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Newsmakers

Dave Pahl, ’62, Tigard, received the Career Achievement Award for Distinguished Service from 1962 to 2000 from the Northwest Food Producers Association. Pahl is a retired CEO of the organization.

Jennifer L. Dorn, ’73, is administrator of the Federal Transit Administration. She was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate on July 12, 2001.
Janet Young, ’74, formerly chief of staff at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, has been appointed assistant chancellor and chief of staff for the University of California’s campus in Merced.

Robert P. Dziak, ’98, is a chief seismologist at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Newport and an assistant professor at OSU. He was one of 60 individuals to win the nation’s highest award for young scientists, the Presidential Early Career Award, for his studies of deep-ocean volcanic and thermal activity.

Danell Blair, ’99, ’00, a Molalla High School science teacher, received the Western Regional Outstanding Research Paper and Presentation Award from the American Association of Agriculture Educators. Her research paper was the first submitted from OSU by a master’s degree student. She will present the work at the AAAE National Conference in New Orleans in December.

Delia Costley Jones, ’00, Bend, received the National Outstanding Non-Traditional Student award from the University Continuing Education Association in honor of her academic achievements and volunteer community activities.