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.
Professor Emeritus John Modlin, a preeminent leader in vaccine research, development, and implementation for over 40 years, has received the D.A. Henderson Award for Outstanding Contributions to Public Health 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 Geisel School of Medicine and Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. The award was presented during the Infectious Diseases Society of America’s annual meeting in Boston.
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Nancy Canepa’s most recent book, The Enchanted Boot: Italian Fairy Tales and Their Tellers, was shortlisted for the Italian Prose in Translation Award from the American Literary Translators Association. The award “recognizes the importance of contemporary Italian prose (fiction and literary nonfiction) and promotes the translation of Italian works into English,” according to the association’s website. Canepa is an associate professor of French and Italian.
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Senior Vice President and Senior Diversity Officer Shontay Delalue was listed in Color magazine’s 2023 Top CDO Color Powerlist, 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 Assistant Professor of Engineering Mattias Fitzpatrick a Young Faculty Award to support his research, which uses quantum computing hardware to develop quantum sensors with enhanced sensitivity to magnetic fields. The award 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 Vievee Francis’ latest collection, The Shared World, made Publishers Weekly’s list of best books of 2023. Francis is an associate professor of English and creative writing.
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Professor Trica Keaton’s most recent book, #You Know You’re Black in France When…: The Fact of Everyday Antiblackness, was shortlisted for the 2023 American Library in Paris Book Award, which “honors a title that best realizes new and intellectually significant ideas about France, the French people, or encounters with French culture,” according to the organization’s 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 Matthew Delmont the James P. Hanlan Book Prize (PDF) for his book, Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad.
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Dartmouth Engineering Professor Yan Li has received the 2024 Jubilee Global Diversity Award 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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Brian Messier, director the Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble and Marching Band and a lecturer in music, placed third in the 2023 competition for the American Prize in Conducting, 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 “the nation’s most comprehensive series of contests in the performing arts.” 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 Hopkins Center for the Arts.
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The New Hampshire Hospital Association awarded Susan Reeves the Leslie A. Smith President’s Award 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’s 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’s annual meeting in October.
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The New York Times list of 100 Notable Books of 2023 includes The Undertow by Jeff Sharlet, the Frederick Sessions Beebe ’35 Professor 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 “an eloquent cri de coeur by a writer struggling to meet political and moral unreason with compassion and grace.”