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Honors and awards Recent faculty honors and awards New faculty chairs Promotions to tenure Promotions to full professor Recent faculty honors and awards Class of 1941 Professor of Economics and head of the Department of Economics Olivier Blanchard was awarded the Department Teaching Award by the Graduate Economics Association. Institute Professor of Linguistics Noam Chomsky was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science and honorary degrees from Guelph University of Ontario, University of Connecticut and Columbia University. Associate Professor Dora Costa of the Department of Economics was awarded a Sloan Fellowship. Rudiger Dornbusch, Ford International Professor of Economics, received the Concord Prize in Krefeld, Germany. Assistant Professor Joseph Dumit of the Program in Science, Technology and Society was elected chair of the Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology and Computing of the American Anthropology Association. Professor Glenn Ellison of the Department of Economics was awarded a Fellowship by the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California. Senior Lecturer Sara Ellison of the Department of Economics received a Hoover Institution National Fellowship at Stanford University. Adjunct Professor Joseph Haldeman of the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies was awarded the Science Fiction Achievement Award (also known as the Hugo) for his novel, Forever Peace. Professor Kenneth Keniston of the Program in Science, Technology and Society was appointed Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies of the India Institute of Science. Assistant Professor of Literature Christina Klein was awarded a Fellowship at the Charles Warren Center for American Studies at Harvard University. Professor Alan Lightman of the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies received the 1998 Gyorgy Kepes Prize from the MIT Council of the Arts. Professor of Economics Nancy Rose was elected to the American Economic Association Executive Committee. Kochi Prefecture-John Manjiro Professor of Japanese Language and Culture Shigeru Miyagawa was awarded a fellowship from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science. Susan Slyomovics, Geneviève McMillan-Reba Stewart Professor of the Study of Women in the Developing World, was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship at the American Institute of Maghrib Studies in Morocco. Cutten Professor of the History of Technology Merritt Roe Smith received the Outstanding Liberal Arts Alumni Award from Pennsylvania State University. Professor of Political Science Charles Stewart III was awarded the Franklin L. Burdette Pi Sigma Alpha Award. Professor of Literature Stephen Tapscott was appointed Fulbright Distinguished Professor in American Studies at the University of Lodz, Poland. Professor of Economics Peter Temin was chosen to deliver the John R. Hicks Lecture at Oxford University. Assistant Professor David Woodruff of the Political Science Department received a Fulbright Scholarship and was the Fulbright Scholarship Lecturer at European University in St. Petersburg, Russia. Professor of Music Evan Ziporyn was one of 18 musicians awarded a Grammy for Best Small Ensemble Performance With or Without Conductor. New faculty chairs BACK TO TOP Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Professor David Pesetsky The Ferrari P. Ward Professorship in Linguistics. Literature Faculty Assistant Professor Shankar Raman The Class of 1957 Career Development Professorship. Department of Economics Associate Professor Jaume Ventura The Pentti Kouri Career Development Professorship. Foreign Languages and Literatures Faculty Associate Professor Nicolas Wey-Gomez The Class of 1954 Career Development Professorship.   Promotions to tenure BACK TO TOP Daron Acemoglu Associate Professor of Economics Diana Henderson Associate Professor of Literature Janet Sonenberg Associate Professor of Theater Arts   Promotions to full professor Stephen Ansolabehere Professor of Political Science Charles Stewart, III Professor of Political Science Evan Ziporyn Professor of Music   BACK TO TOP

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