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The meeting begins at noon in the universitys Winthrop-King Centre and is part of Shorters Heritage on the Hill alumni reunion event. For registration information, visit http://www.shorter.edu/advancement/events_news.html.

Roberts, a 1986 graduate of Shorter, will receive the Distinguished Alumnus of the Year Award. The award recognizes an alumnus or alumna who has demonstrated outstanding professional achievement, public service, or accomplishment in service to the global community.

The Augusta native graduated from Curtis Baptist High School and earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Shorter in 1986. He attended the Medical College of Georgia and completed a pediatric residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He served one year as chief resident in pediatrics at Vanderbilt. In 1994, he moved to Newnan, where he continues to practice pediatrics. His current practice is Piedmont Physicians Pediatrics at Thomas Crossroads. He has two sons, Trevor (14) and Thomas (12) and is an active member of Crossroads Church in Newman.

Ms. Kirby, a 1968 graduate of Shorter, will receive the Distinguished Service Award, which recognizes an alumnus or alumna who has given outstanding service to the university in leadership, volunteerism, on-campus service, recruiting efforts or financial support.

Kirby served as director of alumni relations at Shorter for seven years, a portion of which she also served a dual role as senior advancement officer. She left Shorter to become a ministry ambassador at In Touch Ministries, the global broadcast and print ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley. She continues serving as ministry ambassador to the Mid-Atlantic Territory.

Kirby graduated from Shorter with a Bachelor of Music Education degree, having studied under Elizabeth Buday and Dr. John Ramsaur, and was a charter member of the Shorter Chorale, under the direction of Dr. Jerry Warren. After graduating from Shorter, she served as choral music director at Sandy Springs High School. She later earned a Master of Music degree from Georgia State University and began 27 years of service as director of music ministries in Baptist churches in Gwinnett and Walton counties. Carol was married to the late William R. Kirby Jr. and has two grown children, Ross and Meredith, and five grandchildren.

Bowley, a 2007 graduate of Shorter, will receive the Distinguished Young Alumni Award. This award honors a Shorter graduate from the past 15 years who has shown promise through his or her professional achievement, community service and/or dedication to the university and who embraces the Shorter University mission.

Bowley and his wife, Lindsay, are very passionate about the work of Wellspring Living, a nonprofit that directly addresses the needs of victims of sexual abuse and exploitation. Mr. Bowley volunteered with Wellspring Living from its inception until 2009, when he left a career in sales to work full time with the organization in marketing and fundraising. His passion for the organization stems from witnessing first-hand powerful life-change in those Wellspring Living serves. Pauls mother founded Well Spring, and he has seen it develop since it began.

Bowley graduated from Shorter in 2007 with a Bachelor of Music degree. He lives with his wife, Lindsay, in Woodstock. They attend First Baptist Church of Woodstock, where they teach the college Sunday School class.

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Biomedical engineering: Americans are living longer today and advances in medical technology are essential to making health care services more affordable to an aging population. Plus, no single occupation is expected to have more job growth -- employment of biomedical engineers is expected to grow by 62 percent between 2010 and 2020, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

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Be a people person: Professional engineers often work with colleagues in a number of different disciplines, so communication and teamwork skills are paramount, says Julia Galeazzi, associate director of development for the Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering Office of Development and Alumni Relations.

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A gift of $20 million to the Columbia University Medical Center will support the construction of a new Medical and Graduate Education Building, part of Columbias recent effort to revitalize the Medical Center campus.

The donation from Philip Milstein, CC 71, and Cheryl Milstein, BC 82, was announced last Monday.

The new building will be geared specifically toward training students in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, as well as in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences biomedical science departments. Construction on the building began in August 2012 and is scheduled to finish in 2016.

Medical center administrators said in a statement that the building will include innovative classroom and study spaces that will incorporate state-of-the-art information technology while facilitating collaborative, team-based learning.

University President Lee Bollinger highlighted the Milsteins legacy of supporting Columbia and the medical center in particular.

Over a lifetime of exceptional accomplishment, Philip Milstein has maintained an enduring commitment to his alma mater, and for that Columbia will be forever grateful, Bollinger said. This latest gift extends the familys ongoing commitment to ensuring world class medical training and the highest quality health care that saves lives and finds new cures.

The Milstein family has made leading donations for the Milstein Hospital Building, the main building of the New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and for the creation of the Vivian and Seymour Milstein Family Heart Foundation in 2005. Columbia has given Philip Milstein multiple awards, including the Alexander Hamilton Medal in 2001, for his service.

This is the latest of several donations to the Medical Center, including a $25 million donation from Mayor Michael Bloomberg in February to fund amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and a donation from Roy Vagelos, P&S 54, and Diana Vagelos, BC 55, in 2010 to support the construction of the education building.

Biology professor Andrea Califano said that the new building would create an opportunity to address what he called one of the critical deficiencies of our current campus: the lack of community-building student space on the medical campus.

This is really going to create a completely new focus, Califano said, adding that the new building will create social context for interaction that doesnt currently exist.

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Hanover Seated in a green leather armchair, wearing a suit and overcoat and with his legs crossed at the knee, Steve Lubrano certainly looked the part of a college administrator yesterday morning. However, the Tuck School of Business dean wasnt in Dartmouth Colleges Alumni Gym for a meeting. He was there for gear.

Specifically, sports gear.

My three daughters go through athletic equipment like you wouldnt believe, said Lubrano, a Tuck graduate whose family lives in Hanover. Getting Dartmouth-branded apparel is a neat opportunity to support the school and get useful things at the same time.

It was an opportunity taken by roughly 200 people in just the opening 90 minutes of the three-day sale held in a room adjacent to the gyms Karl Michael Pool. The sale continues today and tomorrow from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

At one point during yesterdays early going, assistant equipment manager Ernie Gour had to act as a doorman, allowing only as many customers inside at one time as had just exited.

I cant believe how many people are here, a Dartmouth student said to his buddy as the pair jostled their way among 33 tables covered in green-and-white shirts, pants, jackets, socks, scarves, jerseys, equipment bags and more.

This place is packed.

Although there were composite hockey sticks (snatched up early) and a few racks of baseball, basketball, softball and womens hockey jerseys marked at $25 each, the sale is slanted more toward the mundane.

Practice jerseys on one table, warmup jackets and pants on another, large-size basketball sneakers over there. Big Green linebacker Michael Runger stopped by to grab a pair of the latter in size 13, which he said arent always available in stores and certainly not for $10 per pair.

Nearby, Thetford resident Gail Slider stood in a lengthening line with a few jackets and equipment bags for her children, ages 10 and 8. She had delayed her start at a new job until 10 a.m. so she could make a quick swing by the sale, which she had visited three years ago, the last time it was held.

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Sam Clanton is a former NASA engineer who operated a technology consulting firm in Equador before returning to school to pursue a Ph.D. in robotics and a medical degree.

He now researches systems that allow disabled patients to control robots with their brains and will start work as a resident physician this year.

Peter Bierman built a computer network in high school, was kicked out of college, worked for Apple for 11 years and then retired to play hockey.

He now researches computer vision and takes Zamboni lessons.

Caroline Petitti has spent the past four years designing children's museums, science centers and theme parks all over the world.

All three are graduates of Worthington's Linworth Alternative Program who spoke at the Linworth forum March 20.

Twenty-four young adults who graduated between 1992 and 2008 spoke to current students about how to succeed in life after Linworth.

Classes were canceled for the day so that students could meet with the graduates, either in person or through Skype.

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