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Barbara A. Byers, associate director for communications, Office of Alumni Relations, was honored as Practitioner of the Year at the 20th annual Excalibur Awards of the Public Relations Society of America (Buffalo/Niagara), held last week.
Anucha Browne Sanders, senior associate athletic director for marketing and senior woman administrator, was selected to receive a Woman of Distinction Award at the 2009 National Conference for College Women Student Leaders, which is sponsored by the American Association of University Women and NASPA—Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education. Presented annually at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders, the Women of Distinction Awards honor women who have had extraordinary accomplishments and made contributions in their professions or their communities and who represent inspiring role models for women student leaders.
“A Women’s Berlin: Building the Modern City” (University of Minnesota Press, 2008) by Despina Stratigakos, assistant professor, School of Architecture and Planning, has been awarded the $1,000 Milka Bliznakov Prize by the International Archive of Women in Architecture Center in Virginia Tech’s College of Architecture and Urban Studies. The prize is awarded to scholarly or creative work that furthers the knowledge of women in architecture and the related design fields. Stratigakos’ scholarship and activism focus on issues of diversity in architecture and in this book she explores a largely forgotten metropolis created by and for women.
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