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Cael Sanderson Among This Year’s Penn State Honorary Alumni Award Recipients

Five individuals who are not Penn State graduates but who have worked for the betterment of the university have been named this year’s Honorary Alumni Award recipients. Among them is Penn State wrestling coach Cael Sanderson, who has led the Nittany Lions to eight team national championships since his hiring in 2009. Three of the recipients — C. Max Lang, Rachel Levine and Albert Matyasovsky — will be recognized at a ceremony on May 31, when the 2019 Distinguished Alumni and Philanthropist of the Year awards also will be presented. Sanderson and Brook Lenfest will be honored later this year. The Penn State Alumni Association has presented Honorary Alumni Awards since 1973 to longtime university champions and benefactors.

The 2019 Penn State Honorary Alumni:
– C. Max Lang is a professor emeritus and “founding father” of the Penn State College of Medicine and was the first faculty member recruited to the college in 1966. He served as chair of the Department of Comparative Medicine and director of the Animal Resource Facility for 40 years. Under his leadership, the college “designed and built animal research labs that were considered by the National Institutes of Health and National Academy of Sciences as models for the safe, humane, and effective use of animals in medical research,” according to the Alumni Association. His numerous awards and honors include Charles River Prize in Laboratory Animal Medicine, the highest honor in the field. Rest of the story and details at http://www.statecollege.com/news/local-news/cael-sanderson-among-this-years-penn-state-honorary-alumni-award-recipients,1480179/?mc_cid=405c3a6e07&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

May 25, 2019 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized