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New Role as Editor of Education About Asia
Association for Asian Studies
Lauren Collins, program director and teaching assistant professor, Asian studies
Semiconductor Research Corporation Innovation Award
Recognizing groundbreaking innovations in atomic layer etching technology that have had a transformative impact on semiconductor manufacturing.
Award winner:Steven George, professor of chemistry
NIH National Institute on Aging grant
A $3.7 million grant supporting the five-year project “Life Course Cognability: A Mixed Methods Study of Neighborhoods and Cognitive Health," examining how neighborhood services, amenities and hazards influence cognitive health and dementia risk across adulthood.
Recipient: Jessica Finlay, assistant professor of geography
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences fellowship at Stanford University
Supporting work on Silver Linings, a new book that challenges the traditional deficit-focused view of mental illness.
Fellow: June Gruber, professor of psychology and neuroscience
Society of Woman Geographers' Evelyn L. Pruitt Fellowship
For the project "Seeing like a Satellite, Knowing Like a Pastoralist: Epistemic Justice and Collaboration in East African Rangelands"
Award winner:Esmee Mulder, geography PhD student
2026 Council on Anthropology and Reproduction Book Prize
Recognizing Difficult Attachments: Anxieties of Kinship and Care, which offers a new perspective on kinship by examining broken and damaged kinship ties as an underrecognized aspect of reproduction.
Award winner: Kate Goldfarb, associate professor of anthropology