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Frank Moody ’52, M.D., who helped patients battle obesity in the 1970s by promoting weight loss surgery, has received the 2016 American Surgical Association Medallion for Advancement of Surgical Care.

The bariatric surgeon also began a weight loss program at UTHealth in Houston, where he is now a professor, that has evolved into one of the largest in the country.

»> William Dexter ’78, M.D., has earned the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine Founders’ Award. Dexter is director of the sports medicine program at Maine Medical Center and team physician for the Portland Pirates, an AHL hockeyteam. »> Mitchell Zeller ’79, director of the Food and Drug Administration Center for Tobacco Products, has received the Arthur S. Flemming Award for his efforts in the regulation of tobacco products in the United States, which included launching nationwide youth tobacco prevention campaigns. >>> Glenn Jordan ’85, a Portland (Maine) Press Herald staff writer, won first-place honors for explanatory writing in the Associated Press Sports Editors 2015 contest. He earned the award for his story on how traditional charity events are losing participants to adventure races sponsored by for-profit organizations.

>» Nora Jacobson ’74, one of Vermont’s most prolific filmmakers, has earned the Burlington City Arts Herb Lockwood Prize, the largest arts prize in the state. Her work includes Delivered Vacant (about gentrification in a New Jersey city) and TheHanjiBox (about international adoption in South Korea). »> Jay Davis ’90, who has coached skiing for almost two decades at the Dartmouth Skiway through the Ford Sayre children’s program, has received the New England Nordic Ski Association Bill Koch League Youth Leadership Award.

»> Olivia (Carpenter) Glenn ’00, the South Jersey metro regional manager of the New Jersey Conservation Foundation, has earned the Camden County Board of Freeholders Sustainability Award for her role in making the county more sustainable. Glenn grew up in Camden, and is now responsible for acquiring and developing parks and greenways in the region.

»> Duncan Robinson ’16, the 2015 Ivy League Pitcher of the Year at Dartmouth, has been signed by the Chicago Cubs after being selected in the ninth round with the 284th overall pick in the Major League Baseball draft.