Milestones

Appointments

Ray Aldag, professor, management and human resources, is the new deputy dean of the Academy of Management Fellows. He was named to a three-year term with the organization, which has more than 12,000 members from 82 countries. Aldag also was appointed an associate editor of Decision Sciences and as a member of the Editorial Review Board of Administrative Science Quarterly.

Caitilyn Allen, professor, plant pathology and women’s studies, has been named Faculty Science Adviser for the Office of International Studies and Programs. Allen will advise the dean on scientific initiatives and serve as a liaison with other units across campus.

Neeraj Arora, associate professor, marketing, has been named the Arthur C. Nielsen, Jr., Professor of Marketing Research.

Mark Browne, professor and chair, actuarial science, risk management and insurance, has been elected president of the American Risk and Insurance Association.

Jo Ann Carr, director of the Center for Instructional Materials and Computing, has been appointed as publications and projects chair for the Wisconsin Educational Media Association. She will also serve a two-year term on the WEMA Board of Directors.

Jane Collins, professor, rural sociology; Ruth Lopez Turley, assistant professor, sociology; and Charles Hatcher, assistant professor, consumer science, have been approved recently by the Institute for Research on Poverty’s Executive Committee.

Adrienne Dillard has joined the Office of International Studies as a development specialist. She is responsible for developing long-term fund-raising strategies for OISP and International Institute programs and projects. She most recently served as the liaison to the College of Computer Sciences and Engineering at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville.

Steven Duke has joined International Academic Programs as a student services coordinator. He is a specialist in Russian and Baltic history and has served as associate director of the UW Center for Russia, East Europe and Central Asia.

Alberta Gloria, associate professor, counseling psychology, was appointed senior editor of the Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development.

Jan Heide, professor, marketing, has been named the Irwin Maier Chair.

Abhiyan Humane is the new Web master for International Studies. Humane is a doctoral student in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Eddie Harmon-Jones, associate professor, psychology, has been appointed associate editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Personality Processes and Individual Differences.

Maryellen MacDonald, professor, psychology, has been named associate editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition.

Gaye Mueller has joined International Academic Programs as a program assistant. She was most recently employed by John Deere Credit after a 20-year career with Wisconsin’s Department of Corrections and the Department of Administration.

Andrew Porter, director of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research and professor, educational psychology, has been named the Anderson-Bascom Professor of Education.

Stephen Quintana, professor and chair, counseling psychology, was appointed associate editor of Child Development.

Kim Rapp-Hanretta is the new assistant director of the Global Studies program. As a graduate student, she worked for International Academic Programs and was also the assistant director of the African Studies Program.

Several new program assistants have joined the International Institute, including Maki Raymo, Global Studies; Huang Jinxin, East Asian Studies; Anne Genereux, the European Union Center; and Cathy Schmitt, South Asian Studies.

Larry Rittenberg, professor, accounting and information systems, has been elected by the Institute of Internal Auditors to the positions of vice chairman of the board-research and president of the IIA Research Foundation. The IIA is an international professional organization with more than 76,000 members.

John Chappell Stowe, professor, music, has been re-elected vice president of the American Guild of Organists. He will serve a term of two years.

Craig Thompson, associate professor, marketing, has been named the Churchill Professor of Marketing.

Douglas Wittner has joined the Division of International Studies as an information processing and technology specialist. He worked previously for Sonic Foundry as a technical support specialist and as a quality assurance engineer.

Awarded

Anthony Auger, assistant professor, psychology, will receive the Frank A. Beach Award for the best young investigator in Behavioral Neuroendocrinology. The award will be presented at the Society for Neuroscience meeting this November.

Rick Brooks, Professional Development and Applied Studies, was recently selected for a national “E-chievement Award” by the syndicated radio program “eTown.” He was recognized because of his students’ service learning efforts associated with an off-campus class he teaches, Facilitating Health and Social Change.

Alberto Cabrera, professor, educational administration, has received the annual William Elgin Wickenden Award, given for the best paper published in the American Society of Engineering Education’s Journal of Engineering Education. Cabrera collaborated with Patrick Terenzini and Carol Colbeck in writing “Collaborative Learning vs. Lecture/ Discussion: Students’ Reported Learning Gains.”

Fong Chan, professor, rehabilitation psychology and special education, received the 2002 James Huff Stout Award. The award is presented to a UW-Stout alumnus who has exemplified Stout’s “learning through involvement” attitude and manner.

M. Vere DeVault, emeritus professor, curriculum and instruction, was among 20 charter members inducted into the Educators Hall of Honor at the University of Tennessee College of Education in Knoxville.

Dave Dixson, emeritus professor, dairy science, and Ted Halbach, dairy cattle evaluation instructor, coached UW–Madison’s teams at the Accelerated Genetics 9th Annual Midwest Intercollegiate Dairy Cattle Judging Contest. A team of dairy cattle judges took first place in oral reasons at the competition. Elizabeth Walker of Portage, a sophomore majoring in secondary education, was high individual overall. UW–Madison placed third overall.

R. Tass Dueland, professor emeritus, School of Veterinary Medicine, recently received the American Kennel Club Career Achievement Award in Canine Research. The award was presented during the annual American Veterinary Medical Association meeting, held in Nashville, Tenn., this summer.

Tuncer Edil, professor, civil and environmental engineering, and chair of the geological engineering program, was recently presented with the Engineering Achievement Award by the Wisconsin section of the American Society of Civil Engineers at its annual meeting. Edil was honored for his work on a contaminated sludge lagoon-capping project for the Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District.

Fred Fenster, professor, art, received the Hans Christensen Sterling Silversmith’s Award from the Society of American Silversmiths. The annual award honors those individuals who have made significant contributions to the field.

Alberta Gloria, associate professor, counseling psychology, was awarded the Emerging Professional Award at the 2002 American Psychological Association Annual Conference for the Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues. The award honors outstanding early-career contributions in promoting ethnic minority issues in the field of psychology.

Max Lagally, E.W. Mueller Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, has been awarded a 2002 Tibbetts Award. These awards honor individuals, small firms, projects and organizations that have used the stimulus of Small Business Innovation Research Funding to make a clear and definable difference. Lagally was honored along with the company he founded, Piezomax Technologies, Inc. (now nPoint Inc.) and leading this Madison-based company to successful development of nanomotion products. Recipients of the award, which is sponsored by the U.S. Small Business Administration Office of Technology, were honored in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 2.

Walter Lane, assistant dean, School of Education, received the 2002 Chancellor’s Award from the UW–Madison Student Personnel Association for his 25 years of work with minority and disadvantaged students through the university’s TRIO program.

Robert Livingston, assistant professor, African-American Studies and psychology, has received one of two dissertation awards offered each year by Division 8 of the American Psychological Association (Social Psychological Society of Social Issues). His dissertation is titled “Bias in the Absence of Malice: The Phenomenon of Unintentional Discrimination” and was completed at Ohio State University.

Norm Olson, emeritus professor, food science, recently received the Distinguished Service Award from the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. Olson has excelled in teaching, outreach, research and administration in his six-decade career at CALS.

Li Chiao-Ping, associate professor, dance, has released a 75-minute video entitled “Extreme Moves Training Method” that shows dancers how to prepare to perform the extreme moves of contemporary dance. The video was released by ADF Video.

Douglas Rosenberg, assistant professor, dance, recently received the Phelan Art Award in Video. This award honors artists who may reside anywhere in the world, but were born in California. Winners will be honored at a public screening and reception on Nov. 23 at the San Francisco Art Institute. The award is sponsored by The San Francisco Foundation and is funded by the James D. Phelan Trust.

Willis Tompkins, professor, biomedical, electrical and computer engineering, has received the Career Achievement Award from the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers. The award honors educators, researchers, developers or administrators who have had a distinguished career of 20 years or more in the filed of biomedical engineering. Tompkins will receive the award at the society’s annual conference in Houston this month.

David Trubek, Voss-Bascom Professor of Law, and director of the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy, has been awarded the Law and Society Association’s Harry Kalven Prize for 2002. The prize recognizes a body of empirical scholarship that has contributed most effectively to the advancement of research in the field of law and society.

David Weerts, visiting scholar, Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education, has been selected by the Kellogg Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good as one of five National Rising Scholars for the 2002-2003 cohort. The program sponsors up to five awards nationally for pre-tenured faculty, young practitioners and advanced graduate students who engage in research that explores higher education’s role in serving the public good. Weerts received the award for his proposed work on assessing the organizational models of outreach and engagement at Land Grant Universities.

A book co-authored by Terrie Moffitt and Avshalom Caspi, professors, psychology, has been selected for the 2003 Eleanor Maccoby Book Award in Developmental Psychology from the American Psychological Association. The book, “Sex Differences in Antisocial Behavior,” was published by Cambridge University Press in 2003.

More than 60 works by University of Wisconsin System visual artists are currently on display as part of the second annual Brittingham Art Invitational. The invitational features selected pieces of artwork by 44 art faculty and instructors from throughout the system. The artwork can be seen at Brittingham House and at the Office of the President in Van Hise Hall. UW–Madison artists chosen for inclusion are: John Hitchcock, assistant professor, relief and screenprinting; Debra Lawton, lecturer, art; Leslee Nelson, professor, art and liberal studies and the arts; and Enrique Rueda, multimedia research artist, Wisconsin Center for Education Research.

The Department of Counseling Psychology received UW–Madison’s 2002 Small Department Teaching Award from the Chancellor’s Office and the Creating a Collaborative Academic Environment program. The department was recognized in part for the innovative redesign of two training programs to prepare counseling psychologists and counselors to serve a culturally diverse society.

The Friends of the Arboretum have selected two recipients for their new Leopold Restoration Awards. Wayne Pauly, Dane County Parks naturalist, will receive the John T. Curtis Award for career excellence in ecological restoration. The Sisters of Saint Benedict in Middleton will receive the Virginia M. Kline Award for excellence in community-based restoration. The Aldo Leopold Foundation and Xcel Energy of Wisconsin co-sponsor the awards.

Grants

Judi Bartfeld, Institute for Research on Poverty, has received funding from the Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services for research on food insecurity in Wisconsin.

Geoffrey Borman, assistant professor, educational administration, will study the consequences of attending elementary schools that have high concentrations of poor students as a 2002-03 National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow.

Avshalom Caspi and Terrie Moffitt, professors, psychology, have received a five-year renewal of their National Institutes of Mental Health grant on personality and health from childhood through adulthood.

Thomas Corbett, Institute for Research on Poverty, with funding from the Joyce Foundation and the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and in cooperation with members of the Midwest Welfare Peer Assistance Network, has initiated a project on state welfare programs.

H. Hill Goldsmith, professor, psychology, has received a renewal award from the National Institutes of Mental Health to extend for five more years his research on longitudinal twin studies of early emotional development.

Janet Hyde, professor, psychology and women’s studies, has received a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation on mothers’ interactions with children doing mathematics.

Jerlando Jackson, assistant professor, educational administration, received a Minority Faculty Research Award from the University of Wisconsin System’s Institute on Race and Ethnicity. He will use an existing national data set to examine the decisions of university and college administrators to remain in leadership positions.

Stephen Kantrowitz, associate professor, history, has been awarded a 2002-2003 fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. While at Radcliffe, Kantrowitz will write a book on the struggles of Massachusetts’ racial abolitionists after their emergence as a major political force during the 1850s.

Marzena Krawiec, UW Children’s Hospital, was recently selected as a 2002 recipient in the Pfizer Scholars Grants for Faculty Development in Pediatric Health. The award enables Dr. Krawiec to conduct research for a project entitled “Identifying Markers of Airway Inflammation in Young Wheezing Children” for two years.

Shaima Nasiri, doctoral student, atmospheric and oceanic sciences, has received the first Suomi-Simpson Graduate Fellowship, sponsored by UW–Madison and NASA. Nasiri will work with scientists at Goddard Space Flight Center’s Earth Observing System.

Adam Nelson, assistant professor, educational policy studies, has received a National Academy of Education/Spencer postdoctoral fellowship for his study of “Nationalism, Internationalism and the Origins of the American Research University, 1785-1915.” Nelson also received an Advanced Studies Fellowship from Brown University for his project on “Boston’s Public Schools and the Evolution of Federal Aid to Education, 1950-2000.”

William Reese, professor, educational policy studies and history, has received a grant from the Spencer Foundation to study the rise of academic standards and social promotion in American’s urban schools.

Mary Schneider, professor, occupational therapy, received a grant from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism for a five-year study on the effects of fetal alcohol exposure in monkeys.

Leyuan Shi, professor, industrial engineering, and Harriet Nembhard, assistant professor, industrial engineering, have received a grant from the National Science Foundation to support their project, “An Evaluation Approach for Flexibility in Manufacturing Enterprises.” The three-year award will support their continuing collaborative research on using financial engineering and real-options principles to model and value manufacturing decisions related to process or system changes. The work is sponsored by the Manufacturing Enterprise Systems program in the Division of Design Manufacturing and Industrial Innovation.

Carl Sovinec, assistant professor, engineering physics, has received a three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Energy Plasma Physics Junior Faculty Development Program. The program, designed to identify exceptionally talented plasma faculty members early in their careers and help develop their research programs, is administered by the DOE Office of Fusion Energy Sciences.

Kumar Sridharan, senior scientist, engineering physics and the Center for Plasma-Aided Manufacturing, and Michael Corradini, Wisconsin Distinguished professor, engineering physics, have received a two-year grant from the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy Research Initiative. Their research will deal with approaches to incorporate integral fuel-burnable, absorbing elements in fuel- cladding material rather than the current practice of incorporating these elements into fuel pallets. The two will collaborate with Westinghouse Corporation and Sandia National Laboratories.

Amy Stambach, assistant professor, educational policy studies and anthropology, recently received a Spencer Small Research Grant to study American faith-based educational initiatives overseas. She is examining the impact of U.S. faith-based educational initiatives on educational programming in East Africa and exploring American and East African views of education in the context of the debate about the separation of church and state.

Barbara Wolfe, Thomas Kaplan and Robert Haveman, Institute for Research on Poverty, are co-principal investigators on a study of the implications of BadgerCare for work and earnings. Their research is being supported by grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

Jin-Wen Yu, assistant professor, dance, has been awarded an outreach grant from the Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission, enabling him to bring elementary students to campus and to visit schools for dance demonstrations.

Published

Birute Ciplijauskaite, professor emirita, Spanish and Portuguese and Institute for Research in the Humanities, has published three translations. “La milagrosa hierba del la raiz amarga” was written by Vidmante Jasukaityte (Horas y Horas, 2002). “Entre el sol y la desposesion: Poemas de Janina Degutyte y Birute Pukeleviciute” was published by la Universidad de Cadiz. “Moteris tarp balandziu” was written by Merce Rodoreda and published by Charbide.

Linda Essig, professor, lighting design and director of University Theatre, has just published “The Speed of Light: Dialogues on Lighting Design and Technological Change” (Heinemann Drama).

Daniel Gianola, professor, animal sciences and dairy science, has co-authored “Likelihood, Bayesian and MCMC Methods in Quantitative Genetics” (Springer Verlag, 2002) with Daniel Sorenson, research leader at the Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences.

Neil Whitehead, professor, anthropology, has published “Dark Shamans – Kanaima and the Poetics of Violent Death.” (Duke University Press, 2002)