William L. Miller, MD, MA, Leonard Parker Pool Chair of Lehigh Valley Health Network's department of family medicine, is a co-recipient of The Society of Teachers of Family Medicine's Curtis G. Hames Research Award. Benjamin Crabtree, PhD, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, has been recognized along with Miller for their lifetime contributions to research and scholarly activity in family medicine. Miller and Crabtree began a research partnership at the University of Connecticut's department of family medicine 30 years ago. Their efforts centered on transforming primary care by understanding how health and illness are "whole person" events and how practices change and improve accordingly. Over the years, they've refined approaches to research with the goal of improving primary care clinical encounters and practice performance. Miller and Crabtree were leaders in the first wide-reaching national demonstration of the patient-centered medical home concept.

Dr. Kelley R. Kenney, Kutztown University professor of counseling and student affairs, has been honored as the recipient of the Pennsylvania College Personnel Association 2014 Ronald Lunardini Mentoring Award. She was nominated for this award for her mentoring of graduate students and new professionals in the field of student affairs. Nomination letters were submitted by program alumni and by current students.

Japna Kaur of Northampton who is studying marketing at LIM College, recently participated in the Amazon Fashion challenge of rising stars from New York City's top fashion and design colleges. Mentored by a group of top industry professionals, the student teams of five were challenged to conceptualize, style and shoot a captivating editorial campaign that speaks to the Amazon Fashion customer with the winning images to be featured as part of Amazon Fashion's Fall 2014 on-site editorial. The creative challenge required students to apply their skills in graphic design, styling, editing, fashion photography, and art direction, while working in their own dedicated photography bay. Students were given access to state-of-the-art photography equipment, models, wardrobe, hair and makeup services, and props. Japna was the graphic designer and production manager of the LIM College Womenswear Team.

Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski was recently recognized by The National League of Cities for recent completion of key health and wellness goals for Let's Move! Cities, Towns and Counties. LMCTC is a major component of first lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move! initiative, which is dedicated to solving the childhood obesity epidemic within a generation. LMCTC calls upon local elected officials to adopt sustainable and holistic policies that improve communities' access to healthy affordable food and opportunities for physical activity through five goal areas.

Principal, Sister Bernard Agnes, IHM of Marian Catholic High School recently announced that Matthew Karnish, Nesquehoning has been named a commended student in the 2014 National Merit Scholarship Program. A letter of commendation from the school and National Merit Scholarship Corporation, which conducts the program, was presented by the principal to Karnish.

JoCarol Zuber, CIC of Zuber Insurance, was recently honored for her ongoing pledge to education, commitment to excellence, and dedication to the insurance profession. The Society of Certified Insurance Counselors presented Zuber with a certificate for her continued participation in the CIC program. Earning her CIC designation and maintaining all update requirements for 20 years places Zuber in the top one percent of all insurance professionals in the country.

Tianna Dupont, a Williams Township resident and sustainable agriculture educator with Penn State Extension was recently named a sustainable agriculture research and education fellow. Four fellows are selected from around the country and travel to each of the four SARE regions, Northeast, Southeast, Northwest, and Southwest over the course of two years to participate in a series of national seminars that highlight how sustainable management principles are practiced in the field. Participants visit sustainable farming and ranching systems in each of the regions to learn sustainable agriculture strategies and how to implement them. Following the two-year program, they will share this knowledge to help build capacity among the farmers in their locality.

Hellertown resident Garrett Powell, a junior at Bucknell University studying mechanical engineering and Christian Muhrer, a junior at Drexel University also studying mechanical engineering, were recently awarded $9,000 and $8,400 respectively in scholarship money from the II-VI Foundation. The II-VI Foundation Scholarship Program was established to encourage and enable student scholars to pursue an engineering-, mathematics-, or science-related degree at a postsecondary educational institution while maintaining a standard of excellence in that pursuit. A scholarship award must be used for tuition, books, and fees required for the enrollment or attendance of the student at a qualifying institution. Recent high school graduates and current college students are eligible.

Command Sgt. Maj. Daniel Daile, of Palmerton, has been selected to take over as the next sergeant major of the Army, which is the highest ranking enlisted soldier in the Army. The sergeant major of the Army recommends quality-of-life improvements and sits on councils that make decisions affecting enlisted soldiers and their families. The the person in that post also routinely testifies before Congress.

Nazareth Area High School students Mikaela Esposito, Gabby Tavianini, Emily Szuter, and Jack Doyle were recently accepted into the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association District 10 Chorus. Over 800 students auditioned and 200 were selected to create the District 10 Chorus. The students will be traveling to Muhlenberg High School to participate in the festival from January 22nd through the 24th. While there, they will work under the direction of Dr. Linda Telford of Messiah College to present two concerts to the public.

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Awards, honors for Lehigh Valley Residents