July 23, 2008                                                                 

Two from Southern Illinois University School of Medicine have received national honors.

Brian Morgan, chief broadcast engineer with the Educational Media Group at SIU School of Medicine, has been honored by the Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE) for his dedication and assistance with member certification.     

The selection was based on his 20 years of service to the local chapter of the SBE as chapter certification chair.  With more than 5,000 members, SBE provides a forum for its members to keep up with a rapidly changing industry. 

Morgan joined the SIU staff in 1981.  He was certified in vocational electronics engineering from DeVry Technical Institute in Chicago. 

George A. Dunaway, Ph.D., emeritus professor of pharmacology at SIU School of Medicine, has been elected to a two-year term as chair of the pharmacology education division for the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET). 

ASPET is a scientific society whose members conduct pharmacologic research.  The division’s primary focus is on pharmacology teaching and learning by graduate and health sciences students. 
Dunaway joined the SIU faculty in 1973 and retired in 2006.  He earned his doctoral degree from the University of Oklahoma in Norman (1970) and his bachelor’s from the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond (1965). 

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