UpDate - Vol. 12, No. 37, Page 5
July 22, 1993
Cummings receives departmental award 

     Graduate student John G. Cummings, who is a candidate for a doctorate
in biochemistry in the field of enzymology, was awarded the 1993 Glenn
Skinner Memorial Award by Jean H. Futrell, Willis F. Harrington Professor
of Chemistry and Biochemistry and chairperson of the department, in May.
Colin Thorpe, professor of biochemistry, is Cummings' adviser.
     The award, the most prestigious conferred by the department,
recognizes outstanding achievement by a graduate student in the areas of
scholarship, research, teaching and service. Cummings was previously
awarded the department's Elizabeth Dyer Excellence-in-Teaching Award for
1989-90.