Awards

• Norma Merrick Sklarek received the 2008 Whitney Young Jr. Award from the American Institute of Architects. In 1950 Sklarek was the first African-American woman to graduate with a degree in architecture from Columbia University. She was the first black woman in the United States to become a licensed architect and in 1980 was the first African-American woman to be named a fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

• Michael P. Cary Jr., a doctoral student at the University of Virginia School of Nursing, received the Minority Nurse Faculty Scholars Award from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. The award, sponsored by Johnson & Johnson, will enable Cary to continue his studies in order to become a nursing educator and research scientist.

• Steve Joyner Sr., director of athletics at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina, received the 2008 Jeanette A. Lee Athletic Administration Award from the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

• Oghenekome U. Onokpise, associate dean for academic programs in the College of Engineering Sciences, Technology, and Agriculture at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, received the Stephen Spurr Award from the Florida division of the Society of American Foresters.

• Benjamin S. Carson Sr., director of pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins University Medical Center, will be presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom today at a White House ceremony.

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