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Alumni Awards ment agencies as well as benchmarked by outside agencies in employee satisfaction. He received numerous recent awards, including the Presidential Distinguished Service Rank Award for Senior Executives, the highest award that can be achieved within civil service; the Presidential Meritorious Service Rank Award, a Presidential Citation for saving veterans' lives, and many others. Batres received his MSSW from the Kent School of Social Work in 1974 while employed at Ireland Army Hospital and his PhD in psychology from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has held various academic appoint- ments and is currently an Adjunct Professor of Medical and Clinical Psychology with the F. Edward Herbert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences. He remains involved in volunteering with local agencies and enjoys time with his family. Louis D. Brandeis School of Law Howard Fineman Howard Fineman is editorial director of the AOL Huffi ngton Post Media Group, the leadership team bringing the HuffPost's unique blend of news, commentary and reader engagement to all AOL content sites and 250 million users worldwide. He continues to report and write on politics for The Huffi ngton Post. A longtime political reporter and commenta- tor, Fineman serves as an analyst for NBC News and MSNBC. He is a regular on MSNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews" and "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell," "Rachel Maddow Show," "Morning Joe," NBC's "Today Show" and NBC's weekend syndicated "Chris Matthews Show." Fineman joined The Huffi ngton Post in October 2010 after many years as a reporter, columnist, editor and Deputy Washington Bureau Chief at Newsweek. The author of scores of Newsweek cover stories and a column called "Living Politics," Fineman has also been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The New Republic. He has interviewed every major presidential candidate since 1985, as well as business and entertainment leaders, and has appeared on most major news and commentary shows. His book, The Thirteen American Arguments, was published by Random House in 2008 and was a national best seller. Fineman has been honored by many organi- zations, including Columbia University's School of Journalism; the American Bar Association; and the New York Press Association. Fineman's work helped Newsweek win three National Magazine Awards. In May 2011 he received an 48|LOUISVILLE.EDU honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters by Colgate University, his college alma mater. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Colgate, Fineman earned an M.S. from Columbia and a JD degree from the University of Louisville while working as a reporter at The Courier-Journal in Louisville. He won a Watson Traveling Fellowship while at Colgate and a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship at Columbia. School of Medicine Dr. Larry Cook Larry N. Cook, MD, received his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Louisville and completed a neonatal fellowship following his pediatric residency at the University of Colorado Medical Center. A faculty member for 37 years, Cook is considered the "Father of Modern Neonatology" and served 20 years as the chief of UofL's division of neonatology, now one of the largest programs of its kind in the country. He served as chair of the Depart- ment of Pediatrics and chief of staff at Kosair Children's Hospital from 1994–2004 when he was appointed Executive Vice President for Health Affairs at UofL. During Cook's tenure, the new UofL Health Care Outpatient Center opened, providing ambulatory care for patients from UofL physi- cians; the Clinical and Translational Research building was constructed and opened with renovation of the School of Dentistry; the School of Public Health & Information Sciences was relocated; the School of Nursing was renovated; and planning began on a new instructional building on the Health Science Campus. Cook is former president and chairman of the School of Medicine's practice plan board and the Medical School Practice Association, and has helped guide the organization's evolu- tion to UofL Physicians, the largest group of specialists and subspecialists in the region. He was instrumental in the development of University Health Care, Inc., a Medicaid managed-care plan responsible for more than 165,000 insured in 16 counties, serving as board chair for 13 years. School of Music Terry S. Cravens Terry Cravens, bass trombonist, earned performance degrees from the University of Louisville, the Academy of Music in Vienna, and in 1972 completed doctoral stud- ies at the University of Southern California. He was a member of the Louisville Orchestra and the Kentucky Opera Association Orchestra from 1961–1965, the United States Military Academy Band, 1966–1969, Austin (Texas) Symphony, 1972–1976, and during the mid- 1970s performed frequently with the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra. He is currently a member of the Pasadena Symphony, the Los Angeles Opera Orchestra, and the Los Angeles Master Chorale Sinfonia. Cravens' background includes 22 fi rst-edition records with the Louisville Orchestra under Robert Whitney and recordings of Wagner's Die Walkure and Bruckner's Seventh Symphony with Georg Solti and the Vienna Philharmonic. He has worked in every major studio in Los Angeles and can be heard in the music accom- panying the "Tiny Toons" and "Animaniac" cartoon series. "Dream Team", "Battlestar Galactica", "Cross Creek", "Unfaithfully Yours", "2010 A Space Odyssey", "Bound for Justice", "Rocky V", and "Rainman" are a few examples of his work in fi lm music. Cravens was a faculty member at the Uni- versity of Texas at Austin from 1972–1976. From 1976 to the present he has been Professor of Trombone at the University of Southern Cali- fornia Thornton School of Music. During 2006 he was the recipient of the Ramo Music Faculty Award for outstanding teaching. In addition to his trombone-teaching responsibilities at USC, he serves as chairman of the Wind, Brass and Percussion Department. School of Nursing Charlotte Ipsan Charlotte Ipsan received her MS in nursing in 1998 from the University of Louisville, and with more than 25 years experi- ence in the nursing profession, has distinguished herself as an outstanding practitioner, educator and leader. Ipsan began her career as a neonatal nurse in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Kosair Children's Hospital. From there she went on to obtain her master's degree and, as a neonatal nurse practitioner, managed the nurse practitioner staff for Neonatal Associates. In 2005, Charlotte joined the University of Louisville School of Nursing faculty where she was responsible for didactic and clinical instruc- tion and education of graduate students for neonatal nurse practitioners. In 2008, Charlotte received the Graduate Faculty of the Year Award. In 2009, Charlotte was named vice president of Kosair Children's Medical Center and in January of 2011 was promoted to system vice president of Pediatric Services at Norton Healthcare/Kosair Children's Hospital. Through her scholarship, service and leader- ship, Charlotte has made signifi cant contribu- tions to the university and the profession of nursing as a whole.