arts.”
The award honors the legacy of the late impresario and Washington Performing Arts Society founder Patrick Hayes, the first president of what would ultimately become the ISPA.
In attendance at the Jan. 11 awards presentation at the in New York was Aleskie’s mentor, Benson Puah, the former CEO of The Esplanade in Singapore.
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book The Undertow: Scenes From a Slow Civil War was as one of five finalists for 2023 nonfiction book of the year.
Sharlet, a past winner of a National Magazine Award for Reporting, traveled the country to better understand, and chronicle, the roots of the extremism from the far right.
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, a graduate student in microbiology and cell biology at the , won the . The contest is designed to help scientists develop the skills to communicate their research to the general public. Presented in just under two minutes, succinctly explained his work as a member of Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences cell biology lab, which, he said, “studies how cells decide when to grow and when to divide.” Understanding the processes that regulate cell growth has implications for research into diseases such as cancer.
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Professor of Theater has received a fellowship from the . The for a book on how the arts—including theater, dance, poetry, film, and performance arts—are used to address themes of violence and illness in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Undergraduates in a 2021 co-led by —a postdoctoral fellow in the Guarini School’s program and lecturer in environmental studies—have of their comparative study of the effectiveness of food charities versus market-based food distribution programs.
The study, which appears in the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, looked at supermarkets, restaurants, food shelves, and soup kitchens in the Brattleboro, Vt., region, and found community and other benefits to the charity model that markets could not replicate.
In addition to Krivak-Tetley and field instructor Sam Bliss, the authors include Alexandra Bramsen ’22, Raven Graziano ’23, Ava Hill ’22, and Saharay Perez Sahagun ’23.
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, an assistant professor of geography, has been awarded the 2024 Distinguished Teaching Honors Award from the . Lopez was recognized “for teaching, mentoring, and pedagogical accomplishments” that “are clearly shaping the future of geography as a discipline,” . The award will be presented at the association’s annual meeting in Honolulu in April.
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, an assistant professor of microbiology and immunology and a member of the has received a three-year, $500,000 grant from the . The grant will support research aimed at understanding how altered gut bacteria might impact the health of infants with cystic fibrosis.
