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Bell Named to Verizon Academic All-District 2 University Division At-Large First Team
Bassett earns second team honors

Seth Bell ranks among the top 10 in three events at American University.

May 22, 2003

WASHINGTON — American University senior Seth Bell (Jenkinton, Pa./Abington) was one of 10 men named to the Verizon Academic All-District 2 University Division At-Large First Team as announced by College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Bell will now be placed on the ballot for the Verizon/CoSIDA Academic All-America to be released June 10.

Junior Ethan Bassett (Potomac, Md./Winston Churchill) earned a spot on the second team as four other Patriot League student-athletes made up the 20-person team. To be nominated for the honor, a student-athlete must be at least a sophomore with a 3.2 cumulative grade-point average (GPA) and a key member of his team.

Bell, a two-year diver for the Eagles, ranks among the top eight in three different diving events and nabbed a fourth-place finish against UMBC last fall.

Ethan Bassett

Academically, he finished his honors chemistry program with a 3.99 GPA. He was recently honored as the male Outstanding Scholar at the Undergraduate Level from American University. Bell was also given the 2003 Outstanding Chemical Society of Washington D.C. award and earned the Barry M. Goldwater award.

During his years at AU he wrote an extra capstone (publishable honors work) and took nine graduate classes. Last summer Bell made a presentation entitled “Education through comics - elemental analysis” at the 224th ACS National Meeting and was involved with a research project that was directed toward computer-aided design and synthesis of novel antimycobacterial agents.

He is also the creator of several comic strips including Elemental Analysis and Adventures in Anarchy. He will continue in the PhD program at Princeton this fall.
American University, which fields a 19-sport NCAA Division I athletics program featuring 10 women’s sports and nine for men, is in its second year of membership in the Patriot League. Since joining the Patriot League, the University has captured league championships in men’s cross country, women’s lacrosse, women’s cross country, men’s soccer, women’s soccer, men’s tennis, women’s tennis and women’s volleyball, and a regular-season title in men’s basketball.

Chartered by an Act of Congress in 1893, American University features students from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and more than 160 nations worldwide.