The following is a list of achievements by businesses and individuals in the Ann Arbor area:

• The law office of Butzel Long recently announced that Bethany Steffke Sweeny has been named a shareholder. Based in Butzel Long's Ann Arbor office, Sweeny concentrates her practice in the area of labor and employment law, focusing on employment litigation involving state and federal claims of harassment, retaliation and discrimination, as well as FMLA and whistleblower claims. Previously, Sweeny was an associate attorney with Butzel Long.

• Carly Toaz recently joined the professional staff of Ann Arbor-based TriMedia Environmental & Engineering Services as project coordinator in the firm's Ann Arbor office. Toaz’s responsibilities in her new role include preparing outgoing documents, providing contract administration services related to sub-contractor bid documents and sub-consultant and service providers. She also coordinates all projects completed from TriMedia’s Ann Arbor office.

• Arbor Hospice recently appointed six new members to its board of directors: Cindy Livesay of Saline is senior vice president of credit administration at Bank of Ann Arbor; Sandra Nielsen of Canton is director of Eastern Michigan University’s Professional Education Center within the school’s College of Business; Bill O’Neil of Allen Park is a self-employed financial planner, former Wayne County Commissioner and past State Representative for the 24th District in the downriver area; David C. Smith of Ann Arbor is a professor of medicine and urology at University of Michigan’s Comprehensive Cancer Center; Annette Tenerelli-Lemke of Dexter is a partner and director of tax department at Plante & Moran’s Ann Arbor office; Becky Wallace of Ann Arbor is a manager at Rhoades Doehrer & Associates Certified Public Accountants in Saline.

• Contracting Resources Inc., a Brighton-based design-build and construction services company, is providing general contracting services for the University of Michigan East Health & Geriatric Center New Infusion Suite project. Work includes renovation work to accommodate 10 new infusion bays along with supporting clinical spaces. The project architect is Hobbs + Black Architects. In related news from Contracting Resources, the firm is providing general contracting services for the University of Michigan Taubman radiographic equipment replacement project. The project includes renovations to the second level of the Taubman Health Center to relocate radiographic equipment. The project architect is A3C Collaborative Architecture.

• Ann Arbor-based Huron Valley Ambulance has elected the following officers to its 2010 board of trustees: John Worden, a retired fire chief and zoning administrator from Summit Township in Jackson County, is the new chair; Jacalyn Liebowitz, vice president for patient care continuum at Allegiance Health in Jackson is the new vice chair; Richard B. Lundy, consultant and community leader from Dexter is the new secretary/treasurer. Also joining the board this year is trustee Tom Yack, retired Canton Township supervisor.

• Ann Arbor Architect Dan Joseph, owner of Dan Joseph Architects, won Mountain Living magazine's 2010 “Most Responsible” Project of the Year Award. Dan Joseph Architects has offices in Bozeman, Mont. and Manchester, Mich. The project, Headwaters Camp, located in the exclusive Yellowstone Club in Big Sky, Mont., was honored for utilization of historic architecture, respect for cultural heritage, outstanding natural beauty and the incorporation of sustainable design principals. Joseph competed against submissions solicited from 12 states and two Canadian provinces for the award.

• Ann Arbor Mortgage Co. has added Mary Adams to the staff as a loan officer.

• Edward St. John, the University of Michigan's Algo D. Henderson Collegiate Professor of Higher Education, was selected as a 2010 American Educational Research Association Fellow. St. John's work concentrates on public policies that promote equity in higher education and professional education. The fellowship program is intended to recognize excellence in research and be inclusive of the scholarship that constitutes and enriches education research as an interdisciplinary field. Fellows are nominated by their peers, selected and recommended by the fellows committee, and approved by the AERA council, the association's elected governing group.

• United Bancorp Inc. recently announced the hire of Arthur C. W. Doner Jr. as senior vice president, wealth management market manager, to serve the Washtenaw County area.

• Three surgeons from the University of Michigan Health System’s sports medicine program, known as MedSport, were recognized for their contributions to orthopedic sports medicine with top awards by the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine. Asheesh Bedi, who is also an assistant professor of sports medicine and shoulder surgery in the U-M Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, received the Cabaud Memorial Award for his research examining the kinematics of the knee after injury. Bruce Miller, also an assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery in the U-M Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, received the O’Donoghue Sports Injury Research Award for his study exploring ultrasound examinations after arthroscopic repairs in large shoulder rotator cuff tears. Jon Sekiya, also an associate professor of orthopaedic surgery in the U-M Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, received the Excellence in Research Award for his paper on the effect of acetabular labrum tears on hip stability.

• Two University of Michigan professors have been awarded a grant to develop an instructor training program for the United Association of Journeyman and Apprentices. Donald Freeman, associate professor of education, and Kathleen Graves, clinical associate professor, have been awarded a grant from the ISR/United Association of Journeyman and Apprentices for a project called “Improving the Quality of UA Instructor Training-Planning Phase” in the amount of $50,192. The three-year project, which is a collaboration between the Institute for Social Research, the Union Training Center at Washtenaw Community College and the School of Education, involves a training-of-trainers design in which union members learn to become, and qualify, as instructors to teach members in their local union settings.

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