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1997
Shelley Hamill, who earned a Ph.D. in Education, was elected chair of the South Carolina Association for the Advancement of Health Education. She has served on numerous community boards and was one of the founders of an HIV/AIDS clinic in Rock Hill, S.C. Hamill is an assistant professor at Winthrop University in Rock Hill.
2005
Bruce Dart, who earned a Ph.D. in Health Services with a specialization in Community Health Promotion and Education, was selected as a scholar in the Year 15 Graduates National Public Health Leadership Institute. His team, the Nebraska Team, was awarded the Martha Katz Award for best project.
2001
Katherine H.M. Frommelt, who earned a Ph.D. in Health Services with a specialization in Community Health Promotion and Education, designed a research tool, The Frommelt Attitude Toward Care of the Dying Scale (FATCOD), which is being used at 63 colleges, universities and health care programs in the United States. The FATCOD has also been used for research in eight other countries and translated into six languages. In 2004, Frommelt was one of 17 nurses and health professionals to travel to South Africa to study and share information about the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Since her return, she has given 19 presentations on HIV/AIDS in South Africa. Frommelt is a professor and chairperson of the Department of Nursing at Clarke College in Dubuque, Iowa.
2006
Horace A. Bryan, who earned a Ph.D. in Applied Management and Decision Sciences with a specialization in Finance, was selected to be an adjunct professor at Trinity University in Washington, D.C.
2005
Marvin Kelly, who earned an M.B.A., was elected vice president of the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriting Society in 2006. He will become the president-elect in 2007 and president in 2008. He is the first African American in the 62-year history of the society to be elected to this position. Kelly is the executive director of the Texas Property and Casualty Insurance Guaranty Association, which was profiled recently in Texas Monthly magazine as one of the 60 Best Companies to Work for in the State of Texas.
2004
Nikki Burley, who earned an M.P.A., was promoted to procurement analyst at the Department of Defense Education Activity headquarters in Arlington, Va. Burley began her career in the federal government as a GS-11 and was recently promoted to the grade of GS-13.
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