Amy Berndston
Recipient of the 2017 Senior Class Award for Teaching Excellence in Biology and Dedication to Undergraduates
Developed and taught a BIOL-L 112 Honors Discussion Section which focused on an in-depth reading of The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Domenico Bertoloni Meli
2017 recipient of Indiana University Bloomington's Tracy M. Sonneborn Award, which honors a faculty member for combining excellence in teaching and in research.
Publications:
Visualizing Disease: The Art and History of Pathological Illustrations, (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming, September 2017).
“’Ex Museolo Nostro Machaonico:’ Collecting, Publishing, and Visualization in Fabricius Hildanus,” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 72 (2017):98-116.
“Gerardus Blasius and the Illustrated Amsterdam Observationes from Nicolaas Tulp to Frederik Ruysch”, in Professors, Physicans and Practices in the History of Medicine. Essays in Honor of Nancy Siraisi, ed. by Cindy Klestinec and Gideon Manning (Springer, 2017), 227-69.
Michael Wasserman
Awarded a $250,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the influence of different land use patterns on forest and primate conservation in Costa Rica. The grant funds five students each spring (through 2019) to conduct field research for 10 weeks in Costa Rica.
Michael Wasserman and Andrew Libby
Received a 2017 Summer Instructional Development Fellowship from the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning at IU to design a new Human Biology B200 course for Fall, 2017 on the science and politics of climate change.
The College of Arts