Less than a year after hitting the bookshelves, the textbook “Atlas of Clinical Gross Anatomy” started showing up in classrooms at Harvard Medical School, the University of Connecticut Medical School, and University of Southern California’s physical therapy program. And on Feb. 7 it received the R. R. Hawkins Award for Outstanding Professional, Reference or Scholarly Work of 2005 from the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division (PSP) of the Association of American Publishers.

“I’m pleased it [the Atlas] is getting recognition,” said co-author John C. Banks, an Andrews University professor of anatomy and physical therapy. “It’s something we as authors can feel good about as a whole.”

Banks wrote the textbook along with two Andrews alumni, (Kenneth Moses, a staff physician and assistant professor at Loma Linda University in Loma Linda, California, and Darrell Petersen, a biomedical photographer and architect in Elkhart, Indiana)  and Pedro B. Nava, chair of the Pathology and Human Anatomy Department at Loma Linda University.

The R. R. Hawkins Award, named for the former head of the Science and Technology Division of the New York Public Library, was presented at a special awards luncheon at the PSP Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.

The full-color atlas, which was published in May 2005, is one of two textbooks to win the award. Richard Taruskin’s The Oxford History of Western Music, published by Oxford University Press, is this year’s second Hawkins Award recipient. This is the first year that two textbooks have been chosen for this award. Awards were also presented for books, journals, digital media, and more in 30 categories.