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Spring Hunger Week - April 6-10, 2009
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CHS Headlines:

• Congratulations to recent Human Sciences faculty and student honorees:
  
  Dr. Suresh Mathews, NUFS, 2009 SGA Outstanding Faculty Award
  Carrie Ingram, HDFS, 2009 SGA Outstanding Student Award
  Lindsey Buchanan, NUFS, 2009 President's Award
  Angela Montoya, HDFS, 2009 Outstanding Master's Student Award
  Lori Elmore-Staton, HDFS, 2009 Outstanding Doctoral Student Award
  Francis Tayie, NUFS, 2009 Outstanding Doctoral Student Award
  Mallory Lucier, HDFS, 2009 Graduate Research Forum, 2nd Place, Humanities Research Oral Presentations
  
  
  
  
• The 7th Annual Women's Philanthropy Board Spring Symposium will be held on Monday, April 6, beginning at 8:00am at The Hotel at Auburn University and Dixon Conference Center. Featured speakers for the event include Gene Dodaro, acting Comptroller General of the United States, and Dr. David Altig, Senior VP and Director of Research for the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
  Click here for additional program information.
  
• Dr. Ann Beth Presley, CAHS Associate Professor, has been awarded a position in the highly competitive and prestigious Attingham Trust Summer School class of 2009. Only 24 applicants from North and South America were selected for this honor. Included are academic scholars (architecture, museum studies, historians, etc.), practicing architects, museum curators, and conservators. Click here for more information.
  
  
• The Auburn University Early Learning Center raised $1,292 for the East Alabama Food Bank through its annual Penny Harvest. Each year the preschoolers collect pennies and other change from home and bring it to the school to count and play games with before taking it to the food bank. The Auburn University Bookstore allows the Early Learning Center to place collection containers at its registers for customers to make donations. This amount, combined with the children's donations, was the highest donation to date. The Penny Harvest began in 1995 when Linda Silvern, an ELC teacher, wanted to show her class that small things can make a big difference. The first year brought in $146. Each year the four year old class visits the food bank to deliver the check and take a tour. They are always thrilled to see how much food their donation buys.
  Click here to visit the East Alabama Food Bank website.
  
  
• Dr. Mona El-Sheikh (HDFS Alumni Professor) receives NIH grant funds of more than $3 million dollars over the next five years to study sleep deprivation. Click to view entire story and video on WTVM site.
  
  
• CAHS Wrangler Professor, Dr. Sandra Forsythe, has been selected as a 2009 AU Presidential Administrative Fellowship recipient. The goal of the Administrative Fellowship program is to provide senior administrative experience to faculty and provide them the opportunity to appreciate and understand higher education administration. Sandra will spend spring term working with Central Administration in the President’s office. During this time she will also work on a special project focusing on developing mentoring opportunities for untenured women faculty with the overall goal of increasing the participation, advancement, and success rate of untenured women faculty.
  
  
• Dr. Francesca Adler-Baeder, HDFS Associate Professor and Director of National Stepfamily Resource Center, quoted in New York Times article on step-families.
  Click here for article.
  
  
• Teresa Heinz named International Quality of Life Award Laureate
  Emmylou Harris named Lifetime Achievement Recipient
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• Emma Thompson, Meri Kate Purgason, and Collin Butler, recent participants in the Joseph S. Bruno Auburn Abroad in Italy program and winners of the UN World Food Programme viral video contest on hunger, have just returned from Ethiopia witnessing the reality of hunger first-hand. Read more...
  
  
• CHS Interior Design program has been ranked #4 nationally among CIDA (Council for Interior Design Accreditation) accredited programs. The program has also received a six year re-accreditation -- the maximum granted by CIDA.
  
  
• Congratulations to Consumer Affairs faculty member, Dr. Ann Beth Presley, who has been named recipient of the 2008 Apparel Magazine All Star Award. Dr. Presley has also been named an Outstanding Alumna of Western Kentucky University's College of Health and Human Services. Presley, who accepted the award at a homecoming ceremony Nov. 1, graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1984 from Western Kentucky. She recently completed a term at Auburn as secretary of the University Senate and has been honored as Educator of the Year by the International Textile and Apparel Association.
  
  

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Scholarship and Applications

IQLA Scholarship Application
Senior level undergraduate students and graduate students in the College of Human Sciences have an opportunity to participate in the International Quality of Life Awards (IQLA) ceremony on Monday evening, December 7, 2009, at the United Nations, New York City. Additionally, several other academic activities specific to each major will be scheduled during the stay in New York. Application deadline is September 14, 2009 at 4:45pm.

College Scholarship Application
College of Human Sciences Undergraduate and Graduate Scholarship Applications for the 2010-2011 academic year are now available for completion. Print Application here. Students must be a major in the College of Human Sciences to be considered for a scholarship award. Applications should be returned to 266 Spidle Hall no later than January 15, 2010.
Click Here for a link for Free Application for Federal Student Aid.

Scholarship Information for AMDP and INDS undergraduates

Freshman and transfer applicants for the Interior Design (INDS) program must submit a completed application starting January 7, 2009, but not later than 4:45 p.m. CT on Friday, February 27, 2009.

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