Raymond Burns ’86, a member of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, has been named president of Leech Lake Tribal College in Bemidji, Minnesota. Burns previously managed the Native American Student Success Program at the University of Minnesota and was president of the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College.

Marine Capt. Peter Rollins ’63 has been posthumously inducted into the Oklahoma National Guard Military Hall of Fame and given the Maj. Gen. Douglas O. Dollar Distinguished Service Award for his service to veterans. Rollins was a Vietnam veteran and English professor at Oklahoma State University, where he produced publications and films about military service.

Stanford business management professor David Kreps ’72 received the 2018 John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science from the National Academy of Science and the 2018 Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics from Northwestern University. His research is focused on reputation and collusion, which have applications in macroeconomics, industrial organization, and labor economics.

NASA research astrophysicist Lauren Blum ’07 has earned the Basu United States Early Career Award for Research Excellence in Sun-Earth Systems Science from the American Geophysical Union. Her research at Goddard Space Flight Center focuses on wave-particle interactions and their influence on the evolution and dynamics of Earth’s radiation belts.

Odette Harris ’91 became the first African-American female tenured neurosurgery professor named in 35 years—and only the second in U.S. history—when Stanford promoted her this spring. Harris has served as director of brain injury in the school’s neurosurgery department since 2009.

Latin America historian Ben Vinson ’92 has been named provost and executive vice president at Case Western Reserve. He worked most recently as dean of George Washington University’s Columbian College of Arts & Sciences.

Brian Schott ’93 and his Whitefish Review earned the 2017-18 American Society of Magazine Editors Reader’s Choice Award in the “Brainiest” category for the best cover of a national magazine. (Schott, the founding editor of the magazine, was profiled in the January-February 2017 issue of DAM.)