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Membership
Meritorious Achievement
Award
2013 Awardee
 The Meritorious Achievement Award is given to members of ACGIH® who have made outstanding, long-term contributions to the field of occupational health and industrial hygiene. The recipient of this year's Meritorious Achievement Award is Carol Rice, PhD, CIH.
Dr. Rice is an occupational hygienist with more than 35 years of experience in professional practice and 25 years in academic research and teaching and worker health and safety education. She specializes in the assessment of current industrial exposures and the evaluation of working lifetime exposures and has a special interest in the use of historical exposure data to reconstruct past human exposures for occupational epidemiology studies.
Dr. Rice directed the NIOSH-sponsored Education and Research Center (ERC) at the University of Cincinnati from 2008 until June of 2012 and served as Deputy Director for the previous nine years. She continues to serve the ERC as the Deputy Director of Occupational Hygiene and organizer of off-campus learning experiences, and is active in several research projects including beryllium, refractory ceramic fibers and Libby amphibole. Dr. Rice has served on a number of advisory boards and is currently a member of the NIOSH Board of Scientific Counselors. Dr. Rice joined ACGIH® in 1983 and is currently an active member.
In 1987, Dr. Rice organized the multi-state, multi-institution Midwest Consortium (MWC) for Hazardous Waste Worker Training. The MWC participants include site workers, emergency responders and workers in a range of industrial settings; the Consortium also serves the needs of minorities and low-income residents impacted by hazardous materials in their neighborhoods. From 2009 to 2012 she worked with students to establish a partnership with the Cincinnati Interfaith Workers Center, serving low-wage and immigrant workers.
Dr. Rice's dedication and service to the occupational health and industrial hygiene profession, and her commitment to ACGIH®'s mission render her a worthy recipient of the Meritorious Achievement Award. The Meritorious Achievement Award will be presented at the ACGIH® Membership Reception and Annual Meeting of the Membership on Sunday, May 19, 2013.
Previous Award Recipients
- 1957 — Members
of the Industrial Ventilation Committee
(past and present)
- 1958 — Members
of the Committee on Threshold Limits
(past and present)
- 1959 — Lester
M. Petrie, MD
- 1960 — Thomas
F. Mancuso, MD
- 1961 — Hervey
B. Elkins, PhD, CIH
- 1962 — No
award presented
- 1963 — George
Hama
- 1964 — Victoria
Trasko
- 1965 — Herbert
E. Stokinger, PhD
- 1966 — John
C. Soet
- 1967 — Andrew
D. Hosey, CIH
- 1968 — William
G. Fredrick, ScD
- 1969 — John
J. Bloomfield
- 1970 — Catherine
Chambers, RN
- 1971 — E.
Lynn Schall
- 1972 — Marcus
M. Key, MD
- 1973 — Warren
A. Cook
- 1974 — U.S.
Army Environmental Hygiene Agency
- 1975 — Edward
Baier, CIH
- 1976 — Henry
N. Doyle, CIH
- 1977 — Members
of the Threshold Limit Values for Physical Agents (TLV®-PA) Committee (past and
present)
- 1978 — James
C. Barrett
- 1979 — Charles
D. "Pete" Yaffe, CIH
- 1980 — Duncan
A. Holaday, CIH
- 1981 — Christine
Einert, MD
- 1982 — Dohrman
H. Byers, CIH
- 1983 — Mary
Louise Brown
- 1984 — Irving
H. Davis, CIH
- 1985 — Harry
J. Ettinger, CIH
- 1986 — Herbert
H. Jones, CIH
- 1987 — William
D. Wagner
- 1988 — William
D. Kelley
- 1989 — Vera
Fiserova-Bergerova Thomas, PhD
- 1990 — Vernon
E. Rose, DrPH, CIH
- 1991 — Robert
L. Harris, PhD
- 1992 — Charles
E. Adkins, CIH
- 1993 — Jeffrey
S. Lee, PhD, CIH
- 1994 — R.
Jerry Sherwood, SM, CIH, CEng (UK)
- 1995 — Howard
E. Ayer, CIH
- 1996 — John
Doull, PhD, MD
- 1997 — William
D. Wagner
- 1998 — Sidney
Case Soderholm, PhD, and
James H. Vincent, PhD, DSc
- 1999 — Dave
K. Verma, PhD, CIH, ROH
- 2000 — William
Burgess
- 2001 — Morton Corn, Ph.D., CSP
- 2002 — Threshold Limit Values for Chemical Substances (TLV®-CS) Committee (past and present members) and the Industrial Hygiene Section of the Hazard Evaluations and Technical Assistance Branch (HETAB) of NIOSH (past and present members)
- 2003 — Scott E. Merkle, CIH
- 2004 — Morton Lippmann, PhD, CIH
- 2005 — Robert T. Hughes, MSME, PE
- 2006 — Patrick N. Breysse, PhD, CIH
- 2007 — Lisa M. Brosseau, ScD, CIH
- 2008 — Michael S. Morgan, ScD, CIH
- 2009 — Gyan S. Rajhans, ROH, CIH, PE
- 2010 — Patricia Stewart, PhD, CIH
- 2011 — Jimmy L. Perkins, PhD, CIH
- 2012 — John M. Dement, PhD, CIH
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