• Service fraternity honored
• Speech team wins kudos
• Krauss to accept degree
• Alumnus called top tech
• Ledford named editor
• Zerai speaks to geologists
• Castele is honorary trustee
• Conference draws 200
• Massaquoi cited for writing
• Mack wins nursing prize
• Youngner gives lecture
• Alum given courage award
• Fischer earns scholar award
• Fraternity claims distinction

The Theta Upsilon chapter of Alpha Phi Omega National Service Fraternity of CWRU has been honored with the Dean Arno Nowotny National Service Award.

The Dean Arno Nowotny Award is given to the chapter considered to have the best overall service program for the past two years. It was presented to the CWRU chapter at the group's national convention in New Orleans.

In the past semester, Alpha Phi Omega averaged 45 hours of community service per active member, totaling over 1,700 hours.

This is the first time the CWRU chapter has been considered for national honors.

In only its third year of competition, CWRU's speech and debate team has won several state honors. Winners at the Ohio Forensic Association's State Speech and Debate Championships are:

• Sophomore Jeff Hanson: state varsity champion, news broadcast; third place novice, duo interpretation; fourth place novice, persuasive speaking
• Freshman La Juan Foust: state novice champion, news broadcast; state novice champion, prose interpretation; third place varsity, news broadcast; fourth place novice, impromptu speaking; fourth place novice, poetry interpretation; and third and fifth place novice, duo interpretation
• Freshman Jonathan Semivan: second place novice, impromptu speaking; third place novice, after dinner speaking; fifth place novice, extemporaneous speaking; and fifth place novice, duo interpretation

Lawrence Krauss, the chair and Ambrose Swasey Professor of Physics, has been awarded with his first honoary degree.

Krauss will receive an honorary doctor of science degree from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He also will give the keynote address during Carleton University's commencement ceremonies.

CWRU double alumnus Peter Tippett has been named to the list of the "25 Most Influential CTOs" by InfoWorld Media Group.

The chief technology officer for TruSecure Corp., based in Herndon, Va., Tippett is widely credited with creating the first commercial anti-virus product, which later became Norton Anti-Virus computer software. He has briefed and consulted with Congress, the Senate, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and numerous large and medium-sized organizations and governments on practical approaches to computer security.

At CWRU Tippett earned his doctorate in biochemistry in 1981 and his medical degree in 1983.

Kenneth F. Ledford, associate professor of history and law and director of the Max Kade Center for German Studies, will become only the third editor in the 37-year history of the Central European History, the leading German history scholarly journal in the country.

Ledford received the honor at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA). He was elected by the conference group for Central European History, an affiliated association of the AHA consisting of historians of German-speaking central Europe.

Biniam Zerai, a CWRU graduate student in the department of geological sciences, recently discussed the project, "Geochemical Reactions for Sequestration of CO2 in Ohio's Deep Saline Aquifers," during the poster session at the 114th annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Denver.

Zerai, along with CWRU geology faculty members Gerald Matisoff, Beverly Saylor and Jai Kadambi, are exploring ways to bury some of the 150 million tons of carbon dioxide emitted annually from Ohio's coal-burning power plants in an effort to minimize the emission of carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere.

The prospective burial site is the Rose Run formation, a deep saline aquifer beneath Ohio and western Pennsylvania and western New York.

The CWRU Board of Trustees has named Theodore J. Castele an honorary trustee, describing him as "an energetic, enthusiastic and supportive member."

Castele served on the board from 1981 to 2002, contributing to the work of its nominating committee, which he chaired for two years; the development and alumni relations committee; and the technology transfer committee.

Castele, an assistant clinical professor of radiology at the School of Medicine, chairs the medical school's Campaign for the Future of Academic Medicine and the Dean's Technology Council.

He earned his undergraduate degree in 1951 and his medical degree in 1957 from CWRU.

More than 200 health care workers and members of safety forces filled the auditorium at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History for a conference on smallpox vaccination planning.

The program was co-sponsored by the Center for Science, Health and Society, Program in Continuing Medical Education, School of Medicine and Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing; Cuyahoga County Board of Health; City of Cleveland Board of Health; Center for Health Affairs; Academy of Medicine of Cleveland/Northern Ohio Medical Association; and Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

Iyesatta Massaquoi, currently in her final year at the CWRU School of Medicine, is the recipient of the 2002 Richard J. Margolis Award, given annually to a promising nonfiction writer whose work combines warmth, humor, wisdom and concern with social justice.

Massaquoi writes fact-based fiction about the effects of war on the children of Sierra Leone, on the west coast of Africa, where she grew up. She won the award for her powerful stories about the impact of Sierra Leone's long-running and brutal civil war on its children.

After completing her medical school training, she plans to continue integrating writing and medicine as a way to address human suffering and social injustice. This month, she will return to Sierra Leone for more work on a collection of fact-based stories about Sierra Leone's children.

Laura J. Mack, a sophomore in CWRU's Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, has been awarded a Prentiss Nursing Scholarship from University Hospitals of Cleveland.

The Prentiss Nursing Scholar Program recognizes outstanding nursing students and supports their pursuit of a career in nursing. The scholarship provides full tuition support for up to three years.

Prentiss scholars must maintain a minimum of a 3.0 grade point average and assume a nursing position with University Hospitals after finishing their studies.

Stuart J. Youngner, the Susan E. Watson Professor and director of the CWRU Department of Bioethics, was selected for the Peter H. Viles Visiting Lectureship at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Youngner, who also is a 1970 alumnus of the CWRU School of Medicine, gave an address entitled "Life and Death: Negotiating the Twilight Zone."

A 1989 graduate of the CWRU School of Medicine, Terry Rabinowitz, along with three colleagues, has received the American Psychiatric Association 2002 Profile of Courage Award.

Rabinowitz, an associate professor of psychiatry and family practice at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, also is employed by Fletcher Allen Health Care, which runs Vermont's only academic medical center.

He and his co-workers at Fletcher Allen were honored for deciding to testify-despite threats to their jobs-at a public hearing against a proposal by their employer to move the inpatient psychiatric unit miles away from the medical campus.

Rob Fischer, a senior research associate at CWRU's Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, has received the "Emerging Scholar" award from the Association for Community Organization and Social Administration.

The award is given annually to individuals who have not yet received tenure at their institution and have demonstrated scholarly potential in an area of community practice as evidenced by a doctoral dissertation or other writings.

Fischer has been on the staff of the Mandel School's Center on Urban Poverty and Social Change since 2001, where he has helped to evaluate results of the Cuyahoga County Early Childhood Initiative.

The Zeta Chapter of Delta Tau Delta at CWRU has been honored as one of the 11 Hugh Shields Chapter of Excellence by the International Fraternity for 2003. The chapter received the award at the Northern Division Leadership Conference in Columbus, Ohio.

The award is based on the submission of an Annual Achievement Agreement, which measures excellence in internal operations, finance, recruitment, alumni relations, community service/relations, membership education and academics.