Recognition for Dartmouth faculty, staff, and students
Sally Batton, the director of the Dartmouth Riding Center at
Morton Farm for 17 years, has been named the American Riding Instructor
Association (ARIA) instructor of the year for 2007. She will receive the award
and present two seminars at the ARIA national convention in Naples, Fla., this
month. The ARIA promotes excellence in the teaching of horseback riding, based
on a solid foundation of knowledge, safety, and personal and professional
integrity. Batton also serves as the head coach of Dartmouth’s equestrian team,
which won three of its five competitions this fall. An ARIA level III
instructor in hunt seat and recreational riding, she is also the author of
Polocrosse: Australian Made, Internationally Played.
Dartmouth’s Ethics Bowl team took first place at the
Northeast Regional Ethics Bowl competition held in November at Villanova
University. Ethics Bowl team members Phil Back ’10, Kumar Gautam ’11, Harsh
Gupta ’10, Nikhil Jain ’09, Chris Kendig ’10, Tatyana Liskovitch ’08, Samantha
Mandel ’10, Jamie McCoy ’10, Tiffany Tai ’11 and Natalie Young ’10 are coached
by Aine Donovan, the executive director of Dartmouth’s Ethics Institute.
Dartmouth will meet top performers from the ten regional competitions in
February 2008 at the national championships in San Antonio, Texas, an event
held in conjunction with the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Association for
Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE).
Darlene Royce, registered laboratory animal technologist at
Dartmouth Medical School (DMS), and
Nina Bishop, registered assistant laboratory animal technician
with the Animal Resources
Center (ARC), were honored with awards from the Northern Mountain Branch of
the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science (AALAS) for their
contributions to the field of lab animal science. The Northern Mountain Branch,
AALAS’s New England/New York area affiliate, recognized Royce’s outstanding
work in the field with the 2007 Technologist of the Year Award. Royce has been
with Michael Sporn’s laboratory at DMS since 2003, where her responsibilities
include in vivo experiments, the creation of specialty diets, and animal care.
Bishop was honored by the Northern Mountain AALAS branch for her dedicated work
with the ARC, winning the 2007 Horizon Award for an outstanding emerging animal
care technician. Bishop has been employed by the Animal Resources Center for
two years and currently holds the position of lead laboratory animal
technician.
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