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Ivan Niven receives Johnson Award
University math prof. Ivan
Niven, long active in campus
governance and well known for
his teaching and research about
the fundemental properties of
numbers is the 1981 recipient of
the Charles Johnson Memorial
Award.
Niven, who currently chairs
the Faculty Advisory Council,
will receive the honor June 14 at
Hayward Field during the
University’s 104th spring
commencement.
A member of the University
faculty since 1947, Niven holds
bachelor’s and master’s
degrees from the University of
British Columbia and a doc
torate from the University of
Chicago. Before coming to the
University, Niven was on the
faculties of the University of Il
linois and Purdue University.
The Johnson Award was
established in 1979 by the
University Assembly in memory
of Charles Johnson, teacher
and former president at the
University.
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English, biology profs
win teaching awards
University genetics Prof. John
Postlethawait and English Prof.
Richard Stevenson will receive
the 1981 Ersted Awards for Dis
tinguished Teaching.
Postlethwait, 36, currently is
conducting a five-year program
to train doctoral students in
genetics, funded by the U S.
Public Health Service.
According to the selection
committee, Postlethwait
teaches with enthusiasm and a
sense of excitement, and helps
personalize education. He has
been known, for example, to
take pictures of all his students
in order to memorize their
names and faces.
Stevenson is a specialist in
Victorian literature, English fic
tion from the 16th to the 20th
centuries and the role of the
heroine in English fiction.
Stevenson wrote a book on
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work of 19th century English
novelist George Meredith in
1973-74 when he held a
Younger Humanist Fellowship
from the National Endowment
for the Humanities.
The Ersted Awards are given
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reward exceptional teaching.
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SPEAKERS
Joel Mamint of Llnfleld College will speak
on Romanian Folklore today at 11 a m in
Studio C of the Instructional Media Center
The talk is sponosred by the Russian and
East European Studies Center
Diane Jones ol the Idaho Citizens Coali
tion will speak on "Water, Energy, and Land:
a Northwest Story” tonight at 7 p m in the
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Patterson Street. Looking at irrigation
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