Student employees honored

Crall is one of seven UI student employees recognized from among some 12,000 hourly student employees in conjunction with National Student Employment Week, April 2-8. Forty-one students were nominated by their faculty and staff supervisors.

Crall will receive an Iowa Memorial Union Bookstore certificate and monetary awards from both the state and Midwest associations.

Cindy Seyfer, UI assistant director of student financial aid, will present the six other honorees with certificates at their respective job sites.

For the past two and a half years Crall has been an employee in the laboratory of Jeff Murray, professor of pediatrics. Her work has included developing teaching-related modules or materials for high school and undergraduate students and participating in a two-week instructional series on the Human Genome Project for junior high students held by the Connie Belin and Jacqueline N. Blank International Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development. In addition, Crall distinguished herself by being chosen to work with the collection of tissue samples from children with birth defects for determination of the causes of such defects.

Receiving a certificate of distinction is Shane Harwood, a programmer at the UI Image Analysis Facility. In addition to developing software used in University research experiments and customizing existing software, he contributed to the "Voxblast" software project used by scientists worldwide.

Students receiving certificates of appreciation are:

• Melinda Jenkins-Moore, a laboratory assistant in the department of anatomy and cell biology. She is responsible for the maintenance of two insect cell lines and, because of her significant contributions, is listed as a co-author of a paper currently in press.
  
  
• Kelly Mattes manages the Career Information Network and is employed by the UI Alumni Association. Mattes coordinates winter and spring externships, manages the alumni volunteer sponsor database, and hires, trains, and supervises student employees.
  
  
• Nicole Melchert is a psychiatry research assistant in the College of Medicine where she maintains a large computer database for the genetic basis for manic-depressive illness. She assists in grant preparation and tracking of subject recruitment for the study and developed a mechanism for subject recruitment using the Internet.
  
  
• E. Imani Mitchell, a research assistant in the department of psychiatry, has been involved in subject recruitment and assessment and coding and entering of data for a longitudinal study of infant emotional development. She developed a training model for the behavioral coding system that will be used to train new research assistants.
  
  
• Amanda Wiegard, an office assistant for the department of pediatrics, maintains patient records, conducts library searches, and performs other tasks. She has provided a historical perspective during departmental transitions, meeting the specific needs of all five sections within the division and working with 19 different supervisors.