Lawrence Appel ’77, M.D., the director of the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research at Johns Hopkins, has received the 2012 National Award for Career Achievement and Contributions to Clinical and Translational Science from the American Federation for Medical Research, the Association for Clinical Research Training, the Association for Patient Oriented Research and the Society for Clinical and Translational Science. Appel has led studies that have set national standards for preventing heart disease, stroke and kidney disease.

James Rill ’54 has earned the U.S. Justice Department’s 2012 John Sherman Award for his lifetime contributions to the development and enforcement of antitrust policy. Rill served as an assistant attorney general for the department’s antitrust division from 1989 to 1992 and is currently a partner at Baker Botts LLP in Washington, D.C.

Edward Muller ’65, a history professor at the University of Pittsburgh, has earned that school’s 2012 Chancellor’s Distinguished Public Service Award. He was honored for his efforts across three decades in various preservation projects in the region.

Terry Plank ’85, a professor in Columbia University’s earth and environmental sciences department, has been awarded a $500,000 MacArthur “genius grant.” The MacArthur Foundation described her work as “probing the usually invisible but remarkably powerful thermal and chemical forces deep below the Earth’s crust that drive the motion of tectonic plate collisions.”

Gina Barreca ’79, a humorist and professor of English literature and feminist theory at the University of Connecticut, has been admitted to the Friars Club, a private group of comedians famous for its risqué celebrity roasts.

Katherine Dawes ’88 of Washington, D.C., has earned the American Evaluation Association’s 2012 Alva and Gunnar Myrdal Government Evaluation Award, which recognizes the influence of evaluation work in governmental contexts. Dawes, who has been working for the Environmental Protection Agency for 20 years, is currently the director of its evaluation support division.

Kimberley Smith Quirk ’82, Th’83, received a Green Building Award from Business NH Magazine for renovating her 154-year-old Enfield, New Hampshire, home into a zero-net-energy building that uses a solar heating system.

Timothy Greenberg ’92 has earned an Emmy Award in the “Outstanding Variety Series” category as supervising producer of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Greenberg, named one of Shoot magazine’s “Up and Coming Directors” in 2004, recently finished the docu-comedy DL Hughley: The Endangered List, which aired on Comedy Central in October.

Matt Mosk ’92 has earned an Emmy for “Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast” as producer of “Green Energy: Contracts, Connections and the Collapse of Solyndra,” an ABC News report about President Obama’s green energy program. Mosk, who lives in Annapolis, Maryland, is a regular contributor to DAM.

Dave Ullrich ’70 has been appointed to a second six-year term as a commissioner of the Great Lakes Fishery Commission. Since 2003 Ullrich has been the executive director of the Chicago-based Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative, responsible for working with U.S. and Canadian mayors from across the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Basin to advance the protection and restoration of the resource.