LANCASTER, Pa. - Four Franklin & Marshall professors have received honors in their respective fields.
Michael Clapper, associate professor of art history, won the Patricia and Phillip Frost Essay Award for his article "Thomas Kinkade's Romantic Landscape." Given annually for the "most distinguished contribution" to the journal American Art Journal and sponsored by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the award recognizes essays that advance understanding of the history of the arts in America, demonstrate original research, and express fresh ideas. Clapper will also give a lecture on Kinkade at the Smithsonian. Annalisa Crannell, associate professor of mathematics, was elected to the Board of Governors of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) as a sectional governor. She will represent the Eastern Pennsylvania-Delaware Section for three years (2007-10). In addition Crannell was also honored with an award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics by The Mathematical Association of America, Eastern Pennsylvania-Delaware Section, at its recent meeting. Ed Fenlon, assistant professor of chemistry, recently received a Project SEED grant from the American Chemical Society to do research with a local high school student from an economically disadvantaged background for eight weeks this summer. Nicholas Montemarano, assistant professor of English, was awarded the 2006 Eudora Welty Prize in Fiction for his short story "Once Removed" published in The Southern Review. -30- |
