Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon has won the Sze-Hernandez Distinguished Teaching Prize and Elisha Cohn has won the Russell Distinguished Teaching Award.

Because a lack of diversity continues to be a global issue among the ranks of faculty in academia, the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) program exists to transform this reality by empowering students of diverse backgrounds to pursue graduate programs. As this year’s class of Mellon Mays fellows prepare to graduate, we spoke to several of them about the program and their plans for the future.

Though the pandemic made it difficult to celebrate, 2020 marked a significant milestone – 100 years of women’s suffrage in the United States. The anniversary prompted co-instructors Shirley Samuels, professor of Literatures in English, and recently retired Johnson Museum Gale and Ira Drukier Curator Nancy Green, to create a History of Art course, “The Museum and the Object Practicum on American Women and Work.”

Valzhyna Mort, assistant professor of literatures in English, has won the prestigious Rome Prize in Literature.