CAMPUS NOTES In the spotlight

YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY
Niki Stamos, a 2005 magna cum laude graduate, has been awarded a $1,000 Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honorary Society scholarship for graduate study. She is among 18 recipients of the scholarship nationwide. Stamos, a 2001 graduate of Campbell Memorial High School, is pursuing a medical degree at the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine in Rootstown. She was a member of the Omicron Delta Kappa, which has more than 300 chapters at universities across the nation.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation has awarded Noreen Khawaja of Boardman the 2005 Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies. Khawaja is the daughter of Ikram and Susan Khawaja of Boardman. She is studying Religion/Religious Studies at Stanford in Palo Alto, Calif., after graduating from Williams College.
WALSH UNIVERSITY
Brad Gessner of Austintown was honored with the 2005 Outstanding Alumni Award by the Walsh University Alumni Association. He graduated from Walsh in 1982, where he majored in history and English. He stayed at the campus in North Canton for three years and oversaw student activities and the student center snack counter and advised the student newspaper while pursuing his law degree at The University of Akron. He served on the Walsh Alumni Association Board and later taught business law and criminology at Walsh. Today, he is assistant county prosecutor and supervisor of the Violent Crimes Unit in Summit County. He is president of the Austintown Board of Education, chairman of the board of the Community Corrections Association Inc. and president of the Bluecoats Drum & amp; Bugle Corps. Inc.