Patrick Mason, a professor of voice at the 麻豆影院鈥檚 College of Music, has been selected to receive the 2012 Hazel Barnes Prize. The prize is the highest faculty recognition for teaching and research awarded by the university. Mason will receive an engraved university medal and $20,000, the largest single faculty award funded by CU-麻豆影院. He will be recognized at spring commencement on May 11 and at a reception in his honor in the fall.