New College taught me to think outside the box, before thinking outside the box was cool. In assessing circumstantial evidence, which is what I do every day, keeping the context in mind is the most important thing.

John Lentini >>
pic_faculty2.png

Bragging Rights

Year after year, New College faculty, students and alums garner top awards and earn distinctions in the world of academia, work and public service.  We invite you to view the College’s recent honors in this photo-essay booklet, published after the conclusion of each academic year.

Honors Photo Essay 2009

Recognition and Awards 2009-2010

  • Named by U.S. News & World Report as the “Nation's No. 5 Ranked Public Liberal Arts College” in America’s Best Colleges, 2010 edition.

  • Recognized as the “Nation’s No. 3 Best Value in Public Higher Education” by The Princeton Review in 100 Best Value Colleges, 2010 edition.

  • Rated by Forbes.com as No. 5 in the nation among all public colleges and universities, 2009.

  • Ranked by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance as No. 12 among the nation’s top 100 public colleges and universities in 2010.

  • Rated by Mother Jones magazine as No. 2 on its list of “10 cool schools that will blow your mind, not your budget,” 2009 edition.

  • New College’s Jane Bancroft Cook Library invited to join consortium of libraries to shape and implement the Kuali Open Library Environment (OLE) software, funded internationally by a $2.38 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

  • Nippon Foundation selected Cook Library to receive “100 Books on Contemporary Japan.”

  • Garnered seven Fulbright Scholars for 2010-11, who will spend next year in Spain (Alice Abernathy), Germany (Lauren White, Hannah Woerner), Korea (Corianne Etheredge, Taylor Kennedy), Mauritius (Anna Hamilton) and Indonesia (Mary Barnes). With 44 Fulbright awards within the last nine years, New College maintains one of the highest per capita rates of success nationwide, more than Harvard, Yale and Stanford.

  • Graduating senior Sarah Brown received a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Enhancement Award for three months of intensive study of Mandarin Chinese in Nanjing, China.

  • Four students received semester-long Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarships for study abroad funded by the U.S. Department of State during 2009-10: Hope Reynolds studied Arabic in Morocco under a special Gilman Critical Need Language fund; Maia Delacalle studied in Argentina; Anamica Bedi studied in Brazil; and Juliana Nalerio received a grant to Uruguay.

  • Associate Professor of Biology Amy Clore awarded a $375,000 grant from the National Science Foundation as part of a national team of researchers that received $4 million total in grants for research on endosperm production in corn. As part of the grant, New College students Matt Anderson, Alyssa Sonchaiwanich and Sarah O’Connor will assist researchers at New College of Florida and U. of Arizona during summer 2010.

  • Eight New College students received highly prized National Science Foundation “REU” (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) grants for summer 2010. The students and institutions at which they will be studying are Erinn Brigham, chemistry, U. of Minnesota; Richard Decal, genome studies, U. of Washington; Benjamin Kriegel, chemistry, Columbia U.; Sarah McManus, global linkage of biology, the environment and society, U. of Notre Dame; Christian Fernando Ortiz, molecular genetics and proteomics, U. of Minnesota; Chris Pedersen, physics, College of William and Mary; Katherine Raoux, mathematics, Louisiana State; and Lindsey Young, biochemistry, U. of Arizona.

  • Seven New College students earned federally-funded internships for summer 2010. They are Alice Abernathy, biochemistry, NIH National Cancer Institute; Rozalyn Crews, art and anthropology, Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum; Katie Dean, biology, Primate Enrichment Internship, Smithsonian National Zoological Park; Michael Dexter, political science and environmental science, NOAA-Hollings Scholarship; Ian Finneran, chemistry, NSF-funded Research, U. of Virginia; Elizabeth Hamman, marine biology/applied mathematics, NOAA Marine Fisheries Service; and Meagan Patrick, physics, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

  • Graduating senior Marilee Pray awarded a French Government Teaching Assistantship for 2010-2011.  Pray is the 13th New College student since 2000 to win this award from the French Ministry of Education and Culture.

  • Graduating senior Emily Moser had her paper, "Canine scent detection of human cancers: A review of methods and accuracy," co-authored with Dr. Michael McCulloch, published in the Journal of Veterinary Behavior.

  • Third-year student Lee Bloch received Student Presentation Award from the Florida Anthropological Society at their annual meeting for his paper entitled, “Birdman, Birdwoman: Queering Archeology in Lake Jackson.”

  • Professor of Anthropology Maria Vesperi awarded the American Anthropological Association’s 2009 Oxford Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.  Twenty-seven of her former students recommended her for this award.

  • Associate Professor of Political Science Frank Alcock received a Fulbright Senior Scholar grant to Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, for the spring 2011 semester.

  • Graduating senior Justin Quinn selected to present his soon-to-be-published paper, “Vacations, Vocations, and (No) Vaccinations: Local Talk of Pandemics, Tourism, and Employment in Pisté, Yucatan,” at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in Merida, Mexico.

  • First-year student Chelsea Corarito selected for inclusion in a new book from Harper Collins Publishing, Can’t Keep My Own Secrets; Six-Word Memoirs by Teens Famous & Obscure.

  • Associate Professor of English Miriam Wallace selected for a summer 2009 institute sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) entitled “The Rule of Law: Legal Studies and the Liberal Arts.”

  • Associate Professor of History David Harvey awarded a $4,000 Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society for his research on ideas related to human origins and racial difference advanced by thinkers, scholars and officials of Enlightenment-era France.

  • Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies Meg Lowman named one of ten international figures in science, the environment and exploration to jury the Rolex Awards for Enterprise: Young Laureates Programme.

  • Assistant Professor of History Kathryn Dungy elected to the board of directors for the Tampa Bay History Center.

  • Professor of Physics Mariana Sendova awarded a $1.7 million grant from U.S. Army Research Laboratory for her research on nanotechnology.

  • President Mike Michalson elected to the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) for a three-year term (2009-2012). He also was appointed to the Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors.

  • Associate Provost Maribeth Clark elected to the Council of the American Musicological Society.

  • Alumnus William C. Dudley appointed chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and delivered the New College Commencement 2010 address.

  • Alumna Nancy McEldowney, a former ambassador to Bulgaria, named principal deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs.