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2006 Student Choice Award winners at IUB are: Orville Powell and Bob Boch. These award winners will be honored at the Spring Recognition Banquet on April 23 at the Virgil T. DeVault Alumni Center.

SPEA PhD student Roberta Burns received the Bloomington Heart and Hands Award for her volunteer work with Middle Way House. Her nominator wrote “. . . [H]er passion is inspiring and her enthusiasm is infectious. She approaches difficult work with determined pragmatism and an optimism that refuses to give way to disillusionment”

Chris Craft, IUB, participated in a Nature Conservancy workshop, "Conservation Planning for Priority Bays and Estuaries along the South Atlantic Coast," on April 11-13 in Savannah, Georgia. The program was sponsored by the Efroymson Fellowship Program and included participants from Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Indiana.

Meredith Kincaid and Scott Jones, first-year Arts Administration students, submitted proposals and have been selected to present papers at the “National Endowment of the Arts: 40 Years of Leadership in the Arts” symposium to be held May 17-19, 2006 at American University in Washington, DC. Another first-year student, Stephanie Dowdy-Nava, was selected to receive a scholarship to attend this NEA symposium.

Robert Ramsey, IUE, was recently awarded the Indiana University East Student Choice Award for Outstanding Teaching. The award is the highest honor given to a faculty member at IU East. The award ceremony took place on Friday, April 14, in Vivian Auditorium on the Richmond, Indiana campus. Ramsey also was awarded the Faculty Advisor of the Year Award for his contribution as faculty advisor to the campus Criminal Justice Club and as faculty advisor to Alpha Phi Sigma, the National Criminal Justice Honor Society.

Lois R. Wise, IUB, was awarded a Summer Faculty Research Grant for “Inclusiveness in the Bureaucracy: Employment of Foreign Nationals in Central Government” by the West European Studies National Resource Center, 2006.

Abigail York, a 2005 graduate of SPEA's Public Policy Ph.D. program, has received the Esther Kinsley Ph.D. Dissertation Award. This is Indiana University’s highest honor for graduate student research. York is now an assistant professor at the Cookingham Institute for Public Affairs, University of Missouri-Kansas City.