Owen Fiss ’59, the Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale Law School, has been awarded the 2020 Henry M. Phillips Prize in Jurisprudence by the American Philosophical Society in recognition of lifetime contributions and important publications in the field of jurisprudence. Fiss has taught procedure, legal theory, and constitutional law at Yale, and four of his articles have been named as among the top 100 most-cited law review articles of all time.

Norm Fine ’55, Th’56, has earned a silver medal at the 24th Annual Independent Publishers Book Awards for Blind Bombing: How Microwave Radar Brought the Allies to D-Day and Victory in World War II. Fine, a retired electronics engineer and publisher of an annual engineering design series in the 1990s, earned the award in the world history category.

Crystal Crawford ’87 has been named executive director of the Los Angeles-based Western Center on Law & Poverty, California’s oldest and largest legal services support center. Crawford brings to the role 20 years of senior management experience in the legal, philanthropic and nonprofit sectors, most recently as a program director at the California Wellness Foundation.

William Neukom ’64, a Dartmouth trustee from 1994 to 2006, has been awarded the 2020 American Bar Association (ABA) Medal. A retired partner in the Seattle office of K&L Gates, Neukom was the lead lawyer for Microsoft Corp. for 25 years, served as president of the ABA in 2007, and founded the World Justice Project as an ABA initiative in 2006.

Caroline Choi ’90—senior VP of corporate affairs at Southern California Edison, one of the largest electric utilities in the United States—has been named one of the “Coolest in L.A.” by nonprofit Climate Resolve. Choi was recognized for her efforts to implement Pathway 2045, the utility’s blueprint for carbon-free power to customers by 2045.

Andy Shamel ’05 has been named chaplain of Lincoln College at the University of Oxford. Shamel was ordained in the Episcopal Church in 2010, previously served as chaplain at Stanford University, and expects to complete his D.Phil. in philosophy within the year.