Michael Nelson, assistant professor of philosophy, has won the Jean Hampton Prize, which is awarded to a philosopher at the junior-career stage whose paper is accepted for the Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association. He presented his paper, “Rationalism Within Reason,” at the April meeting in Vancouver.
The award includes a $500 prize and is presented biennially for achievement in an area of philosophy in which Hampton worked, including social and political philosophy, foundations of ethics, normative ethics, the philosophy of law, rational choice theory, feminist theory, Hobbes to Hume, Kant, realism and pragmatism.
CEPCEB Gives Annual Awards
The Center for Plant Cell Biology (CEPCEB) hosted its seventh annual CEPCEB Special Award Ceremony on Oct. 16 in the new Genomics Auditorium. The following awards were presented:
The CEPCEB awards have a monetary value of $500 each and are based on faculty nominations.
The 2009 Noel Keen Special Lecture followed the awards ceremony.
Joseph R. Ecker, a professor in the plant biology laboratory at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, Calif., gave the lecture. Ecker is a leading authority on the molecular biology and genetics of plants.
Summer Sessions Catalog Honored
The 2009 UC Riverside Summer Sessions catalog was recognized by the Western Association of Summer Sessions Administrators (WASSA) for its cover design by winning the “Best Catalog Cover Design.” The cover was chosen from among 11 entries.
The award was announced at the WASSA annual conference awards banquet on Sept. 24, which was hosted by the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada.
The winning design was inspired through a collaborative process between Susan Knight, associate director of marketing for the Office of Strategic Communications; Mely Fitzgerald, assistant director of the Office of Summer Sessions and Special Programs; and Shari Schneider, artist/illustrator from Creative Design Services.
Water Fellow
The American Society of Agronomy (ASA) will recognize Laosheng Wu, a professor and extension water management specialist in the Department of Environmental Sciences, as a 2009 ASA Fellow at a ceremony during the society’s annual meeting on Nov. 1-5 in Pittsburgh, Penn.
Wu’s program focuses on water and solute transport and water resources conservation and management.
He also specializes in irrigation water management and soil physics. He serves as interim director of the UC Center for Water Resources.