The Distinguished Achievement Awards honor [themify_hr color=”light-gray” width=”50%” border_width=”1 px” ]<\/p>\n [themify_hr color=”light-gray” width=”50%” border_width=”1 px” ]<\/p>\n [themify_hr color=”light-gray” width=”50%” border_width=”1 px” ]<\/p>\n [themify_hr color=”light-gray” width=”50%” border_width=”1 px” ]<\/p>\n ALAN SHAWN FEINSTEIN COLLEGE OF CONTINUING EDUCATION COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING COLLEGE OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND LIFE SCIENCES COLLEGE OF HUMAN SCIENCE AND SERVICES COLLEGE OF NURSING COLLEGE OF PHARMACY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF OCEANOGRAPHY 2009 Fourth Annual Distinguished Achievement \u2028Awards & Gala Saturday, October 17, 2009 \u22c5 The Westin Providence, R.I. The Distinguished Achievement Awards honor those who personify URI\u2019s tradition of excellence in achievement, leadership, and service. 2009 PRESIDENT’S AWARD RECIPIENTS Patricia Miller Anton ’79\u00a0(Music) of Henderson, Nev., president of the Anton Family Foundation, played the flute, sang […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":958,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-distinguished-achievement-awards"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/university-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/university-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/university-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/university-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/958"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/university-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/university-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/university-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/university-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/university-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nthose who personify URI\u2019s tradition of excellence
\nin achievement, leadership, and service.<\/p>\n![\"150212_DAA_2019\"](\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1595\/150212_DAA_2019.jpg\")
<\/a>2009 PRESIDENT’S AWARD RECIPIENTS<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\nPatricia Miller Anton ’79<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Music) of Henderson, Nev., president of the Anton Family Foundation, played the flute, sang in the choir, and participated in the URI Ram Band. She applied her operational and organizational talents to an extraordinary career in airport foodservice. Her advice to URI students: Dream Big.<\/p>\n
\nJames V. Diller ’57<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(Physics), vice chairman of the board, PMC-Sierra, Inc., appeared on the cover ofElectronic Business<\/em>\u00a0magazine in 1989 as one of the world’s “New Mavericks” in the semi-conductor industry. He and his wife, June, have established one of the largest endowed scholarships at URI for students majoring in a science.They live in Portola Valley, Calif.<\/p>\n
\nRichard A. Kerr ’77 Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Graduate School of Oceanography) of Bethesda, Md. is senior writer, Research News,\u00a0Science<\/em>. A national leader in scientific journalism, his interest in journalism began at URI when he enrolled in communication classes while pursuing his doctorate.<\/p>\n
\nEdward M. Rudnic<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>’78, M.S. ’82, Ph.D. ’83<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(Pharmacy) of Potomac, Md. is founder, former chairman, and CEO of MiddleBrook Pharmaceuticals. He has more than 25 years of experience in the development and commercialization of a wide range of pharmaceutical products.<\/p>\n2009 DEANS’ AWARD RECIPIENTS<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\nJohn A. Flaherty \u201987
\nBarbara A. Roberts \u201983
\nMary Ann Shallcross Smith \u201985<\/p>\n
\nPhillip Kydd \u201981
\nCarol J. Makovich \u201975
\nAnthony E. Perrotti \u201962<<\/p>\n
\nMargo L. Cook \u201986
\nDavid B. Lea Jr. \u201959
\nMichael M. Morrow \u201977<\/p>\n
\nKrishnan Balasubramanian \u201970
\nBarry Gertz \u201976
\nAnthony Zuena \u201974<<\/p>\n
\nWayne King Durfee \u201950
\nPeggy Boyd Sharpe<\/p>\n
\nMichael A. Nula \u201996
\nMarie Campopiano DiBiasio \u201961
\nLinda D\u2019Amario Rossi \u201968<\/p>\n
\nHolly Powell Kennedy, Ph.D. \u201999
\nElaine Doherty Sullivan \u201975
\nDeborah K. Zastocki \u201974<\/p>\n
\nScott A. Campbell \u201977
\nPaul J. Desjardins \u201972
\nEleanor M. Perfetto \u201980<\/p>\n
\nChristopher Langdon, Ph.D. \u201988
\nJerry L. Miller, M.S. \u201982
\nMichael P. Sissenwine, Ph.D. \u201975<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"