The University of Vermont has honored six distinguished emeriti professors with its Retired Scholars Award, which supports longtime faculty members in completing a research or scholarship project during their retirement.

The awards program receives support from President Tom Sullivan and direction from the UVM Association of Retired Faculty and Administrative Officers. It helps the professor cover costs to travel to present at a national or international conference; complete and publish a scholarly manuscript under contract; prepare an artistic work to present in a juried exhibition; prepare a performance in music, dance, or theater; complete and publish a literary composition under contract with a publisher or distributor; acquire research materials, such as data sets for secondary analysis, or support field research; or other specific expenses related to a creative or research project.

The awards require an application letter that explains the project and projected expenses, estimated completion date, and specific outcomes.

The recipients for the 2016–2017 academic year are:

• Alfred Andrea, Professor of History Emeritus, who is participating by invitation in the First Annual Conference of Byzantine and Medieval Studies in Cyprus, where he will present his paper “The Clash of Two Worldviews on the Eve of the Fourth Crusade.”
• Phillipe Carrard, Professor of French Emeritus, who will complete and publish translations into French of writings of Hayden White, an American historian and theorist of history.
• Carolyn Elliott, Professor of Political Science Emerita, who is engaged in a field research project in Hyderabad, India, on the relation of problems with collection and payment of local taxes by rural villages to the delivery of services to the villages.
• David Huddle, Professor of English Emeritus, who will participate in the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville. He will present an essay as part of the panel that celebrates the 30^th anniversary of the literary journal Zone 3.
• Daniel Lusk, Senior Lecturer Emeritus of English, who is completing a new collection of poems, The Shower Scene from Hamlet, under contract with Salmon Poetry (Ireland).
• Thomas Read, Professor of Music Emeritus, who will record his Concert Champetre, a duo for guitar and cello, to be included in a collection of Professor Read’s previously recorded chamber music that will be of sufficient length to enable commercial promotion and distribution.