Sgt. Barry Swartwood was the UC Davis Police Department's honoree on March 28 when the American Legion's Yolo Post 77 presented its annual Officer of the Year Recognition Night. The event recognizes officers of the year from various law enforcement agencies in Yolo County.

UC Davis Health System recently received a Negocios con Corazon (Businesses with Heart) award from the Sacramento Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. The award, recognizing businesses and nonprofit organizations making a positive difference in the community and helping create a strong local economy, was announced last month.

Neil Schore, professor of chemistry, recently received a Phi Beta Kappa Northern California Association Award for Teaching Excellence. The award consists of a certificate and a $500 honorarium. The Phi Beta Kappa Northern California Association is a nonprofit organization of more than 1,200 Phi Beta Kappa members.

The Segundo Dining Room received honors as the Best New Facility by Food Management magazine, which noted, "The Segundo Dining Room takes exhibition cooking and customer service to the next level, in which students receive the freshest products, hear the sizzle and see their entrees as they hit the plate." The $22.8 million Segundo facility opened June 26, 2005.

University of California Television has received six Telly Awards, an international competition honoring outstanding local, regional and cable TV commercials and programs, and two of them involved programming from UC Davis. The winning programs demonstrate the diversity of content and production capacity throughout the UC system, with recognition in the entertainment, education, documentary and special effects categories for programs from UC Davis, Santa Cruz and San Diego, among others. In the education category, a Silver Telly was awarded to UCTV's magazine program "State of Minds: Spring 2005," shot around the UC Davis campus and featuring a segment about UC Davis student firefighters by broadcast specialist Paul Pfotenhauer and videographer Ken Zukin. A second silver award, this one in the entertainment category, was awarded to the UC Davis-produced "Mahler: Symphony No. 2 (Resurrection)," a concert featuring the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra, University Chorus and Alumni Chorus held last year at the campus' Mondavi Center.

UC Davis psychology professor Gregory Herek is the 2006 recipient of the Kurt Lewin Memorial Award, which is given annually by the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, Division 9, of the American Psychological Association. Named for the late Kurt Lewin, a pioneer in the science of group dynamics and a founder of the society, this award is presented annually for "outstanding contributions to the development and integration of psychological research and social action."

Ron Mangun, director of the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain and professor of neurology and psychology, has been awarded a James McKeen Cattell Sabbatical Award for 2006-07 (also known as a James McKeen Cattell Fund Fellowship) from the Association for Psychological Science. The fund was established by a gift from psychologist James McKeen Cattell in 1942. The goal is to permit the most talented academic scientists to enhance their sabbatical period to enable them to have the time to make fundamental advances in their research and scholarship.

Two faculty members in the Design Program are major players in a new San Francisco exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design. Assistant Professor Susan Taber Avila is co-curating "Installation/Innovation: Textile Art in the 21st Century" that will run through May 29. Among the artists participating is Associate Professor Glenda Drew, who is exhibiting "\ UN / RAV \ EL /," an interactive video-based project.

UC Davis assistant art professor Darrin Martin held a screening March 8 at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley. The evening was titled "Monody in Harmony: Across the Country in New York City." Martin also had two collaborations with Torsten Zenas Burns screening in early March.

Andrés Resendez, assistant professor of history, has been winning honors for his 2005 book, "Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800-1850." Last year, the book won Resendez a Texas Institute of Letters Award for the book making the most important contribution to knowledge. In March he was selected as the winner of the 2005 Coral H. Tullis Memorial Award for the best book on Texas history for the Texas State Historical Association.

Historian Louis Warren has won a Western Writers of America Spur Award in the history category for his 2005 book, "Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and The Wild West Show." The honor was awarded to Warren, the W. Turrentine Jackson Chair in Western U.S. History, at the National Festival of the West in March. Since 1953, the Western Writers of America group has promoted and honored the best in Western literature with the annual Spur Awards. The book is a finalist for the 2005 Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize.