Dave Godschalk ’53, the Stephen Baxter Professor Emeritus in the University of North Carolina department of city and regional planning, earned the 2015 President’s Award from the American Planning Association. He was also recognized for his guides on best practices.

Eugene Elrod ’71, a partner at Sidley Austin LLP based in Washington, D.C., has been named one of 51 “Trailblazers” in energy and environmental law by the National Law Journal. Elrod helps lead Sidley’s global energy practice.

Dr. Charles Littlejohn ’74, DMS’78, has been elected president of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons. A physician with Stamford (Connecticut) Health Integrated Practice, Littlejohn is a division director at Stamford Hospital and a clinical professor in the residency program affiliated with Columbia University.

Mark Mader ’92 has earned the 2015 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Pacific Northwest for his success as CEO of Smartsheet. The software firm based in Bellevue, Washington, provides work management platforms to organizations such as Google, Netflix, Cisco and Bayer.

Drexel law professor David Cohen ’94 has received the 2015 Innovation in Scholarship Award from the Center for Reproductive Rights in Washington, D.C., for his research on constitutional law and gender. He recently coauthored Living in the Crosshairs: The Untold Stories of Anti-Abortion Terrorism (Oxford University Press).

Annamaria Steward ’95 has been elected president of the District of Columbia Bar, the district’s mandatory bar association. Steward, associate dean of students at the University of the District of Columbia law school, has also served as president of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia.

Former N.Y.C. deputy inspector Brandon del Pozo ’96 has been sworn in as police chief of Burlington, Vermont. Del Pozo previously served 18 years with the N.Y.C. police department, starting as a patrol officer and later commanding two precincts.

Michael Leong ’00 has earned a National Endowment for the Arts literature translation fellowship, which will support his efforts to translate Sky-Quake, a long prose poem by the Chilean avant-gardist Vicente Huidobro. Leong, an assistant English professor at SUNY Albany, won a Face Out grant from the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses for his poem, Cutting Time with a Knife.