Awards John Griffith, the Andrew Pattullo Collegiate Professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy at the School of Public Health, and co-author Kenneth White are winners of the Hayhow Award for 2005 from the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) for their article, “The Revolution in Hospital Management,” which appeared in the May/June 2005 Journal of Healthcare Management. The award will be presented March 28 at the ACHE 49th Congress in Chicago. Anna Gilbert, assistant professor of mathematics; Jennifer Ogilvie, assistant professor of physics and assistant research scientist, Biophysics Research Division; Noah Rosenberg, assistant professor of human genetics and biostatistics, and assistant research professor of bioinformatics and in the Life Sciences Institute (LSI); Melanie Sanford, assistant professor of chemistry; Xian-Zhong Shawn Xu, assistant professor of molecular and integrative physiology, and research assistant professor in LSI, are recipients of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship. Sloan fellows are engaged in research at the frontiers of physics, chemistry, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics and neuroscience. They are free to pursue whatever lines of inquiry are of most interest to them. Tiya Miles, assistant professor of American culture and Afroamerican and African studies, has won the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize from the Organization of American Historians. The award—presented each year for an author’s first book on some significant phase of American history—recognizes Miles’ 2005 book, “Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom” (University of California Press, 2005).
