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Phi Kappa Phi Forum, Summer 2007

Jenny Hutchinson (Plattsburgh State University), a senior member of the Plattsburgh State University's women's track and field team, was selected for a Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence from the State University of New York system. Hutchinson, a three-year team captain, was also named as an NCAA Division-Ill All- America Scholar by the U.S. Track and Field Coaches Association.

Kadiryn E. Kramer, PhD (SUNY Cortland), was named as the recipient of the 2007 Dr. Rozan ne Brooks Dedicated Teacher Award at the State University of New York Cortland. Kramer, an associate professor of art and art history, will use the $5,000 stipend that comes with the award to offset the costs of her upcoming trip to Malta.

Rachel M. Kuta, (DePaul University) graduated magna cum laude in May 2007 with a Masters of Science in Integtated Marketing Communications from Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois. Ku ta is employed as a Services Marketing Communications Manager at IBM Corporation.

Deanne Leonard (Univetsity of Nevada, Reno) was awarded the Herz Gold Medal at the University of Nevada, Reno's spring commencement. The medal is presented each year to the graduating senior with the highest grade point average. Leonard earned a degree in psychology with a 4.0 GPA and has been accepted into the University of Nevada School of Medicine.

Robert Lima, PhD (Pennsylvania State University), had his translation of José Bellidos play Bread and Rice, or Geometry in Yellow, produced by the Theater Company of the Department of Performing Arts at Northeastern State University in Oklahoma, during a recent Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. Lima's translation appeared in the journal Modern International Drama. In addition, he wrote the Spanish libretto for the cantata Santa Rosalia, written by composer Bruce Trinkley and librettist Jason Charnesky, which had its Spanishlanguage premiere in Bogorá, Columbia, on March 7, 2007.

Nicholas Shawn Lykins (Morehead State University) was the student speaker at the Twenty-third Annual Honors Convocation on April 29, 2007, at Morehead State University (MSU). Lykins majored in philosophy and government and minorcd in English at MSU; he will be attending graduate school on a full tuition scholarship at Ohio Univetsity.

Brenna McDonald, PhD (Widener University), was one of seven former neuroscience concentrators who related their postgraduate experiences in research and clinical fields such as pediatric neurology, neurobiology, and clinical neuropsychology at the Essel Foundation Neuroscience Alumni Symposium on April 14, 2007, at Williams College. McDonald is currently an assistant professor of radiology and neurology at Indiana University School of Medicine and an adjunct assistant professor of psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School.

Britt Mason (Western Illinois University) was named to the ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District softball team. Mason played left field for Western Illinois, starting all forty-six games and maintaining a .344 batting average. In the classroom, she maintained a 3.96 GPA in kinesiology.