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The Society of Physics Students (SPS) recognized Daniel Dominguez , a physics undergraduate student and president of the SPS Chapter at Texas Tech, as one of the SPS 2010 Leadership Awardees to receive the amount of $2,000 scholarship. He was selected from a group of exceptional applicants and is to be commended on his outstanding academic performance and high level of SPS activity.
Richie Erickson , a doctoral student in the Department of Environmental Toxicology at The Institute of Environmental and Human Health (TIEHH), has received a STAR (Science To Achieve Results) Fellowship from the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Richie is using current ecological theory to understand how contaminants and other stressors may interact and determine the structure of ecological communities. Carie Lambert , a doctoral student in technical communication in the Department of English, is the 2010 recipient of the $800 Graduate Scholarship from the Technical Editing Special Interest Group of the Society for Technical Communication (STC). She also is the recipient of a $1250 scholarship from the Helen Hodges Educational Charitable Trust for 2010. Janie Santoy , doctoral candidate in Technical Communication in the Department of English, is the recipient of the 2010 CPTSC Diversity Scholarship. The award of $500.00 will be presented at this year’s annual meeting of the Council for Programs in
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Technical and Scientific Communication in Boise, Idaho Jessicca Vidrine , a doctoral student in creative writing in the Department of English, was awarded a 16-day writing residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) in Amherst, Va. She was also a finalist for the Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize with the poem “Sometimes Sadness,” which will be published in the Winter 2010/2011 (Issue 18) of Ruminate Magazine: Faith in Art and Literature.
Beth Crockford-Peters , a master’s candidate in anthropology has just returned from a summer of research. She spent her time collecting data on 279 human skeletal remains from the MiddleLate Etruscan Iron Age period. The burials are housed in the National Etruscan Museum of Tarquinia, Tarquinia, Italy. She intends to present the data at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists meeting next April. David C. McDaniel , doctoral candidate in history, was recently awarded $10,000 from the Helen Jones Foundation for a dissertation-writing
fellowship. McDaniel was also awarded a $2,000 research grant to conduct archival research in Spain by the Program for Cultural Cooperation sponsored by Spain’s Ministry of Culture.
Chiyoung Jeong , a doctoral student in the Department of Physics, and other junior physicists at Fermilab have been featured in Sept. 10 edition of Fermilab Today concerning their pivotal roles in producing the first physics result of the new particle search using CMS detector at Large Hadron Collider. The Department of Psychology is proud to announce that its student chapter of the national Human Factors and Ergonomics Society has been awarded "Gold Level" status for its contribution to the field and students' professional development. Three students, Kerstan Cole, John Morris and Paul Derby, will be elevated to "Student Members with Honors" for excelling in all aspects of their professional development.