KU Graduate School to give dissertation awards in May 18 hooding ceremony

LAWRENCE -- Three doctoral candidates will be honored with awards for outstanding disserations at the 2002 hooding ceremony at 4 p.m. Saturday, May 18, at the Lied Center.

The Graduate School announced two winners for the the Marnie and Bill Argersinger Award and the winner of the Dorothy Haglund Prize. Each recognizes outstanding dissertations.

Argersinger award winners are:

Christopher L. Shaffer, Lawrence, who defended his dissertation with honors on June 27, 2001, will receive a doctor of philosophy degree in medicinal chemistry. His dissertation is titled "Enzymatic N-Dealkylation of a Cyclopropylamine, Fate of the Cyclopropyl Moiety and Its Mechanistic Implications."

Karen Padden, Somerset, N.J., who received a doctor of philosophy degree in chemistry. She defended her dissertation with honors on Jan. 7. It is titled "Immobilization of Metal Complexes in Porous Organic Hosts: A Spectroscopic Examination of Site Structure and Development of Materials for the Storage and Release of Nitric Oxide."

The Haglund Award winner is:

Elaine Cahalan Hollensbe, Gladstone, Mo., who received her doctor of philosophy degree in business. She defended with honors in April 2001 her dissertation, titled "An Ethnographic Study of the Interrelationship of Identity and Team Sense-Making."

The Dorothy Haglund Prize for an Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation was established in 1979 through the generosity of former Vice Chancellor and Dean William J. Argersinger, his wife, Marnie, and their friends, in cooperation with the KU Endowment Association. The prize was established to honor the late Dorothy Haglund, who served KU graduate students from 1940 until her retirement in 1983.

In 1992, through the continued generosity of the Argersingers, an additional dissertation prize, the Marnie and Bill Argersinger Award, was established.