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Cheryl Tatano Beck, Distinguished Professional Service Award
Cheryl Tatano Beck, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Nursing, has received the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses’ 2009 Distinguished Professional Service Award. Beck was recognized for her research and expertise in perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. She is an internationally recognized expert on postpartum depression and post traumatic stress disorders related […]
August 21, 2009 | Combined Reports
Swimming and Diving Teams, Scholar All-American Team Honors
Both the UConn Women’s and Men’s Swimming and Diving Teams have received the 2009 Scholar All-American Team Honors by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America. The CSCAA Scholar All-American Team Honors are awarded annually to teams that achieve an cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher on a 4-point scale.
August 21, 2009 | Combined Reports
Ann Cowan, Osborn Biomedical Science Graduate Teaching Award
Ann Cowan, professor emeritus at the Health Center and former chair of the Department of Microbiology, has been selected as the 2009 recipient of the Osborn Biomedical Science Graduate Teaching Award. Cowan made many important contributions to graduate education during her years at UConn. The award recognizes a Health Center Graduate School faculty member who […]
August 21, 2009 | Combined Reports
Lori Wilson, American Cancer Society, New England Division Board of Directors
Dr. Lori Wilson, surgical director of the Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Breast Health Program at the UConn Health Center, has been elected to the American Cancer Society’s New England Division Board of Directors. Wilson’s areas of expertise include melanoma, endocrine, breast, and gastrointestinal neoplasms. She will begin her three-year term on Sept. 1.
August 21, 2009 | Elizabeth Omara-Otunnu
Jennifer Cyr, Lepow Award
Jennifer Cyr, a graduate student in the Molecular Biology and Biochemistry area of concentration at the UConn Health Center, was selected as the recipient of the Health Center’s 2010 Lepow Award. Cyr will receive $1,500 as part of the award, and the opportunity to present a research talk at Graduate Student Research Day. The Lepow […]
August 21, 2009 | Combined Reports
Kenia Mansilla-Rivera, Henry M. Feder Jr. MD Teaching Award
Dr. Kenia Mansilla-Rivera, a practitioner of family medicine at the UConn Health Center, was awarded the Health Center’s Henry M. Feder Jr., M.D. Teaching Award. Mansilla-Rivera is a faculty member of the UConn/St. Francis Hospital family medicine program. She was selected by the graduating class as the faculty member who has made the most outstanding […]
August 21, 2009 | Combined Reports
Alan Cementina
Dr. Alan Cementina, a practitioner of family medicine at the UConn Health Center, was honored with the Health Center’s David D. Schmidt, M.D. Award. Cementina was selected for promoting the highest ideals of family medicine, and being committed to family-centered care for both the individual and the community.
August 21, 2009 | Combined Reports
Humanities Institute Fellows, 2009-10
The recipients of the Humanities Institute’s fellowship awards for 2009-2010 are: Residential Fellow Naeem Murr, Creative Writing A novel – Welcome to the Hotel of Strangers. UConn Faculty Fellows Clare Eby, English, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Until Choice Do Us Part: The Theory and Practice of Marriage in the Progressive Era Glen MacLeod, […]
August 21, 2009 | Combined Reports
New Book Highlights Expansion of Study Abroad Programs
A new philosophy of study abroad is gaining ground that aims to develop students of all socio-economic levels as global citizens, according to a handbook edited by Ross Lewin, UConn's director of Study Abroad programs.
August 21, 2009 | Kate Farrish
The Effects of Gravity on Plant Growth and Development
Research by plant science professor Mary Musgrave and her fellow researchers has solved many growth and reproductive challenges confronting plants in space.
August 21, 2009 | Stefanie Dion Jones