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James Starr, a professor in Texas A&M's department of plant pathology and microbiology, recently received a Distinguished Alumni Award from Ohio State University's College of Food, Agriculture, and Environmental Sciences Alumni Society.
Starr earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from Ohio State University and his Ph.D. from Cornell University. He came to Texas A&M in 1981 and lives in Bryan.
Dominique Chlup, former director of the Texas Center for the Advancement of Literacy and Learning at Texas A&M, and her staff received a Recognition of Excellence Award at the Texas Association for Literacy and Adult Education's annual conference this year.
The award was given to show appreciation for the TCALL staff's outstanding commitment to adult education and going above and beyond the call of duty.
Ahmad Ghassemi, associate professor in the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering, has been appointed holder of the George and Joan Voneiff Development Professorship in Unconventional Resources.
Ghassemi is the director of the Petroleum Engineering Rock Mechanics Laboratory at Texas A&M. He came to Texas A&M University after being an associate professor in the geology and geological engineering department at the University of North Dakota.
Ibrahim Karaman, associate professor in the A&M mechanical engineering department, has been awarded the Gary Anderson Early Achievement Award by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Committees on Adaptive Structures.
The associate professor came to Texas A&M in 2000 after earning his doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He holds The Dietz Career Development Associate Professor I Position in his department.
Karaman will receive a plaque and $1,000 during the 2008 Smart Structures and Materials meeting this month in San Diego.
The Accenture Scholarship for International Awareness for Texas A&M University engineering students has been established by the company for which it was named: Accenture. An $80,000 donation from the company will provide scholarships for junior-level students in computer science and industrial systems engineering.
The scholarships are designed to encourage global awareness and knowledge by rewarding students who have studied abroad.
Three graduate students in A&M's College of Geosciences have been awarded prestigious Schlanger Fellowships. Oceanography graduate students Daniel Murphy and Masako Tominaga won awards for the 2007-08 academic year, while geology and geophysics graduate student Hiroko Kitajima won a fellowship for 2006-07.
Only five Schlanger Fellowships are awarded each year nationwide. The $28,000 merit-based awards allow graduate students to conduct research related to the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program. The money can be used for stipends, tuition, benefits, research costs and travel.
Prakash Nair, an educational administration and human resource development doctoral graduate and senior employee development specialist with the Center for Employee Education in Employee Services, was selected for the Malcolm S. Knowles Dissertation of the Year Award.
The award comes from the Academy of Human Resource Development and was announced at the 2008 International Research Conference.
Nair's dissertation title is "A Path Analysis of Relationships Among Job Stress, Job Satisfaction, Motivation to Transfer and Transfer of Learning: Perceptions of Occupational Safety and Health Administration Outreach Trainers."
Former Texas A&M librarian Charles Thurston has given $25,000 to create the Thurston Family Endowment at the university that launched his career three decades ago.
Thurston began working as a librarian in the reference department of the Sterling C. Evans Library in 1978. Money from the fund will be used to benefit collections of distinction at the Cushing Memorial Library and Archives.
Carmen Suen, program coordinator in the Institute for Pacific Asia, was honored with the International Programs Office 2008 Staff Star Award in January.
Associate Vice President for International Programs Emily Ashworth said Suen is a deserving recipient because of her outstanding contribution to international programs in Asia.
Suen has been instrumental in the creation of a Confucius Institute at Texas A&M and has led the university in other forms of cultural outreach, such as university-wide efforts to celebrate the lunar new year, A&M officials said.
Kenneth Whitt, a doctoral student in educational administration, was among six graduate students awarded $2,000 scholarships during the American Association of School Administrators annual conference.
Whitt, the winner of the Finis Engleman Award, is in his second year as the curriculum director in Marlin. His dissertation research focuses on superintendent mentoring.
Marilyn Hall Jewell will endow a mechanical engineering scholarship and fellowship through her estate in honor of her husband, George Jewell, and father, Mile Hall. The awards will go to students from the Galveston County area who have high financial need and are the first in their families to attend college.
Texas A&M professor J. Richard Conner was presented the Outstanding Achievement Award for Academia/Research peers at the Society for Range Management's annual meeting.
The award is presented for outstanding achievement in contributions to the range profession.
Conner received the award for his pioneering work as an agriculture economist specializing in the development of economically sustainable rangeland and ranch management strategies and tactics.
A former Texas A&M professor and his wife, a Texas A&M graduate, are creating a $35,500 endowment to help engineering students.
R.K. Pandey was an electrical engineering professor for two decades. His wife, Christa Pandey, earned master's and doctoral degrees from the university.
The Austin couple's donation will support a fellowship and undergraduate award in the electrical and computer engineering department.
Clifton Griffin, former assistant dean and ombudsman in the Office of Graduate Studies, has been appointed director of Research and Graduate Studies Services at Texas A&M's campus in Qatar.
Griffin earned his doctorate from the wildlife and fisheries sciences department at Texas A&M in 1998 before joining the Division of Research and Graduate Studies. In his new role, he will implement and administer graduate admissions and records policies and manage research personnel and resource issues.
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