Dr. Kamath Receives Phoenix Award

Ray Penny/O’Collegian (From left) Gordon Emslie, dean of Graduate College; Jerry Husak, zoology doctoral student; Manjunath Kamath, industrial engineering graduate faculty member; Chia-Ling Khoo, design, housing, and merchandising graduate student; and Shirley Vincent, Phoenix Awards committee chairwoman attended the 23rd annual Phoenix Awards reception Thursday evening in the Student Union. Husak, Khoo and Kamath all received the prestigious academic award.

Phoenix, Research Symposium Awards Reception today

Cassi Brown
Staff Writer

In conjunction with Graduate Student Appreciation Week at OSU, the 23rd annual Phoenix and Research Symposium Awards Reception takes place today at 5 in the Student Union Centennial Lounge.

The reception honors the 2004-2005 Phoenix Award Winners and finalists for the outstanding master’s student, doctoral student and graduate faculty member. It also recognizes the graduate and undergraduate research symposium paper and poster presentation winners.

“The Phoenix Award recognizes exemplary achievement in leadership, scholarship, professional involvement and university and community service, especially as it relates to involvement with graduate students,” said Shirley Vincent, vice president of the Graduate and Professional Student Government Association.

The student award winners will each receive a $500 award from GPSGA and the Graduate College. The Phoenix Award is GPSGA’s highest honor.

Officers of GPSGA serve on the committee that selects the judges for the Phoenix Award. The committee then decides the winners based on the rankings the judges provide, said Wendy James, parliamentarian of GPSGA.

The award was open to students and faculty across the OSU campus. Faculty members nominated students for the outstanding master’s and doctoral students, and students nominated faculty for the outstanding faculty member award.

This year, the symposium features 82 paper and 63 poster presentations. There are three judges, two faculty members and one graduate student.

The research symposium is sponsored by the Graduate College, the vice president for research and technology transfer and the GPSGA.