• Honors Day festivities in May are primarily to honor outstanding students, but tribute to favorite teachers was made with the presentation of Amicus Awards. Decided by student vote, the 2005 Amicus Awards and their recipients were:

Favorite IU Kokomo Full-Time Faculty Members: Terri Bourus and Karla Stouse, English.

Favorite IU Kokomo Adjunct Faculty Members: Lawrence Cornwell, psychology; Ron Kirkpatrick, anatomy; and Alice "Toni" Kolanko, mathematics.

Favorite Purdue Faculty Member: Jeff Griffin, computer technology.

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Bourus

• Members of the troupe Actors from the London Stage will perform and offer workshops next February through a $20,000 grant proposal developed by Terri Bourus, English. Bourus learned in mid-May that her proposal would be funded through the IU New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities: New Perspectives Grant, made possible by the Lilly Foundation. During a one-week residency, five actors from the traveling troupe will meet with IU Kokomo students and faculty. The troupe also will stage two performances of The Merchant of Venice, open to the campus and community.

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Person

• IU Kokomo Chancellor Ruth Person has been appointed to the Accreditation Review Council of The Higher Learning Commission for the North Central Association of College and Schools (NCA). Her four-year appointment starts in September. The NCA is one of six regional institutional-accrediting associations in the United States.

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• Steve Holaday, an audio/visual technician on campus, has received a $18,000 grant from the SMARTer Kids Foundation of Canada. The funds will offset by almost half the cost of seven new LCD projectors for classroom use. Two of the projectors will replace existing older units, while the remainder are being purchased to meet an increasing demand by faculty for the more advanced teaching technology, according to Holaday. "The idea is to give the instructors more options in doing their jobs," he said. This is the second equipment grant that Holaday has pursued on his own initiative, according to Bill Yost, vice chancellor for information technology. In 2004, Holaday obtained a $31,000 award, also from the SMARTer Kids Foundation. "Steve has definitely gone beyond normal expectations in seeking this support," Yost said. "The university administration commends him for his initiative as we continue to strive to find additional resources to meet instructional technology needs." Holaday also coordinates videoconferencing and telephone and data communication between IU Kokomo and other institutions of higher education in the state.

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• Lynda Narwold, nursing, is serving as a lead facilitator for a "Future Medicine Leaders Summit" at the University of California Los Angeles July 18-27. Some 225 high school students from the United States and other nations are attending attend to learn about medical ethics and careers. Narwold has made her own contribution to the sessions on medical ethics; she suggested that, in addition to looking at the Hippocratic Oath taken by physicians, summit participants also study a similar statement of principles that guide professional nurses, the Nightingale Pledge. The summit is sponsored by People-to-People, an organization founded in 1956 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. People-to-People organizes international and domestic travel programs for students and adults with the mission of enhancing global understanding. Narwold has participated in an Adult Ambassadors trip to Australia and has facilitated People-to-People leadership conferences in Washington, D.C., aimed at middle school students.

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• Participants in Camp Eeze-the-Wheeze and KIDDS Kamp in Kokomo may have the chance to see themselves on television this winter. An IU video crew was on hand June 15 when Clarian Health's Lifeline Helicopter flew in to visit the 28 campers, gathered at Kokomo's Jackson Morrow Park. IU Kokomo School of Nursing faculty and students staff the camps, which help youngsters learn to live with asthma and diabetes. Video highlights of the camps will be included as part of a televised halftime show during the 2005-2006 IU men's basketball season. Seventeen counselors--students of the IU Kokomo School of Nursing--contributed greatly to make the 2005 camp session "the best we ever had," said Lynda Narwold, who coordinates the campus. "I couldn't have asked for better counselors, and we had the largest attendance and the greatest level of community involvement ever."

In bright sun and by floodlights, from 6 p.m. on June 17 until 6 p.m. the next day, walkers circled the Kokomo High School football field for the 2005 Howard County Relay for Life. A record 115 teams--including one representing IU Kokomo--participated. About 30 IU Kokomo students, alumni, staff, and faculty members participated as a team in the local marathon, raising close to $1,000 in pledges.

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Miller

• Two community institutions honored Herbert Miller, professor emeritus of German and of international business, in May. The City of Kokomo recognized Miller as a "hometown hero" on May 7 during a campus celebration. On May 21, Ivy Tech State College presented Miller with an honorary associate of science degree for college and community service during the college's commencement ceremony at Wabash.