The School of Law announced a trio of top awards for three emeriti:

• Richard C. Wydick joins elite company, including Associate Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court, as a recipient of a lifetime achievement award from Scribes, the American Society of Legal Writers, in recognition of contributions to legal writing.

The award is due to be presented at the Scribes annual luncheon, scheduled for Aug. 7 in San Francisco.

• Cruz Reynoso recently received a lifetime achievement award of his own, from the Hispanic National Bar Foundation, recognizing his commitment to education, the legal profession and the Hispanic community.

• Mortimer Schwartz, founder of the Mabie Law Library, was among the charter inductees of the American Association of Law Libraries Hall of Fame. Schwartz joined the law school in 1965, as one of the first faculty members to be recruited by founding Dean Edward L. Barrett Jr.

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Professor Robert Gilbertson and Cooperative Extension plant pathologist Krishnamurthy Subbarao, both of the Department of Plant Pathology, have been named fellows of the American Phytopathological Society.

Gilbertson is an expert on plant disease problems caused by seed borne viruses, and Subbarao is an authority on soil- and airborne diseases of cool-season vegetable crops.

The new fellows are due to be honored Aug. 8 during the society’s annual meeting in Charlotte, N.C.

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Frank Osterloh, associate professor of chemistry, is the recipient of the 2010 Inorganic Nanoscience Award, presented by the American Chemical Society's Division of Inorganic Chemistry. Presentation of the $3,000 award, sponsored by the University of South Carolina NanoCenter, is scheduled during the society's fall meeting in Boston.

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Five professors are among the newest fellows in the American Chemical Society.

They are: Distinguished Professor Alan Balch, Professor Emeritus William Jackson, and professors Gang-yu Liu and Claude Meares, all of the Department of Chemistry; and James Seiber, professor and chair of the Department of Food Science and Technology.

The fellows program began in 2009 to recognize and honor members of the society for outstanding achievements in science, and for contributions to science, the profession and the society.

“Whether it’s making new materials, finding cures for disease or developing energy alternatives, these fellows are scientific leaders, improving our lives through the transforming power of chemistry,” the society’s president, Joseph S. Francisco, said in a news release announcing the awards. “They are also consummate volunteers who contribute tirelessly to the community and the profession.”

The society plans to recognize this year's class of 192 fellows on Aug. 23, during the society’s annual meeting, this year scheduled to take place in Boston.

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Professors Bruce Hammock and Thomas Scott are newly elected fellows of the Entomological Society of America. The new fellows are due to be recognized during the society’s annual meeting, scheduled to take place this year in San Diego in December.

Hammock, a Distinguished Professor, joined the Department of Entomology in 1980 and holds a joint appointment in the Cancer Research Center. Scott joined the department in 1996 and is the director of the Mosquito Research Laboratory.

Hammock and Scott follow 11 others from UC Davis as fellows of the society. The first was Richard M. Bohart in 1947; Bohart, who died in 2007, is the namesake of the Bohart Museum of Entomology.

The others: Donald McLean (elected in 1990), Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. (1991), John Edman (1994), Robert Washino (1996), Bruce Eldridge (2001), William Reisen (2003), Harry Kaya (2007), Michael Parrella and Frank Zalom (2008) and Walter Leal (2009).

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Linda Harris, a Cooperative Extension specialist in microbial food safety, recently received the inaugural Frozen Food Foundation Freezing Research Award from the International Association for Food Protection.

The award recognizes Harris’ 30-year career in food science research.

With the findings from one of her studies, the U.S. Department of Agriculture developed industry guidelines dealing with the effects of the freezing process on salmonella in frozen poultry.

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Dateline welcomes news of faculty and staff awards, for publication in Laurels. Send information to dateline@ucdavis.edu.