The Shenango Campus of Pennsylvania State University, Sharon, announced its 2001-2002 teaching awards during the annual campus advisory board meeting.

Shirley Dillaman, biology instructor, received the Leonard R. Riforgiato Memorial Teaching Award. The former Penn State Shenango Teacher of the Year Award is given to a full-time faculty member nominated and recommended by students and peers.

Dr. Jane Viti, a part-time biology instructor, received the Margaret Cunningham Foley Memorial Teaching Award. The former Penn State Shenango Adjunct Teacher of the Year award recognizes outstanding part-time faculty.

Mrs. Dillaman has taught anatomy and physiology since 1984 at the campus. She has written and received educational grants, which have been incorporated into her classes to enhance student learning.

Mrs. Dillaman completed undergraduate studies in biology at what is now Slippery Rock University, where she graduated summa cum laude and was valedictorian of her class. She graduated summa cum laude from Cleveland State University with a master of education degree in biology.

Mrs. Dillaman has been active in National Human Anatomy and Physiology Society where she presented "Interactive Tutorial on the Human Muscular System" in May in Phoenix. She also reviews anatomy textbooks for McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.

Mrs. Dillaman is member of the faculty senate and 2002 strategic planning committees and is an instructor for the College for Kids program. She is on the advisory board for Mercer County Health Careers Academy and Royer Center for Learning Technology at University Park, Pa. She and her husband, Glenn, live in Grove City.

Dr. Viti was hired in the fall of 2001 as a human biology and microbiology instructor at the Shenango Campus. She also teaches physiology, anatomy and microbiology at the New Kensington Campus of Pennsylvania State University.

Dr. Viti graduated in 1991 from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pa., with a biology and psychology major. She earned a doctorate in neurobiology in 1998 from University of Pittsburgh, where she also completed a postdoctoral fellowship.

Dr. Viti while in college and graduate school was active in Young Women in Science, American Heart Association and Sigma Xi research honor society. She also was a graduate school council representative.

She and her husband, Dr. Craig Viti, live in Pittsburgh.