• Dr. John Fletcher, professor emeritus of Biomedical Ethics at the School of Medicine, received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities at its annual meeting in Nashville, Tenn. In his address to the society, Fletcher spoke on “Protecting Human Participants in Research: Then and Now,” describing the evolution of protecting human research subjects and how this can be strengthened.

• Richard Guy Wilson, Commonwealth Professor and chair of the Department of Architectural History, was awarded the Southeast Chapter Society of Architectural Historians’ Book Award for his book, Richmond’s Monument Avenue, chronicling 11û2 miles of statues and buildings in a variety of styles popular in the 1890s to the 1930s. Wilson co-authored the book with U.Va. alumni Sarah Driggs and Robert Winthrop.