Dr. Mark R. Bower, former Warsaw resident, recently was named the winner of the 2012 Morris-Cole Epilepsia Prize. The award is supported by the International League Against Epilepsy and the Morris-Cole Trust. The prize is awarded each year to the author of a high-quality research paper with implications for understand and/or treating epilepsy. The prize will be awarded at the 30th International Epilepsy Congress in Montreal, Canada, Sunday. Bower graduated from Warsaw Community High School in 1983; Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; University of Central Florida; and University of Arizona. He currently is employed at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. He is the son of Roger and Jane Bower, Warsaw.