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Six faculty members from the College of Arts and Sciences and the Conservatory of Music received the Excellence in Teaching Award for the 2014-2015 academic year. The recipients were Associate Professor of Mathematics Jack Calcut; Professor of Hispanic Studies Sebastiaan Faber; Professor of Piano James Howsmon; Director of the Division of Conducting and Ensembles, Associate Professor of Conducting, and Director of the 91Ö±²¥ Orchestra Raphael Jiménez; Professor of Comparative American Studies Gina Pérez; and Associate Professor of Jazz Studies Daniel Wall.

First-year student Aaron Cohen has been named a YoungArts Merit Winner in Photography by the National YoungArts Foundation.

Senior Shavonne Stanek receives an Undergraduate Research Award from the Forum on Education Abroad for her in-depth study of fishing practices in Zanzibar.

Prestigious honor will support two years of graduate study in the United Kingdom following completion of a double degree.

Machmud Makhmudov, a politics major and environmental studies minor, will study in Oxford for the next two years.

Jay Whitacre ’94 has just received the $500K Lemelson-MIT Prize for his invention of a saltwater battery, which has the potential to revolutionize the way sustainable energy is stored.

Gabriel Moore ’15 Receives Travel Award to Present Peters Lab Research at the 2015 C.elegans International Meeting in Los Angeles.

Kenyan international student and entrepreneur Sophie Umazi Mvurya ’16 has earned a place in the Stanford Africa MBA Fellowship Program.

A third-year biology major, Jimenez will intern at the National Institutes of Health.

Monica Hunter-Hart ’15 will help prepare students at Usak University for required standardized English exams.

Alex Baker ’17 and Muci Yu ’18 each received a Max Kade Summer German Study Award to help support their plans to study in Berlin, Germany, this summer.