Chancellor's Scholars chosen

Chancellor Sharon Brehm announced the 2003-2004 University Chancellor's Scholars Wednesday. This award is given every year to 15 students that have excelled in academics and extracurricular areas. \nThe recipients of the award were junior Anna Crawford, senior David Howell, senior Natasha Ruser, senior Jessica Wylde, senior Mark Helmsing, junior Laura Bradenburg, junior Chris Olry, junior Jeff Cannon, junior Sandie Retzlaff, senior Pearl Hwang, second-year law student Seth Frotman, senior Robert Benirschke, graduate student Jacyln Stodola, junior Samira Jeihooni and graduate student Margaret Swan.\nAll of the students were nominated by a faculty member of their school and notified in mid-March of their standing. The recipients were chosen based on their involvement in their course work and their leadership in extracurricular activities on and off campus. \nEach student was given a book from the student's academic discipline or membership in a professional society as well as scholarship for $1,000 to go toward his or her education. \nChancellor Brehm and the deans of each of the schools presented the students with their award last week at a reception on campus. \n"Each of the scholars is in his or her next-to-last year of study, late enough to have demonstrated academic achievement and early enough to share reflections and ideas with the campus administration," Brehm said in a statement. "I am proud to have them as students on this campus."\nFrotman, a law student, was one of the top-15 students to be chosen for the award. \n"It was an amazing experience, especially when they all called us up to receive our award," Frotman said. "It's great to associate with such amazing people."\nFrotman interned at the Family and Social Services Administration in Indianapolis this semester, working on the Governor's Commission to provide mental health services to people in nursing homes and private residences. He also taught a class of sixth graders at Binford Elementary in Bloomington, teaching principles about the law and government. He also helped put on a mock trial for the students at the end of the semester at the School of Law.\nFrotman will be working again this summer in New Jersey for Senator Jon S. Corzine as well as a law firm. He said he plans to pursue a career in politics. \nHowell said the more he has become involved in his work, the more he has discovered there are still things he has yet to learn. But after receiving this award, Howell said it was a reminder of his accomplishments.\n"I really have learned a lot. It's kind of nice to sit back and be recognized for what I have done," Howell said.\nHe is a double major in physics and mathematics and is planning to attend graduate school and pursue a Ph.D. so he may some day become a professor. Howell has worked as an undergraduate instructor for several different courses, and he said he has enjoyed being involved in the academic side to school.