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Layton Borkan, Kristen Kern, Carl Wamser, and Martin Zwick will receive the University's top awards for excellence at Spring Commencement June 13 at 10 a.m. in the Rose Garden Arena. Paul Hawken, environmentalist, entrepreneur, and author, will give the main address and receive an honorary degree.

Borkan, director of Counseling and Psychological Services, will receive the Mary H. Cumpston Award for Service to Students. In addition to her mentoring of students and support of colleagues, Borkan is being honored for establishing support structures for students in distress. Kern, associate professor in the Library, is receiving the Butler Award for Library Faculty Service. Kern is highly regarded for her enhancement of the Library's Middle Eastern studies and languages collection. Recently she became the fine and performing arts librarian

The Hoffmann Award for Faculty Excellence is going to Wamser, professor of chemistry. Wamser is valued as a caring, involved, and creative teacher as well as a successful researcher in solar cell arrays. Zwick is receiving the Branford Price Millar Award for Faculty Excellence. A longtime systems science professor, Zwick is receiving national acclaim for his current work, "Elements and Relations," a synthesis of a lifetime of thinking about general systems.