Awards and Achievements

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Communications|ret||ret||tab|

The Association for Women in Communication announced the following board members for 2000-2001: president, |bold_on|Linda Putnam; president-elect and program chair, |bold_on|Alexis Anderson Brown; treasurer, |bold_on|Melinda Mancuso; secretary, |bold_on|Jeanne Duffey; vice president of membership recruitment and retention, |bold_on|Margaret Castrey and |bold_on|Tina Mottl; special events, |bold_on|Linda Regan and |bold_on|Debbie Van Stavern; first amendment, |bold_on|Kristi Hinton; progress for women, |bold_on|Diana Cowan; past president and student chapter liaison, |bold_on|Kathy Sammon; career development, |bold_on|Betty Lorton; scholarship, |bold_on|Pat Byram; site management, |bold_on|Diane Rarick; public relations, |bold_on|Marci Bowling; newsletter, |bold_on|Carolyn Campbell; alliance representative, |bold_on|Jennifer Ailor.|bold_on||ret||ret||tab|

|bold_on|Margret Castrey received AWC's member of the year award and |bold_on|Krystal Butrick received the $500 Angela Gram Memorial Scholarship.|ret||ret||tab|

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Education|ret||ret||tab|

Southwest Missouri State University announced several faculty and staff accomplishments. The department of communication and mass media was selected to participate in the Campus Compact's Summer Institute on Campus Engagement. Acting Department Head |bold_on|Gloria Galanes, PhD, Associate Professor |bold_on|Carey Adams, PhD, Assistant Professors |bold_on|Isabelle Bauman, PhD,|bold_on| and |bold_on|Kelly McNeilis, PhD, and community partner and CEO of United Way, John Rush, traveled to Providence, R.I., to develop a plan to connect the department with the Springfield area community.|ret||ret||tab|

|bold_on|Toni Briegal, PhD, associate professor in the School of Teacher Education, was part of a four-member team to edit an educational textbook for teachers. The textbook was entitled "Practicing What We Preach: Preparing Middle Level Educators."|ret||ret||tab|

|bold_on|Ellen Fennick, PhD, assistant professor of special education, was invited to be a reviewer for the publication "Teaching Exceptional Children." Fennick also received a Funding for Results Grant for the service learning course project "Community Inclusion for Teacher Preparation" and gave two presentations at the national meeting of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps.|ret||ret||tab|

|bold_on|Patricia Ragan, MPH, PhD, physician assistant studies department head, and Joseph Caldwell, medical director of the physician assistant studies department, received $5,000 from the Smith-Glynn-Callaway Medical Foundation through the Community Foundation of the Ozarks for their project, "Gold Standard Multimedia Symptom-Based Case Studies." |ret||ret||tab|

|bold_on|Ralph W. Sheets, PhD, received $485 from the Chemical Heritage Foundation for his project entitled "Travel Grant to Make Use of the Research Resources at the University of Pennsylvania Library."|ret||ret||tab|

|bold_on|Perry Miller, PhD, professor of health, physical education and recreation, was selected as a charter member of the North American Society for Health, Physical Education, Sport, Recreation and Dance. Miller was recognized at the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance National Convention in Orlando, Fla., and recognized for the achievement by the late Gov. Mel Carnahan in April in Jefferson City. |ret||ret||tab|

|bold_on|Suzann Ferguson and |bold_on|Robert Grant, coordinators of the Career Services Cooperative Education Program, were selected to attend the Mid-West Association of Colleges and Employers Annual Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio, Aug. 14-17. Ferguson and Grant's presentation, "Career Crossroads: Out of School-Out of Work," focused on career counseling for displaced alumni, displaced workers, returning students and other career changes.|ret||ret||tab|

|bold_on|Lynn Robbins, PhD, professor of biology, received $4,000 from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources for his project "Small Mammals Survey of Prairie State Park." The grant will be used to study mice, rats, shrews and bats in the park to see how the management of the land may affect each species and its population.|ret||ret||tab|

|bold_on|Joyce Dana, PhD, director of the Southwest Regional Professional Development Center, and |bold_on|Lolita Albers, program coordinator of the SWRPDC, received $1,214 from the Hollister R-V School District, Hollister; $360 from the Skyline R-II School District, Norwood; $1,251 from the Miller R-II School District, Miller; and $1,561 from the Pierce City R-VI School District, Pierce City, for the "Southwest District Regional Professional Development Center Consortia."[[In-content Ad]]