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2007 Lawrence A. Brown Faculty Fellow Award: Bryan Mark 2007 Lawrence A. Brown Faculty Fellow Award: Darla Munroe |
| 2007 E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Fellow Award: Ryan Fogt |
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2007 Huntington Award: Zach Henkel 2007 Huntington Award: Michael Webb |
| View pictures from the event in the Departmental Scrapbook |
Background information for each award: Lawrence A. Brown Faculty Fellow Award: This recognition is given annually to a junior faculty who has made outstanding scholarly contributions and holds great promise for the future. The award is intended to enhance their forward movement by providing a modest honorarium to support new research endeavors and related professional activities. Candidates are nominated by a senior faculty member and asked to submit a synopsis of scholarly accomplishments and a plan for using the honorarium if the nomination is successful. The E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Fellow Award recognizes achievement over the full span of one’s graduate career at Ohio State Geography. As the plaque citation reads, it is “Given in Recognition of Outstanding Graduate Students on the Basis of Demonstrated Success in Writing, Scholarship, and Potential to Become Leaders as Professional Geographers. A Model Set by Will and Ruby -- Partners in Life and Work -- Continually Active as Teachers, Scholars, and Explorers -- Hon DSc Awarded to Will in December 1997 -- Fifty-Five Years to the Day he Received His 1942 Ohio State PhD” The Huntington is named for Charles Clifford Huntington (Jan. 12, 1873-Nov. 29, 1956). He obtained a B.Sc. from Antioch in 1896, a Bachelor of Philosophy from OSU in 1902 and a M.A. from OSU in 1903. He was then intermittently at Cornell where he obtained a Ph.D. in 1915. His thesis, "A History of Banking and Currency in Ohio Before the Civil War," was published by the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society in 1915, a copy of which is available in the main geography office in Derby Hall. From Professor Guy-Harold Smith's account in the History of the Department, we find that Professor Huntington became an Assistant Professor at OSU in 1909 and taught accounting. In 1913, he obtained the rank of Professor. After receiving his Ph.D. degree, he became increasingly responsible for the geography courses being introduced among the offerings of the Department of Economics and Sociology. In 1922, Professor Huntington was made Chairman of the new Department of Economics and Social Geography. He continued as Chairman of Geography when the Department was established in 1924. He retired from the Chair in 1934, and from the University in 1943. In 1957, his widow established a fund for an award to outstanding students in Geography. Thanks to John Rayner for preserving this tradition and recording some of these notes. Among previous awardees of the Huntington are OSU faculty members Ellen Mosley-Thompson (1977), Jay Hobgood (1979), and Hazel Morrow-Jones (1980). |
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