Susan Singer, the Laurence McKinley Gould Professor of the Natural Sciences at Carelton College in Northfield, Minnesota, received the Charles Edwin Bessey Teaching Award from the Botanical Society of America.
Dr. Singer holds bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. degrees all from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.
Lara Lomicka Anderson, an associate professor of French at the University of South Carolina, received the prestigious Chevalier dans L’Order des Palms Academiques from the French Ministery of Education. Professor Anderson was honored for her innovative use of Twitter to promote the study of the French language.
Dr. Anderson is a graduate of Grove City College. She earned a master’s degree at Bowling Green State University and a Ph.D. at Pennsylvania State University.
Kim Vonnahme, an associate professor at North Dakota State University in Fargo, received the Early Career Achievement Award from the American Society of Animal Science.
Dr. Vonnahme, whose research involves reproductive physiology, is a graduate of Iowa State University. She holds a master’s degree from Oklahoma State University and a Ph.D. from the University of Wyoming.