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Professor Kerby Miller newest Curators’ Professor

Professor MIllerThe Board of Curators, at their meeting on October 5, 2007, named our colleague, Kerby Miller, Curators’ Professor of History. The appointment takes effect in January 2008. The Curators' Professorship is awarded to the UM system's most successful and prominent scholars, as identified by their departments and their peers in the field. These are prestigious positions, and only outstanding scholars with established reputations are considered for appointment.
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Professor A. Mark Smith receives 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship

Professor SmithThe John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded Professor Smith a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship for his work on Alhacen on refraction. Guggenheim Fellowships are grants to selected individuals that help provide Fellows with blocks of time in which they can work with as much creative freedom as possible. Fellows are appointed on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment. What distinguishes the Guggenheim Fellowship program from all others is the wide range in interest, age, geography, and institution of those it selects as it considers applications in 78 different fields, from the natural sciences to the creative arts. Congratulations, Professor Smith!
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Professor HuneycuttProfessor Lois Huneycutt honored with Kemper Fellowship

On April 4, Chancellor Brady Deaton and Chairman Jim Schatz of Commerce Bank awarded one of the 2007 William T. Kemper Fellowships for Teaching Excellence to Lois Huneycutt, associate professor of History. Deaton, Schatz and a group of professors, administrators and staff paid a surprise visit to Huneycutt's classroom to honor her with the Fellowship, which includes a $10,000 award. Fellowships are awarded to five outstanding teachers at MU each year.
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Professor Susan Flader honored with Distinguished Faculty Award

Professor FladerProfessor Susan Flader has been selected as this year’s recipient of the University of Missouri Alumni Association’s Distinguished Faculty Award. This is the Association’s highest honor awarded to an MU faculty member. The award was established in 1960 and recognizes a faculty member whose sustained efforts in teaching, research and service have added to the excellence of the University.
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