Irvin
Youngberg Award for Applied Sciences, Charles R. Greenwood
Two KU faculty recognized with prestigious Higuchi Awards for research
achievement
LAWRENCE — Two professors from the University of Kansas and
two from Kansas State University have received Higuchi-KU Endowment
Research Achievement Awards for 2008.
The awards, now in their 26th year, honor outstanding accomplishments
in research by faculty members at KU and other Kansas Board of Regents
institutions. The prestigious recognition program was established by
Takeru Higuchi, a distinguished professor at KU from 1967 to 1983,
and his late widow, Aya.
Each award includes a plaque and a $10,000 grant for ongoing research
efforts. The award money can be used for research materials, summer
salaries, fellowship matching funds, research assistants or other support
related to research.
The 2008 Higuchi Award winners will be recognized formally Nov. 6
at a ceremony and reception at the Adams Alumni Center in Lawrence.
Balfour Jeffrey Award in Humanities and Social Sciences
Charles C. Eldredge is the Hall Distinguished Professor
of American Art and Culture at KU. He was director of the Spencer Museum
of Art at KU for 11 years, after which he spent six years in Washington,
D.C., as director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American
Art. He returned to KU in 1988. During his career, he has taught and
published extensively on such prominent American artists as Georgia
O’Keeffe, Marsden Hartley and John Steuart Curry.
Irvin Youngberg
Award for Applied Sciences
Charles R. Greenwood is a professor in the
Department of Applied Behavioral Science, senior scientist in the Life
Span Institute and director of the Juniper Gardens Children’s
Project in Kansas City, Kan., one of the Life Span Institute’s
13 affiliated centers. He came to KU in 1978, and his research has
focused on how certain environmental factors in the experiences of
young children in poverty lead to poor academic performance and other
social problems. He developed an innovative and successful set of classroom
procedures — Classwide Peer Tutoring — designed to enhance
student engagement and academic outcomes in reading, spelling and math.
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