Blaney

Benjamin Blaney was selected for a 2000 National Academic Advising Association Certificate of Merit. He is among 28 who will travel in October to the association's annual awards ceremony in Orlando, Fla.

The advising association, along with American College Tests Inc., established the national recognition program in 1983 "to honor individuals making significant contributions to the improvement of academic advising."

MSU has produced a number of honorees in recent years. The most recent, curriculum and instruction professor R. Dwight Hare, was among 24 receiving 1999 certificates of merit.

Blaney, a member of the MSU faculty since 1972, previously was honored at MSU with a Burlington-Northern Foundation Award for Outstanding Teaching, a John Grisham Master Teacher Award, and a Schillig Special Teaching Project Grant. He also received the Mississippi Foreign Language Association's 1997 Distinguished Service Award.

A teacher of German, he holds a bachelor's degree from Colby College in Waterville, Maine, a master's from Middlebury (Vt.) College, and a doctorate from the University of Colorado.