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—Institute
for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage at Yale University in 2018–2019."
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 2000–01. 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.