Recognition for the Dartmouth faculty, staff and students
ARTS AND SCIENCES
Colin Calloway, Professor of History and of Native American Studies, was selected in February as co-winner of the 2004 Merle Curti Award in social history from the Organization of American Historians for his book One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis and Clark. Calloway, Chair of the Native American Studies program, studies the history and culture of Native American groups, and authored One Vast Winter Count to help expand the average American's sense of history. The Merle Curti Award is given annually for the best book in social, intellectual and/or cultural history. In March Calloway will receive a $500 prize at the organization's 2004 conference in Boston.
DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL
Ashley Miller, John Raser and Ted Yuo, members of the DMS class of 2006, jointly received an Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Medical Student Service Project Award and an Upper Valley United Way Emerging Needs Grant in February. The AOA Award, introduced in 2000, encourages basic research in health services. The United Way Emerging Needs Grant is meant to fund agencies serving people in disadvantaged geographic areas. Miller, Raser and Yuo will use these funds to increase patient access to the Good Neighbor Health Clinic satellite in the underserved Mascoma region, which is in need of medications and other disposable medical supplies.
Shazia Siddiqi, a student in the Master of Public Health program at the Center for Evaluative Clinical Sciences at DMS, was crowned Miss Deaf California in January and will go on to compete in the Miss Deaf America pageant sponsored by the National Association of the Deaf. The California competition consisted of two interviews, one private and one on stage; a platform speech (Siddiqi chose "Health Education and Promotion in the Deaf Community"); an evening gown presentation, as well as a talent component (Siddiqi, who is Pakistani-American, performed a South Asian dance). Siddiqi said she is interested in improving health-care access, increasing cultural competence among medical professionals about deafness and deaf culture, doing research into Medicaid programs, and reducing health-care disparities among the medically underserved populations. The Miss Deaf America pageant will take place in July in Kansas City, Mo.
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