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• Breon Mitchell, director of the Lilly Library and professor of compara-tive literature, has been named the 2004 recipient of the William S. Armstrong Ambassador Award by the IU Foundation. The award is named for the man who led the IU Foundation for 31 years, from 1952-1983. The award was given in recognition of Mitchell’s ability to engage people on behalf of the university. He served as the first director of the Wells Scholars Program and tirelessly recruited top high school students to IU Bloomington, building support for the program across the campus and with donors. Additionally, he is the author of 20 books and monographs, more than 40 essays and, last year, received the Kurt and Helen Wolff Literary Translation Prize.

• Kent Dove, IU Foundation, was recently named the organization’s senior vice president for development. Formerly, he held the position of vice president for development. In his new role, he will coordinate the work of the vice president at Indianapolis as well as the vice presidents at the IU regional campuses in order to ensure a seamless fund-raising program at the university. His book, Conducting a Successful Capital Campaign (Jossey-Bass, 2001) is considered a standard reference in the field of fund-raising.

• Dennis Peters, chemistry, and Catherine Olmer, physics, have been selected to receive the Distinguished Service Award for 2004-05 for their extraordinary modeling of distinguished service. The Bloomington Faculty Council initiated the service award in order to recognize leadership and dedication within the university, within a discipline or in the community.

• The Banneker History Project has won the 2005 Martin Luther King, Jr. Legacy Award from the City of Bloomington. Lynne Boyle-Baise, School of Education, who directed the project, accepted the award Jan. 17. Read more:

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• Kevin Brown, School of Law-Bloomington, is the author of Race, Law and Education in the Post-Desegregation Era, recently published by Carolina Academic Press. The book re-examines the Supreme Court’s school desegregation jurisprudence and examines the current educational situation of African-American schoolchildren in the post-desegregation era.

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• Marty Siegel has been named executive associate dean of the IU School of Informatics. He has been informatics associate dean for graduate studies and research at IUB and will continue with those duties, taking an expanded administrative role in support of Michael Dunn, university dean of informatics. Siegel also serves as research interim director of the HCI Design Program and as professor of informatics, cognitive science and instructional systems technology.

Lissa May, School of Music, is president-elect of the Indiana Music Educators Association, the state association of the National Association for Music Education. She will assume the presidency of IMEA in January 2007. May participated in a live panel discussion on Interlochen (Mich.) Public Radio on Jan. 28. She was joined by Jeff Kimpton, president of the Interlochen Arts Academy, to talk about curriculum changes in music.

Tony Cirone, chair of the Department of Percussion, School of Music, has been appointed executive editor of all percussion publications at Meredith Music Publications.

Michael Fling, collection development librarian at the Cook Music Library, is the author of Library Acquisition of Music. The how-to guide for librarians was commissioned by the Music Library Association as the fourth in its “Basic Manual Series” and is available from Scarecrow Press. It discusses publication and distribution avenues for both printed and recorded music, techniques for ordering music and dealing with music approval plans, sources for secondhand and out-of-print music, how to acquire photographic reproductions of early-music resources, and concludes with an extended glossary of specialized English and foreign-language terms used by music publishers and vendors.

Edmund Battersby, School of Music, was recently profiled in Early Music America magazine as a leading figure in a growing movement of “mainstream musicians” who perform on period instruments. Other pianists who have used historical instruments include Paul Badura-Skoda and Peter Serkin. A number of other musicians were cited in the article, including Yo-Yo Ma, Renée Flemming and conductor Simon Rattle.

Monika Herzig, School of Music, presented a paper titled “Music and the Internet” at the International Association of Jazz Educators conference in Long Beach, Calif., on Jan. 8.

Costanza Cuccaro, School of Music, who was featured in the September 2004 issue of Classical Singer magazine, has been invited to present a master class and a lecture/demonstration on vocal technique at the magazine’s national convention in May.

Carlos Montané, School of Music, recently returned from Riga, Latvia, where he met with the artistic and music directors from the Latvian National Opera. He was invited to create a six-week summer program for young opera singers in Latvia beginning in 2006. Singers will be selected from the program to join the Opera Studio of the Latvian National Opera. Montané also recently performed two concerts at the MGM Grand hotel in Las Vegas with IU student Jasmina Halimic, soprano; IU alumni Phil Zawisza, baritone; Rebecca Davis, soprano; and IU opera coach Shuichi Umeyama. They were invited to return to Las Vegas next fall and also to perform in Singapore.