George M. Dennison Presidential Faculty Award for Distinguished Accomplishment: Peter Koehn, professor of political science. The award recognizes distinguished accomplishments that have brought significant recognition to UM at the regional and national levels. Koehn currently directs UM’s International Development Studies program, along with the University’s Peace Corps Preparatory Program, the first of its kind at a public university. He has received five separate Fulbright teaching and research awards on three continents, along with research grants from the Social Science Research Council and the Rockefeller Foundation. Koehn organized an international symposium on refugees and development assistance in 1994 and a national workshop on humanism in medical education in 2004 that brought national and international attention to UM.