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Faculty—
Phillip Round, professor in the University of Iowa Departments of English and American Indian Studies in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has been awarded a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship.
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced the awarding of 175 fellowships, selected from among nearly 3,000 applications in research and artistic creation, on April 11.
Round will research the collaborative practice of early native literature during his fellowship. Round is the author of three books on American literature, By Nature and By Custom Cursed: Transatlantic Civil Discourse and New England Cultural Production, 1620-1660; The Impossible Land: Story and Place in California’s Imperial Valley; and Removable Type: Histories of the Book in Indian Country, 1663-1880. He has received several awards, including two Fulbright scholarships and a CIC American Indian Studies Consortium Faculty Fellowship at the Newberry Library. In 2012, Removable Type won the Modern Language Association’s prestigious James Russell Prize.
Other 2013 Guggenheim winners with UI connections include Writers’ Workshop alumnus J.C. Hallman and artist Ann Marie Pibal, who received a Master of Fine Arts in painting.
Often characterized as "mid-career" awards, the prestigious fellowships are intended for men and women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. Learn more at www.gf.org.
Staff—
Loretta (Lori) Bassler, research support administrator, internal medicine and the cardiovascular research center, has won the inaugural distinguished Research Support Administrator award from the Offices of Vice President for Research and Economic Development and Vice President for Finance and Operations at the UI.
Bassler has worked as a research administrator at the UI for 33 years, and was nominated by department faculty for her management of pre and post-research award services and her expertise in agency rules and regulations.
Diane Cryderman, research associate in the department of biochemistry, has won a Distinguished Research Professional award from the Offices of Vice President for Research and Economic Development and Vice President for Finance and Operations at the UI.
Department faculty nominated Cryderman for her contributions to research and peer-reviewed papers, her training of undergraduate and graduate students, and her commitment to her work.
Students—
Parker Valdez, a UI senior in the Tippie College of Business from Cedar Rapids, has been selected as one of three students from across the Iowa Regents Institutions to receive the Alliant Energy/Erroll B. Davis, Jr. Achievement Award and Scholarship. This highly competitive award was created to honor Erroll B. Davis, Jr. and his nearly 30 years of service to the utility industry and to recognize the importance of scholarship and leadership by underrepresented minority students in the state of Iowa.
Presented by the UI Chief Diversity Office on behalf of the Alliant Energy Foundation, the award recognizes academic achievement in business or engineering, leadership in campus and community organizations, and potential for future career success. Parker’s nomination was supported by Lon Moeller, associate dean for the Tippie Undergraduate Program, and Beth Rydstrom Knudson , assistant director for Global Internships and Academic Advisor in the Tippie College of Business.Parker’s achievements will be honored at the 15th Annual Diversity Catalyst Awards on April 15, 2014, from 3 to 5 p.m. in the IMU SecondFloor Ballroom.
Faculty—
Russell, SR (Ophthalmology) and Dvorak, L (Rhetoric): The Lost Art of Retinal Drawing. 2013
Staff—
Russell, SR (Ophthalmology) and Dvorak, L (Rhetoric): The Lost Art of Retinal Drawing. 2013