Once a year Hasbro, Inc. recognizes six inspiring kids and teens who have created unique ways to address challenging issues in their local and global communities. The six young service leaders are named Hasbro Community Action Heroes. Grace Anne Remey, a nine year old from Tucson, Ariz. and 4-H youth, is one of the six recognized for the honor in 2013.

Walter Morrow, applications systems analyst/developer, senior in College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Administration has been among fifteen employees selected in 2013 to receive University of Arizona Awards for Excellence.

Jennifer Mortensen, a doctoral candidate in the Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences, has been selected to receive a Doris Duke Fellowship for the Promotion of Child Well-Being. This dissertation fellowship is designed to identify and develop a new generation of leaders interested in and capable of creating practice and policy initiatives that will enhance child development and improve the nation's ability to prevent all forms of child maltreatment. The fellowship is sponsored by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Chapin Hall, a policy research institute at the University of Chicago.

Fellows receive an annual stipend of $25,000 for up to two years to support the completion of their dissertation and related research at their academic institution. Up to 15 fellowships are awarded annually. Fellows are guided by an academic mentor whom they select; fellows also identify a policy or program mentor to assist them in better understanding how to frame their research questions with an eye toward maximizing policy and practice relevance.

Several College of Agriculture and Life Sciences students and an alum were among those awarded scholarships at the annual meeting of the Arizona Section of the Society for Range Management. The names of scholarship recipients were announced at the meeting in Prescott, Ariz. on January 24.

Kelsey Hawkes received the Arizona Section’s Outstanding Undergraduate Student Scholarship. She was born in Glendale, Ariz. but raised in Tucson. Hawkes became interested in joining the rangeland ecology and management program at the end of her second year at the University of Arizona. She was drawn to the School of Natural Resources and the Environment because of a desire for a career path that included working outside with nature. She has become very interested in watershed conservation and management, and therefore hopes to find a master's program to pursue those interests.