The Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship, Princeton University’s top honor for graduate students, has been awarded to José de Jesús Montaño López, an engineeer using yeast to grow biofuels; Geneva Smith, a legal historian building the first archive of 'slave court' records; Pasquale Toscano, an English student analyzing epics through a disability lens; and Ryan Unger, a mathematician who disproved the third law of black hole thermodynamics.
Heritage scholarship was the overarching theme of this year’s Kegley Preservation Awards, presented by the Roanoke Valley Preservation Foundation in an evening ceremony at the Gainsboro Branch Library.
Dr Lindsay Rogers was a Te Awamutu Walk of Fame inductee for his international recognition as the “Guerilla Surgeon” during World War II. For almost three.