Faculty-Staff Achievements, March 12, 2018
Activities
Heather Hurst
Heather Hurst, associate professor of anthropology, was named a Frederick Burkhardt fellow by the
. The fellowship program is designed to aid recently tenured faculty and is funded
by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Burkhardt fellowships carry a $95,000
stipend and a $7,500 research budget and allow awardees to take up yearlong residencies
at institutions whose resources and scholarly communities are suited to facilitate
a proposed research project. Hurst's project is titled "IDEAS in Cultural Heritage:
Preserving Maya Murals through Imaging, Documentation, Education, Access, and Sustainability鈥擨nstitute
for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage at Yale University in 2018鈥�2019."
Publications and Exhibitions
Bill Jones
Bill Jones, athletic marketing manager in the Office of Communications and Marketing, was named
to the 2018 Hall of Fame class by the . As a member of the Eastern College Athletic Conference-Sports Information Directors
of America, Jones was a seven-year member of the board of directors from 1995 to 2002,
including serving as president in 2000鈥�01. He received the ECAC-SIDA Irving T. Marsh
Award in 2004 and its Pete Nevins award in 2011.
Please send submissions to Paul Dwyer in the Office of Communications and Marketing.