
Renowned Faculty
The Best of the Best
Our faculty members have garnered the highest honors: the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the MacArthur “Genius Grant," the Grammy Award, the National Medal of Science, the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, and top international prizes such as the Abel Prize (mathematics) and the Wolf Prize in Agriculture.

Pamela McElwee, an associate professor in the Department of Human Ecology at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, is working on an environmental history of the Vietnam War examining how nature shaped military strategy. Melissa Cooper, a Rutgers–Newark history professor, is working on a new book that will examine the ideas that shaped interpretations of black suffering in South Carolina’s Low Country from the 1920s to the 1970s.