Borzutzky wins Elliot Dunlap Smith Award

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences has named Silvia Borzutzky the 2002-03 winner of the Elliot Dunlap Smith Award, which is given every year by the college to recognize distinguished teaching and educational service.

Borzutzky, who has taught at Carnegie Mellon University since 1988, is a lecturer in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences and in the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management. Her research interests focus on Social Security Policies in Latin America. Silvia also works on human rights issues in South America with a special focus on the role of the judiciary during the transition to democracy and to the protection of individual rights. She has been a central figure in several H&SS and Carnegie Mellon initiatives, including the Political Science major program (in which she now serves as Acting Director), the H&SS Freshman Seminar Program and the College's new and fast-growing major, International Relations.

Elliot Dunlap Smith was provost of the Carnegie Institute of Technology from 1946 to 1959. He also was the Maurice Falk Professor of Social Relations. He and President Robert Doherty forged the Carnegie Plan for Professional Education, a program to train men and women to become creative and productive professionals.