Shannon Zenk received the 2012 School of Nursing Distinguished Alumna Award. Zenk, who has dedicated her life’s work to researching obesity and the environmental and socioeconomic factors that contribute to this medical condition, has published more than 40 articles and has conducted multiple research projects.

In 2010 Zenk was elected to the Executive Board of the International Society for Urban Health, and in the following year, she was awarded the Midwest Nursing Research Society Harriett Werley New Investigator Award. Zenk is also a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholar.

Christopher Baron recently published his book, Timaeus of Tauromenium and Hellenistic Historiography (Cambridge University Press, 2013).

He writes, “Timaeus of Tauromenium (350–260 BC) wrote the authoritative work on the Greeks in the Western Mediterranean. Like the vast majority of ancient historians, however, his work survives only in fragments. My book provides an up-to-date study of his work and shows that both the nature of the evidence and modern assumptions about historical writing in the Hellenistic period have skewed our treatment and judgement of lost historians.”

Congrats on the book Chris!