Honors and Awards From: University Currents Date: May 24, 2000 Archive: Campus News Kudos to Four Honored by A&S Year-end awards in the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences have been presented to four faculty and staff. Each have received a $1,000 cash prize: McMicken Dean's Award for Distinguished Adjunct Performance: Edy Carro, Romance languages and literatures. All of the students in her Spanish 105 class this quarter wrote in support of her nomination. Edith C. Alexander Award for Distinguished Teaching: Gila Safran-Naveh, Judaic studies. Since joining the college in 1986, she has developed and taught over 20 different courses, from language acquisition to Semiotic Theory to Jewish Humor to the Literature of the Holocaust. She is also known to play "devil's advocate" to draw her students' views out. McMicken Dean's Award for Distinguished Research: Harry B. Mark, chemistry. Mark was the first to develop infrared spectroelectrochemistry and one of the first to explore electrogenerated chemiluminescence and to apply quantum chemistry to the fundamental understanding of electrode processes. He is also a pioneer in the application of kinetics to analytical chemistry. McMicken Dean's Award for Distinguished Service: Milton Orchin, chemistry. Orchin has served as chair of the Fellows of the Graduate School, University Faculty and Faculty Senate. Currently he is co-chair of the faculty/staff component of the Campaign for the University of Cincinnati. In the community he was appointed to the boards of the American Civil Liberties Union, the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati and the Jewish Community Relations Council. MBA students excel in Oregon competition An MBA team made up of Ron Birkhahn, Denise Fugate, Blake Guyler, Benjamin Pettit and Aaron Simmons finished in the top five out of 20 competing universities in the 2000 New Venture Championship at the University of Oregon. Each team presented a business plan for a new venture, with UC's team employing resources from CBA and the College of Engineering in its presentation, "Britech Devices Inc." This is the first time UC has sent a team to the Oregon competition. The team was honored at the recent Entrepreneurship Recognition Banquet. Also recognized at the banquet was businessman Jeff Wyler (BBA '65), who received the Center for Entrepreneurship Education and Research's Entrepreneurial Excellence Award. Watts earns Ohio Bar Award Barbara Watts, associate dean for the College of Law, was honored with the Nettie Cronise Lutes Award from the Ohio State Bar Association at its 120th annual convention on May 17 in Toledo. The award comes from the Section on Women in the Profession and is named in honor of Ohio's first woman lawyer. The section seeks to generate constructive ideas and programs for enhancing the experiences of women in the law. Watts was recognized for the contributions she has made in her 16 years in her current position, including her role in helping to shepherd development of the joint degree program between the College of Law and the Center for Women's Studies.