-- Melinda McDonald and Beth Dowling are the recipients of this year's Outstanding Advisor of the Year Award. This yearly award is sponsored by ACADAOS and the Office of Academic Affairs.

-- The Department of Veterinary Biosciences recently recognized graduate students' accomplishments in scientific research during the third annual ceremony of the Roche Molecular Biochemicals Distinguished Graduate Awards. The annual award program is a special mechanism funded by Roche (formerly Roche and Boehringer Mannheim Biochemicals) to celebrate the annual progress and strong productivity of student scientists within the department. The winners of this year's Distinguished Graduate Seminar Award are Megan Cooper, first place; and Wayne Buck and Lawrence Dearth, second place (tie). The winners of this year's Distinguished Graduate Publication Award are Julie Hutt, first place; and Melinda Butsch, second place.
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-- The Social Science Education Consortium has awarded its Young Scholar Award to Cynthia A. Tyson of the College of Education's School of Teaching and Learning. The award will be presented at the annual conference in Oxford, England, in July. The Social Science Education Consortium supports social science education and research at all levels by promoting collaboration among social scientists and social studies educators.

- Kirk Freudenburg, professor of Greek and Latin, has won the 2001-2002 Rome Prize Fellowship in Classical Studies and Archaeology. The recipients were selected through a national competition that regularly attracts as many as 1,000 applicants in fine arts and humanities. The Rome Prize provides a residency of six months to two years at the American Academy in Rome plus a stipend. Recipients become part of an interdisciplinary community at the Academy, where they have the freedom to pursue their work independently.

-- R.K.Yedavalli of the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Aviation received the Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award for his paper "A Necessary and Sufficient Extreme Point Solution for Checking Robust Stability of Polytopes of Matrices." His paper was selected from 943 technical papers presented in 159 sessions. The award will be presented to Yedavalli at the 2001 American Control Conference June 25-27 in Arlington, Va.

-- Elizabeth G. Menaghan, professor of sociology, has been invited to serve as a member of the Social Sciences, Nursing, Epidemiology and Methods Study Section (3), Center for Scientific Review for the term beginning July 1 and ending June 30, 2005. Members are selected on the basis of their achievement in their scientific discipline.

-- James Bartholomew and Geoffrey Parker, professors of history, have been awarded Guggenheim Fellowships for 2001-2002. Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment.

-- Diane Birckbichler, chair of French and Italian and director of the Foreign Language Center, has won the 2001 Ernest L. Boyer International Award for Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Technology, which recognizes exceptional faculty achievements in enhancing the learning process.

-- Denise Beard, interior designer in the Office of Facility Planning and Design, has been elected first vice president of the Association of University Interior Designers (AUID).

-- Douglas Palmer, graduate student in history, has received a Fulbright award for the academic year 2001-02 for dissertation research in the Netherlands.

-- Philip Adamo, graduate student in history, was awarded the Ohio Academy of History Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award.