And the Winner Is...
By Kaitlin Solimine
The 23rd annual academic honors convocation on March 11 celebrated the
accomplishments of USC College faculty, students and staff.
Werner Däppen, professor of physics and astronomy in the College received the Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching.
The Associates Awards for Creativity in Research and Scholarship went
to Elyn R. Saks, the Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law and Professor of
Law and Psychology, and Terence G. Langdon, professor of earth
sciences, who has a joint appointment in engineering.
The Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Awards honored Leo Braudy, holder
of the Leo S. Bing Chair in English and American Literature, for his
book From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of
Masculinity (Knopf, 2003). Saks received an award for her book Refusing
Care: Forced Treatment and the Rights of the Mentally Ill (University
of Chicago Press, 2002).
Gerald A. Larue, emeritus professor of religion, and Arnold S. Dunn,
emeritus professor of biological sciences, received the Faculty
Lifetime Achievement Awards.
David M. Chacko, Neil Vora and Nilay Vora won Phi Beta Kappa Undergraduate Awards.
The University Trustee Awards honored Chacko and fellow College
students Serge Alexanian, Yago Barazari, Choon-Kyu Lee, Salil R. Shah
and Gene-Fu Feng Liu.
Dianna Truong won the Josephine Bradley Bovard Award and Kale Harbick was awarded the Rockwell Dennis Hunt Award.
Phi Kappa Phi Student Recognition Awards went to Marcus Galen Mitchell and Devon O’Brien.
Tammara Seabrook Anderson, director of the College’s Joint Education
Project, won the 2004 President’s Award for Staff Achievement.
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