Stephen Nichols ’58, a former French and humanities professor at Johns Hopkins, has been awarded a Humboldt Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for his work as a specialist in medieval literature, art and history. The award will support his residence next year at the Free University Berlin, where he will study medieval manuscripts there and throughout Germany and complete several books.

Joel Feldman ’70, M.D., has been named the president of St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital. A vascular surgeon, Feldman has served as the hospital’s chief of surgery and regional chief medical officer (CMO), where he worked with other regional CMOs to collaborate on initiatives for the statewide health system.

Andrew Cassel ’72 has been selected to help start a business journalism program while serving as a visiting professor at Penn State. Cassel, who serves as an editor for a website focused on macroeconomic data and analysis for Moody’s Analytics, worked as columnist, business editor and reporter for the Miami Herald and The Philadelphia Inquirer from 1984 to 2007.

Treffle LaFleche ’77 has been inducted into the New England Design Hall of Fame for his residential designs as a cofounder and partner at Cambridge, Massachusetts-based LDa-Architects. His work has included energy-efficient affordable-housing units and a camp of off-the-grid cabins for the Appalachian Mountain Club.

Melissa Cook ’82, founder and managing director of investment research firm African Sunrise Partners, has been named to the President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa. She will advise the president on strengthening commercial engagement between the United States and Africa.

Nancy Pease ’82 has been inducted into the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame. The “queen of Alaska trail running,” according to the Alaska Dispatch News, Pease set records at several marathon races across the state in the 1990s, including a record 50:30 at Mount Marathon, Alaska’s most famous 3-mile race.

Susan Finegan ’85, a member of the Boston-based litigation section of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, has been elected chair of the Massachusetts Commission on Judicial Conduct, responsible for hearing complaints of judge misconduct.

Karen Blodgett ’86, Tu’91, has been named one of the Top 100 Women Financial Advisors by Financial Times newspaper. The San Francisco-based Blodgett is the director of wealth management for Aspiriant, an investment advisor with more than $8 billion of assets under management.

Bill Daly ’86 has been inducted into the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame and received the 2014 Lester Patrick Trophy for outstanding service to U.S. hockey. Named the first-ever deputy commissioner of the NHL in 2005, Daly serves as the chief consultant to the NHL commissioner on all issues that impact the league’s operation and overall business.

Caroline Diamond Harrison ’86, publisher of the Staten Island Advance, has been elected the Staten Island representative to the board of trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Abigail Hopper ’93 has been named director of the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. Hopper, who was director of the Maryland Energy Administration, will lead an agency established in 2011 to help manage the development of oil, gas and renewable energy resources on the outer Continental Shelf.

Sean Kisker ’99 has been promoted to the newly created post of chief strategy officer and general manager of the Lionsgate motion picture group. Kisker, who was named to Variety’s list of Hollywood’s New Leaders 2011, will help manage the mini-studio’s movie franchises.

Nicholas Rule ’04, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, has earned a SAGE Young Scholars Award from the Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology and SAGE Publications. Rule, who received the Ministry of Research and Innovation of Ontario’s Early Researcher Award in 2012, researches the processes by which people evaluate others’ faces.

Matthew Heineman ’05 had his new documentary, Cartel Land, shown during the Sundance Film Festival in January. In the film vigilantes on both sides of the border fight vicious Mexican drug cartels, provoking questions about lawlessness and whether citizens should fight violence with violence.

Chelsea Wood ’06, a University of Michigan disease ecologist, has been awarded a 2014 Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists for her essay, “Environmental Change and the Ecology of Infectious Disease,” a study of how biodiversity loss can change the composition of parasite assemblages and patterns of disease transmission.