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.
, a preeminent leader in vaccine research, development, and implementation for over 40 years, has received the for his long career in public health service and his leadership in advancing vaccine safety and public policy. Modlin formerly served as chair of pediatrics at the and Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. The award was presented during the Infectious Diseases Society of America鈥檚 annual meeting in Boston.
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most recent book, The Enchanted Boot: Italian Fairy Tales and Their Tellers, was shortlisted for the Italian Prose in Translation Award from the . The award 鈥渞ecognizes the importance of contemporary Italian prose (fiction and literary nonfiction) and promotes the translation of Italian works into English,鈥 according to the association鈥檚 website. Canepa is an associate professor of French and Italian.
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was listed in Color magazine鈥檚 2023 , recognizing the most influential chief diversity officers in the country.
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, known as DARPA, has awarded a Young Faculty Award to support his research, which uses quantum computing hardware to develop quantum sensors with enhanced sensitivity to magnetic fields. recognizes exceptional early-career scholars and provides funding, mentoring, and networking to encourage research with the potential to advance national security.
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Award-winning poet latest collection, The Shared World, made Publishers Weekly鈥檚 list of . Francis is an associate professor of English and creative writing.
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most recent book, #You Know You鈥檙e Black in France When鈥: The Fact of Everyday Antiblackness, was shortlisted for the , which 鈥渉onors a title that best realizes new and intellectually significant ideas about France, the French people, or encounters with French culture,鈥 according to the organization鈥檚 website. Keaton, the 2023-2024 Russell Ladd Newcomb 1926 Fellow, is a professor of sociology and film and media studies.
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The New England Historical Association awarded history professor the (PDF) for his book, Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad.
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has received the 2024 from the Engineering Ceramics Division of the American Ceramic Society. The award recognizes exceptional early- to mid-career professionals who are women and/or underrepresented minorities in the area of ceramic science and engineering.
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, director the Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble and Marching Band and a lecturer in music, placed third in the 2023 competition for the , college and university band and wind ensemble division. The prize is awarded as part of the American Prize National Nonprofit Competitions in the Performing Arts, described as 鈥渢he nation鈥檚 most comprehensive series of contests in the performing arts.鈥 Messier was cited for his efforts to launch a competition in Mexican composition at Dartmouth, which he has developed into Music Mexico, a Mexican music, culture, and diplomatic initiative sponsored by the 天美影视kins Center for the Arts.
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The New Hampshire Hospital Association awarded the for her work to ensure crisis standards of care during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Reeves is the executive vice president of Dartmouth Health鈥檚 DHMC, chief nursing executive of the Dartmouth Health system, and a clinical professor of community and family medicine at Geisel. Reeves received the award at the association鈥檚 annual meeting in October.
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The New York Times list of includes The Undertow by , the Frederick Sessions Beebe 鈥35 天美影视 in the Art of Writing. The Times calls this latest collection of essays by the author of The Family and This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers 鈥渁n eloquent cri de coeur by a writer struggling to meet political and moral unreason with compassion and grace.鈥
