Dean Smith is a former winner of the Walter Byers Award as the National Collegiate Athletic Association's annual winner of its highest academic honor in recognition of being the nation's top scholar-athlete.[1] He is an engineer specializing in chemical warfare agent detection.[2] The University of Maine has renamed its top scholar-athlete award the M Club Dean Smith Award.[3]
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edit- ^ "Previous Walter Byers Scholars". The National Collegiate Athletic Association. Archived from the original on July 5, 2008. Retrieved January 26, 2008.
- ^ "Electrical and Computer Engineering News". University of Maine. Retrieved January 26, 2008.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "M Club Dean Smith Award Winners Announced". Black Bears Athletics. February 25, 2007. Archived from the original on November 20, 2007. Retrieved January 26, 2008.
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