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The Association of Black Sociologists honored SIUC's Thomas C. Calhoun with its 2005 A. Wade Smith Award for Teaching, Mentorship and Service.

Thomas Calhoun

Calhoun received the award at the organization's annual conference Aug. 10-13 at the Philadelphia Sheraton Society Hill Hotel.

Calhoun is SIUC's newly appointed associate provost for academic affairs.

He joined the faculty in the University's sociology department in 2001 and has served as chair of his department, where he is a full professor, since 2003.

The award honors sociologists for outstanding contributions to their professions and to black social thought. It is bestowed annually to an individual whose demonstrated exemplary teaching and mentoring skills, nurture future scholars in the field.

The Association of Black Sociologists is a national, professional organization of sociologists and social scientists, founded by women and men of African descent. The organization's mission is to build a tradition of scholarship that will serve black people in perpetuity.

Andrzej Bartke, professor of medicine, has been named to the Cellular Mechanisms in Aging and Development study section for the Center for Scientific Review at the National Institutes of Health. He will serve a two-year term. Bartke also is the 2005 recipient of the American Aging Association's Denham Harman Research Award. The award, given at the association's annual meeting in June in Oakland, honors significant contributions to biomedical aging research.

Linda Toth, associate dean for faculty and research and professor of pharmacology, is the recipient of the American Society of Laboratory Animal Practitioners Excellence in Research Award. The award, given at the annual meeting in July in Minneapolis, honors members for scientific contributions in laboratory animal and/or comparative medicine. Toth is director of laboratory animal medicine and currently has four active National Institutes of Health grants for her study of the genes that affect sleep and fatigue.