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	Mike Matheny, head athletic trainer, received the Thomas Sheehan, Jr. Award at the recent New York State Athletic Trainers' Association meeting held in Buffalo. The award is the association's highest and is presented for leadership and service to the athletic training profession. Amy Cayouette '99, athletic training/exercise science, was one of only two students from New York State to receive a NYSATA scholarship. Her award was sponsored by the Buffalo Sabres professional hockey team. Bruce Smith, biology, presented a paper at the Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, last December. His talk was entitled "Does Competition Matter to Water Mite Larvae?" Bruce was also coauthor of "The Influence of Dispersal on Genetic and Morphological Differentiation in Arrenurus Water Mites (Acari: Arrenuridae)," a paper presented by Andy Bohonak of Cornell University. On January 16, Bruce presented a seminar at the University of Toronto at Mississauga entitled "There's No Free Lunch: Or, Repeated Evolutionary Loss of Larval Parasitic Feeding Among Water Mite Species." A. Thomas Torello '97 and Michael Overholtzer '96 are first and second authors, respectively, of an article published in the April 1997 journal, Genetics. The article presented results obtained from a research project carried out under the direction of Vicki Cameron, biology, in collaboration with a research group at Cornell University. The research article focused on how alterations of a protein essential for energy production affect the activity of that protein and its proper localization within the cell.