ODU professor honored with teaching award
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Old Dominion University professor Cynthia Jones was honored in Washington on Thursday as the 2004 Virginia Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
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By Journal Record Staff  As a professor, researcher and speaker, Dr. Donna J. Nelson has mentored numerous women and minority students and taught many of our state physicians, dentists, pharmacists and veterinarians.
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Dave Odom, the basketball coach at the University of South Carolina, was in Atlanta yesterday, watching potential future college players at an AAU tournament.
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By Alexander Morrison, Herald-Journal, Spartanburg, S.C.  Sep. 17--Quintessential. "It's a good word," said Don Fowler, special  assistant to the Wofford College president.
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Elizabethtown College's continuing-education Web site, www.etowndegrees.com, has won a prestigious international award.      The Web site received a bronze prize in the 2007 Horizon Awards, which recognize outstanding achievement among interactive-media producers.
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Grammy-winning singer Lou Rawls, who has helped raise more than &#36;200 million for the United Negro College Fund, is getting an honorary doctorate from Wilberforce University in Ohio.
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ORONO - Philip Dunn Jr., professor of construction management at the University of Maine, recently received one of nine nationwide Citizen Engineer Awards from the American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Interview Professor Wendy Hall talks to The Reg
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COLUMBUS, Ohio  - An earth sciences professor at Ohio State University was named Tuesday to receive a National Medal of Science from the White House, the university announced.Lonnie Thompson, a glaciologist, received the medal for his work providing evidence of global climate change.
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By Sara Newman  Wangari Maathai, 66, the first woman in east and central Africa to earn a doctorate degree, received the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize for developing the Green Belt Movement.
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By The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Sep. 19--NEW HAVEN -- A Yale University professor who is studying the effects of deforestation around the world has been named a MacArthur Fellow, the MacArthur Foundation announced early today.
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By Anonymous  MORGANTOWN - Learning about business also means learning to be a good community member. That's why West Virginia University students at the College of Business and Economics handed out $20,000 to local charities April 26.
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MISSOULA -- A University of Montana physics professor will be helping scientists explore one of the largest moons in the solar system next week.
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James Taylor, who penned "Carolina in My Mind" while homesick for North Carolina, has been honored by his hometown university.
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Former President Jimmy Carter will receive an honorary doctorate from Britain's prestigious Oxford University, officials said Friday.
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By Gayle Perez, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Dec. 13--A business professor at Colorado State University-Pueblo says he wants students in his business-consulting class to experience the real world before they actually step foot in it.
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An emeritus University professor and his former graduate student have been awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for a theory they refined while working together in the 1970s, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday.