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Staters Dinesh Agrawal, professor of materials and director of the Microwave Processing and Engineering Center, presented invited talks at Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India, co-sponsored by ASM, Mumbai Chapter, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, Bharat Heavy Electrical Limited, Bangalore and at General Electric’s John F. Welch Technology Center, Bangalore, India, on “Microwave Processing of Ceramics, Composites and Metallic Materials: Recent Developments at Penn State.” Susan Searls Giroux, lecturer of English and literacy and language in the College of Education, has won the James L. Kinneavy Award for the most-outstanding article published in 2002 in the Journal of Advanced Composition. She was recognized for her article, "The Post-9/11 University and the Project of Democracy." Given by the Journal of Advanced Composition, the Kinneavy Award is considered the top award for rhetoric composition in the United States. Calyampudi R. Rao, emeritus holder of the Eberly family chair in statistics and director of the Center for Multivariate Analysis, delivered an invited address, "Living in a Fast Changing World," during the 2003 annual convocation at the University of Calcutta in India. S. Shyam Sundar, associate professor of communications and co-director of the Media Effects Research Laboratory, has won the "Top Paper" award in the Communication and Technology Division of the International Communication Association. His paper, "The Psychological Appeal of Personalized Online Content: An Experimental Investigation of Customized Web Portals," was co-authored by Sriram Kalyanaraman, a 2002 doctoral degree graduate of the College of Communications and currently an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina. Pennsylvania College of Technology received national awards recently for its quarterly magazine, a feature article, its public-affairs television program and a TV commercial. Paragon Awards were bestowed upon the college for its quarterly publication, "One College Avenue," and a feature article about a collision repair student who restored his late father's Corvette. Telly Awards went to Penn College's public-affairs television series, "Penn College and You," and a TV commercial, "Degrees that Work." Sponsored by the National Council for Marketing and Public Relations, the Paragon Awards recognize outstanding achievement in communications at community, junior and technical colleges. The Telly Awards ecompass film and video production and nonnetwork television programming. The Outreach Office of Statewide Programs is the recipient of the University Continuing Education Association's (UCEA) Outstanding Credit Program Award for 2002, for its program "Applied Behavior Analysis for Special Education." The award was presented in Chicago at the annual conference of the UCEA, which is recognized as the nation's foremost professional association for continuing education. Richard A. Walter, associate professor of education, received the C. Thomas Olivo Outstanding Service Award at the annual meeting of the National Occupational Competency Testing Institute Consortium in Las Vegas. The Olivo award is presented to an individual whose service to the field of career and technical education has been exemplary and who has demonstrated leadership in the arena of occupational competency assessment. |