Steven Bohlen has been appointed interim director of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program in Texas A&M University's College of Geosciences.

Bohlen will be responsible for developing a new vision and structure for the program. He will work closely with the ocean drilling community and the program's partners -- the Consortium for Ocean Leadership and Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University -- to build academic bridges and to position the program to take advantage of research opportunities in climate change, sea-level rise, energy security and other relevant national issues.

He will also lead planning for ocean science drilling beyond the year 2013.

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The 10th annual Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship has been awarded to Maggie Nelson, who teaches in the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts. Nelson -- a poet, memoirist, literary critic and scholar -- is receiving the award for her book Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions, which was published last year by the University of Iowa Press.

The award was begun in 1999 by the Texas A&M Center for Humanities Research and was permanently endowed in 2000 by Melbern G. Glasscock, Class of 1959 and his wife, Susanne M. Glasscock, for whom the prize is named.

A committee of two Texas A&M University faculty members and one outside reader selects a winner.

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The American Horticultural Society and the Texas AgriLife Extension Service's National Junior Master Gardener program honored four books with the Growing Good Kids - Excellence in Children's Literature Award.

The award recognizes children's books that effectively promote an appreciation for gardening, plants and the environment. Winning books are The Old Tree by Ruth Brown, If I Were a Tree by Dar Hosta, The Runaway Garden by Jeffery L. Schatzer and Mother Earth and Her Children by Sibylle von Olfers.

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Sonia J. Garcia has been named new director of recruitment and marketing for Texas A&M's College of Geosciences. Garcia comes from the Mays Business School, where she spent the past five years leading recruitment efforts as assistant director.

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Texas A&M human resource development doctoral student Diana Mena and adult education doctoral student Donna Mancuso were selected as Texas Center for the Advancement of Literacy and Learning research fellows for the upcoming year. Each will receive $25,000 in fellowship funding.

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Brig. Gen. Michael B. Cates, an Aggie graduate who is chief of the U.S. Army Veterinary Corps and commanding general of the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine, was named this year's distinguished diplomate by the American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine.

Cates is a member of the Texas A&M Class of 1979. He was presented the award for his "long-standing, significant and lasting contributions to Veterinary Public Health, Preventive Medicine, and the college," officials said.

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Jeffrey Engel, associate director of the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs in the Bush School of Government and Public Service, will be featured in a Cold War series being prepared by ZDF, Germany's largest television station.

Engel will serve as the "American historian." A television crew was on campus Friday to interview the assistant professor of history and public policy.

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Texas A&M accounting professor Stanley Kratchman has been named the recipient of the KPMG Mentoring Award from the American Accounting Association Gender Issues and Work-Life Balance Section. The national award is presented annually to an educator who has affected the lives of women in accounting. It includes a $1,000 cash prize.

-- Staff reports

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