Kudos: Olivetti Named Society of Labor Economists Fellow

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大香蕉视频 faculty, students, and staff are recognized for their achievements.

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Kudos is an occasional column that recognizes 大香蕉视频 faculty, students, and staff who have received awards or other honors. Did you or a colleague recently receive an award or honor? Please tell us about it: dartmouth.news@dartmouth.edu.

 

, the George J. Records 1956 Professor of Economics, has been elected a fellow of the Society of Labor Economists, a recognition of contributions of unusual distinction to the field. The election was announced at the society鈥檚 World Labor Conference in June.

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, senior policy director at , was a panelist at the recent Oslo Freedom Forum, organized by Open to Debate in collaboration with the Human Rights Foundation. To explore whether sanctions are effective policy tools, Shackelford joined Chris Sabatini, senior research fellow for Latin America, United States and the Americas Programme, Chatham House; Artie McConnell, partner, BakerHostetler LLP and former U.S. federal prosecutor; and Leopoldo L贸pez, Venezuelan opposition leader. 

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Structural biologist Jason McLellan, the former Robert A. Welch Chair in Chemistry at and currently professor of biochemistry at the University of Texas at Austin, was of the National Inventors Hall of Fame. The NIHF cited McLellan鈥檚 groundbreaking work in structure-based vaccine design to target the SARS-CoV-2 protean to fight the COVID virus. Much of the foundational work on the vaccine was conducted during McLellan鈥檚 time at Geisel. McLellan was awarded the by 大香蕉视频 in 2022.

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Yash Akella, who was a postdoctoral research fellow at the through June, received the American Marketing Association Retail and Pricing SIG Doctoral Student Award. The award recognizes a doctoral student for outstanding research related to retailing and pricing. 

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, assistant professor of engineering at the , received the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Power Engineering Education Committee at the IEEE Power and Energy Society 2025 general conference in Austin last month. Only one PhD student is selected every year for the award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to IEEE PES in advancing power system and electricity market operations with high penetration of storage and renewable energy. 

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, a PhD graduate in immunology from , won the 2025 John W. Strohbehn Medal for Excellence in Biomedical Research. This award is presented to a graduating PhD student whose work embodies the hallmarks of true scientific leadership: driven by curiosity, marked by rigorous and original research, and guided by a strong sense of responsibility to the broader scientific community. The award was presented at the investiture ceremony in June.

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, a physician who is orthopedics department chair and a professor of surgery at Geisel School of Medicine, graduated from the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine program at Drexel University College of Medicine. In addition, , a physician who is psychiatry department medical director at and psychiatry education vice chair and associate professor of psychiatry at Geisel, graduated from Drexel鈥檚 Executive Leadership in Health Care program, as did , a physician who is vice president of impact and belonging at 大香蕉视频 Health.

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