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Francesca Floriani, assistant professor in art history, has
been awarded the J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship in the
History of Art and the Humanities. The award, which carries a
$35,000 stipend, is made annually to about 15 scholars worldwide
in the early stages of their careers, allowing them to pursue
interpretive research on topics that make a substantial and original
contribution to the understanding of art and its history. Floriani
will remain in Charlottesville while she completes the manuscript
for her book, The Order of Maps: Art, Science and Humanism in
Renaissance Italy.
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English professor Herbert "Chip" Tucker is among
41 scholars from the U.S. and eight other countries chosen to
be a fellow at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle
Park, N.C. for the 2000-01 academic year. The fellowship allows
the scholars to work individually on research projects in the
humanities and exchange ideas in seminars, lectures and conferences.
Tucker's project is titled "The Proof of Epic in Great Britain,
1790-1910."
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Kandioura Drame, associate professor of French, was elected
April 15 as vice president of the African Literature Association.
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Frederick M. Hess, who holds a joint appointment as an
assistant professor of both education and government and foreign
affairs, is one of 30 professors nationwide to win a National
Academy of Education Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship. Hess plans
to use the fellowship, valued at $45,000, to continue his work
on how competition induced by school choice affects urban school
systems.
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Anita K. Jones, chair of the computer science department
and the Virginia 2020 Commission on Science and Technology, was
elected vice chair of the National Science Board earlier this
month. She has served since 1998 on the board, which is the governing
body of the National Science Foundation. It is made up of 24 industry
and academic leaders, appointed by the president and confirmed
by the U.S. Senate for six-year terms.
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Art From the Land: Dialogues With the Kluge-Ruhe Collection
of Australian Aboriginal Art recently won an honorable mention
in the American Association of Museums' Publications Design Competition.
The book, designed by free-lancer Maureen MacKenzie-Taylor, was
honored in the category for books published by museums with budgets
under $500,000. It is available for sale at the University Bookstore
and at the collection's permanent home at 400 Peter Jefferson
Place on Pantops Mountain.
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Luba Louise Ivanov, assistant professor of nursing at the
U.Va. Health System, has been granted a Fulbright Fellowship to
travel to Russia for the 2000-01 academic year. She will help
develop a course and a certification program in community and
public health nursing for the department of nursing at the Saint-Petersburg
Medical Academy for Postgraduate Studies. Ivanov's work will encourage
health promotion and disease prevention, relatively new concepts
in Russia.
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