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Brownie presented
state award
for human service
Dr. Cecil F. Brownie, professor of toxicology and pharmacology in the College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM), has won the 2006 John R. Larkins Award, one of North Carolina’s highest honors for human service and race relations.
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Brownie was presented the award at the state employees’ observance for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., which was attended by Gov. Mike Easley, on Monday, Jan. 13, at First Baptist Church in downtown Raleigh.
The award was established in 1998 and is presented each year to a state government employee who has made noteworthy and exemplary contributions to human and race relations in the workplace or community. In the nine-year history of the award, only two individuals from an institution in the UNC System have won the award, and both came from NC State. In addition to Brownie, Dr. Monica Terrell Leach, assistant dean and director of enrollment management for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, won the award in 2004.
Brownie has served on the faculty of the CVM since 1982 and is recognized internationally as an authority in the area of veterinary medicine and toxicology of plants. In 2004, Minority Access Inc., a non-profit educational organization that supports diversity on campuses, honored Brownie as a Faculty Mentor Role Model award recipient for “exemplary achievements, mentoring, consulting and guiding others.”
“We are pleased that Dr. Brownie has been honored with the John R. Larkins Award,” said Dr. Warwick A. Arden, dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine. “This award is well-deserved. In but one example of his efforts, Dr. Brownie was instrumental in helping the CVM admit the most diverse entering class in its history last fall. His work in the area of minority affairs has also been acknowledged on the national level when he was recognized as a Faculty Mentor Role Model by Minority Access Inc. We are proud he is on the CVM faculty.”
Brownie received his doctor of veterinary medicine from Cornell University in 1975 and his Ph.D. in pharmacology and toxicology from Cornell in 1981.
The award is named for the late Dr. John R. Larkins, a former state government official who worked to create and implement state programs for minorities, the poor and disadvantaged.
Posted Feb. 3, 2006
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