Please join the Department of Classics in congratulating Prof. Candace Rice, who has won the 2023-2024 Graduate School Faculty Award for Advising and Mentoring. The award recognizes faculty members who have made significant contributions as advisers or mentors to our graduate students. Needless to say, there were many nominations, but Candace's dedication, hard-work, and care, easily allowed her candidacy to rise to the top. All in our community send hearty congratulations to Candace for this much-deserved award.

The Department of Classics is proud to announce that Prof. David Buchta, Senior Lecturer in Sanskrit, has won the Karen T. Romer Award for Excellence in Advising.

At the most recent meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Itamar Levin, a fifth-year student in our graduate program, delivered a paper, "'Bring Him Home': Iliad 7.334–5 and the Commemoration of the War Dead in Archaic Greece," for which Itamar has won CAMWS' Presidential Award for Outstanding Graduate Paper. Congratulations, Itamar!

Prof. Sasha-Mae Eccleston and Prof. Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton) have been awarded a one million dollar grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the development of the Racing the Classics Fellowship Program.