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Katherine Aidala

Grant

National Science Foundation (NSF) subaward from Harvard for "STC Center for Integrated Quantum materials" The project is for seven years.

Supplemental funding from Harvard on National Science Foundation CIQM subaward to fund MakerFaire. (April, 2020)

Award

Awarded the 2020 Prize for a Faculty Member for Research in an Undergraduate Institution by the American Physical Society. The award recognizes Aidala's exceptionally creative and interdisciplinary research using scanning probe microscopy for novel studies of magnetic nanorings, biofilms and organic semiconductors and her outstanding mentoring of women undergraduates, particularly through research collaborations.

Honor

Was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society, "for innovative development of scanning probe techniques to characterize soft materials, study disordered semiconductors, and apply azimuthal magnetic fields to magnetic nanostructured materials; for exceptional mentoring of undergraduate women in physics; and promoting public appreciation of science.” Each year, no more than one half of one percent of the Society’s membership is recognized by their peers for election to the status of Fellow.  

Nigel Alderman

Publication

Alderman, N. "Impossible Elegies: Poetry in Transition 1945-1960." Postwar: Literature in Transition 1940-1960. Ed. Gill Plain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Alderman, N. Reading Postwar British and Irish Poetry. Co-written with Michael Thurston. (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014).

Alderman, N. "‘That Shed Out in the Garden’: The Poetics of Reference in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker." The Harold Pinter Review. 2. 1. (2018).

Alderman, N. "'Unity Sublime': The Excursion's Social Self." Yale Journal of Criticism. 18. 1 (2005): 21-43.

Alderman, N. “ `Singleness of Aim': Wordsworth, Keats, Carlyle and Professional Ambitions” Romantic Generations: Essays in Honor of Robert F. Gleckner. Eds. Ghislaine McDayter, Guinn Batten, and Barry Milligan. London: Associated University Presses, 2001.

Alderman, N. "'The Life With A Hole In It': Philip Larkin and the Condition of England." Textual Practice. 8.2 (1994): 279-301.

Alderman, N. “'Where are the Eagles and Trumpets?': The Strange Case of Eliot's Missing Quatrains." Twentieth Century Literature. 39.2 (1993): 129-151.

Award

Elected a Bye-Fellow of Robinson College, University of Cambridge for the Easter Term, 2021

Honor

Has been elected a bye-fellow at Robinson College, the University of Cambridge, for the Easter Term, 2022.