Recent Members' News
Updated May 14, 2002
AGS MCCOLL FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENT WINS CANADIAN FELLOWSHIP:
Dr. Kendra McSweeney, McGill University, Quebec, Canada, recipient of the 2001 AGS McColl Family Fellowship, has been awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2001. The Council awarded fellowships to 100 of Canada's most promising new scholars embarking on research careers in the social sciences and humanities. Dr. McSweeney recently earned her doctorate from McGill University and has taken a position as Assistant Professor of Geography at the Ohio State University. There were 380 candidates in the 2001 competition, with one in four granted a fellowship, valued at C$35,028 per year. Independent juries of expert researchers evaluated all applications and selected the winners.
AGS COUNCILOR MAKES NEWS:
The entire left column of the front
page of the Money & Business section of the Sunday New York Times
(March 18, 2001) was devoted to an interview with Peter Tanous, President
of Lynx Investment Advisory Inc. Tanous, the author of Investment Gurus:
A Road Map to Wealth from the World's Best Money Managers, offers
a multi-faceted explanation for seeming investor stoicism in the current
bear market. He also advises that investors not expect a return to the
remarkable bull market of the past decade. Peter Tanous has been
a member of the AGS Council since 1987.
AGS FELLOW
HONORED:
Dava Sobel, an AGS Fellow, has been
Honored
for her public service by the National Science Board (NSB). Sobel recently
published Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith,
and Love. The book recounts both Galileo’s work, including his famous
conflict with the Catholic Church about his theory that the earth revolves
around the sun, and his close relationship with his illegitimate elder
daughter, Maria Celeste, who was a devoutly religious nun.
Sobel has lectured at numerous institutes, such as The Smithsonian Institution,
The Explorers Club, the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, The Folger Shakespeare
Library, The Royal Geographic Society (London), and BookExpo America 1998.
She also has been interviewed on numerous radio and television programs,
including NPR’s All Things Considered and ABC World News Tonight. The award will be presented to Sobel at a ceremony on May 23, 2001, at the Department of State in
Washington DC.
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