Milestones
Appointed
Baha Balantekin, Eugene P. Wigner Professor of Physics, was elected councillor of the American Physical Society (APS). APS is governed by the council, which sets policy and has the ultimate responsibility for the actions of the society.
Deborah Blum, professor in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, was appointed as the first Helen Firstbook Franklin Chair.
Susan Brantly, professor in the Department of Scandinavian Studies, has been appointed Birgit Baldwin Professor.
R. Alta Charo, Law School professor and associate dean, was appointed Warren P. Knowles Chair.
Barry Ganetzky, professor in the Department of Genetics, was reappointed to a 10-year term as Steenbock Professor of Biological Sciences.
Richard Hartel, professor in the departments of Food Science and Biological Systems Engineering, has been appointed William C. Winder-Bascom Professor of Food Science.
Donald Hausch, School of Business professor, was appointed to a five-year term as Dickson-Bascom Professor of Business.
Kathryn Hendley, director of the Center for Russia, East Europe and Central Asia and professor in the Law School and Department of Political Science, has been appointed William Voss-Bascom Professor.
David Jarrard, associate professor in the Department of Surgery, was appointed as the first John P. Livesey Professor in the Division of Urology.
Neil Komesar, Law School professor, was appointed John and Rylla Bosshard Professor.
Lee Konrad is director of Memorial Library after serving as the head of public services at Memorial Library since August 2004. He is responsible for the administration and management of the largest library on campus.
Roger G. Maclean was named associate dean for executive education in the School of Business. He will direct public executive education programs.
Laura McClure, professor of classics and Integrated Liberal Studies chair, was appointed Jane Harrison Professor of Classics.
David McDonald, professor in the Department of History, has been appointed to the Mortenson-Petrovich Professorship for an initial five-year term.
Antonio Mello, professor in the School of Business, has been appointed Graner Chair for five years with possibility of reappointment.
Gregg Mitman, history of science professor, has been appointed William Coleman Professor of the History of Science.
David Mott, associate professor in the School of Pharmacy, has been appointed Hammel/ Sanders Distinguished Chair in Pharmacy Administration.
Paul Nealey, professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, has been appointed Smith-Bascom Professor in Chemical Engineering.
Victoria Nourse, Law School professor, was appointed to a five-year term as Burrus-Bascom Professor.
David Null was named director of University Archives after serving as the acting director of the University Archives since May 2002.
Tim Osswald, professor in the departments of mechanical and industrial engineering, has been appointed the Kuo K. and Cindy F. Wang Professor for a five-year period.
Michael E. Smith, Law School professor, has been appointed Haight-Bascom Professor for a five-year period, with possible reappointment.
Monica Turner, professor in the Department of Zoology, has been appointed Eugene P. Odum Professor of Ecology for a five-year term.
Matthew Wolff, associate professor in the Department of Cardiology Medicine, was appointed to the Dr. Herman and Ailene Tuchman Chair in Clinical Cardiology.
The Department of Communicative Disorders recently received approval for title track changes for academic staff from the clinical instructor track to the clinical professor track. Among those approved for clinical track changes were: Jamie Murray-Branch; Stacy Cohen; Anne Heintzelman; Dana Longstreth; Sandra Levin; Robert Nellis; Michelle Quinn; Peggy Rosin; and Mary E. Smith.
Honored
Barbara Klein, a professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences received a $65,000 Senior Scientific Investigator Award by Research to Prevent Blindness. Klein is one of 141 scientists at 53 institutions so honored since the award was established in 1987.
The Association for Computing Machinery has recognized Thomas Reps, a professor of computer sciences, for his contributions to automated program analysis and synthesis. The association also honored David Wood, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, for his contributions to shared-memory multiprocessing.
Frank Salomon, a professor in the Department of Anthropology, received two prizes for his book “The Cord Keepers: Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village.” He won the Hermine Wheeler Voegelin Prize of the American Society for Ethnohistory, awarded for the best book-length contribution of the year in ethnohistory, and the Howard S. Cline Prize of the Conference on Latin American History, awarded for the best historical book of the year on the native peoples of Latin America.
Twenty-four School of Medicine and Public Health faculty and staff completed 30 years of service to the school in the last fiscal year. Dean Philip Farrell will honor them at a University Club luncheon on Thursday, Feb. 23. Achieving the milestone are: Beverly Bawden, academic affairs; John Beasley, family medicine; Joanne Becker, medical genetics; Margaret Birrenkott, radiology; Jill Davis, family medicine; Jerry Gipp, surgery; Mary Hamielec, Comprehensive Cancer Center; James Hatcher, neurosurgery; Guy Hoffman, pathology and laboratory medicine; James Holden, medical physics; Marilyn Jabusch, administration; James Keene, orthopedics and rehabilitation; Roger Klopp, Institute on Aging; Burton Kushner, ophthalmology and visual sciences; Elsebet Lund, biomolecular chemistry; Thomas Madigan, laboratory animal resources; Diane Norback, pathology and laboratory medicine; Ronald Numbers, medical history and bioethics; Vicky Rogness, ophthalmology and and visual sciences; and Jeff Ross, oncology.
Lloyd D. Gladfelter Awards, administered by the Department of Political Science, went to Tommye Schneider, director of environmental health and laboratories in Madison’s Department of Public Health. Her agency developed the Safe Food Crew, a free safe-food curriculum designed for use by food businesses to train their staff in their own establishments and on their own schedules. The program, available in English and Spanish, focuses on combating food-borne illnesses. The other award went to four employees of the state Department of Transportation — Shiv Gupta, Dave Babler, Scot Becker, and Travis McDaniel — who were instrumental in improving a computerized system for managing highway structure inventory and inspection data on structures such as bridges, signs, retaining walls and high-mast light poles.
The Center for the Humanities announces 15 awards for graduate students in the humanities who have developed creative projects that bring their research into public contexts, with the collaboration of teachers and administrators in the Madison Metropolitan School District and the broader Madison community. Winners of this year’s Evjue “Humanities Exposed” Awards are Marina Antic, Department of Slavic Languages; Dragoslav Momcilivic, Department of English; Paula Di Dio, Department of Spanish and Portuguese; Jeremy Holiday, Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia; Eric Pritchard, Department of English; and William Rogers, Department of English. Winners of the Graduate School “Humanities Exposed” Awards are Rebecca Atencio, Department of Spanish and Portuguese; Lucienne Loh, Department of English; Crystal Moten, departments of Afro-American Studies and History; and Laura Mueller, Department of Art History. Winner of the Center for the Humanities “Humanities Exposed” Award is Lindsey Housel, Department of Environment, Textiles and Design. Winners of Center for the Humanities “Humanities Exposed” planning grants are Jarett Fields, Department of History; Abigail Neely, departments of History and Geography; Ray Hsu, Department of English; Nmachika Nwokeabia, Department of English; and Jeanette Tran, Department of English. Winner of a Humanities Exposed project assistantship through the Graduate School Research Committee is Tyina Stepte, departments of Afro-American Studies and History.
Toni Whited, an associate professor of finance, won the top award for co-authoring the best paper published on corporate finance in the Journal of Finance. Whited and Christopher Hennessy of the University of California, Berkeley won the Brattle Prize in Corporate Finance for their paper “Debt Dynamics.”