Research Awards and Rankings
Siegfried H. Horn Excellence in Research and Creative Scholarship Award Recipients
The 2015 recipients of the Siegfried H. Horn Excellence in Research and Creative Scholarship Award are Carla Trynchuk, Professor of Music and String Area Coordinator, Department of Music, College of Arts & Sciences (Arts, Humanities and Education); Andrew von Maur, Professor of Architecture, School of Architecture, Art & Design (Professional Programs); James Hayward, Research Professor of Biology, Department of Biology, College of Arts & Sciences (Pure & Applied Sciences); and Wagner Kuhn, Professor of World Mission, Department of World Mission, Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary (Religion & Theology). Learn More.
School of Business Faculty win Best Paper Award
School of Business faculty LeRoy Ruhupatty and Lucile Sabas won the Best Paper Award at the International Conference in China. Their research was funded in part by a Faculty Research Grant.
SHEBANQ wins Best Digital Humanities Award
Oliver Glanz, Assistant Professor of Old Testament, in the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary at Andrews, is part of a team that developed "SHEBANQ: System for HEBrew Text: ANnotations for Queries and Markup." The system recently won the Best Digital Humanities tool or suite of tools award for 2014. View Article, View SHEBANQ
Øystein LaBianca awarded ASOR Service Grant
Øystein LaBianca was awarded the American Schools of Oriental Research Member Service Award at the November 2014 meetings in San Diego, California. View Awardee List
Andrews a STEM Jobs Approved University
Andrews University is pleased to announce that it has been designated a 2015 STEM JobsSM Approved College by Victory Media. Andrews was among over 1,600 schools participating in the STEM JobsSM survey process. Schools submitting surveys were scored on publicly available data and responses to proprietary questions around three key indicators of success: STEM job alignment, STEM job placement, and diversity in a school’s STEM programs. View Article
Centre for Advanced Study Grant
Anthropology professor Øystein LaBianca (pictured) is part of a project that has received funding from the Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) at the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters in Oslo. He and his wife, Asta LaBianca, will be spending a year in Norway while he works with other researchers on a project entitled, "Local Dynamics of Globalization in the Pre-Modern Southern Levant." Asta LaBianca, who is an instructor of English at Andrews University, received a faculty research grant to work on the fourth publication of the Tall Hisban series during their stay in Norway. View Article
University Ranking for 2015
In the 2015 rankings of the U.S. News & World Report, Andrews is listed at #168 in the national university rankings (National University status reflects the Carnegie classification of various universities and colleges; in this case, it means that these universities offer “a full range of undergraduate majors, plus master’s and doctoral programs and also emphasize faculty research). This year’s ranking is an improvement of 13 places over the 2014 ranking. Andrews is the only Seventh-day Adventist institution included in this classification and U.S. News list. View Article