Doreen Adamany is a recipient of the 2005 School of Education Distinguished Achievement Award for Academic Staff for her work as University Relations Specialist at the Dance Program for the past seven years. Her primary responsibilities include media relations, internal and external communications, publications, guest artist residencies and grant writing. In addition, Adamany supports and initiates program planning and outreach efforts. She is a member of the UW Arts Institute’s Subcommittee for Arts Communicators and acts as liaison to other arts units and groups on campus and in the community. She has served on various campus committees including the School of Education Committee on Academic Staff, participated in the academic staff mentoring program, and was selected for leadership training at the Leadership Institute on campus in 2003-04. Adamany earned a BA in history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is currently working on a master’s degree in Continuing Adult and Vocational Education. For her graduate studies she was awarded several UW-Madison Continuing Education grants and a Mellon Foundation Workshop grant from the UW-Madison Center for the Humanities. Previously Adamany held public relations and development positions at the United Performing Arts Fund in Milwaukee, Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Elvehjem Museum of Art at the UW-Madison, and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.