Awards & Achievements


June 14, 2023

Christine Lewis '07 Named to 40 Under 40 List

The Metro Councilor and former Reed trustee will be honored by the Portland Business Journal on July 13.

April 3, 2023

Prof. Kevin Holmes Wins Cattell Sabbatical Award

The associate professor of psychology will spend the upcoming academic year continuing his studies of linguistic framing.

March 16, 2023

Prof. Elizabeth Drumm Wins NEH Fellowship

With her project, the Spanish and humanities professor hopes to bring more attention to modernist author Ramón del Valle-Inclán.

March 14, 2023

Prof. Sam Fey Wins NSF CAREER Award

The associate professor of biology will study thermal refuges amid climate warming.

March 8, 2023

Six Professors Named to Prestigious Chairs

The newly appointed faculty inspire as both scholars and teachers.

February 28, 2023

Reed Awarded Mellon Foundation Grant to Support Environmental Humanities

The $500,000 initiative will fund new scholarship as well as the creation of courses centered on environmental justice and the literary imagination.

February 17, 2023

Two Reed Faculty Earn Fulbright Scholar Awards for 2022-23

Profs. Jamie Pommersheim [math] and Tom Landvatter [GLAM] each received grants to conduct research abroad.

December 21, 2022

Chemistry Prof. Kelly Chacón Named Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar

The award honors young faculty and comes with an unrestricted research grant of $75,000, which Chacón will use toward their work in bioinorganic spectroscopy.

January 3, 2023

Maxwell J.D. VanLandschoot '22 Named Schwarzman Scholar

The economics major will embark on one year of graduate study at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He’s the first Reedie to receive the honor.

December 21, 2022

Royal Musical Association Awards Dent Medal to Prof. Mark Burford

The scholar has spent the past 10 years focused on Black popular music studies, from Sam Cooke to Mahalia Jackson.