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| Vol. 18, No. 31 | May 13, 1999 |
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Student-athletes won three of the seven 1998 individual fall sport Scholar-Athlete of the Year awards given by the America East Conference.
Senior Kelly Cawley was honored for field hockey; senior Dave Geesaman received the men's cross country award; and junior Graig O'Brien was recognized for golf.
The voting is conducted by the America East Scholar-Athlete Committee.
To be considered, student-athletes must have a minimum 3.2 grade point average and be a starter or key reserve on his or her team.
Cawley, a psychology major with a 3.60 grade point average, led the nationally ranked Blue Hens field hockey team to a 15-6 record in 1998 and led the team in scoring with 9 goals and 19 assists for 37 points. A three-time All-Mid Atlantic Region and All-America East selection, she holds the UD record for career points (127), assists in a game (4), season (19) and career (49). She is a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) postgraduate scholarship nominee and earned CoSIDA District II Academic All-American honors in 1997.
Geesaman, a mechanical engineering major with a 3.68 grade point average, was honored for the third time after earning the indoor and outdoor track and field scholar-athlete awards in 1997-98.
He placed fourth individually for the second straight year last fall at the America East cross country championships, leading Delaware to a second place finish. An NCAA postgraduate scholarship nominee, he has earned All-East honors in both cross country and track and field and won the America East indoor 5,000-meter title in February.
O'Brien, a communication major with a 3.22 grade point average, led Delaware to a fourth place finish at last fall's America East golf championships, placing 13th overall and finishing with a 79.55 stroke average for the fall season.
He is a member of Delaware' 1997-98 America East championship team.
Other individual sports winners were Richie Moller for men's soccer, Brenda Reter for women's soccer, Jill Sauro for women's cross country and Lisa Nolan for volleyball.
During the 1997-98 academic year, Delaware student-athletes won seven of the 21 awards given.
Samuel C.K. Lee, a doctoral student in physical therapy, was recognized for an oral presentation of his original research work, entitled "Maximum Voluntary Recruitment in Fresh and Fatigued Muscle of Young and Elder Individuals," at the Muscle Fatigue Poster/ Discussion session held in Washington, D.C., during the 1999 Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology conference.
Lee was one of three winners in the Graduate Student Competition, which was sponsored by the Muscle Biology Group of the American Physiological Society.
Three UD senior student presenters--Natalie Altounian, Lynne LaRochelle and Jennifer Paulson--received awards at the 63rd Intercollegiate Student Chemists Convention (ISCC), April 10, at Gettysburg College, when 45 research papers were given by undergraduates from 12 colleges and universities in the Middle Atlantic Region.
Altounian, whose adviser is Cecil Dybowksi, chemistry and biochemistry, received first place in Physical Chemistry I Division for "How Changes in Ionic Strength Affect the (207) Pb NMR Chemical Shift of Lead Nitrate."
LaRochelle, whose adviser is John Bulkowski, chemistry and biochemistry, received second place in the Inorganic Chemistry Division for "The Investigation of the Reactivity of Bridged Dicopper Reaction Centers"
Paulson, whose adviser is Eugene Mueller, chemistry and biochemistry, won second place in the Biochemistry Division for "Characterizing Ecoli Pseudouridine Synthase Mutants."
Of the schools receiving awards at the ISCC since 1949, UD holds first place (with 68) over second place Franklin and Marshall College (with 59), according to John Burmeister, Alumni Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
