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Ralph J. Boe, Director of the Louisiana Library Network, received the Louisiana Library Associations Academic Librarian of the Year Award on March 5. The award was presented at the annual LLA Conference held in Baton Rouge. The award recognizes an individual who has made a significant contribution, to further the development of academic libraries/librarians/librarianships within Louisiana. Charlene C. Cain, Associate Librarian at the Paul M. Hebert Law Center, was presented the Anthony H. Benoit Mid-Career Award by the Louisiana Library Association at the Spring 2002 LLA Conference Awards Luncheon on March 6. The award recognizes a Louisiana librarian in mid-career who has made outstanding contributions to the field of librarianship. Cain also has been elected vice-president, president-elect of the Louisiana Library Association. James Coleman and Nancy Rabalais, both of LSU’s Coastal Studies Institute, were appointed as National Associates of National Academies in recognition of their extraordinary service to the National Research Council. They are the only academic members from Louisiana among the 325 appointed. Coleman is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and Rabalais is chair of the Ocean Studies Board, National Research Council, and also works with the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium. R. Eugene Turner of LSU’s Coastal Ecology Institute received an award from the National Academies’ Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology for outstanding service. All three faculty are members of the Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences in the School of the Coast and Environment. The National Associates of National Academies is a lifetime appointment. |
Courtland M. Chaney, Management, has been selected as the first recipient of the J. Trigg & Bettye Baskin Wood Jr. Endowed Professorship. Chaney formerly held a Marjory B. Ourso Excellence in Teaching Professorship. Donald H. Kraft, Computer Science, recently became an Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Fellow. This prestigious award is given by the IEEE Board to people with extraordinary records of accomplishments in IEEE fields of interests. It is an exclusive honor in which the total number of selected fellows in a year can not exceed .1% of the total voting membership. Kraft will be presented the certificate at the 2002 World Congress on Computational Intelligence, to be held in Honolulu, Hawaii, on May 12-17. Kraft is the fourth person in the Department of Computer Science to be given this award. Milton Rush, Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology, and Donald Groth, Rice Research Station, were awarded the Distinguished Rice Research and Education Team Award on Feb. 25 at the Rice Technical Working Group meeting in Little Rock, Ark. The team presented research identifying a bacterial cause for rice panicle blight, which is a major constraint on rice production in Louisiana and other southern U.S. rice-producing states. Rebecca Saunders, Natural Science Museum, was awarded the 2001 C.B. Moore Award by the Southeastern Archaeological Conference. This award goes to the best young archaeologist of the year. James Stoner, Political Science, was selected by President Bush as a nominee for the National Council on Humanities, the advisory council of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Stoner has written and spoken on a broad range of topics from political theory to constitutional law John Supan, Sea Grant Development, was recently appointed chair of the Louisiana Oyster Task Force’s Research and Development Committee. The task force makes recommendations to the legislature pertaining to issues affecting the state’s oyster industry. Supan was chosen for his long relationship with industry and as a leading oyster researcher. He also coordinates Sea Grant’s Gulf Oyster Industry Program and serves as an adjunct faculty member of the School of Renewable Natural Resources. |
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