Faculty Accomplishments

The University & College Designers Association (UCDA) presented five 2019 “Excellence” awards for several Mount Holyoke projects, including the “Now More Than Ever” video, the Admissions 2019 Yield print campaign and the 2018 Investment Report. Communications and marketing staff partnered with admission, advancement and student life on the projects. Communications and marketing personnel who worked on these award-winning projects include Aaron Haesaert (creative director), Marina Li (designer), Grace Fitzpatrick (creative video & multimedia manager) and Emily Malloy (copywriter & copy editor).

Ace’s book of poems, Our Weather Our Sea, was named a finalist for a 2020 Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Poetry.

The Association of Black Anthropologists, of which Riché Daniel Barnes is President, received the President's Award from the American Anthropological Association.

Named a 2019 Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery. The Distinguished Member program recognizes professional experience and significant achievements in the computing field.

Awarded the 2020 Prize for a Faculty Member for Research in an Undergraduate Institution by the American Physical Society. The award recognizes Aidala's exceptionally creative and interdisciplinary research using scanning probe microscopy for novel studies of magnetic nanorings, biofilms and organic semiconductors and her outstanding mentoring of women undergraduates, particularly through research collaborations.

Elected a Bye-Fellow of Robinson College, University of Cambridge for the Easter Term, 2021

Babül's book Bureaucratic Intimacies (Stanford University Press, 2017) received an honorable mention in the 2019 Biennial Book Award given by the Middle East section of the American Anthropological Association.

Babül's book “Bureaucratic Intimacies: Translating Human Rights in Turkey” (Stanford University Press, 2017), was awarded the William E. Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology by the Society for the Anthropology of Europe. The award is given to the best book published in the past year.

Received a faculty award for teaching February 27, 2008.

Received the 2020 Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award for his book  "Asteroids: Astronomical and Geological Bodies", at the virtual 237th American Astronomical Society meeting.