Hill tapped for federal clerkship

Corrinne Hill of Philomath has been selected to serve as a federal law clerk in the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Hill will be clerking for the Honorable Judge Alfred T. Goodwin. Her clerkship will begin after graduating from the University of Oregon School of Law in May. After her clerkship, she will be an associate attorney for Holland and Knight in Portland.

People's Choice is Roberts-Dominquez

Jan Roberts-Dominquez of Corvallis has been awarded the People's Choice Award from the Corvallis Fall Festival for her painting, "Seduction." Visitors to the Fine Arts Showcase voted for Jan Roberts-Dominquez' painting during the show of local artists that was held in the library's main meeting room during the festival.

Glass artist Joshua Rodine of Azalea won the Bonnie Hall Best in Show award. Rodine received a cash award and an invite to return to the 35th Corvallis Fall Festival next year. The award is a tribute memorial to artist and fair favorite, Bonnie Hall.

Student awarded Intel fellowship

Hai Chiang, a doctoral candidate in the Oregon State University School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has been awarded a two-year Intel fellowship from the Intel Foundation for the 2006-07 academic year.

Chiang was selected from more than 200 applicants nationwide and will use the award to continue his research in transparent and printed electronics.

A native of Portland, Chiang earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from OSU and now works with John Wager, a professor of electrical engineering, who leads the OSU team that developed the world's first transparent transistor and transparent integrated circuit.

Student gets dean's scholarship

Cara Cady, an Oregon transfer psychology major at Linn-Benton Community College, has been named a recipient of the 2006 Phi Theta Kappa National Dean's List Scholarship. Recipients of the scholarship are chosen by random search and each receives $250.

Cady, a Corvallis resident, was also nominated by PTK to attend an international scholarship and literature program heading to China next summer. She will be part of a delegation on anthropology and archaeology and will participate in an archaeological dig in China. The group will also tour the Great Wall of China and visit the famed Terra Cotta Statues.

The National Dean's List is a prestigious compilation of honor students in two-year and four-year degree programs. Community college students from states and nations hosting Phi Theta Kappa chapters were chosen to receive this award.

Love INC given grant for vans

The Oregon Dental Foundation awarded a grant in its fall 2006 grant cycle in the amount of $4,450 to Love INC of Benton County. The grant was given in support of funding seven mobile dental vans to provide dental care and education to low income pregnant women without any health insurance. Studies have shown that poor dental hygiene results in underweight babies and poorer overall health. The grant will also fund clinics to do emergency dental care for low income adults including the homeless population.

The clinics will be held in conjunction with Benton County Health Department as well as Northwest Medical Teams Mobile dental van and volunteer dentists, hygienists and assistants.

Mumaw: Alumna of the Year

HARRISONBURG, Va. - Catherine R. Mumaw of Corvallis received Eastern Mennonite University's 2006 Alumna of the Year award during the Oct. 15 morning worship service of homecoming and family weekend. The award is presented annually to a graduate who has been recognized for significant achievements in his/her profession, community or church.

Dr. Mumaw, a home economics graduate of EMU, returned to teach courses in that discipline at her alma mater from 1957 to 1974. She earned a master's degree in 1958 and a Ph.D. in 1967 from Penn State University.

She was professor and chair of the home economics department at Goshen College in Indiana from 1974 to 1986, and served as associate professor in the Human Development and Family Studies department at Oregon State University from 1987 to 1995. Through OSU, she helped Bunda College of Agriculture in Malawi update their home economics and human nutrition programs and took part in a faculty exchange program with Avinashilingam Deemed University in India.

Mumaw retired early from OSU to work in Nepal. From 1995 to 1999, through Mennonite Central Committee, she was an education adviser for Kathmandu University School of Education. There, she and her colleagues worked to improve education especially in Nepal's primary schools. While in Nepal, she served twice as a technical adviser for the Asia-Pacific region of the Food and Agricultural Organization, which developed distance education programs for rural women in Thailand, Laos and Vietnam.

Crescent Valley seniors recognized

Elaine Ramos and Alex Wilhelm, members of the senior class at Crescent Valley High School, have been recognized by the College Board's National Hispanic Recognition Program. The program provides national recognition of the exceptional academic achievements of Hispanic high school seniors and identifies them for postsecondary institutions.

Students enter the program by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test as high school juniors and by identifying themselves as Hispanic. This year, more than 175,000 PSAT/NMSQT takers nationwide identified themselves as Hispanic, and 4,700 of those students have been recognized as National Hispanic Scholars or Honorable Mention Finalists based upon their PSAT/NMSQT scores and their academic achievements.

Kruse places

at horse show

Annette Kruse of Blodgett placed third at an American Quarter Horse Association Regional Experience in Amateur Aged Geldings with Styled By Asset, an American Quarter Horse, during the Region One Experience, which was Aug. 16-20 in Redmond. She also placed sixth in Novice Amateur Showmanship at Halter with Styled By Asset and eighth in Novice Amateur Trail with Styled By Asset.

Lincoln teacher named to All-USA

Patti Ball of Lincoln Elementary School is one of two Oregon teachers among the 20 national winners of the All-USA Teacher Team award.

USA TODAY looks for 20 teachers, both individuals and instruction teams, to honor as representatives of all outstanding teachers. This is the ninth year USA Today has named an All-USA Teacher Team. State School Superintendent Susan Castillo nominated Ball and Robert Tadjiki of Bend Senior High School for the award in March for their continued dedication to students, colleagues and the education profession.

Ball teaches a third, fourth, fifth-grade class at Lincoln Elementary School where she is able to work her magic for three years cultivating maturity among her students. Team members receive trophies and share $2,500 with their schools, with each teacher receiving $500. All are honored in the nation's newspaper as representatives of outstanding teachers.

Welty takes ASME honors

New York - James R. Welty, Ph.D. of Corvallis, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at Oregon State University, will be honored by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) for outstanding technical accomplishments in the area of fluidized bed research, highly regarded textbooks and publication record, impressive credentials as a teacher and extensive service to ASME. He will receive honorary membership in the society. Welty will receive the award during ASME's 2006 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition to be Nov. 5 to 10 in Chicago.

During his entire career as an educator, Welty remained active in research. His efforts encompassed a broad range of phenomena, processes and products in the area of heat transfer and he was major professor for 24 Ph.D. graduates.

Welty and his students generated one of the early numerical models describing thermal plume dispersion into homogeneous and stratified waterways of magnitudes typical of those discharged from large fossil-fire and nuclear power plants. This work, published as an Environmental Protection Agency Bulletin, has been used extensively in formulating environmental impact studies for power plant siting.

Welty's work describing heat transfer rates between high-temperature fluidized beds and banks of immersed tubes is, perhaps, his best known. The research program, spanning more than 20 years, provided experimental validation of heat transfer models for the use of fluidized beds to reduce effluent levels of Sox, a major source of acid rain in downwind areas.

These and other research efforts by Welty and his co-workers have resulted in more than 100 publications in the technical literature. Welty has also authored/co-authored three books in the thermal/fluid sciences area. Best know is the test "Fundamental of Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer," which was first published in 1969 (John Wiley & Sons). Now in its fourth edition, and fifth in preparation, the book remains the most-used text worldwide in the area of transport processes.

Welty received his bachelor's and master's degrees in mechanical engineering at OSU in 1954 and 1959, respectively. He earned his doctorate in chemical engineering at OSU in 1962.