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Faculty and StaffIsiah Warner, LSU vice chancellor for strategic initiatives, received the 2008 ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Award in Spectrochemical Analysis. LSU’s Barry Dellinger has been recognized by the American Chemical Society with a $30,000 grant from the Astellas USA Foundation for work on environmental and health effects of combustion. President George W. Bush recently honored LSU faculty member Randy Raggio with the President’s Volunteer Service Award for his volunteer work with the Desire Street Academy. LSU faculty member Ursula Emery-McClure of the School of Architecture received the prestigious Rome Prize in architecture from the American Academy in Rome. The award includes a fellowship to study at the American Academy. LSU School of Social Work Professor Brij Mohan was selected to receive the President’s Award from the National Association of Social Workers – Louisiana chapter. The award, given to Mohan for his international reputation as a scholar and author, is a special honor that has only been given to one other person in the chapter’s history. James J. Spivey, associate professor and McLaurin Shivers Professor in the Cain Department of Chemical Engineering, has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, U.K. Chris Austin, assistant curator of herpetology at LSU's Museum of Natural Science, or LSUMNS, and adjunct professor in biological sciences, recently discovered a new species of lizard while conducting field research in Borneo. LSU physics professor Gabriela Gonzalez was honored with the 2007 Edward A. Bouchet Award, one of the major distinctions handed out by the American Physical Society, or APS. LSU faculty member Glenn Sumners was awarded the Bradford Cadmus Memorial Award, which the Institute of Internal Auditors presents to two individuals who have made significant contributions to the profession of internal auditing through research, education, publications, or development activities. Robert P. Hammer, William A. Pryor Professor of Chemistry at LSU, has been named by Scientific American magazine as a research leader within the 2006 Scientific American 50, the magazine’s prestigious annual list recognizing outstanding acts of leadership in science and technology from the past year. Associate Dean Gary Byerly and his team in the Department of Geology and Geophysics located evidence of what is believed to be the first meteor strike. Manship School of Mass Communication Professor Louis A. Day was named the 2006 National Journalism Teacher of the Year by the Scripps Howard Foundation. The Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Awards honor the best in print, electronic journalism and journalism education. Michael Tick, chair of the LSU Department of Theatre and artistic director of Swine Palace, was elected to the National Theatre Conference, or NTC. Founded in 1925, NTC membership is limited to 120 artistic directors or other theatre professionals from across the country. Since joining LSU in 1999, Tick’s Department of Theatre has become accredited by the National Associations of Schools of Theatre. Swine Palace was the recipient of 2006’s YWCA Racial Justice Award and Governor’s Arts Award. W. David Constant, associate dean for research and graduate studies in the LSU College of Engineering, recently earned the title of board-certified Diplomate Environmental Engineer, or DEE, from the American Academy of Environmental Engineers. Constant is only the second current professor at LSU to hold such an honor. Louis J. Thibodeaux, Jesse Coates Professor of Chemical Engineering and adjunct professor of civil and environmental engineering, became the first in 2000. In 2006, Meredith Blackwell, Boyd Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at LSU, was awarded the William H. Weston Award for Excellence in Teaching by the Mycological Society of America, or MSA. The Weston Award acknowledges distinguished teaching in mycology, the branch of science dealing with fungi, at the graduate or undergraduate level. Rudy Hirschheim, professor in the Department of Information Systems and Decision Sciences at LSUÕs E.J. Ourso College of Business, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Oulu in Oulu, Finland in November 2006. The University awards the title of honorary doctor, given once every five to seven years, to an individual who has shown outstanding achievement in the sciences or who has promoted scientific, artistic, or other cultural achievement. Su-Seng Pang, LSU professor of mechanical engineering, and Jorge Pullin, professor of physics and astronomy, were both awarded the distinction of being named American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows.
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