Kurt Martens (second from the left), assistant professor of canon law, at the CUA Celebration of Research and Scholarship reception.Blessed are the meek, but being celebrated can go a long way towards inheriting the earth as well.
The Catholic University of America (CUA, Washington D.C.) bestowed awards on three of its professors for excellence in research at the Celebration of Research and Scholarship reception held at the Edward J. Pryzbyla University Center on April 30.
According to the CUA press release the research of the winners ‘runs the gamut from creating vaccines to save millions of lives, to writing a one-man play about the brother of John Wilkes Booth, to explicating the Catholic Church’s body of canon law’.
The latter is the merit of a Flemish native on American soil. Kurt Martens, assistant professor of canon law, received the 2009 Young Faculty Research Award, honouring the research achievements of a faculty member who has been at the university for fewer than four years. Professor Martens is the author of five books and 57 scholarly articles, an associate editor of three canon law-related journals and the co-founder and co-editor of a Belgian journal concerning law, religion and society. He was recently appointed a consultant to the Committee on Canonical Affairs and Church Governance of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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