Congratulations to James Risk, University of South Carolina, who was recently awarded the John A. and Annie Rice Excellence in Teaching Award by the University of South Carolina Department of History. Risk also won a Pam Laird Research Grant from the Mercurians, a Special Interest Group of the Society for the History of Technology; a Clyde Ferrell Summer Dissertation Research Fellowship from the University of South Carolina Department of History; and a Richard A. Bacas Scholarship from the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University. Risk is a Research Fellow of the Consortium in 2015-2016.