1999 Alumni Award RecipientsRose Marie Battisti, executive director Asian Children Services, a program to help resettle to the U.S. children of U.S./Asian parentage (Herkimer County Community College, NY) James Belushi, comedian and movie actor, (College of DuPage, IL) Rita Mae Brown, prolific novelist, Emmy-winning screenwriter, and playwright (Broward Community College, FL) Bruce FaBrizio, former NFL lineman, now CEO Simple Green, producer of environmentally safe cleaning products distributed internationally (Mt. San Antonio Community College, CA) William Haddad, former journalist, now CEO MIR, Inc., a pharmaceutical company in Russia specializing in generic products (St. Petersburg Junior College, FL) Karen Kay Medville, Native American research scientist and professor of environmental toxicology, Arizona State University (Pikes Peak Community College, CO) J. Craig Venter, scientist and founder of The Institute for Genomic Research, first company to decode an entire free-living organism, and a new company, Celera Genomics, currently attempting to decode the 3-billion-letter human genome (College of San Mateo, CA).
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