Awards

• LaShone M. Gibson, senior associate director of the Institute for Global Enterprise at the University of Evansville in Indiana, was the recipient of the Dorothy Brickman Award for Outstanding New Professional by NAFSA: Association of International Educators.

Gibson is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and holds a master’s degree in international studies from North Carolina State University.

• Joe Omojola, professor of mathematics and physics at Southern University at New Orleans, received the Presidential Award for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring from the National Science Foundation.

A graduate of the University of Ife in Nigeria, Professor Omojola holds a master’s degree in nuclear engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the University of Arizona in Tucson.