Achievement

Dr. Rebecca Andrews of UConn Health has been named the chair of the policy-making body for the American College of Physicians for next year. In addition to her roles as professor of medicine in the UConn School of Medicine, associate program director of its internal medicine residency program, primary care physician, director of primary care, and clinical lead for UConn Health’s Patient-Centered Medical Home and Comprehensive Pain Center, Andrews is now the chair of the ACP’s Board of Regents.

Steven Smith, a professor in the Department of Journalism, has been named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow for 2025, joining just 25 other scholars nationally in receiving the prestigious honor for researchers in the humanities and social sciences. Each fellow will receive $200,000 for research focusing on subjects related to political polarization, with the aim of eventually producing a book or other major study, the Carnegie Corporation of New York announced Wednesday.

Anna VanCleave, a professor at UConn Law, has been selected as a Bellow Scholar, a program run by the Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Clinical Legal Education’s Committee on Lawyering in the Public Interest. Every two years, the program recognizes and supports the empirical research projects of clinical law professors who increase the quality of justice in marginalized communities, enhance the delivery of legal services, and promote economic and social justice.

Charlie Yarish, an emeritus professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, will be honored as the North American Wizard of Seaweed Science by the International Seaweed Symposium. The event will take place in early May in Victoria, British Columbia.

In Memoriamo

Dr. John Bellizzi, 79, of South Ergemont, Massachusetts., a former faculty member at UConn Health, on March 15.

Dr. Joseph Carpentieri, 97, of Naples, Florida., a former staff member at UConn Health, on March 31.