Date: 06/13/2005

Wiggsy Sivertsen, director of Counseling Services, received a merit award from the Santa Clara County Office of Human Relations for her human rights advocacy efforts. Sivertsen was praised for being an outspoken champion for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. Contact Sivertsen at wiggsy@email.sjsu.edu.

The Web services unit of the Department of Academic Technology has been awarded the 2005 Community of Academic Staff Outstanding Professional Award by the CSU Center for Distributed Learning. The award is for academic technology professionals who have made exemplary contributions to their campus, the CSU system or to academic technology in general. For more, see http://cats.cdl.edu/awards/. Contact Paul Nozicka at paul.nozicka@sjsu.edu.