A DNA dealer, an engineer, a cancer researcher and a dance instructor will receive awards Friday from the North Dakota State University Alumni Association.
The 2002 alumni honors dinner will begin at 6 p.m. at the Fargo Holiday Inn.
Michael Chambers is the winner of this year's Horizon Award, which recognizes individuals who graduated from NDSU in the past 10 years.
Chambers, a 1997 graduate and Carrington, N.D., native, developed the Fargo business Aldevron LLC with NDSU classmate John Ballantyne. Chambers is president and CEO of the company, which provides small amounts of viral or bacterial DNA for scientific study.
Chambers serves on boards of directors for the NDSU biotechnology program, NDSU Research and Technology Park, and the North Dakota Governor's School for Business, Mathematics and Science.
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This year's Heritage Award for Alumni Service, which signifies outstanding volunteer service to NDSU, goes to DuWayne Radke, a 1966 graduate. He recently retired after nearly 33 years at 3M Co. in Maplewood, Minn.
Radke first served as 3M's engineering liaison to NDSU and later became the corporate liaison and chairman for the focused college relations team. He led the joint activities of NDSU's polymers and coatings department, colleges of engineering and pharmacy, Multicultural Student Services and 3M. He helped secure grants, scholarships for American Indian pharmacy students and more than $1 million in corporate funding for NDSU.
Tucker W. LeBien and Ann Whiting Ludwig will receive Alumni Achievement awards, given to alumni who excel in their chosen field.
LeBien, who earned his master's degree at NDSU in 1973, is deputy director of the University of Minnesota Cancer Center. He'll become director of the university's medical school M.D./Ph.D. program Jan. 1, 2003.
LeBien has been instrumental in developing immunology and cancer biology graduate programs. He has trained about 50 students and post-doctoral fellows since 1980. His work with the Leukemia Research Fund has helped raise more than $1.5 million.
Ludwig, a 1960 graduate of NDSU, is artistic director and choreographer of Arizona's A. Ludwig Dance Theatre and professor and director of graduate studies in the dance department at Arizona State University, Tempe.
Ludwig's work deals with such issues as domestic and family relations, homelessness, domestic violence, Alzheimer's disease and tobacco use. She has choreographed and produced some 200 works and has been a solo and company dancer. She continues to perform in selected works.
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