Three Lycoming College faculty and staff members were honored with teaching and service awards at Honors Convocation on April 13. All three awards are given to faculty and staff members on the basis of their dedication and service to the college community.

Dr. Sascha Feinstein has been awarded the 2008 Constance Cupp Plankenhorn Alumni Award for Faculty Excellence. Feinstein is a professor of English who has been at Lycoming since 1995. He is an author, editor and poet, whose individual poems have appeared in publications such as “American Poetry Review,” “North American Review,” “Georgia Review” and the “Penguin Book of the Sonnet.” Recently, Feinstein published “Ask Me Now: Conversations on Jazz & Literature,” which is a compilation of interviews on jazz and literature with some of America’s most important artists and writers from his biannual publication “Brilliant Corners.” Feinstein earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Rochester, and a master’s and Ph.D. from Indiana University-Bloomington.

Dr. Jeremy Ramsey is the recipient of the 2008 Junior Faculty Teaching Award for excellence in teaching. Ramsey is an assistant professor of chemistry who has been at Lycoming College since 2005. His main area of research involves analytical chemistry. Ramsey earned a bachelor’s degree at Clarion University of Pennsylvania and a master’s and Ph.D. from Ohio State University. Following the completion of his doctorate, Ramsey spent a year working as a postdoctoral fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in Oak Ridge, Tenn.

Donna Weaver received the Makisu Award, which the student body presents to a faculty or staff member for extraordinary service and dedication. Weaver is the administrative assistant for the College’s Office of Student Programs and Leadership Development. She works closely with students by helping to supervise the student employees of the department, processing all revenues and expenditures for the department and playing a key role in providing guidance and assistance in all the functions of the office.  

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