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10courage inspired teachers and group workers to be the best that they can be. The scholarshiphonors an outstanding graduate student who is active in the study and practice of group work whoalso demonstrates leadership and support roles among fellow graduate students.Steve Jacobson (Associate Dean, GSE) chaired the University Council for EducationalAdministration (UCEA) 2004 Davis Award Committee. The Davis Award is given annually to theoutstanding article published in the previous year’s volume of Educational Administration Quarterly(EAQ). EAQ is, arguably, the most prestigious journal in the field of educational administration.Ian Kudel (Ph.D., 2004, CSEP) is a post-doctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University.Jaekyung Lee (CSEP) was appointed member of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) AcademicAdvisory Board at the Harvard University Civil Rights Project. One of the recent reports from thisproject was Kim, J., & Sunderman, G. L. (2004). Large mandates and limited resources: State responseto the No Child Left Behind Act and implications for accountability. Cambridge, MA: The Civil RightsProject at Harvard. (www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu/research/esea/call_nclb.php)Guofang Li (LAI) will receive an Exceptional Scholar Award in the category of Young Investigator,at the UB Scholars, Inventors, and Entrepreneurs reception on Wednesday, May 26th, 2004 from 4-6 p.m., at the Center for Tomorrow.Suzanne Miller (LAI) was recognized as Outstanding Faculty by the Department of Learning andInstruction’s Graduate Student Association at the their annual Awards Banquet, April 30, 2004.Al Pautler (Professor Emeritus, ELP) earned his private pilot certificate in 1991. You can read abouthis experience in “Overdue assignment: Thwarted years ago, a retired professor becomes a pilot,”beginning on page 52 in the May 2004 issue of AOPA Flight Training magazine.Raechele Pope (ELP) received the Outstanding Contribution to Multicultural Education Awardfrom the American College Personnel Association (ACPA) Standing Committee on MulticulturalAffairs at the April 2004 ACPA conference in Philadelphia, PA.Emily Sinsabaugh (ELP doctoral student) was elected chair of the Board of Directors for theNational Association of Presidential Assistants in Higher Education (NAPAHE) at the organization’sannual meeting in February 2004.Dennis Valone (Ed.D., 1993, CSEP) is the director of Early Intervention and Mental HealthServices at the Northwest TriCounty Intermediate Unit in Edinboro, PA. He recently authoredarticles in the National Association of School Psychologists’ publication, Exemplary Mental HealthPrograms (2002) and the American Psychological Association Division 16 newsletter, The SchoolPsychologist (2001, 55, 4).Luz Morelia Vanegas (Ed.M., 1976, LAI) is celebrating her 20th anniversary as owner and directorof LEXICOM, an English language training center she opened in Medellin, Columbia in1984.Christine Wang’s (LAI) dissertation, Third Space: Sharing a Computer in a First-Grade Classroom,received the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the American Educational Research Association’sEarly Education/Child Development SIG (Special Interest Group) during the April 2004 annualconference in San Diego, CA.