Milestones

Honored

College Library Director Carrie Kruse has won a 2006 Association of College and Research Libraries Women’s Studies Section Award for Significant Achievement in Women’s Studies Librarianship.

The Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention, part of the School of Medicine and Public Health, was awarded a three-year grant to study the impact of the creation of a national tobacco quitline network on state quitlines and state funding.

Ronald Schultz, School of Veterinary Medicine, recently served on the American Animal Hospital Association Canine Vaccine Task Force.

Junior men’s hockey goaltender Brian Elliott was a finalist for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award.

UW–Madison’s women’s swimming and diving team netted 15 All-America and 10 honorable mention All-America awards at the NCAA championships.

University Communications has won a Telly Award for the commercial “Touched by a Badger II,” awarded in the category of Regional TV Commercials for schools.

Wisconsin’s varsity eight was named the Big Ten Boat of the Week. The Badgers opened their season at the Longhorn Invitational in Austin and swept four schools.

The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has awarded the first-ever prize for the year’s best paper published in PNAS, recognizing the work of Karl Mahlburg, Department of Mathematics.

Margaret Brandenburg and Patricia Whipple of the College of Letters and Science were recipients of Secretary’s Awards from the Partners in Giving campaign. Terry Metcalf of the State Laboratory of Hygiene received a Special Events award.

Terry Millar, Department of Mathematics and associate dean for the physical sciences in the Graduate School, will receive the 2006 Madison Metropolitan School District Distinguished Service Award.

John Kutzbach, emeritus professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, will receive the Roger Revelle Medal by the American Geophysical Union for outstanding contributions to the field.

The campus radio station, WSUM, has won nine awards at the recent Wisconsin Broadcaster Association conference, including first place in the Radio Long Form and Promotional/Public Service Announcement categories.

Women’s hockey coach Mark Johnson has been named Women’s Division I Coach of the Year.

Seven members of the School of Education have been selected to receive Distinguished Achievement Awards, the highest honor the school bestows on current faculty and staff. Receiving faculty honors are Michael Apple, curriculum and instruction and educational policy studies; and Mary Haywood Metz, educational policy studies. Receiving academic staff honors are James Shaw, educational leadership and policy analysis; and Andrew Winterstein, kinesiology. Receiving classified staff honors are Gary Koch, art; and Phyllis Sierra, kinesiology. Receiving the Claire Shaffer Classified Staff Award is Kathleen Schuster, education outreach.

Hannah Carey, Department of Comparative Biosciences in the School of Veterinary Medicine, has been elected president of the American Physiological Society.