Accolades

Updated 2:00 PM June 16, 2003

Accolades

Awards

Dr. Sharlene Day, lecturer in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, is the recipient of the 2003 American Heart Association (AHA) Young Investigator Prize in Thrombosis. Day received the award May 10 in Washington, D.C., at the Annual AHA Conference for Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology.

The College of Engineering honored nine staff members during its Excellence in Staff Service Awards ceremony May 22. Dean Stephen Director presented individual honorees with $1,500 stipends and team honorees $1,000. Those honored were: Kay Drake, academic secretary, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering; Denise DuPrie, administrative assistant, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Melissa Eljamal, program associate, International Programs Office; Dennis Grimard, laboratory manager, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Marjorie Lesser, business manager, Mechanical Engineering; Tom Yavaraski, laboratory manager, Civil and Environmental Engineering. The team award was presented to Warren Eaton, William Kirkpatrick and Kent Pruss, senior engineering technicians, Mechanical Engineering.

Appointments

Martha Aliaga, lecturer in mathematics and the Comprehensive Studies Program, has been named director of programs in the American Statistical Association (ASA). In her new position, Aliaga will work with the ASA membership to develop the direction of the organization's education department.

Bruce Frier, professor of classical studies and the Henry King Ransom Professor of Law, recently was elected a resident member of the American Philosophical Society (APS). The APS is the oldest learned society in the United States devoted to the advancement of scientific and scholarly inquiry.

Heaney

Dr. Deborah Heaney, clinical instructor of emergency medicine, was elevated to fellowship in the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) May 7 at the college's 88th annual membership meeting in Atlanta. Fellow is the highest class of membership within ACOEM. It recognizes physicians who have been engaged in the full-time practice of occupational and environmental medicine, and who have exhibited significant leadership in ACOEM at the component society and national level.

William Sanders, assistant research scientist and supervising preparator in the Museum of Paleontology, has been named chair of the Preparator's Grant Committee of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology for 2004-05. The committee funds projects, such as training apprenticeships and workshops, in which fossil preparation advances the discipline of vertebrate paleontology. This is the first chair awarded to a preparator from a university.

Dr. John Williams, professor and chair of the Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology and Gastroenterology, has been selected president of the American Physiological Society (APS). Williams joined the APS in 1973 and has served on the APS Council as a member of four committees and chair of the steering committee for the gastrointestinal section.

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