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10-12-09

Alumni Awards presented during Homecoming

Thursday evening, Oct. 15, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences hosts a dinner and awards ceremony for alumni honored by the ISU Alumni Association, the College of LAS, and the College’s academic departments.

(Click to see a pdf of the LAS 2009 Alumni Awards Ceremony program)

The recipients and their awards:

ISU Alumni Association
Impact Award
            Phil Caffrey (BS Psychology ’80; MS Education ’84)
Alumni Merit Award
            Neal R. Porter (BA Political Science and International Studies ’89)
            Gary L. Stahl (BA Spanish & International Studies ’83)
James A. Hopson Alumni Volunteer Award
            Lawrence Cunningham (BLS Liberal Studies ’02)
Outstanding Young Alumna Award
            Ann Bryant Borders (BS Biology ’94)
Outstanding Young Alumni Award
            Andrew J. and Kari A. Hensen (Kari: BS Sociology ’96; MS Higher Education ’98; PhD Educational Leadership & Policy Studies ’05)

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Carrie Chapman Catt Public Engagement Award
            Kent Lucken (BA Political Science ’86)
Citation of Merit
            Sandra Davis (BS Modern Language and Psychology ’68)
Dean’s Arts & Humanities Award
            Suzanne K. Zaffarano
Distinguished Service Award
            Mark Fleming (BS Physics ’70)
John V. Atanasoff Research and Discovery Award
            Sallie Keller (PhD Statistics ’83)
Liberal Arts & Sciences Young Alumnus Award
            Gentry Collins (BA Political Science ’98)

College of LAS Academic Department Awards

Chemistry
Outstanding Chemistry Alumnus
            Joseph L. Templeton (PhD Chemistry ’75)

Economics
Distinguished Service in the Public Interest
William Martin (MS Economics ’81; PhD Economics ’82)

English
Outstanding Alumni Awards
Richard Johnson-Sheehan (BS English ’88; MA English ’90; PhD English ’95)
Gina Ochsner (M.A. English ’94)

Geological and Atmospheric Sciences
Distinguished Alumni Award
Erik P. Kvale (BS Geology ’78; MS Geology ’82; Ph.D. Geology ’86)
            Christopher K. Wikle (MS Statistics ’94; PhD Atmospheric Sciences/Statistics ’96)

Greenlee School
James W. Schwartz Award for Distinguished Service to Journalism and Communication
Christine Romans (BA Journalism and Mass Communication ’93; BA French ’93)

Mathematics
Distinguished Alumni Awards
Albert M. Erisman (MS Mathematics ’67; PhD Mathematics ’69)
Barbara J. Janson (BS Mathematics ’65)

Political Science
Annual Alumni Achievement Award
Luis C.deBaca (BA Political Science ’90)

World Languages and Cultures
Distinguished Alumni Award
Ronald A. Schubert (BS Modern Language ’67)

Classical Studies Program
Distinguished Alumni Award
Warren H. Stine (BS Agronomy ’93; BA History ’07; BS Classical Studies ’07; MA History ’07)