Life-Science Leaders Reap Awards
Three people who have made major contributions to North Carolina’s leading life-science reputation are among those chosen to receive 2011 North Carolina Awards, the highest civilian honor the state bestows.
Among the award winners to be honored at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 10, at the N. C. Museum of History are:
- Charles Hamner Jr., D.V.M., Ph.D., chairman of the board of director of The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences and former president and CEO of the North Carolina Biotechnology Center, for public service.
- H. Martin Lancaster, who retired in 2008 after a decade as president of the 58-institution, 800,000-student North Carolina Community College System, one of the largest job training, literacy and adult education systems in the nation and a key partner in the state’s biotechnology workforce training, is also receiving the award for public service.
- Trudy F.C. Mackay, Ph.D., the William Neal Reynolds Distinguished University Professor of Genetics at North Carolina State University, is receiving the award for science.
Other honorees this year are Ron Rash, of Cullowhee, for literature; and Vollis Simpson, of Lucama, and Branford Marsalis, of Durham, both for fine arts.
The awards are administered by the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources.
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