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Al Anderson, IUB, was a guest speaker on Global HIV/AIDS in the Global Health class at the University of Michigan, School of Public Health, Graduate Summer Session in Epidemiology. Also, Professor Anderson will again host Dr. Meng Xiangdong, Director and Chief Physician of the Jilin Institute for HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control, as an External Fellow in the IU Institute for Advanced Study. Dr. Meng will be on campus during mid- to late September.

Otis Grant, IUSB, has received the 2005 Trustees’ Teaching Award (TTA); the award is given to those who show evidence of sustained and consistent teaching excellence.

Kirsten Grønbjerg, IUB, served as the 2005 Program Chair for the Public and Nonprofit Division of the Academy of Management in Honolulu, Hawaii, August 5-10. She is now the Chair-Elect for the division.

Esther Mwangi, 2003 Ph.D. in Public Policy, IUB, has been awarded the American Political Science Association’s Lasswell Award for the best dissertation in Public Policy defended in the last two years. Congratulations to Esther and to her committee—Elinor Ostrom (Chair), IUB; Mike McGinnis; J.C. Randolph, IUB; Clark Gibson; and Kathryn Firmin-Sellers.

David Reingold, IUB, served as a member of an expert panel on family homelessness for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Washington, DC, and presented a paper on the characteristics and causes of family homelessness in the United States (co-authored with Angela Fertig, IU, Department of Economics). He was also awarded two research grants. A $45,000 grant (with Becky Nesbit, IUB) from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to investigate the impact of state civic education policies on youth civic engagement and a $29,000 research grant from the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University to conduct secondary analysis of existing data on the nature and consequences of volunteer service.

Natalia Rekhter (principle investigator), IUPUI and Al Anderson (IUB) received an IREX Policy-Connect grant that is funded by the United States Department of State (Title VIII Program) and the John J. and Nancy Lee Roberts Foundation. This grant of $30,000 is for the development of an HIV/AIDS education curriculum for students at the middle and high school levels in the Ivanovo area in Russia.

Stephen J. Ziegler, IPFW, received a $27,176 research grant in May 2005 from the Greenwall Foundation (Bioethics Program), of New York to study the Swiss model of assisted suicide in Switzerland and its potential to inform public policy in the United States.