Four individuals will be honored.
Ohio University has four new reasons to be proud of its students and faculty.
Three faculty members and one student received awards from external entities for their work at OU, which ranged from performing well in engineering classes to completing aviation research. Their achievements will be recognized at Thursday’s Board of Trustees meeting.
Ethan Ida, a senior ROTC student studying engineering technology and management, was selected to receive the Society of American Engineers ROTC Award of Merit.
The award is a bronze medal and key and is presented annually to a junior or senior engineering student in the top 25 percent of his or her engineering and ROTC classes.
“I really enjoy my major, so I try to focus a lot on that, but ROTC keeps me busy,” Ida said.
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Marcy Keifer Kennedy, director of the university’s Professional Development School Partnership Program, was named to the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education’s new Clinical Practice Commission.
As director, Kennedy works as a liaison between Ohio University and local school districts. The commission examines the state of clinical practice, or field experience, for teacher education and publishes its recommendations for these programs across the country.
“I’m passionate about what I do, and I am also very excited about the fact that the people around the table are actively engaged in this work,” Kennedy said of her recent work with the commission.
Nerissa Young, an instructor in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, received the David L. Eshelman Outstanding Campus Adviser Award from the Society of Professional Journalists.
The award is given to one advisor each year who made an “exceptional contribution” to his or her campus chapter, according to the SPJ website.
Young teaches precision language for journalists and mass media writing principles in addition to her work as SPJ advisor.
“I have been a lot of different places and done a lot of different things all related to journalism, and I feel like the SPJ has always prepared me for what’s coming next,” Young said. “It’s a forward-looking and a forward-thinking organization.”
Dr. Kuangmin Li, a researcher at OU’s Avionics Engineering Center and recent Ph.D. graduate, received the 2015 William E. Jackson Award from the Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics.
He won the award for his dissertation, which focused on enhanced Distance Measuring Equipment carrier phase, which is a technology that allows an aircraft to determine its distance from the ground as an alternative to GPS technology.
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