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Awards, Promotions, Retirement Dr.
Edwin Adams, pharmacy, was named
Director of Student and Professional Affairs in the Dr.
Karen Briski, pharmacy, was named
Interim Head of the Department of Basic and Pharmaceutical Sciences on Dr.
Michael Crider, Head of the
Department of Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences in the The KEDM, received a total of 17 awards at the 2003 annual Louisiana Associated Press Broadcasters Association (LAPBA) meeting held on June 12, 2004, at the Praline Connection Gospel and Blues Hall in New Orleans, La. KEDM competed in Class B, which encompasses all stations not in New Orleans, Baton Rouge or Shreveport. Sunny Meriwether, KEDM news director, received a total of 14 awards including Best Sports Story, Best Public Affairs, Best Newscast, Story of the Year and Reporter of the Year. Here is the complete list
of the awards: In the category Best General News, KEDM received first
place for Big Zoo, Small Zoo by Kate
Archer; second place for Fazzioli Grands by Sunny Meriwether; and
third place for Odyssey of the Mind by Sunny Meriwether. In the category
Best Feature, KEDM received first place for Nutrition Study by Kate
Archer; second place for Flu Shots by Sunny Meriwether; and third place
for Make-A-Map by Sunny Meriwether. In the category Continuing Coverage,
KEDM received first place for West Dr.
W. Greg Leader, pharmacy, was
promoted from Assistant Dean of Student and Professional Affairs to
Associate Dean and Director of the Eun
Jung Lee-Ok,
women's basketball, received the Southland Conference Hall of Fame Award
on Dr.
Marshall Scott Legan, history and
government, received the 2004 Special Humanities Award from the Louisiana
Endowment for Humanities on Dr.
Harihara M. Mehendale,
toxicology, has been elected as the Chair of the Division of Toxicology of
the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET).
The Division has a membership of 600. He will serve as the chair from Dr.
Tammy Parker, economics and
finance, recently received the spring 2004 Dr.
Ava Pugh,
curriculum and instruction, received an award for Professional Development
School Service from the ULM PK 16+ Advisory Council during their spring
meeting held on the Dr. Marty Steffenson, pharmacy, received the 2004 Health System Clinical Pharmacist of the Year award from LSHP at their annual meeting held in April in new Orleans, La. Dr. Paul Sylvester, pharmacy, had his NIH/NCI grant renewed: “Antiproliferative and Apoptotic Mechanisms of Tocotrienols in Mammary Cancer” for a total of $202,500. ● Dr. Sylvester received a new Malaysian Palm Oil Board Research grant “Vitamin E and Breast Cancer” for $13,000, in May. ● Dr. Sylvester received a new grant “Signaling Pathways Involved in Mediating Vitamin E Induced Caspase Activation and Apoptosis in Breast Cancer Cells” for $5,000 in June and an AFPE “2004-2005 Gateway” Research Scholar Program for Professional Degree Pharmacy Students scholarship was awarded to his advisee Amanda Ranzino. Shravanthi Gandra, pharmacy administration Ph.D. candidate, and her major advisor, Dr. Lesa Waggoner Lawrence received the Best Poster Research Award at the Annual Conference of the International Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) held in May in Washington, D.C. There were over 500 poster submissions from around the world. Their poster was titled “Assessment of Patient-Reported Outcomes Among Osteoarthritic Patients” and contained an abstract, methodology, results, and conclusions of their research. Dr.
Jerrilene Washington,
curriculum and instruction, received an award for Professional Development
School Service from the ULM PK-16+ Advisory Council during their spring
meeting held on the Coby Wells, university relations, was named Ambassador of the Month for the Monroe Chamber of Commerce for the last four months.
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