Milestones

Honored

Michael Chial was awarded a Certificate of Recognition for Special Contributions in Higher Education from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. The award recognizes distinguished achievement and/or contributions in teaching, mentoring or developing teaching tools in the fields of audiology, speech-language pathology, or speech, language and hearing science.

Fred Fenster, professor emeritus of art, received the ACC Gold Medal, the highest award that the American Craft Council bestows. The honor, which includes a real gold medal, recognizes Fenster’s career in making jewelry and hollowware. Only 38 artists have received the honor since 1970.

Bruce Klein, professor in the departments of pediatrics and medical microbiology and vice chair of pediatrics, received a MERIT award (Method to Extend Research in Time) from the National Institutes of Health. MERIT awards are given to investigators with records of scientific achievement and are intended to provide long-term, stable support for up to 10 years.

Sally Sieloff Magnan, professor of French, co-chair of the doctoral program in Second Language Acquisition and director of the Language Institute, was awarded the Florence Steiner Award for Leadership in Postsecondary Foreign Language Education by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.

Cathy Middlecamp, distinguished faculty associate in the Department of Chemistry and director of the Chemistry Learning Center, has been selected for the 2006 American Chemical Society’s Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences. Middlecamp will be recognized for the award at a ceremony on March 28, in Atlanta.

Frank Salomon, professor of anthropology, received the American Society for Ethnohistory’s 2005 Hermine Wheeler Voegelin Prize for his book “The Cord Keepers: Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village” (Duke University Press, 2004). The prize is awarded for the best book-length contribution to ethnohistory.

Six UW–Madison faculty have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in recognition of their contributions to science. They are Samuel Gellman, professor of chemistry; Nancy Pulane Keller, professor of food microbiology and toxicology; Ronald Numbers, professor of history of science; Michael Sussman, professor of biochemistry and director of the Biotechnology Center; Donald Waller, professor of botany; and John Wright, professor of chemistry.

A book published by UW Press received the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the Modern Language Association for 2005. Vladimir E. Alexandrov of Yale was the winner with “Limits to Interpretation: The Meanings of Anna Karenina.” Harsha Ram, University of California, Berkeley, received an honorable mention for “The Imperial Sublime: A Russian Poetics of Empire,” also published by UW Press.