Dewar won the award for her work with the Michigan Neighborhood AmeriCorps Program and the Community Outreach Partnership Center. She also helped develop the University's Center for Learning through Community Service as well as other programs.
The award is given each year to a faculty member on the Compact's member campuses for involving students in community service or service-learning.
Company-wide Commitment to Outcomes Research and Development grants fund research studies in the areas of cardiovascular diseases, neurosciences, oncology and several other developing medical areas. University physicians Kim Eagle and Michael Kim won the grants.
The five grants amount to about $500,000, and the recipients were chosen by panelists who reviewed submitted proposals.
The students designed the facility to be usable year-round for purposes other than football, like an amusement park and retail spaces.
The students incorporated two pedestrian circulation patterns in order to make the structure illustrate energy and activity.
The programs include recruiting professionals from business fields into the doctoral programs, the KPMG Minority Doctoral Scholarships and peer networking groups to create a high retention rate.
The recipients receive a $10,000 scholarship that is renewable for five years. Five University students are members of the Doctoral Students Association, several of whom are in the Ph.D. project and one is a scholarship recipient.
Vainshtain teaches at the Russian University of the Humanities in Moscow. She focuses her research on European romanticism, history of English literature, modern critical theory and the semiology of the body and clothing.
The discussion is scheduled for Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at the Rackham Amphitheatre and is titled, "Images of Fashion: The Construction of Body and Gender."
- Compiled by Daily Staff Reporter Marla Hackett.
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