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Read MoreFour highly promising faculty members at UNC have been awarded the Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prizes for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by Young Faculty, an honor that recognizes the achievements of outstanding junior tenure-track faculty or recently tenured faculty.
This year’s recipients, who will each receive a $5,000 stipend, are:
Baragwanath’s work focuses on the literary techniques used by ancient Greek historians in their narratives. She is currently in Germany on an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, studying Xenophon, another ancient Greek historian.
You aims to discover new fundamental physical principles to engineer and manufacture polymer solar cells, using materials that would operate more efficiently and with less harm to the environment.
Perrin investigates prevention of obesity among young people, seeking ways pediatricians can best help them achieve healthy weights and lifestyles.
Zylkais a recognized expert in pain and neurodevelopmental disorders, working toward translating basic science research to treating disease in adults and children.
The Hettleman Prize is named after Phillip Hettleman ’21, who established the award in 1986. Hettleman grew up in Goldsboro and earned a scholarship to UNC. After graduating, he went to New York and in 1938 founded Hettleman & Co., a Wall Street investment firm. He died in May 1986.
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