This week's Faculty/Staff News of Record includes awards, Book Shelf, obituaries, partings and Penn Staters.
AWARDS
The following individuals were honored by the University:
School of Information Science and Technology (IST)
-- Susan B. Shuman, assistant dean of equity and diversity, IST Diversity and Equity Award;
-- David L. Hall, associate dean for research, and Rhonda L. Boonie, staff assistant, Dean's Community Award; and
-- Kathryn Itinger, assistant to the dean for administrative services and facilities coordinator, and Stephen Murgas, chief technology officer, Dean's Circle of Excellence Award.
Pennsylvania College of Technology
-- Charles A. Kern, heating ventilation air conditioning supervisor, Distinguished Staff Award for APT employees;
-- Lisa J. Caputo, secretary to the assistant dean of construction and design technologies, Distinguished Staff Award for classified employees;
-- Michael H. Miller, horticulturist/motorpool-lead person, Distinguished Staff Award for service employees.
-- Jill M. Thomas of the adjunct mathematics faculty and Carole Zarzyczny, adjunct instructor of medical terminology/anatomy and physiology, Part-Time Teaching Excellence Awards; and
-- David C. Dietrick, associate professor of welding; Kathryn A. Lehman, counselor and assistant professor; John J. Macko Jr., assistant professor of automotive technology; Patrick Murphy, associate professor of advertising art; and Robert Slothus, director of radiography-associate professor, Quarter-Century Club members.
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BOOK SHELF
The following faculty member recently published a book:
-- Wilson J. Moses, Creative Conflict in African-American Thought: Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois and Marcus Garvey, Cambridge University Press.
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OBITUARIES
Robert E. Eberly, one of Penn State's most generous benefactors and a member of the family for whom the University named the Eberly College of Science and Penn State Fayette, the Eberly campus, died early May 19 at the age of 85.
Robert Eberly, along with the Eberly Family Foundation, the Eberly Family Charitable Trust, and his wife, Elouise Eberly, made gifts totaling more than $40 million to various programs and units of the University.
For the full story and the latest listing of University employees who have died, go to Penn State Live at http://live.psu.edu/story/6884
PARTINGS
For the most recent listing of University employees who have retired, go to Penn State Live at http://live.psu.edu/story/6877
PENN STATERS
This week's Penn Staters listing includes items about Abhay Ashtekar, Eberly family chair in the Eberly College of Science; Tim Curley, director of athletics; Mark T. Greenberg, holder of the Edna Peterson Bennett chair in prevention research and director of the Penn State Prevention Research Center; writers and editors of Research/Penn State magazine; and Paul J. Tikalsky, associate professor of civil engineering,
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