Charlene Gilbert, director of the UT Catharine S. Eberly Center for Women, received the Zonta Club of Toledo’s Women of Achievement Award for 2009.

Make plans to attend the African-American Fest on UT’s Scott Park Campus Saturday, July 11, and Sunday, July 12.

Nathan Burks received the top score in the country when he took the the biomedical equipment technician certification test.

UT graduate and doctoral education students are taking a cool class this summer. They’re learning all about the Toledo Walleye hockey team and designing a curriculum for school children for when they visit the new arena.

Read about UT Medical Center’s MedTV, a new monthly education program.

The UT Board of Trustees was busy at its June meeting, taking action on a faculty workload policy, appointing an interim dean to the College of Education, saying goodbye to four members, and electing new officers.

A Procurement Technical Assistance Center will be housed in UT’s Clean and Alternative Energy Incubator.

Dr. Patricia Hogue, UT assistant dean for diversity, recruitment and retention and associate professor and chair of physician assistant studies, received an Impact Newsmaker Award from the Northwest Ohio Black Media Association.

Board members from UT, Owens Community College and Toledo Public Schools agreed to put together an application for funding to identify classes that challenge college students in an effort to work on these subjects in middle and high school.

Dr. Jerri Nielsen, an alumna of MCO who gained worldwide attention when she discovered she had breast cancer while working at the South Pole, died June 23.