Terry Gallagher, director of university relations at U-M-Dearborn, has been elected to serve a one-year term as a trustee of Leadership Detroit, a yearlong regional community leadership program founded in 1979 and sponsored by the Detroit Regional Chamber. Each class elects one of its members to serve as a trustee the following year. Gallagher was a member of the class for 2006-07.

Nancy Ambrose Gallagher, a doctoral student at the School of Nursing, recently received a Hartford Predoctoral Scholarship from the Hartford Foundation. Her mentor for the scholarship is Dr. Kimberlee Gretebeck, assistant professor at the school.

Jeffrey Lagarias, professor of mathematics, LSA, was one of eight people chosen nationwide by the Mathematical Association of America to receive the Lester R. Ford Award Aug. 4 at the Summer MathFest in San Jose, Calif. Established in 1964, the awards, which include a citation and cash prize, are presented for articles of expository excellence published in the American Mathematical Monthly. Lagarias' article was "Wild and Wooley Numbers," vol. 113, No. 2, 2006.