Breaking the Watch: The Meaning of Retirement in America, by Dana Professor of Social Sciences Joel Savishinsky, won the Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Award by the Geronto logical Society of America for the most outstanding book on aging this year. Savishinsky is the first person to have won the prestigious award twice; his book The Ends of Time: Life and Work in a Nursing Home, published in 1991, also won. . . .

A Tripartite Seed: The Future Creating Capacity of Designing, Learning, and Systems, by associate professor and chair of organizational communication, learning, and design Gordon Rowland, received the 2001 Outstanding Book Award from the Division of Instructional Development of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology. . . .

Assistant professor of television-radio Byron Caplan’s TV documentary "Three Small-Town American Celebrations" won first place in the television documentary category in the Broadcast Education Association’s faculty production competition this year. The documentary aired on local PBS stations this fall. . . .

An April ICTV Newswatch 16 newscast won second place in the television newscast category at the College Media Advisers national convention. The news director was Michael Johnson ’02. NewsWatch 16 also won CMA’s TV Diversity Award for reportage by Julie Cochran ’03, Ben Dobson ’01, and Jenelle West ’02. . . .

In November voice professor David Parks performed in Sarajevo as tenor soloist in Mozart’s Requiem. The performance was given in tribute to victims of terrorism in Bosnia and Herzogovina and throughout the world.