Two Northeastern professors have won prestigious grants. Wayne Franklin, Davis professor of American literature, was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship to support his work on a biography of James Fenimore Cooper. And Gilda Barabino, associate professor of chemical engineering, won a grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue her work on sickle cell anemia.

Practice-oriented education—Northeastern’s calling card—takes center stage in the October issue of the Atlantic Monthly in an article written by President Richard Freeland. Practice-oriented education, he argues, “will enhance learning and produce significant developmental gains” for many undergraduates. “It is thus time,” he concludes, “for the nation’s educators to embrace this latent movement and to recognize its adherents as champions of an important educational idea.”

Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Music Judith Tick, a music historian specializing in women’s history and American music, is a new fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is the first Northeastern faculty member to achieve this recognition.

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