Lilly

Sims

Mary Luanne Lilly, nursing, is the recipient of the School of Nursing's 2005 Clinical Excellence Award. She works as an assistant professor in the Department of Environments for Health, as a family care coordinator at the IU Alzheimer's Clinic and as an adjunct assistant professor at the IU School of Medicine. Lilly has taught courses that have enabled future clinical nurse specialists and researchers to learn and put into practice knowledge essential to providing safe and effective care for geriatric patients.

Sharon Sims, chair of the Department of Family Health at the IU School of Nursing, has received the 2005 Honorary Alumna Award from the School of Nursing in recognition of outstanding contributions of time, leadership, service to the field of nursing and dedicated efforts to bring greater recognition to the nursing profession and to the school. She was cited for doing public service at the Shalom Nurse Run Clinic, serving on regional committees, communicating with the higher levels of the university and mentoring faculty in her department.

Dr. John Pless is the recipient of the IU School of Medicine Distinguished Alumnus Award and Dr. Lynda Means, former executive associate dean for academic affairs at the IU School of Medicine, is the recipient of the Glenn W. Irwin Jr. M.D. Distinguished Faculty Award. Pless is the Culbertson Professor emeritus of pathology and laboratory medicine, and during his IU career, supervised more than 300 postmortem examinations annually for coroners throughout Indiana and served as an expert witness in criminal and civil cases. Means is a lecturer at Harvard Medical School and an anesthesiologist at Children's Hospital in Boston. The awards were presented May 14 at the medical alumni event.

Vice Chancellor Trudy Webb Banta has been inducted into the University of Kentucky Alumni Association Hall of Distinguished Alumni, which was established in 1965 in celebration of UK's centennial year. Every five years, a select group of outstanding alumni and honors them with induction into the Hall of Distinguished Alumni.

Frank Ross, associate director of Campus and Community Life, was recognized at the annual meeting of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) with the "Promising Practices Award" for successful collaboration between student affairs and academic affairs. The award is given for program development which models good integration of student affairs with academic affairs in colleges and universities. Ross received recognition for the work he does in collaboration with University College in first-year programs, specifically with regard to new student orientation and learning communities. His "First Year in a FLASH" program was designed to help new students learn about the many opportunities IUPUI provides for co-curricular involvement, both on campus as well as in the community. Earlier this year, he was the recipient of the NASPA regional Outstanding Mid-Level Student Affairs Professional Award.

Jacqueline Blackwell, education; Deborah Grew, University College; and Gwendolyn Johnson, Graduate Office, have been accepted as participants in the month-long Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration, meeting at Bryn Mawr College in June. Their attendance continues a 17-year tradition of IUPUI representation at this national leadership development program.

Krauss

John Krauss, director of the Center for Urban Policy and the Environment, has been re-elected vice president of the Board of Governors and trustee-at-large of the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA). Krauss also was elected treasurer of the IMA for a one-year term. Krauss was elected during the IMA's annual meeting of the Board of Governors, trustees and voting members on May 10.

An article written by Sheila Suess Kennedy, SPEA, (with Laura S. Jensen), has won the 2005 Johnson Award for Best Paper in Ethics and Accountability in the Public Sector, given by the Johnson Institute for Responsible Leadership at the University of Pittsburgh. The paper, "Public Ethics, Legal Accountability, and the New Governance," was published as a chapter in George Frederickson and Richard Ghere's Ethics in Public Management (M.E. Sharpe, 2005). Kennedy's chapter, "The Poor You Have Always With You: The Problem of the 'Sturdy Beggar'" has been published in Indiana Legal History, edited by David Bodenhamer and Randall Shepard (Ohio University Press 2005).