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Philip Palmgreen, a communication professor in the College of Communications and Information Sciences, will be awarded the 2005 Gerald M. Phillips Award for Distinguished Applied Communication Scholarship given by the National Communication Association (NCA). The award, created in 1993, honors scholars who are responsible for authoring bodies of published research and creative scholarship in applied communication. Palmgreen will be recognized at the NCA convention in Boston this November. Palmgreen’s specialties are in health communication campaigns, audience use of mass communications and media effects. He served on two panels for the Office of National Drug Control Policy on behavior change and anti-drug campaign design. Also he provided Congressional testimony on why TV public service announcement campaigns play an important cost-effective role in the prevention of teen marijuana use. His research and work on these panels has helped structure the drug prevention media campaigns TV viewers see today.

Drs. David Hasselbacher, a second year fellow, and David Hiestand, an assistant professor, both in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, are among an elite group of 40 researchers whose work was selected for presentation at the Second Annual Respiratory Disease Young Investigators Forum. The meeting will be held in Boston, Oct. 6-9. Hasselbacher’s presentation is “Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are at higher risk of sepsis” and Hiestand’s presentation is “Risk factors for current asthma: Data from a national survey.”

Kathy Walsh-Piper, UK Art Museum director, has been selected to attend the invitation-only Acadia Summer Art Program in Acadia, Maine. The program, now in its 12th year, is a think-tank of artists, museum directors, curators, architects, musicians, writers, scholars and thinkers who gather every summer on Maine’s Mount Desert Island to share and inspire ideas and collaborations.