WHEN JUNIOR Lauren Caldwell was named a Truman Scholar in the spring, President George Dennison went to her class and gave her a dozen red roses. A few weeks later, she added a $5,000 Udall Scholarship to the $26,000 Truman honor. Also winning Udall Scholarships were juniors Sierra Howlett and Dawson Dunning. In addition, Dunning and Amanda Ng each received $7,500 Goldwater Scholarships. In the past six years, UM students have won 26 of these prestigious national awards.

LONGTIME LIBERAL STUDIES Professor Stewart Justman won the PEN Award for the Art of the Essay, one of the writing world’s highest honors. His critically acclaimed book, “Seeds of Mortality: The Public and Private Worlds of Cancer,” delves into his own experiences as a cancer patient. The PEN Award is presented annually to the best collection of essays by an American writer. Justman received the award during a ceremony in New York’s Lincoln Center.

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CAMERON LAWRENCE , a faculty member in the School of Business Administration, turned an award he won in a national C-SPAN essay contest into an educational experience for UM students. Lawrence’s prize as one of 25 winners in the cable network’s 25th anniversary essay contest was a campus visit by the giant C-SPAN School Bus, a traveling television studio and classroom. The visiting C-SPAN crew talked to several classes and featured UM in its weekly edition of “Washington Journal."

NEARLY FOUR DECADES in the classroom haven’t dimmed Professor Harry Fritz’s passion for teaching history. He’s won every UM teaching excellence award given by the administration and students, some twice. This year the Carnegie Foundation and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education named him the 2004 Montana Professor of the
Year, an award that recognizes outstanding teaching at the undergraduate level. This is the fifth consecutive year a UM professor has won the honor.