Milestones

Milestones covers awards, honors and major publications by faculty and staff. Send your items to Wisconsin Week, 19 Bascom Hall, or e-mail: wisweek@news.wisc.edu

Appointed
Louise Keely, an assistant professor of economics, is the newest Institute for Research on Poverty affiliate. Keely’s research focuses on income distribution dynamics and inequality.

Karen Schwarz, Gail Snowden and Nancy Westphal-Johnson were elected to the Academic Staff Executive Committee.

Honored
Louis Bickford, associate director of the Global Studies Program, organized and chaired a panel at the Association of International Education Administrators February conference in Tucson. Bickford’s panel addressed the idea of Global Learning Communities, emphasizing the complex institutional arrangements.

Mark Courtney, associate professor of social work, received an award from the Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services for a continuation into 2001 of an evaluation of the Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare. A final report is expected by the end of summer 2002.

James Hoyt, professor of journalism and mass communication, is this year’s Frank Stanton Fellow. Hoyt, on the faculty here since 1973, received the award last month from the International Radio and Television Society in New York City.

Thomas Kaplan, senior scientist of social work, has received an award from the Rockefeller Institute of the State University of New York for an analysis of policies and organizational arrangements in the management of Medicaid in Wisconsin.

Leon Lindberg, emeritus professor of political science, received the European Community Studies Association Lifetime Contribution Award in European Studies, the second person to receive this distinction. ECSA praised Lindberg’s work on European integration.

Kristi Shook, assistant professor of social work, has received a National Institute of Health Career Development Award. This five-year, $400,000 grant will support her research to understand whether the risk of child neglect is affected by changes in family income related to changes in employment or welfare use.

Jerry J. Weygandt, Arthur Andersen Alumni Professor of Accounting at the School of Business, was named an Outstanding Educator by the American Accounting Association.

The Water Resources Institute received a federal grant of $75,000 to investigate the state’s water supply and water-quality problems. The grant will be supplemented with $150,000 from the state of Wisconsin and other sources.

The African Studies Program was awarded a $66,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education to send K-12 teachers to Africa this summer. Fifteen French teachers from Wisconsin and Illinois will spend a month in Benin.

A student team won first place in the oral presentation category of the 2001 Academic Quadrathlon at the American Society of Animal Science and the American Dairy Science Association on March 19-21 in Des Moines, Iowa. Team members are Ryan Bragg, Laurie Winkelman, John Dorshorst and Brenda Patton.

Published
Michael Apple, John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies, has published “Educating the “Right’ Way: Markets, Standards, God, and Inequality” (Falmer, 2001).

David Loewenstein, professor of English, has published “Representing Revolution in Milton and His Contemporaries: Religion, Politics, and Polemics in Radical Puritanism” Cambridge University Press, 2001).