Staff Members Recognized for Outstanding Work

IITRI's Vice President and Director singled out three employees at the semi-annual staff meeting in June 2004 for their contributions to IITRI's success. David L. McCormick presented each of them with a hefty crystal Director's Award for their achievements.

	Thomas L. Horn, Ph.D.; Nei-Long Lyang, M.S., C.B.S.; and Mary Kwiatkowski received Director's Awards at the semi-annual staff meeting in June 2004

• Thomas L. Horn, Ph.D., Research Toxicologist in the Toxicology and Carcinogenesis Divison, won for outstanding technical performance. His attention to detail and close personal involvement in all studies for which he is responsible have resulted in a continually increasing number of technical successes. His performance has uniformly been rated as "Outstanding" by IITRI's Sponsors.


• Nei-Long Lyang, M.S., C.B.S., Research Biologist in the Microbiology and Molecular Biology Division, won for outstanding technical performance. He has greatly streamlined the technical processes and report writing associated with the conduct of the Ames test, and consistently adheres to IITRI's Quality Assurance standards. These factors have resulted in greatly increased throughput in the Ames laboratory at the same time that very high quality has been maintained.


• Mary Kwiatkowski, Senior Accounting Specialist in the Financial Operations Division, won for outstanding administrative support. She performs numerous duties in her division and has done a consistently outstanding job. She is always willing to assume new responsibilities and has over-achieved in every task to which she has been assigned.

"The Director's Awards were conceived to recognize those individuals whose consistently outstanding performance allows us to differentiate ourselves as an organization, and as such, supports our overall success," Dr. McCormick said. "These three recipients clearly have done so."