Nell Mondy, professor emerita of food science, nutrition and toxicology, is the first recipient of the Institute of Food Technologists Elizabeth Fleming Stier Award. The award is given to honor the "pursuit of humanitarian ideals and unselfish dedication that has resulted in significant contributions to the well-being of the food industry, academia, students or the general public." Mondy was cited for her "long, productive, and illustrious career in teaching, research, and extension in the United States and overseas in chemistry and food science. It is particularly fitting that she be the first recipient of this award because of her many years of commitment to thousands of students and to humanitarian concerns in the U.S. and Africa." Among her many accomplishments, Mondy is credited with contributing to the formation of the Agriculture Research Service-National Potato Council's National Potato Research Program that allocated millions of dollars to potato researchers; she also served as supervisory food specialist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and as a consultant to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Gary W. Evans, professor of design and environmental analysis, is the winner of the 1997 Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) Career Award, the highest honor bestowed by EDRA, the professional society for research on environment and behavior. Given in recognition of a career of sustained and significant contributions to research, service and teaching in the environmental-behavior-design field. "Through his research and through the knowledge, support, and encouragement he has provided to many students, Gary Evans has made a deep and lasting impact on the environmental-behavior-design field worthy of recognition by the distinguished EDRA Career Award," the EDRA said.
Joan Jacobs Brumberg, professor of human development and family studies and of women's studies, has won a summer residency at Doshisha University in Japan, awarded by the Organization of American Historians. Brumberg is the author of several books, including Fasting Girls: The Emergence of Anorexia Nervosa as a Modern Disease (which will be available in Japanese) and the forthcoming The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls.
Meredith Small, associate professor of anthropology, has won a science writing fellowship at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., for the summer of 1997.