Professor Jonathan Lamb has won one of the most prestigious awards for conducting research in the Humanities, a Guggenheim Fellowship for the coming year.  The project he will develop is on scurvy, and ranges not only across centuries and genres, stories and histories, but even includes a mouse study in the Medical Center.   You can read more here: http://www.gf.org/fellows/17249-jonathan-lamb

Professor William Luis, Professor of Spanish, who holds a secondary appointment in English, has also won a Guggenheim, to write on the life and works of the Cuban slave poet Juan Francisco Manzano (1797–1854); you can read more at http://www.gf.org/fellows/17257-william-luis.