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Distinguished Alumni Award given to Mills by Heather M. Woolwine Public Relations  Jack Mills, Ph.D., of MUSC's Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, received the Distinguished Alumni Award for 2002-03 from the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology at the University of Iowa. Iowa’s department is ranked number one in its category by U.S. News and World Report. Each year since 1985, the award has been given to an alumnus of the department whom the current faculty unanimously recommends. Only the second graduate from audiology to receive this honor, Mills was picked from a large number of University of Iowa graduates, many of whom have gained national and international  reputations for research and clinical expertise. Mills published more than 30 times during a career spanning decades. With MUSC since 1982 as a professor in the Otolaryngology and Communicative Sciences department, he received his bachelor’s and master's degrees from the University of Montana in Missoula.  He attained numerous fundings  and grants from the National Institutes of Health and has chaired site visits and special reviews for projects around the country. He also provided research support to the Army, Navy and Air Force, Federal Aviation Authority, and the National Security Agency.   Catalyst Online is published weekly, updated as needed and improved from time to time by the MUSC Office of Public Relations for the faculty, employees and students of the Medical University of South Carolina. Catalyst Online editor, Kim Draughn, can be reached at 792-4107 or by email, catalyst@musc.edu. Editorial copy can be submitted to Catalyst Online and to The Catalyst in print by fax, 792-6723, or by email to petersnd@musc.edu or catalyst@musc.edu. To place an ad in The Catalyst hardcopy, call Community Press at 849-1778.