Milestones
Appointments
Severino Albuquerque, professor of Spanish and Portuguese, has been named chair of Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian studies.
Mark Bessinger, professor of political science, has been named a Glenn B. and Cleone Orr Hawkins Professor by the Board of Regents.
James Blanchard, associate professor of engineering physics, has been appointed secretary/treasurer of the American Nuclear Society’s executive committee on fusion energy.
Laird Boswell, associate professor of history, has been reappointed to European studies after directing the Study Abroad program in Aix-en-Provence.
Patrick G. Boyle, former UW-Extension chancellor, has been elected vice chair of the UW Hospital and Clinics Authority Board of Directors.
Al Brown, former Tennessee women’s basketball assistant, has been appointed as the primary scout and assistant in player development and recruiting for the Wisconsin women’s basketball team.
J. Lance Cavanaugh, former executive director of development for the Iowa State College of Engineering, has been named senior development director for the College of Engineering.
Victoria Chu, from the University of Toronto, has been appointed East Asian studies librarian.
Elizabeth Craig, professor of biomolecular chemistry, has been reappointed a Steenbock Professor in Microbiological Sceinces by the Board of Regents.
Heather Daniels, of the Center for Neuroscience, has been elected secretary of the Madison Academic Staff Association for 2002-2003.
Vinay Dharwadker, associate professor of languages and cultures of Asia, has been named director of South Asian studies.
Joseph Elder, professor of sociology, languages and cultures of Asia and integrated liberal studies, has been named a Herbert & Evelyn Howe Bascom Professor by the Board of Regents.
Jo Ellen Fair, associate professor of journalism and mass communication, has been appointed director of global studies.
Myra Marx Ferree, professor of sociology, has been appointed interim director of the European Union Center.
Carol A. Fisher has been named the new assistant director for administration of the Elvehjem.
R. Booth Fowler, professor of political science and integrated liberal studies, has been named a Herbert & Evelyn Howe Bascom Professor by the Board of Regents.
David Harris, former director of academic support for the University of Mississippi athletic department, has been named director of academic services for the Wisconsin Department of Athletics.
Phillip Helmke, professor of soil science, has been named a William A. Rothermel Bascom Professor in Soil Science by the Board of Regents.
Cynthia Jasper, of the School of Human Ecology, has been named a Vaughan Bascom Professor in Women & Philanthropy by the Board of Regents.
Maren LaLiberty, former head coach for the Wisconsin women’s lightweight rowing team, has been named head coach of the Wisconsin women’s rowing program.
Geri Laudati, director of Mills Music Library, has been named curator of special collections of the library.
John Lund, department chair for the School for Workers, has been named director of the School for Workers.
Lucy Mathiak has been named head of the College of Letters and Science’s college relations program, in addition to her position as editor of the college’s alumni newsletter.
Donna McCarthy, professor of nursing, has been invited to join the National Institute of Nursing Research to direct the Institute’s intramural research program in symptom management.
David Morgan, professor of history, has been named director of the Middle East Studies Department.
David Null, head of reference services at Memorial Library, has been appointed acting university archivist.
Nick Pasquarello, a former volunteer assistant coach for the Wisconsin women’s soccer team, has been appointed an assistant coach for the Wisconsin men’s soccer team.
M. Thomas Record, professor of chemistry, has been named a Steenbock Professor in Chemical Sciences by the Board of Regents.
Barry Robinson, of the theatre and drama department, has been appointed president-elect of the Madison Academic Staff Association for 2002-2003.
Julie Schneider, of collection development and resource management of Health Sciences Library, and Sylvia Contreras, interim co-director and assistant director for finance and technology of Health Sciences Library, have been named digital resources and cataloging coordinators of Health Sciences Library.
Andrew Spencer, from Indiana University, has been appointed Slavic studies librarian.
George K. Steil, Sr., a Janesville attorney, has been elected chair of the UW Hospitals and Clinics Authority Board of Directors.
Jon Szczepanski, former head of the Milwaukee Lutheran varsity boys soccer team, has been appointed an assistant coach for the Wisconsin men’s soccer team.
John Tortorice, development specialist and Friends of the UW–Madison Libraries liaison, has been appointed program administrator of the history department.
Aili Tripp, professor of political science, has been named a Glenn B. and Cleone Orr Hawkins Professor by the Board of Regents.
Raj Veeramani, industrial engineering professor, has been invited to join the Wisconsin Joint Legislative Council’s Special Committee on Public and Private Broadband. The committee will study the availability and barriers of broadband and determine policy on digital-divide and open-access issues.
Cory Wallman, former Wisconsin wrestling team manager, has been named a Wisconsin wrestling assistant coach.
Paul Wilson, assistant professor of engineering physics, has been appointed to the American Nuclear Society’s fusion energy committee.
Thomas A. Zdeblick, professor of orthopedics and neurosurgery and medical director of UW Hospital and Clinics Comprehensive Spine Center, has been appointed chairman of the department of orthopedics and rehabilitation.
Honors
Catherine Albiston, assistant professor of law, has won the Law and Society Association’s Dissertation Prize for best dissertation of the year on a law and society subject. Albiston’s dissertation is entitled “The Institutional Context of Civil Rights: Mobilizing the Family and Medical Leave Act in the Courts and in the Workplace.”
Paul Bach-y-Rita, professor of orthopedics and rehabilitation and biomedical engineering, has received the Coulter Award from the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Awards Committee for his contributions to the field of rehabilitation medicine.
Patricia Flatley Brennan, of the School of Nursing, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine, the national health and medical advisory board to the federal government in recognition of her research on home-care programs using the Internet and advanced technologies.
Michael Bridgeman, of Wisconsin Public Television, has been named PBS Communicator of the Year.
Erin Buchanan, a member of the Wisconsin women’s rowing team, has been named a 2002 All-Central Region National Scholar-Athlete by the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association.
Frederick Buttel, professor and chair of the Department of Rural Sociology and professor of environmental studies, has been awarded the Hilldale Award in recognition of his contributions to teaching, research and extension/outreach.
James Danky, a Wisconsin Historical Society librarian, has received the Reference and User Services Association’s Isadore Gilbert Mudge-R.R. Bowker Award in recognition of contributions to reference librarianship. Danky will donate the $5,000 award to the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America.
The Divisional Level Representatives network for disability-related employment matters has received a program merit certificate from the State Affirmative Action Council.
Howard Erlanger, professor of law, was formally recognized at the Law and Society Association’s May conference for serving his 20th year as review editor for the journal Law and Social Inquiry.
Susan Hagness, assistant professor of biomedical, electrical and computer engineering, has been named one of the world’s top 100 creative innovators under age 35 by Technology Review Magazine.
Ned Kalin, professor of psychiatry, received the April 2002 Wisconsin National Alliance for Mental Illness Award for his ongoing research in developing a better understanding of severe mental illnesses.
Judith Elizabeth Kimble, professor of biochemistry, has been elected to the Biological Sciences class of the American Philosophical Society, an organization devoted to the advancement of scientific and scholarly inquiry.
Rama Maganti, of the neurology department, has received the Victor Horsley Fellowship national research award from the Epilepsy Foundation to study the relationship between sleep abnormalities and daytime behavior among children with epilepsy.
The Master of Engineering in Professional Practice has received the Outstanding Program Award and the Distance Learning Community of Practice Program of Excellence Award from the University Continuing Education Association and an honorable mention in Distance Awards from the American Distance Education Consortium National Excellence.
Gordon S. Mitchell, professor of veterinary medicine, has been given a 10-year Method to Extend Research in Time, or MERIT, award from the National Institute of Health’s Heart, Lung and Blood Institute in recognition of his outstanding contributions to biomedical science through his research on respiratory elasticity and spinal cord injury.
Emilie Ngo-Nguidjol, of reference and francophone studies, has been given the Dr. Brenda Pfaehler Award of Excellence from TRIO, a federally funded program that provides academic support to low-income first-generation college students and students with disabilities. Ngo-Nguidjol received the award for her assistance to undergraduates at the Memorial Library reference desk.
The Nuclear Reactor Lab, as part of a Big-Ten team, has received a Department of Energy Innovations in Nuclear Instruction and Education Department Award for university research reactors.
Ed Nuttycombe, head coach of the Wisconsin men’s track and field team, has been named the 2002 Big Ten Conference Men’s Outdoor Coach of the Year for the third straight year.
Stan J. Peloquin, professor emeritus of horticulture, has received an honorary degree in agricultural sciences from the University of Naples in recognition of the scientific contribution he has provided in his work and research in plant science.
Jenny Pofahl, a member of the Varsity Eight of the Wisconsin women’s rowing team, has been named a 2002 Central Region National Scholar-Athlete by the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association.
Ken Potter, professor of civil engineering and environmental engineering, has been given a Dane County Waters Champion Award by the Dane County Lakes and Watershed Commission for his outstanding contribution to protecting Dane County waters.
David Trubek, 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 empirical scholarship that has advanced research in the field of law and society.
Marianna Waters, a member of the Varsity Eight of the Wisconsin women’s rowing team, has been named first-team All-Central Region by the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association.
David Woodward, professor of geography, has received the Murchison Award of the Royal Geographical Society in recognition of his publications on the history of cartography.
Grants
David Abbott of the Primate Center has received a grant from Ardana Bioscience Ltd. to study how a chemical affects sexual behavior in nonhuman mammals.
Rod Lakes and Walt Drugan, professors of physics, Rob Carpick, engineering physics assistant professor, and Reid Cooper, materials science and engineering professor, have been given a four-year $800,000 grant by the National Science Foundation’s Engineering Directorate-Division of Civil and Mechanical Systems to study novel extreme composite materials due to constituents with negative stiffness.
Darek Ceglarek, assistant professor of industrial engineering, has been awarded $169,787 by the National Science Foundation for his study “Analysis and Optimization Method for Distributed Sensor Systems in Electronics Assembly Processes” and $43,981 by the National Science Foundation’s Engineering Research Center on Reconfigurable Machine Systems for analysis of reconfigurable assembly systems.
The Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences has received a Research to Prevent Blindness Unrestricted Award for $110,000.
Heidi Goodrich-Blair, assistant professor of bacteriology, has been given a 2002 Investigators in Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease Award by the advisory committee and directors of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. The private nonprofit foundation has given a five-year $400,000 award to advance the medical sciences through research. Goodrich-Blair will use the award to study how some bacteria are able to evade the immune system’s defense.
Robert Nickells, associate professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences, has received a $50,000 Robert E. McCormick Scholar Award to support his research on glaucoma.
Nader Sheibani, assistant professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences, has received a $200,000 Career Development Award to support his research on eye diseases and vision loss.
Pamela Tannenbaum and David Abbott of the Primate Center and C. Yan Cheng of the Population Council have been named co-principal investigators on a two-year grant from Contraceptive Research and Development. The group will study the effects of a chemical as a reversible oral contraceptive in monkeys.
Published
Steven Ackerman, professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, has co-authored “Meteorology — Understanding the Atmosphere” (Brooks/Cole-Thomson, 2003).
Frederick Buttel, professor and chair of the Department of Rural Sociology and professor of environmental studies, has co-edited a book entitled “The Environmental State Under Pressure” (New York: Elsevier/JAI, 2002).
Kelly Cherry, professor emeritus of humanities and English, has published “Rising Venus: Poems” (Louisiana State University, 2002).
David Houghton, professor emeritus of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, has published “Introduction to Climate Change: Lecture Notes for Meteorologists” (World Meteorological Organization, 2002).
Gerhard Richter, associate professor of German,
has published an edited book of essays entitled “Benjamin’s Ghosts: Interventions in Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory” (Stanford University Press, 2002).
Pao Wang, professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, has published “Ice Microdynamics” (Academic Press, 2002).
Other milestones
Ben-Tzion Karsh, assistant professor of industrial engineering, will be the primary investigator on a study with James Casanova, associate professor of medicine, and Richard Lofgren, professor of medicine. The group will use human factors engineering methods to study processes involved in the ordering, processing and disseminating results of diagnostic tests.
Ginny Moore Kruse has retired as director of the Cooperatice Children’s Book Center, a position she has held since 1976.
Grace Lee has retired from the General Library System.
Yvonne Lee has retired from the General Library System.
Marianne Machotka, international engineering coordinator, has co-authored a paper accepted for presentation at the 2002 American Association for Engineering Education annual conference. The paper is entitled “Study Abroad: Preparing Engineering Students for Success in the Global Economy.”
John Pellett, part of the Medical School since 1961, has retired after a 47-year surgical career. His accomplishments include co-founding UW Hospital and Clinic’s Comprehensive Lung Cancer Clinic and performing the first single lung, double lung and hear-lung transplants in Wisconsin.
Sandy Pfahler, Milan Radovich, Ken Rouse and Mary Tipton have retired from the General Library System.
The following faculty members received course incentive grants from Jewish Studies to develop courses to be cross-listed between their home department and Jewish Studies. Professor Chad Goldberg, sociology, The Modernization of the Jews, 1789-1917; professors Simone Schweber, curriculum and instruction, and Michael Bernard-Donals, English, Teaching and Representations of the Shoah; lecturer Dena Mandel, Center for Jewish Studies, New Voices in Jewish American Fiction, 1985 to Present; professor Pamela Potter, School of Music and German, Yiddish Music: Folk Songs, Film and Theater; and professor Daniel Pekarsky, education policy studies, The Summer Camp as Educator.
Jewish Studies awarded three scholarships to students: Lisa Kelber won the Essay Award; Yishai Cohen won the Certificate Award and Ana Schaposchnik won the Natelson Scholarship.