Milestones

Appointed

Pamela Douglas, head of UW Health Heart and Vascular Care, Tuchman Professor and head of cardiovascular medicine at UW Medical School, was recently inducted as vice president of the American College of Cardiology at the organization’s annual scientific session in Chicago.

Honored

Liz Breed, librarian, Memorial Library Reference Department, and Karl Debus-Lopez, chief acquisitions librarian and head of the Acquisitions and Serials Department in Central Technical Services, have been selected as Librarians of the Year 2003 by their peers in the UW–Madison Librarians’ Assembly. The awards are given annually to recognize outstanding contributions to campus library services by two unclassified staff members of the General Library System. One award is given to someone who has worked for the system more than 10 years (Breed); the second honors someone who has been on the staff 10 years or less (Debus-L—pez).

Jun Li, associate scientist in the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, Space Science and Engineering Center, has been named Guest Chief Scientist in satellite atmospheric sounding by China’s National Satellite Meteorological Center. He is the first scientist outside of the Chinese center to be awarded this title.

Christopher Velden, assistant scientist in the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, Space Science and Engineering Center, has received the Hagemeyer Award sponsored by the Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Velden leads the Tropical Cyclones group for CIMSS.

The School of Education will honor eight faculty and staff members with Distinguished Achievement Awards at an April 30 reception: Kathleen Boebel, alumni coordinator, Office of External Relations; Thomas Carpenter, professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction; Joseph Connelly, lecturer, Department of Art; Karen Fiske, administrator of the independent learning program, Office of Education Outreach; Joyce Kemper, graduate admissions coordinator, Department of Curriculum and Instruction; Patricia Nehm, program assistant 2, Department of Educational Administration; Brenda Spychalla, information processing consultant, Office of Information Technology, and Bruce Wampold, professor, Department of Counseling Psychology.

The Dane County Division of Public Health and the Madison Department of Public Health recently honored seven UW Health Certified Nurse Midwives for their dedication and commitment in providing outstanding health care services through the Madison Community Health Center to women who would otherwise lack access to care: Carol Carr, Cally Christenson, Kelly Lindgren, Judith McNeel, Erika Ono, Ann Rifenberg and Lisa Wachholz. Lindgren received special recognition for her dedication to assuring cultural competence in the UW Nurse Midwifery service; for learning and providing care in the Spanish language; and for her important link with the UW School of Nursing, through which her research regarding the health of Latina women will enhance the quality of care for Latina women in Dane County and beyond.

Published

Michael Apple, John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies, has just published “The State and the Politics of Knowledge” (Routledge).

Deceased

John Steinhart, emeritus professor of geology and geophysics, and a key figure in planning and launching the Gaylord Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies at UW–Madison, died in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on April 4, 2003.

Hilldale Awards

Here is a list of recipients, their faculty advisers and departments or programs for the Hilldale Undergraduate Research Awards. Grants from the Hilldale Foundation and the Wisconsin Legislature provide $4,000 each to undergraduate students and $1,000 to the faculty or staff supervisors to work in collaboration on research projects.

Albright, Lisa, Diana Downs, Bacteriology

Anderson, Brian, Cyrena Pondrom, English

Bachhuber, Marcus, William Bement, Zoology

Barszcz, Natalie, Michael Culbertson, Genetics/ Molecular Biology

Bayless, Katherine, Diane Gooding, Psychology

Bayley, Colleen, Patricia Rosenmeyer, Classics

Blatchley, Samuel, Thomas Archdeacon, History

Blitzer, Eleanor, Que Lan, Entomology

Bothwell, Helen, Richard Lindroth, Entomology

Boulos, Nancy, Lyn Abramson, Psychology

Bryan, Andrew, Rod Welch, Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Cummings, Sydney, Lauren Riters, Zoology

David, Aisha, Pamela Kling, Pediatrics

DeBruin, Sarah, David Abbott, Obstetrics and Gynecology

Erickson, Krista, Lyn Abramson, Psychology

Federhart, Katherine, Margaret Clagett-Dame, Biochemistry

Fox, Paul, Ching Kung, Genetics/Molecular Biology

Friske, Justin, Stephen Gammie, Zoology

Gingras, Jeffrey, William Aylward, Classics

Guend, Hamza, Emery Bresnick, Pharmacology

Gulotta, Michael, John Curtin, Psychology

Haak, Rachael, Timothy Yoshino, Animal Health and Biomedical Sciences

Heinzen, Benjamin, Peter Lipton, Physiology

Horek, Nathan, Timothy Gomez, Anatomy, and Jeffery Walker, Physiology

Hughes, Charles, Ronald Radano, School of Music

Hutchens, Jennifer, Janette Boughman, Zoology

Isadore, Adam, Mary Halloran, Zoology

Jaworski, Beth, Arthur Glenberg, Psychology

Johnson, Rebecca, Jean Lee, History

Joyce, Stella, Charles Snowdon, Psychology

Karnauskas, Kristopher, Jonathan Martin, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Keller, Melissa, Richard Amasino, Biochemistry

Keppel, Drew, Mark Eriksson, Physics

Kern, Katie, Eric Wilcots, Astronomy

Kopplin, Laura, Paul Bertics, Biomolecular Chemistry

Krueger, Rebecca, Charles Czuprynski, Pathobiological Sciences

Kung, Vanderlene, Paul Bertics, Biomolecular Chemistry

Laud, Rajnath, Jeremi Suri, History

Laurent, Benjamin, Mark Ediger, Chemistry

Lehmann-Ziebarth, Nicolas, Anath Seshadri, Economics

Lemke, Justin, Richard Gourse, Bacteriology

Liss, Adam, Christopher Bradfield, Oncology

Lorch, Jeffrey, Walter Goodman, Entomology

Malec, Christopher, Mark Rzchowski, Physics

McKenna, Maureen, Anthony Stretton, Zoology

McKenna, Theresa, Anthony Stretton, Zoology

Merriam, Elliott, Matthew Banks, Anesthesiology

Meyer, Jamie, F.R. Greer, Pediatrics, and N.J. Benevenga, Animal Sciences

Mezera, Andrew, Eric Shusta, Chemical Engineering

Mills, Jordan, Sherry Tanumihardjo, Nutritional Sciences

Nelson, Julia, Johann Sommerville, History

Nichols, Jessica, Richard Davidson, Psychology

Olson, Jordan, Sandro Mecozzi, School of Pharmacy

Ostrowski, Summer, Dana Geary, Geology and Geophysics

Podevels, Angela, Timothy Donohue, Bacteriology

Rangarajan, Rishi, Regina Murphy, Chemical Engineering

Rao, Deepa, Michael Schatzberg, Political Science, and Sabine Modersheim, German

Rhein, Julie, Jenny Saffran, Psychology

Riebau, Anne, Samuel Butcher, Biochemistry

Rodgers, Mary, Anna Huttenlocher, Pharmacology

Rothwell, Patrick, John Curtin, Psychology

Roubinek, Eric, Rudy Koshar, History

Santarius, Megan, John Svaren, Comparative Biosciences

Schumaker, Benjamin, David Rakel, Family Medicine

Schweigert, Shaun, Judith Harackiewicz, Psychology

Sesko, Amanda, Patricia Devine, Psychology

Shea, Heather, Diane Gooding, Psychology

Sheean, Andrew, Jeremi Suri, History

Shields, Morgan, Eddie Harmon-Jones, Psychology

Stengel, Michelle, Silvia Cavagnero, Chemistry

Sundlass, Nadia, James Skinner, Chemistry

Swanson, Kyle, Leonard Levin, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

Terlizzi, Rebecca, Amy Moser, Human Oncology

Theyel, Brian, Ruth Benca, Psychiatry

Van Alstine, Jon Basil, Tikoff, Geology and Geophysics

Walsh, Karen, David Baum, Botany

Weiss, Brian, John Curtin, Psychology

White, Alanna, William Dove, Oncology

Wild, Paula, Guillermina DeFerrari, Spanish and Portuguese

Zaunbrecher, Virginia, Shawn Kaeppler, Agronomy

Ziehr, Jacqueline, Aaron Friedman, Pediatrics

Holstrom Awards

The following students received Holstrom Environmental Research Scholarships, which provide the same benefits to undergraduate students and their faculty advisers as Hilldale fellowships. Holstrom awards are funded by an endowment established by UW alumnus Carleton Holstrom to foster environmental research.

The recipients and their advisers are:

Free, Heather, Carol Eunmi Lee, Zoology

Gallaher, Courtney, Cynthia Stiles, Soil Science

Jelinski, Nicolas, Kenneth Sytsma, Botany

Joppa, Lucas, Stan Temple, Wildlife Ecology

Rahn, Lucy, Sharon Dunwoody, Journalism and Mass Communication

Topczewski, Emily William, Karasov, Wildlife Ecology