Andrew Fist and Dimitrios Kakavelakis III, graduate students at the UT Space Institute, have won first- and second-place awards, respectively for their papers at the Southeastern Regional Conference of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Joseph Majdalani, professor of mechanical, aerospace, and biomedical engineering, is mentoring the students and has had students win awards in the AIAA competition for the past four years.

Laura Nenzi, associate professor of history, has received a fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton that will allow her to work on her second book in spring 2014. The project is titled The Chaos and Cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko.

Harry “Hap” McSween, professor of earth and planetary sciences, has been named the Southeastern Conference Professor of the Year for 2013. McSween is only the second recipient of the award, which the SEC originated in 2012 to honor one exceptional educator a year from the conference’s 14 universities.

Jason Hayward, assistant professor of nuclear engineering, has received an Early Career Award from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. Hayward will receive $750,000 over five ears for his project, “Neutron Scattering Instrumentation Research and Development for High Spatial and Temporal Resolution Imaging at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.” Hayward’s proposal was one of 61 chosen from a field of 770 submittals.

Rachel May Golden, associate professor of musicology, has been accepted to the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on music and travel in Europe and the Americas between 1500 and 1800. The institute will take place at the Newberry Library in Chicago.