Beloit College has honored emeritus geology professor Henry Woodard ’48 by naming a geology lab in its science center after him. Woodard joined Beloit in 1953 as the only geology professor and in 1957 established its geology department.

Dan Fagin ’85, an NYU science journalism professor, won a 2014 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction for Tom’s River: A Story of Science and Salvation. According to the Pulitzer committee, Fagin’s book, which chronicles the effects of chemical waste dumping on a small New Jersey community, “deftly combines investigative reporting and historical research to probe a…town’s cluster of childhood cancers linked to water and air pollution.”

Richard Lifton ’75, M.D., the chair and Yale Sterling Professor of Genetics, has earned a $3 million Life Sciences Prize by the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation for his genetics research. Lifton uses genetic approaches to identify the genes and pathways that contribute to common human diseases, including cancer and cardiovascular disease.

Fiona Bayly ’89 of New York City has earned an honorable mention in long-distance running in the women’s age 45 to 49 category by Running Times. Bayly, who has been competing for TeamUSA in aquathlons since 2009, will tackle the 750-meter open swim and 4.6-kilometer run in the International Triathlon Union Aquathlon World Championships in August.

Joanne Mather Conroy ’77, M.D., has been named CEO of Lahey Hospital & Medical Center in Burlington, Massachusetts. Conroy, who was named one of Modern Healthcare’s Top 25 Influential Women in Healthcare in 2011, previously worked at the Association of American Medical Colleges as chief healthcare officer.

Natural resources scientist Jennifer Jenkins ’91 has been named to the nonprofit American Forests science advisory board. Jenkins, the director of science and strategy at Applied Geosolutions in Washington, D.C., previously worked in the climate change division at the Environmental Protection Agency.

Arizona State University law student Chelee John ’12 of the Navajo Nation has been named one of 12 Udall Foundation 2014 Native American congressional interns. She will work in the U.S. Department of the Interior in the office of the solicitor at the division of Indian affairs.