Jayne M. Standley, professor of music, named 2005-06 Robert O. Lawton Professor, the highest honor the university can bestow upon a faculty member, for her outstanding contributions to the field of music therapy; Alan G. Marshall, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, named 2006-07 Robert O. Lawton Professor for outstanding work in the field of analytical chemistry.

Mark Wingate, assistant professor of music, and Dale Olsen, professor of ethnomusicology, awarded 2005-06 Guggenheim Memorial Fellowships.

Jeffrey Chanton, professor of oceanography, awarded 2005 Aldo Leopold Leadership fellowship, for effectiveness in communicating scientific information to the public.

Lev P. Gor’kov, professor of physics and director of the Condensed Matter Theory Program at the National Magnetic Field Laboratory, elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Harold Kroto, Nobel laureate professor of chemistry, elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Richard C. Feiock, professor of public administration; Elizabeth Goldsmith, professor of textiles and consumer sciences; Tomi Gomory, associate professor of social work; Lisa R. Wakamiya, assistant professor of Slavic languages and literature, awarded Fulbright scholarships for study abroad.

Jorge Piekarewicz, professor of physics; Laura Reina, associate professor of physics, and Bernd Berg, professor of physics, elected fellows of the American Physical Society.

Felicia Coleman, adjunct professor of biological science, tapped as the first on-site director of the newly reorganized FSU Marine and Coastal Laboratory, Turkey Point in Franklin County.

DeWitt Sumners, professor of mathematics, Michael Chapman and Joseph Schlenoff, both professors of chemistry and biochemistry, named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science.

Suzanne Farrell, Eppes Professor of Dance, named a 2005 Kennedy Center Honors recipient for superlative lifetime contributions to American culture through the performing arts.

James J. O’Brien, Robert O. Lawton Professor of Meteorology and Oceanography, named recipient of the 2006 Medalist Award from the Florida Academy of Sciences.

John G. Dorsey, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, named recipient of the 2006 Award in Chromatography from the American Chemical Society.

Elizabeth Stuckey-French, associate professor of English, chosen as author of lead story in the 2005 collection of O. Henry Prize Stories.

Dean Falk, professor of anthropology and chair of the Department of Anthropology, led an international team of scientists on an investigation of 18,000-year old skeletal remains discovered in Indonesia, confirming the find as a new species of dwarf humans, Homo floresiensis.

A team led by Kenneth Roux, professor of biological science, produced the first high-definition images of the AIDS virus—a feat of major importance in the search for an effective vaccine to treat the disease—research reported in the journal Nature.

Chemists Chris Hendrickson and Alan Marshall, authors on the first paper published by Scripps Florida, the state’s new biomedical research facility based in Palm Beach County, as part of a collaborative project on the dynamics of drug/protein binding, in the journal Analytical Chemistry.