Former provost David Kotz ’86, the Pat and John Rosenwald Professor in the Department of Computer Science, is the Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellow at Imperial College London for the academic year 2025-26. The fellowships bring together U.K. universities and research institutions and outstanding international researchers to share ideas and develop ongoing collaborative research connections.
“Dave Kotz has long been an innovative researcher, a highly respected mentor, and a collaborative leader,” says President Sian Leah Beilock. “This recognition from the Royal Society and Imperial College will benefit both of our institutions and our two nations as we consider how to harness increasingly ubiquitous technologies for good while balancing privacy and other challenges.”
An expert on a range of security and privacy challenges involving smart homes, wireless networks, and pervasive computing, Kotz was also named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science last spring.
He is on sabbatical this year, working in Imperial’s Department of Computing, and has also been named a visiting professor at University College London.
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Victoria K. Holt, the Norman E. McCulloch Jr. Director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, has been elected to the Council on Foreign Relations, in acknowledgment of her distinguished career in diplomacy and international security. The independent think tank works to inform U.S. engagement with the world; among its publications is the journal Foreign Affairs.
Holt served as deputy assistant secretary of state for international security during the Obama administration.
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Dartmouth Center for Career Design has received a 2025 Career Spark Award from the online job platform Handshake for placing in the top 2% of colleges nationally for student engagement, employer engagement, and reporting and analytics. The award is based on a college or university’s activity and achievements on the widely used platform, which connects college students and recent graduates with employers for internship and job opportunities.
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A paper co-authored by Aaron Klein ’98, of the Brookings Institution, and Alan Cui ’27 was published by the Washington-based think tank last month.
In Quantitative Easing and Housing Inflation Post-Covid, the alum and student discuss the Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing program during the COVID-19-induced recession and how it affected housing inflation, Cui said.
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Mike Harrity, the Haldeman Family Director of Athletics and Recreation, has been appointed to the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision Oversight Committee. The committee’s work includes managing the overall structure and oversight of FCS football and providing guidance on championship administration, playing rules, and policies affecting FCS programs and student-athletes.
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Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Bala Chaudhary has been named the 2025 Equality and Diversity Champion by the British Ecological Society. The honor recognizes an individual or group who has enhanced the practice of equity, diversity and inclusion in the ecological community or served as an inspiration to others.
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Rachel Feldman, associate professor of religion, has received the American Academy of Religion’s 2025 Book Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Analytical-Descriptive Studies. Feldman’s book Messianic Zionism in the Digital Age: Jews, Noahides, and the Third Temple Imaginary was published last year by Rutgers University Press.
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William Fischel, Professor of Economics and Robert C. 1925 and Hilda Hardy Professor of Legal Studies, Emeritus, has received the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize for his transformative work on land use regulation. Awarded by William and Mary Law School, the annual prize recognizes a scholar, practitioner, or jurist whose work affirms the fundamental importance of property rights.
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Sage Evans ’29, a member of Dartmouth’s sailing team from Cape Elizabeth, Maine, was named a 2025 U.S. Presidential Scholar. The program recognizes two high school seniors from each state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and U.S. families living abroad for their accomplishments in academics, the arts, and career and technical education fields.