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Inside Iowa State
February 18, 2000

Honors

Best in the state
Mike Andresen, ISU athletic turf manager, has been named the Iowa Sports Turf Manager of the Year by the Iowa Sports Turf Managers Association. The annual award recognizes outstanding achievements in sports turf management among the 180 state members. Andresen is a board member and past president of the state association and recently was elected to the board of the National Sports Turf Managers Association.


Service award
Ross Talbot, professor emeritus of political science, received the 1999 Vernon Van Dyke Award at the Iowa Conference of Political Scientists in November. The award is presented annually to the political scientist who has demonstrated outstanding service to the political science community in Iowa and beyond. Talbot was on the ISU political science faculty from 1957 to 1989. He continues to teach "minicourses" for the department since his retirement.


Elected fellow
Patricia Thiel, professor and chair of the chemistry department and a scientist at Ames Laboratory, has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society, division of chemical physics. She was cited for "pioneering work on the surface structures, stabilities and other properties of metal films and quasicrystals, and elucidation of surface structure and chemistry of water on metals." Each year, no more than one-half of 1 percent of the society's members are elected fellows by their peers.


Institute promotion
John Snyder, associate scientist at Ames Laboratory, has been elevated to "senior member" of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., the highest professional grade for which a member may apply. About 8 percent of the institute's members have achieved this level.


Outstanding chemist
Sam Houk, senior chemist at Ames Laboratory, is the 2,000 recipient of the Anachem Award from the Association for Analytical Chemistry. The award recognizes outstanding activities in teaching, research, administration or other activity that has "advanced the art and science of the field."


Honorary pork producer
Dennis Marple, professor and head of the department of animal science, has been named an Honorary Master Pork Producer by the Iowa Pork Producers Association. Marple served as ISU liaison to the USDA during planning and construction of the National Swine Research Center in Ames. He serves on the board of directors of the Iowa Pork Producers Association and the Iowa Cattlemen's Association.

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