Honors College announces 2009 Outstanding Scholar Alumni Award recipients
6/19/2009
A Johns Hopkins faculty member whose career is focused on teaching and research in the area of public health and the first woman to serve as New Hampshire’s attorney general are being recognized as Penn State's Schreyer Honors College's 2009 Outstanding Scholar Alumni.
Kevin D. Frick '91 H&HD and Kelly A. Ayotte '90 Lib will receive their awards at a ceremony at Penn State's University Park campus in September.
"Each year, the Outstanding Scholar Alumni Awards allow the Schreyer Honors College to highlight the ways in which our alumni have applied their Penn State education to positively influence their communities and beyond," said Christian M. M. Brady, dean of the Schreyer Honors College. "Kevin and Kelly are deserving of this year's honors given the successes each have achieved at this point in their careers. It is exciting is to consider the impact they will continue to have in the future."
Frick is an associate professor with a primary appointment in the Department of Health Policy and Management in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He also has joint appointments in the departments of economics, international health, and ophthalmology and in the School of Nursing. As director of the Interdepartmental Health Economics Program, he coordinates health economists within four departments. He has served on the National Advisory Council for Nursing Research and has been a consultant and guest lecturer for other universities. He received an MA in Economics and a PhD in Economics and Health Services Research from the University of Michigan.
Ayotte earned her JD from Villanova University School of Law. Prior to joining the New Hampshire Attorney General's office, Ayotte served as a law clerk to a member of the New Hampshire Supreme Court and worked as a litigation associate with a Manchester, N.H., law firm. She joined the Attorney General's office in 1998 as a prosecutor in the Criminal Bureau. She became a member of the Homicide Unit and was appointed as senior assistant Attorney General and the unit's chief in 2000. She served as legal counsel for New Hampshire Gov. Craig Benson at the beginning of his term in 2003. She rejoined the Attorney General's office in July 2003 and in July 2004 was appointed Attorney General.
The Outstanding Scholar Alumni Awards are sponsored by the Scholar Alumni Society. Nominees must demonstrate exemplary leadership skills, professional achievement, and a passion for lifelong learning.
Past recipients include Doug Evans '86 Eng, COO, Kensey Nash Corp.; Ann Hsu '89 Eng, CEO, RivalWatch, Shanghai LTD; Stephanie Hulina '92 Lib, founder and president of GDA Corp.; Mary Beth Long '85 Com, former assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs with the U.S. Department of Defense; Richard Spontak '83 Eng, professor, Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University; and John Woerner '91 Bus, president of insurance and chief strategy officer for Ameriprise Financial.
For more information, contact Marc McMullin, advancement officer, at 814-863-4543 or visit the alumni section of the Schreyer Honors College Web site at shc.psu.edu/alumni.
