David Reidy, associate professor of philosophy, recently won a 2008 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Faculty Fellowship to support his work on an intellectual biography of political philosopher John Rawls. Reidy will spend the 2009-2010 academic year working as an NEH Fellow on the project.

Margaret Lazarus Dean, assistant professor of English, has received a $25,000 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Creative Writing.

Heather Hirschfeld, associate professor of English, was recently awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities for her project, “Satisfactions of the Renaissance: Revenge Tragedy and the English Reformation.”

Margaret ‘Peggy’ Gripshover, adjunct associate professor and lecturer in the Department of Geography, won the inaugural Excellence in Teaching Award in the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers (SEDAAG).

UT Center for Executive Education faculty members Steve Geary and Kate Vitasek have written Performance-Based Logistics: a Contractor’s Guide to Life Cycle Product Support Management. Published in October 2008, the book is used in UT’s performance-based logistics program and provides practical guidance to contractors working with the Department of Defense.