Robert Horton, a 2003 School of Fine Arts graduate with a DMA in organ performance, recently won 1st place in the 5th annual Mikael Tariverdiev International Organ Competition in Kaliningrad, Russia, on September 7.

A Kansas University graphic design student recently received a student scholarship worth $1,000 from the American Institute for Graphic Artists (AIGA), an association for graphic designers. The picture shows 'Chocolate Book Cover by Laura Rottinghaus'.

The UK's longest continuously running music hall and a 15th century building in Southampton have had grants totalling £6.8 million earmarked by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for their repair and restoration. The picture shows 'The City Varieties inside. Courtesy HLF'.

The Jerwood Charitable Foundation has announced details of the Jerwood Moving Image Awards - a major new prize for emerging artists working in digital moving art.

Design News Magazine named the LM98714, an analog front end (AFE) from National Semiconductor Corporation (NYSE:NSM), its Golden Mousetrap Award winner in the analog control category. The AFE improves the performance of multi-function peripherals (MFPs) targeted at small office environments, allowing color copying speeds exceeding 40 pages per minute.

Motorola (NYSE:MOT) has received the Industry Choice Best of WiMAX World USA 2007 Award for its WiMAX CPEi 800/850 Series Desktop CPE. Selected from a field of 16 finalists from among more than 80 submissions, this “people’s choice” award marks yet another honor for Motorola and its innovative WiMAX portfolio including customer premises equipment (CPE), access networking, network architecture and deployments.

Global Enterprises, Public Agencies and Nonprofit Organizations Honored for Creative Implementation of Efficient Mobile Broadband Solution

Larry Burns, vice president of research and development and strategic planning at General Motors, has received the ASM International 2007 Medal for the Advancement of Research.

Microsoft Corp., in partnership with the United Service Organizations (USO), today introduced the Microsoft® Above and Beyond Awards to recognize the contributions of the military community of friends, family and other individuals who support U.S. troops and/or their families in 2007.

Casio America, Inc. and Maxim are teaming up to honor people and companies that keep men looking good and feeling confident. This year’s Maxim Style Awards will be presented by Casio and is taking place September 18th at Avalon in Hollywood, CA.

AT&T Inc. today announced that its eSales and Service organization was presented with a Stevie Award for "Best Sales Organization" at the 2007 International Business Awards. Additionally, the company's web portal, AT&T BusinessDirect®, earned an International Certificate of Finalist Recognition for its mobile capabilities.

Microsoft Dynamics™ CRM has been named a leading solution in the Small Business Suite and Midmarket Suite categories as part of CRM Magazine’s 2007 CRM Market Leader Awards, announced at the destinationCRM 2007 conference in New York last month.