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Three UI projects won 2014 American Council of Engineering Companies of Iowa (ACEC) Engineering Excellence Awards. The awards were presented during the ACEC Engineering Excellence Awards Banquet held in Des Moines on May 8.
- Kinnick Stadium Score and Video Board Replacement-Grand Place Award in the Buildings & Systems Category. Project Managers: Chris Ashley and Chet Wieland, Construction Manager: Adam Cannon. Design Professional: Shive-Hattery.
- Replace Steam & Condensate Lines to Roy Carver Pavilion-Grand Place Award in the Energy Production Category. Project Manager: Jeff Gambrall, Construction Manager: Dean Dykstra. Design Professional: Shive-Hattery.
- Melrose Avenue – Surface Parking-First Place Award in the Transportation Category. Project Manager: Hugh Barry, Construction Manager: Dean Dykstra. Design Professional: Anderson Bogart Engineers.
Jeff Gambrall, senior design project manager, and Adam Cannon, design project manager, represented Facilities Management at the banquet and accepted the awards on behalf of the UI.
Faculty—
Horacio Castellanos Moya, assistant professor in Spanish and Portuguese in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has been awarded the Premio Iberomericanode Narrativa Manuel Rojas (Manuel Rojas Iberoamerican Prize for Fiction).
The award will be presented by Michelle Bachelet, the president of Chile, later in 2014. Considered one of the top literary prizes in the Spanish-speaking world, the prize—awarded for work over a career, rather than a single book— includes a $60,000 cash award.
The prize, named after Chilean writer and journalist Manuel Rojas, is sponsored by the Manuel Rojas Foundation, with the winner chosen by an international jury of writers. Rojas won the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 1957. He taught in the U.S. and Chile, and died in 1973 in Santiago.
For more information, read this story on the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences website.
Ibrahim Ozbolat, assistant professor of mechanical and industrial engineering and co-director of the Advanced Manufacturing Technology Group at the UI Center for Computer-Aided Design, will receive the 2014 Gold Medal from Pi Tau Sigma and ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)
The award recognizes a young engineering graduate who has demonstrated outstanding achievement in mechanical engineering within 10 years of graduation.
Ozbolat will receive the award Nov. 16 during the ASME Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition in Quebec, Canada.
Pi Tau Sigma is the international mechanical engineering honor society. ASME has more than 130,000 members in 158 countries worldwide.
David Wittenberg, associate professor of Cinematic Arts, Comparative Literature, and English in the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has been awarded the Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies (SFTS) book award for Time Travel: The Popular Philosophy of Narrative (Fordham UP, 2013).
The SFTS award honors an outstanding scholarly monograph that explores the intersections between popular culture, particularly science fiction, and the discourses and cultures of technoscience.
Wittenberg will receive the award at the 2014 SFRA/WisCon conference May 22-25 in Madison, Wis.
Allison Bruhn, assistant professor in the department of Teaching and Learning in the College of Education, has been awarded the Council for Exceptional Children (Division of Research) Early Career Publication Award.
Dr. John Casko, professor emeritus in the College of Dentistry, has been awarded the Albert H. Ketcham Memorial Award from the American Board of Orthodontics. The award was presented at the Excellence in Orthodontics Awards ceremony April 27 in New Orleans, La.
Staff—
Dr. Cole Weaver, second-year resident in Orthodontics, has been awarded the Charley Schultz Resident Scholar Award for his research, "Candidate Gene Analyses of 3D Dental Phenotypes in Patients with Malocclusion." The award was presented at the American Association of Orthodontics annual session in New Orleans, La. April 25-29.
Students—
Mark Christopher, a graduate student in biomedical engineering, has received the Members-In-Training (MIT) Outstanding Poster Award in the glaucoma section at the ARVO 2014 annual meeting.
Rebekah Frumkin, a graduate student in creative writing in the Iowa Writers' Workshop from Libertyville, Ill., received a Critical Language Scholarship to study Hindi in Jaipur, India.
Maria Sumner, a graduate student in linguistics in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) from Washington, Mo., received a Critical Language Scholarship to study Indonesian in Malang, Indonesia.
Patrick Taffe, a freshman Russian and international relations major in CLAS from Mediapolis, Iowa, received a Critical Language Scholarship to study Russian in Ufa, Russia.
Jeffrey Ding, from Iowa City, Iowa, has been selected as an alternate for the Critical Language Scholarship for Chinese. Ding is a sophomore economics major in the Tippie College of Business and a political science and Chinese major in CLAS.
The Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program provides fully-funded, group-based intensive language instruction and structured cultural enrichment activities overseas each summer for U.S. undergraduate and graduate students. The CLS Program is part of a U.S. government effort to expand the number of Americans studying and mastering critical foreign languages. Students will spend 7-10 weeks abroad.
Christopher Anderson, a graduate student in political science in CLAS from Marion, Iowa, received a Boren Fellowship to spend next year in Georgia. He will study Georgian and research topics about Georgian military.
Sara Gardner, a graduate student in the College of Law from Central City, Iowa, has been selected as an alternate for the Boren Fellowship and, if chosen, will spend the year in Turkey studying advance Turkish and international business law.
Boren Fellowships provide graduate students with the resources they need to acquire skills and experiences in areas of the world critical to the future security of our nation, in exchange for their commitment to seek work in the federal government. Boren Fellowship awards are made for a minimum of 12 weeks and maximum of 24 months.
Andrew Russell, a German and philosophy major in CLAS from Davenport, Iowa, received a DAAD Undergraduate Scholarship to Germany for the 2014-15 academic year, where he will participate in the Academic Year in Freiburg exchange program.
The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is the German national agency for the support of international academic cooperation. The DAAD Undergraduate Scholarship provides college sophomores and juniors the opportunity to study at German universities for a period of four to 10 months during the academic year.
Cory Hatch, second-year student in the College of Dentistry, received the Award for Superior Achievement in Dental Gross Anatomy at the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology Student Awards ceremony held April 30.
Hatch also received the Michael W. Finkelstein Award from the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology.
Taylor Zmoos, third-year student in the College of Dentistry, has received the 2014 Dental Scholarship Award from the Pierre Fauchard Academy Foundation and the 2014 Award of Excellence from the American Student Dental Association.
Alumna—
The University of Iowa College of Public Health will honor the recipients of its 2014 Outstanding Alumni Awards at an event May 16 in the College of Public Health Building.
The college recognizes outstanding alumni in two categories: recent graduates who have completed College of Public Health programs within the past 10 years and other alumni for accomplishments throughout their careers. Awards presented this year recognize individuals from the academic and research communities. This year’s recipients are:
Wei Zhang (Ph.D. in biostatistics, 2005) regional head of Biostatistics and Data Management for the Pan Asia/META (Middle East, Turkey, and Africa) region at Boehringer Ingelheim China based in Shanghai.
James Torner (Master of Science in biostatistics, 1974; Ph.D. in epidemiology/preventive medicine and environmental health, 1984.) professor and head of the UI College of Public Health’s Department of Epidemiology. Torneris also an associate director in the UI Institute for Clinical and Translational Science.
Additional information on the recipients is available online.
Dr. Lucynda Raben (Dentistry, 1983) was named the 2014 Kansas Dentist of the Year during the Kansas Dental Association annual session April 12.
Faculty—
Dr. David Gratton, associate professor in the Department of Prosthodontics, presented "Intra-oral Scanning" at the International Team for Implantology World Symposium April 24-26 in Geneva, Switzerland.
Faculty—
Kurti, RS; Boghossian, BD; Kwon, SR: an article, "Direct measurement of stain retention in third molars." J Contemp Dent Pract 2013; 14 (6):1060-1064