The Graduate School has announced 26 faculty winners of the Vilas Associates Competition, and 14 faculty members from the College of Letters & Science are among them.
The Vilas Associates Competition recognizes new and ongoing research of the highest quality and significance. Recipients are chosen competitively by the divisional Graduate School Research Committees on the basis of a detailed proposal.
The L&S winners are:
- Lisa Cooper, English
- Gheorghe Craciun, Mathematics
- Qiang Cui, Chemistry
- Robert Glenn Howard, Communication Arts
- Adam Kern, East Asian Languages and Literature
- Nam Kim, Anthropology
- Michael Massoglia, Sociology
- Donald Moynihan, La Follette School of Public Affairs
- John Orrock, Zoology
- Ryan Owens, Political Science
- Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, History
- Laura Schwendinger, School of Music
- Michael Titelbaum, Philosophy
- Stefan Westerhoff, Physics
The competition is open to tenure-track and tenured faculty, from the assistant professor level to professors within 20 years of their tenure date. Winners receive up to two-ninths of research salary support (including the associated fringe costs) for both summers 2014 and 2015, as well as a $12,500 flexible research fund in each of the two fiscal years. Faculty paid on an annual basis are not eligible for the summer salary support but are eligible for the flexible fund portion of this award.
For the full list of winners, read the story from University Communications.