May 26, 2005

Honors

Alan L. Buchman, M.D., associate professor of internal medicine in the division of gastroenterology, has been awarded the AGA/Miles and Shirley Fiterman Foundation Hugh R. Butt Award for Distinguished Achievement in Clinical Research in Hepatology or Nutrition by the American Gastroenterological Association  (AGA).

This award recognizes an individual for excellence in clinical research in hepatology or nutrition and helps support the clinical research efforts of the recipient.

Buchman’s research has focused on complications of long-term total parenteral nutrition (TPN), including recognition of choline deficiency as a cause for TPN-associated liver disease. He has directed the AGA’s course in clinical nutrition for the past two years. Buchman is a diplomat of the National Board of Medical Examiners and a diplomat of internal medicine and gastroenterology of the American Board of Internal Medicine.

Brian Edwards, an assistant professor of English and comparative literary studies who teaches and writes about 20th century American literature and culture in an international context, has been named one of 16 Carnegie Scholars.

The Carnegie Corporation of New York will award the newly named 2005 scholars up to $100,000 over a two-year period to pursue research focused on Islam and the modern world. A former Fulbright Fellow to Morocco, Edwards specializes in Maghrebi literature and culture, especially its intersections with U.S. culture and politics.

At Northwestern, Edwards directs the Globalizing American Studies Project, which is multi-year initiative with the Center for Global Culture and Communi-cation and the Center for International and Comparative Studies. He is the author of the forthcoming “Morocco Bound: Disorienting America’s Maghreb, from Casablanca to the Marrakech Express.”