* Dr. Kathy Mitchell, a K-State assistant professor of anatomy and physiology, was one of two educators in North America to win an "Educator Challenge" to attend a meeting for users of Tripos Discovery Software in Boston in August. Tripos paid her registration fee and lodging to attend the meeting. To be considered for this challenge, educators must be tenure track but untenured as of Jan. 1, 2002, at a North American college or university; be a current Tripos customer and SYBYL user; have a funded research program that focuses on a human health problem. August 2002
* K-State College of Veterinary Medicine faculty member Dr. Lisa C. Freeman received the Association for Women Veterinarians' Outstanding Woman Veterinarian of the Year Award at the annual meeting of the American Veterinary Medical Association July 13 in Nashville. Freeman, an associate professor of pharmacology, was recognized for special effort and achievement by a woman veterinarian in any area of veterinary medicine. She was nominated for the award by Dr. Frank Blecha, head of the department of anatomy and physiology and a university distinguished professor at K-State. July 2002