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Compiled by Editor Peter Szatmary and Intern Hannah Sillivan
Sixteen of the 278 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships announced in March went to Phi Kappa Phi members:
Nearly 1,100 college sophomores and juniors were nominated for Goldwater Scholarships by their school faculties in the national competition that encourages excellence in math, engineering and the natural sciences. Nominees must be in the upper fourth of their class and have a least a B average. Winners receive one- or two-year scholarships up to $7,500. The Goldwater Foundation, a federally endowed agency honoring Senator Barry M. Goldwater, has awarded 5,801 scholarships worth approximately $56 million in its 21 year history. (Source: http://www.act.org/goldwater/ ) |
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Five of the 60 2009 Truman Scholars, college juniors striving for careers in public service, are Phi Kappa Phi members:
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The 60 Truman Scholars from 55 U.S. colleges and universities were chosen from 601 candidates nominated by 289 schools. Seventeen independent regional panels of jurors typically included a university president, federal judge, notable public servant and a past Truman Scholarship winner. The Truman Scholarship Foundation was established in 1975 by Congress as a federal memorial to 33rd President Harry S. Truman. There have been 2,670 Truman Scholars elected since the first awards were made in 1977.
(Source: www.truman.gov)
Two of the 15 Mortar Board Fellowships for graduate studies went to Phi Kappa Phi members in December 2008 :
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Fellowships assist members in financing graduate studies. Awards totaled $60,000 in 2008. Members of the Mortar Board National College Senior Honor Society are selected on academic excellence, leadership, service, recommendation, promise, financial need and Mortar Board involvement. Founded in 1918, the society has more than 225 chapters and has initiated upwards of 250,000 members nationwide.
(Source: www.mortarboard.org)
Numerous Phi Kappa Phi members assumed new academic duties:
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Ralph Elliott , Vice Provost Emeritus atClemson University,poses with colleague Lienne Medford, Associate Professor of Education, in January after Medfordreceived the first Ralph D. Elliott Endowed Award for Outstanding Service to Off-Campus, Distance and Continuing Education, worth $1,500. Medford is immediate past president of the Phi Kappa Phi chapter at Clemson. Elliott (initiated into Phi Kappa Phi at North Carolina State University) continues to serve as chairman of Clemson’s Continuing/Distance Education Advancement Board.
(Photo courtesy of Clemson University Photographic Service.)
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Phi Kappa Phi members received two of Washburn University’s three spring 2008 Sibberson Awards. Virgil Barnard, a December 2008 graduate, majored in political science. He was commissioned into the U.S. Army as a second lieutenant and will attend graduate school at Georgetown University to pursue a master’s degree in foreign service. Kayla Barrett, a December 2008 graduate, earned a bachelor of business administration degree, with concentrations in accounting and finance. She works inthe audit practice at the audit, tax and advisory firm KMPG in Kansas City, Mo., and hopes to pursue a master’s degree in business administration. Sibberson Awards honor the highest-ranking members of the senior Washburn class. There were 10 nominees for the spring 2008 competition; monetary awards were not disclosed. Instituted in 2002, the award has been given to nearly two dozen students.
Nathaniel Drew Bastian (United States Military Academy) graduated from West Point and commissioned into the U.S. 
Army’s Medical Service Corps as a Second Lieutenant in May 2008. Unlike his peers who immediately began preparing for combat operations and leading soldiers, he headed off to the Netherlands as a Fulbright U.S. Student Program Fellow through a Netherland-America Foundation Fellowship valued at roughly $15,000. During his one-year cultural immersion that began in August 2008, Bastian has been pursuing a master’s degree in econometrics and operations research through the Department of Quantitative Economics in the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at Universiteit Maastricht. (Econometricians apply quantitative/statistical methods to analyze economics, and operations researchers use mathematical models, statistics and algorithms to optimize complex problems in engineering, economics, management, mathematics, computer science, information technology and other sciences.)
Ric Brown (California State University, Sacramento) and Paul Noble, with Rosemary Papa (California State University, Sacramento), published So You Want to Be a Higher Education Academic Administrator? – Avoid Crossing to the Dark Side or What They Don’t Teach You in Leadership Institutes(Pro>Active Publications, $29.95, 166 pp., paperback) earlier this year. “The business of education is knowledge and people, and the business of higher education is knowledgeable people. We have written this book for all levels of academic administration in higher education (universities, colleges and community colleges) or for anyone who is thinking about moving into academic administration or for one moving to another position in academic administration … (because) not all higher educators know how to navigate the politics, power and role-playing,” Brown and Papa wrote in a letter. Brown and Noble held many administrative posts during long university careers; Papa, also an administrator, serves as the Del and Jewell Lewis Endowed Chairfor Learner Centered Leadership at Northern Arizona University.
James “Dave” Bryan (North Carolina State University) has been named the 
Corporate Executive Vice President forManTech International Corporation, a supplier of information technology and integrated logistics services to defense and intelligence agency customers, with locations in more than 40 countries and 50 sites in the United States. He previously served for a year as president of its biggest unit, the International Defense Systems Group. Before that, Bryan spent 35 years in the U.S. Army, retiring as a major general, and then was a vice president with the global security company Northrop Grumman Corporation prior to joining ManTech.
Julia Chan (Louisiana State University) earned one of the seven 2009 Women of Excellence Awards given by the Louisiana Legislative Women’s Caucus Foundation. Chan, an associate professor of chemistry at Louisiana State University and coauthor of numerous articles, won in the category “Education & Research.” The awards were created in 2008.
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Two of the four seniors at State University of New York (SUNY)-Cortland and one of the five at SUNY-Oswego to win the 2009 SUNY Chancellor’s Awards for Student Excellence are Phi Kappa Phi members: Ashley Chapple (Cortland), a senior physical education major; Janel Kierecki (Cortland), a senior inclusive special education major; and Cathleen Richards (Oswego), a broadcasting major. The awards recognized 238 students across 64 campuses. Honorees received a framed certificate and a medallion traditionally worn at commencement. The awards were created in 1997.
Moira Crone (Louisiana State University) earned the 2009 Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction from the Fellowship of Southern Writers during the 15th biennial Arts & Education Council’s Conference on Southern Literature in April in Chattanooga, Tenn. Crone, an English 
professor at Louisiana State University, has written numerous story collections, including What Gets Into Us and Dream State, and a novel, A Period of Confinement. Her stories have appeared in magazines such as The New Yorker and The Southern Review. Her numerous awards include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Crone joins Dorothy Allison, Madison Smartt Bell, Barry Hannah, Cormac McCarthy and Lee Smith as winner of this prize. The Fellowship of Southern Writers was founded in 1987 by novelists, poets, playwrights, historians, critics and editors to encourage literature in the South through awards, memberships and other commemorations; it contains no more than 50 members at a time.
Morten G. Ender (United States Military Academy) published American Soldiers in Iraq: McSoldiers or Innovative Professsionals? (Routledge, $39.95, 224 pp., paperback) in March. This study of American soldiers in Iraq analyzes their collective stories as they relate to military sociology tradition. From data collected in the field, Ender tackles subjects including morale, boredom, preparation for war, everyday life, gender, “communication with the home-front, ‘McDonaldization’ of the force, civil-military fusion, the long-term impact of war, and, finally, the socio-demographics of fatalities,” he explained in an email, adding that it’s rare for a civilian scholar to collect data in Iraq. The sociology professor at the United States Military Academy has placed articles in the Journal of Political and Military Sociology and Armed Forces & Society, among other publications.
Victoria Folse (University of Illinois at Chicago) earned one of 15 State of Illinois Nurse Educator Fellowships from the Illinois Center for Nursing. The Illinois Wesleyan University Associate Professor of Nursing will use the $10,000 fellowship for research on eating disorders and suicide risk and to increase interest in nursing. She is a member of the Academy for Eating Disorders, the International Orem Society for Nursing Science and Scholarship and the Midwest Nursing Research Society.
Lacy Gallier (Lamar University) was one of six students in December 2008 to receive the Lamar University Plummer Award, given to seniors with the highest grade-point average in their graduating class. The six winners, among 624 graduates, earned perfect 4.0 averages. The summa cum laude sociology graduate plans to attend law school.
A.J. Glubzinski (United States Military Academy) was voted first-team member of the Lowe’s Senior CLASS (Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School) All-Senior All-America Team in December. The goalkeeper/team captain, platoon sergeant and American politics major in the honors program also was named Patriot League Men’s Soccer Scholar Athlete of the Year. CLASS is in its second year and voted on by coaches, media and fans.
Sonya R. Hardin ( University of North Carolina at Charlotte) received the 2008 National Nursing Spectrum Teaching Excellence Award from Gannett Health Care Group at a formal affair in Las Vegas, Nev., in October. Hardin bested more than 400 applicants. The associate professor at the School of Nursing at University of North Carolina at Charlotte specializes in critical care, emergency nursing and medical-surgical nursing.
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Two Phi Kappa Phi members were among the “New Faces of Engineering” at the National Engineers Week Foundation in February in a program that highlighted young engineers two to five years out of school. Jamesia Hobbs (North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University), a chemical engineer, works for the Englewood, Colo.-based CH2M HILL, which offers full-service engineering, consulting, construction and operations. Jamie Padgett (University of Florida) is an assistant professor in civil and environmental engineering at Rice University. Hobbs designs efficient equipment and systems based on her experience in industries such as pulp and paper, chemical, polymer and nuclear energy. Padgett evaluates infrastructure vulnerability to multiple hazards, including aging, hurricanes, seismic events and climate change, and served on the American Society of Civil Engineers ASCE/ Technical Council on Earthquake Engineering reconnaissance team after Hurricane Katrina. Founded in 1951, the National Engineers Week Foundation is a coalition of more than 100 professional societies, major corporations and government agencies advocating for engineering and related technology.
John Johnson (University of Texas at Austin) was recognized as the 2009 Senior Scientist of the Year by the Quad City Engineering and Science Council at its 47th annual National Engineers Week Banquet in February. He has been a senior security program manager for John Deere for a decade, with responsibilities for global computer network security. Johnson also is an adjunct professor at St. Ambrose University and Scott Community College, teaching physics, astronomy, ethics and computer security courses. The Quad City council totals more than 6,000 engineers and scientists from 32 local engineering and technical societies.
Randall M. Kelley (Pennsylvania State University) was named Outstanding Student of the Year for 2009 in the Mechanical Engineering Technology department at Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, upon his fall 2008 graduation with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering technology. A senior mechanical engineer with the Bechtel Corporation, which specializes in engineering, construction and project management, he has been with the company for 22 years.
Dalen Keys (University of North Alabama) published his first children’s picture book, Just a Quilt? with illustrator Kim Sponaugle (Fruitbearer Publishing LLC, $16, 32 pp., ages 4 to 8 hardcover)in February. The book “weaves a tale of a young boy’s prized and well-loved quilt which magically seems to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary,” Keys explained by email. Keys, who also has published articles in YouthWorker Journal and devozine, works as global technology manager for DuPont's Packaging Graphics business in Wilmington, Del. Go online to www.dalenkeys.com.
Dennis Dean Kirk (Northern Arizona University) received an award of $5,000 for saving the U.S. Army $7.3 million by streamlining business practices of the multinational force and observers group trying tokeep the peace between Egypt and Israel in the Gaza Strip – and within hours donated the money back to the Army. He honored the memory of his nephew-in-law, Maj. Paul Syverson III, killed in Balad, Iraq, in 2004, by giving the money to the 5th Special Forces Group out of Fort Campbell, Ky., to which Syverson had been assigned. For the past four years, Kirk has served as an associate general counsel with the Army at the Pentagon after spending three decades in private practice as a trial litigator.
Jillian Klein (Longwood University), a business administration major at Longwood University, won a William G. McGowan Scholarship that pays for her senior year of school. Winners must have at least a 3.5 grade-point average and demonstrate promise and leadership potential; Klein has maintained a 4.0 at Longwood since transferring from George Mason University in January 2007. She is a member of the American Marketing Association and her school’s honor board.
Eric D. Lehman ( University of Bridgeport chapter president) published his first book, a nonfiction collection of stories called Bridgeport: Tales from the Park City (The History Press, 
$19.99, 128 pp., paperback) in the spring. The book “highlights the most fascinating stories from the history of Connecticut’s largest city, from the brave women of the Black Rock Lighthouse to war heroes of ‘the nation’s arsenal,’ from ‘the tiniest general,’ Tom Thumb, to the greatest showman on earth, P.T. Barnum,” who was the city’s mayor and benefactor, Lehman explained by email. He added that “although it is a comprehensive history of the city of Bridgeport, I took the approach of focusing on the personal history of some of the fascinating characters and weaving the rest of the city’s history into that structure.” Lehman, who teaches composition, literature and creative writing at the University of Bridgeport, has published fiction, poetry and essays in numerous Internet and print publications.
Corinna del Greco Lobner (University of Tulsa) published her latest book, The Mafia in Sicilian Literature (New Academia Publishing, $22, 138 pp., paperback) last year. A native of Florence, Italy, the University of Tulsa Professor Emerita of Italian and Comparative Literature noticed that sentire Mafioso (Mafioso feeling) surfaced in the plot of Sicilian literature, she explained in a letter, and on a sabbaticaltraveled to Sicily for research. She writes in the forward that “it is hoped that readers will be able to follow the labyrinthian nature of the Mafia and its lasting power as recorded by some of Sicily’s greatest writers” including Luigi Pirandello and Leonardo Sciascia.
Sterling Randolph May (Brenau University, charter member), Professor of Biology and Genetics at Brenau University, was named the Richard and Phyllis Leet Distinguished Chair of Biological Science. The author of some 80 publications also was named director of the school’s new Anne Thomas Bioscience Center, a facility that provides experiential learning in the latest molecular biology and biotechnology techniques.
Michael Mears (Mississippi State University) earned one of three 
jurisprudence awards given by the Anti-Defamation League, Southeast Region, at its 8th annual awards luncheon in Atlanta, Ga., in February. Mears, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor at John Marshall Law School, received the Elbert P. Tuttle Jurisprudence Award for upholding the Anti-Defamation League’s mission of securing justice and fair treatment for all people. Mears is the former director of the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council and was the founder of the Multi-County Public Defender Office, Georgia’s first state-wide death penalty public defenders’ office. He has served as lead trial counsel in more than two dozen death penalty trials and as lead or co-counsel in another 60 cases resolved without trials. Founded in 1913, the Anti-Defamation League fights anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry in the U.S. and abroad.
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Lisa Mills (University of Florida) and Stella Sung (University of Texas at Austin) collaborated on a short documentary film called Rockwell that won the Outstanding Cultural Achievement category at the first international global mobile film festival, MOFILM, in February. Rockwell was created by filmmaker Mills and focuses on composer/pianist Sung and her composition “Rockwell Reflections,” which was inspired by the artwork of Norman Rockwell. The 5-minute documentary is of the last of the composition’s five movements, which responds to Rockwell’s Peace Corps painting of President John F. Kennedy with young volunteers. The composition was performed and filmed last year by the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra (which had co-commissioned the piece) and was set to projections of the Rockwell painting. View Rockwell at: http://www.mofilm.com/2009_nominations.php. Some 250 entries from more than 100 countries competed in the festival hosted by actor/director Kevin Spacey. A veteran of broadcast journalism, Mills is Assistant Professor of Film (documentary) at the University of Central Florida; her documentaries have tackled subjects such as the millennial generation and environmentalism. Sung is Professor of Music at University of Central Florida’s Department of Digital Media and director of the school’s Center for Research and Education in Arts, Technology, and Entertainment. She was named the 2007-10 Phi Kappa Phi Artist. Sung wrote about “Rockwell Reflections” and about bridging art and music through technology in the fall 2008 edition of Phi Kappa Phi Forum.
Connie Muncy (Wright State University), safety officer for Montgomery County Water Services in Kettering, Ohio, was part of a team to receive one of the four inaugural Safe-in-Sound Excellence in Hearing Loss Prevention Awards, distributed in February at the 34th Annual Hearing Conservation Conference, in Atlanta, Ga. Presented by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and the NationalHearing Conservation Association, the awards largely recognize companies dedicated to preventing noise-induced hearing loss in the workplace in the construction, manufacturing, and service sectors.
Susan Muto (Duquesne University), Executive Director and cofounder of the Epiphany Association and Dean of the Epiphany Academy of Formative Spirituality, in Pittsburgh, Pa., was one of those honored by the Catholic Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania at its Catholic Writers Dinner in April. A prolific author, popular lecturer and frequent teacher, she spoke on the influence of Western Pennsylvania on her faith and writing. Muto earned a doctorate in English literature from the University of Pittsburgh, specializing in post-Reformation spiritual writers, and held numerous positions at Duquesne University for years.
Christopher R. Nichols (Kansas State University) earned top prize at the fifth annual Hays Symphony Orchestra Young Artist’s Competition at Fort Hays State University in February. A doctoral student in clarinet performance at Kansas State University, Nichols won $500 for his performance of Mozart’s “Concerto for Clarinet in A Major” (K. 622), besting some 25 regional competitors, he wrote in an email. A graduate of the Boston Conservatory, Nichols is the principal clarinetist of the 312th United States Army Band of Lawrence and has been the principal clarinet and concertmaster of the 1st Infantry Division Band at Fort Riley.
Hank Nuwer (New Mexico Highlands University) is now recognized annually through the Hank Nuwer Anti-Hazing Hero Award, which is associated with HazingPrevention.Org, a nonprofit organization “whose goal is to encourage healthy and productive experiences for new members of teams, student organizations and fraternities and sororities,” according to its Web site. The social critic, lecturer and TV commentator, who teaches at Franklin College and serves on the board of HazingPrevention.Org, has written widely on hazing, including the books Broken Pledges: The Deadly Rite of Hazing, High School Hazing and Wrongs of Passage. The award includes student and nonstudent categories; the deadline to submit 2009 nominees is Sept. 28. For details go to http://www.hazingprevention.org/.
John C. Owens (Grand Valley State University) has become Professor of Theatre/Drama Director at Central Arizona College in Coolidge, Ariz. He is a spring 2008 graduate of Walden University’s Doctor of Education program and a 2001 graduate of Grand Valley State University’s Master of Science in Communications program.
LeVan Grady Parker (Samford University) was one of nine to be inducted in the St. Clair County (Alabama) Sports Hall of Fame in January. The coach won many national titles in basketball at Central Park Christian Schools (boys: 1990-93, 1997-98, 2004 and 2006; girls: 1993-94) between 1985 and 2006. Parker also picked up three national titles in girls’ basketball at Westminster Christian from 1971 to ’82, along with a regional title in basketball at Ragland High School in the late 1960s. 
Shari Pierce (East Carolina University), an artist based Munich, Germany, presented a traveling exhibit, “She LL Project,” at a state-funded contemporary art space, Lothringerstr 13 ( http://lothringer-dreizehn.com/ ), in Germany in March. An ongoing international exhibit, “She LL Project” is “an installation of texts and donated dresses from sexually assaulted women and children,” Pierce explains on her Web site (www.sharipierce.com), “created to evoke healing and break stereotypes commonly associated with sexual assault, abuse and harassment. At each location (the show travels to), new women are asked to share their stories and donate their dresses to the project.” (Go to http://www.sharipierce.com/shell_project.html to participate.) The exhibit was included in a short educational film for German public television to teach high school students about art. Pierce also became art curator for Whakate, an online “life design” journal. She invites Phi Kappa Phi member artists to submit work and have priority to be featured. (Go to http://www.whakate.com/about/art/ )
Carol Jean Poore (University of Wisconsin-Madison) won 
the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures, 2006-07, from the Modern Language Association in December. The Brown University professor of German studies won for Disability in Twentieth-Century German Culture (Univ. of Michigan Press), her third book. The Fulbright fellow also is a member of the Society for Disability Studies and German Studies Association.
Catherine Porter (State University of New York-Cortland) was elected president of the Modern Language Association of America, an international organization of more than 
30,000 English and foreign language teachers in 100 countries. The Professor Emerita of French at State University of New York-Cortland (and onetime Phi Kappa Phi chapter president) previously served as first and second vice presidents, among other posts, at the assemblage that was founded in 1883. Porter has translated 35 books, reviewed texts for university presses and vetted grant proposals for the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 1996, the French Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Research named her Chevalier de l’Ordre des Palmes Academiques, a title bestowed upon scholars who have advanced French language and culture. Prizes include a Phi Kappa Phi Scholar Award for outstanding academic achievement.
Ellen Reed (University of Missouri-St. Louis) has become executive director of Lydia’s House of St. Louis, Mo.; it offers transitional housing and support services for battered women and their children – “a place of healing and a voice of hope,” according to its Web site www.lydiashouse.org . Reed, former director of AVENUES Domestic and Sexual Violence Advocacy Services in Hannibal, Mo., , also recently completed a master of public policy administration degree from the University of Missouri-St. Louis, earning graduate certificates in nonprofit management and leadership and women’s and gender studies.
M. Catherine Richardson (State University of New York-Oswego) has been elected president of the New York Bar Foundation for a one-year term after serving as vice president. Created in 1950, the nonprofit philanthropic foundation helps fill the law-related needs of the public and the profession. She’s a retired member of the law firm Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC, in Syracuse, N.Y., and former president of the New York State Bar Association. She has served in some official capacity with the New York Bar Foundation since 1993.
Carl “Barry” Rosenfeld (California State University-Fullerton) has been elected to his sixth term as president of the Bakersfield West Rotary Foundation, which he helped establish in 1994. It has contributed more than $400,000 mostly to youth charities since its inception. He has served the Rotary Club of Bakersfield West as president and was named Rotarian of the Year in 1994; he also received its initial Service Above Self Award in 2006. In his business life Rosenfeld primarily works with families of special needs children to address financial issues for the children if the parents were to die before the offspring. He also continues to work with business owners on estate planning and business continuation issues.
Rochelle Sennet (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Teaching Associate in Piano at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, performed a concert/lecture in January at the Community Music School of Webster University. The winner of numerous competitions included in her appearance a presentation on standard piano repertoire and American composers and led a master class.
Wendy R. Sherman (University of Maryland) has been named a principal at former U. S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright’s international investment and advisory firm, the Albright Group LLC and Albright Capital Management LLC. A former senior-level diplomat serving under Albright in the Clinton administration, Ambassador Sherman was Counselor and chief troubleshooter for the State Department, Special Advisor to President Clinton and policy coordinator on North Korea. She has been appointed by Congress to serve on the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism and is on the board of Oxfam America and the Center for a New American Security. Numerous other posts have included President and CEO of' the Fannie Mae Foundation, Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs under Secretary of State Warren Christopher, and director of Campaign ‘88 for the Democratic National Committee.
Bram ten Berge (University of Mississippi) earned one of the 
two 2008-09 H. Boyd McWhorter Southeastern Conference Scholar-Athlete of the Year Awards. The senior tennis team captain majored in classics, minored in German, made the honor roll every semester, had a nearly perfect grade-point average and received a $15,000 postgraduate scholarship for his accomplishments in the classroom and on the court. ten Berge and his female counterpart were selected from nearly 4,000 student athletes in the conference; the award dates to 1986. The All-America and All-SEC player also has been involved with Special Olympics and has won the Eta Sigma Phi Award for Excellence in Latin twice.
Christopher Vera (University of North Texas), a biological sciences major, received a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship in December worth $23,000. Vera previously served in the U.S. Navy for six years in various medical capacities and will pursue biology at the University of Auckland during the 2009-10 academic year. Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarships were founded in 1947 to help students study abroad for an academic year; almost 38,000 students from roughly 100 nations have done so. The scholarships are the oldest and best-known program of the Rotary service club organization, which dates to the early 1900s and totals more than 1.2 million volunteer members.
Linda G. Wyatt (East Tennessee State University) has become a project manager at East Tennessee State University, Honors College. She also finished at the university her Ed.D. in December in postsecondary and private sector leadership and earned the sole Henry H. Hill Doctoral Laureate Scholarship ($1,500) from the international education honor society Kappa Delta Pi to assist on dissertation research.
Emily Zshornack-Topacio ( University of the Philippines), director of operations at MediQuest Therapuetics in Bothell, Wash, earned certification as a senior professional in human resources. The certification, administered by the HR Certification Institute, a credentialing body affiliated with the Society for Human Resource Management, demonstrates knowledge of resource management necessary to pass a rigorous exam, and follows her master’s degree in organizational leadership from Gonzaga University.
