HONORS FOR DISTINGUISHED FACULTY AT DUKE

Four Duke faculty members, as well as Duke President Richard H. Brodhead, were among the 202 men and women elected this year to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an international learned society composed of the world's leading scientists, scholars, artists, businesspeople and public leaders. The new members from Duke were Paul Lawrence Modrich, James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator; Joseph R. Nevins, James B. Duke Professor of Molecular Genetics and HHMI investigator; Stuart L. Pimm, Doris Duke Chair of Conservation Ecology; and Anne Firor Scott, W.K. Boyd Professor of History emerita.

James Vaupel, a senior research scientist in the Terry Sanford Institute and an internationally known demographer, was one of 90 researchers from around the world elected April 20 to the National Academy of Sciences.

Four Duke faculty scholars were named National Humanities Center fellows for the 2004-2005 year. The fellows and their research projects are: Michael Gillespie, political science, "The Unity and Disunity of Modernity;" Margaret Humphreys, history, "The Civil War and American Medicine;" Richard Jaffe, religion, "Seeking Shakyamuni: World Travel and the Reconstruction of Japanese Buddhism, 1868-1945;" and Joel Marcus, religion, "The Passion Narrative in the Gospel of Mark." No other university had more than two scholars named NHC fellows.

Women's basketball coach Gail Goestenkors served as assistant coach on the 2004 U.S. Women's Olympic Team. She was one of three coaches to assist the team's head coach, Van Chancellor of the WNBA, in the XXVIII Olympic Games competition that featured teams from 12 nations competing in Athens, Greece, Aug. 14-28.

Duke's Kenan Institute for Ethics Director Elizabeth Kiss and her staff "made our world a better place," according to presenters of the second annual Groundbreaker in Character Education Award. Given by the N.C. Department of Public Instruction and N.C. State Board of Education, the award cited the institute for its "outstanding efforts and dedication to the children, schools and families of North Carolina."

Robert Califf, director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute, was presented with the American College of Cardiology's Distinguished Scientist Award for clinical research during the organization's 2004 convocation ceremony. Each year the college acknowledges two scientists, one in the clinical domain and one in the basic domain, who have made major contributions to the advancement of cardiology.

Alexander Hartemink, assistant professor of computer science, has been awarded a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Hartemink will use the award of $487,344 to support his research and teaching in computational functional genomics over the next five years.

Stanley K. Abe, associate professor of art history, was chosen from a group of 27 international nominees to receive the 2003 Shimada Prize for distinguished scholarship in the history of East Asian art. The prize is awarded biennially by the Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and the Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies in Kyoto, Japan.