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Staters Four University physics professors — Lee Samuel Finn, professor of physics and astronomy and astrophysics; Jorge Pullin, adjunct professor of physics; Paul Weiss, professor of chemistry and physics; and Tom Winter, professor of physics at Penn State-Wilkes-Barre — have been elected as fellows of the American Physical Society. The fellowship program recognizes members who have made advances in knowledge through original research and publication, have made significant and innovative contributions in the application of physics to science and technology, or have made significant contributions to the teaching of physics or service and participation in the activities of the society. The Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters (PAB) has recognized several Penn State Public Broadcasting staffers for this year's PAB Awards. Fred Gadomski and Paul Knight, hosts of WPSX-TV's "Weather World," have been named Television Broadcasters of the Year. Also receiving recognition is the WPSX-produced, Penn State Blue Band Building Campaign spot that has been selected as the first place winner in the TV Public Service Announcement category. WPSX staffers who helped create the award-winning Blue Band spot include Jeff Hughes, producer/director; Susanna Ritti, client manager; Don Hampton, videographer/ associate producer; Jennifer Bortz, audio; Matt Chirdon, video compositing; and Tracy Vosburgh, executive producer. Iam-Choon Khoo, distinguished professor of electrical engineering, presented the keynote Sturgeon Memorial Lecture at Cambridge University, during the 2003 British Liquid Crystal Society annual meeting held at the Fitzwilliam College. The subject was "Photorefractivity in Liquid Crystals." Cynthia Massie Mara, Penn State Harrisburg associate professor of health care administration and policy, has been appointed to the General Assembly's Joint State Government Commission Advisory Committee on Geriatric and Seriously Ill Inmates. The committee will assist the commission's bipartisan Legislative Task Force on a study of older and seriously ill prisoners. Recommendations will be made to the General Assembly regarding these populations. Massie Mara also has been appointed co-chair of the Policy Committee of the Pennsylvania Culture Change Coalition, a statewide organization that facilitates change in the organizational culture of long-term care entities. Raj Mittra, director of the Electromagnetic Communication Lab and professor of electrical engineering, was an invited speaker at the International Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Exeter, England. The title of his talk was "Some Novel Techniques For Efficient Analysis of Large Arrays and Frequency Selective Radomes." Mittra also presented an invited talk on "Interaction between Phased Arrays and Frequency Selective Surfaces operating in close proximity of each other" at the University of Pisa in Italy. Robert F. Nicely Jr., professor emeritus and associate dean emeritus in the College of Education, was presented with the Pennsylvania Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development's President's Award during the annual meeting. Pennsylvania Educational Leadership, the official journal of the association, that Nicely has edited for the past 11 years, has received the 2002 award for the Outstanding Affiliate Article from the 150,000-member international Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Nicely accepted the award at the group's annual conference in San Francisco. The "Influenced" alcohol awareness poster exhibition and multimedia presentation conceived and artistically directed by Kristin Sommese, associate professor of art, and her graphic design students in Art 371 (Applied Communications), in collaboration with University Health Services, has been honored with one of five 2003 Blair L. Sadler International Healing Arts Competition awards presented at the annual Society for the Arts in Healthcare Conference in San Diego. "Influenced" won first place in the Student Category of the Sadler competition, and is now permanently displayed on the second floor of the HUB-Robeson Center on the University Park campus. Penn State Outreach programs and initiatives recently have been honored with several national University Continuing Education Association (UCEA) awards. The association presented awards during its national convention in Chicago. Faculty and staff members contributed to these outreach programs and initiatives honored with UCEA awards: Gold Strategic Marketing Award for the World Campus Turfgrass Management Certificate offered by the College of Agricultural Sciences through the Penn State World Campus; Bronze Strategic Marketing Award for World Campus iMBA; Outstanding Credit Program Award for the Applied Behavior Analysis for Special Education Certificate Program; Meritorious Course Award for METEO 101: Understanding Weather Forecasting, a College of Earth and Mineral Sciences course; Honorable Mention Award for the 2002 Rural Women's Health Conference; Honorable Mention Award for the Summer Institute for Applied Linguistics; Bronze Strategic Marketing Award in the Press Release category for "Lewis and Clark: The Unheard Voices Conference"; Bronze Strategic Marketing Award in the Public Relations category for Grange Fair booth and Web site; Bronze Strategic Marketing Award in the Brochure category for Cooperative Extension PROSPER ad; Honorable Mention Strategic Marketing Award in the Single Ad category for World Campus Turfgrass Management Certificate ad; Honorable Mention Strategic Marketing Award in the Web category for Penn State Youth Web site; and William Rainey Harper Award for research in distance education for the doctoral dissertation in adult education, "Institutional Mainstreaming of Distance Education: Guiding Policies," by Modupe Irele, project associate in the World Campus Quality and Planning unit. |