News
History Spring 2011 Newsletter
Faculty News:
Barry Strauss has published Masters of Command: Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, and the Genius of Leadership (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012).
Peter Dear's Revolutionizing the Sciences, 2nd ed. has come out in a Korean translation (Seoul: Puriwa Ipari Publishing, 2011).
Student Awards and Job Announcements
Oiyan Liu is a 2012 recipient of the Hsien Wu and Daisy Yen Wu Scholarship from the Cornell Graduate School, in recognition of her excellent progress in her degree program and high potential for a successful academic career.
Kim Todt has been selected as the 2011 recipient of the John S. Knight Institute's Recognition of Achievement in Teaching Award. The Award notification cites Kim's efforts in professional development, in co-facilitating Writing 7100, and in community outreach as well as her creativity and sensitivity in working with students. It says, "Few instructors of First-Year Writing Seminars manage to elicit from their students the amount and intensity of intellectual effort that you achieve."