ATLANTA -- The Aquinas Center of Theology at Emory University recently presented its annual Graduate Fellow Award and elected two new members to its board. Lynn Bridgers was named the Aquinas Graduate Fellow, an award given annually to a graduate student pursuing Catholic studies.

Involved in both teaching and ministry, Bridgers holds a master's degree in theology from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, Calif., and a master's degree in writing from the University of San Francisco. Bridgers is currently pursuing her doctoral work in the "Community and Religious Practices Program" of the graduate division of religion at Emory.

Her publications include "Death's Deceiver: The Life of Joseph P. Marchebeuf, The First Bishop of Denver." At its meeting on July 31, Don Saliers and Joseph Foltz were elected to the board of the Aquinas Center of Theology. The board is made up of persons from the academic, business, legal and medical communities.

The new members replace members whose terms had expired. Saliers, a professor of liturgy and music at The Candler School of Theology, takes the place of former board member Luke Timothy Johnson. Professor Saliers taught a course on liturgy at Boston College this summer. Foltz, a parishioner at the Cathedral of Christ the King, Atlanta, replaces former board member Terry G. Cambias, whose business has transferred him to Mexico.