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Milestones

October 22, 2002

Appointed

Ray Aldag, professor, management and human resources, is the new deputy dean of the Academy of Management Fellows. He was named to a three-year term with the organization, which has more than 12,000 members from 82 countries. Aldag also was appointed an associate editor of Decision Sciences and as a member of the Editorial Review Board of Administrative Science Quarterly.

Caitilyn Allen, professor, plant pathology and women’s studies, has been named faculty science adviser for the Office of International Studies and Programs. Allen will advise the dean on scientific initiatives and serve as a liaison with other units across campus.

Neeraj Arora, associate professor, marketing, has been named the Arthur C. Nielsen, Jr., Professor of Marketing Research.

Mark Browne, professor and chair, actuarial science, risk management and insurance, has been elected president of the American Risk and Insurance Association.

Jo Ann Carr, director of the Center for Instructional Materials and Computing, has been appointed as publications and projects chair for the Wisconsin Educational Media Association. She will also serve a two-year term on the WEMA Board of Directors.

Darek Ceglarek, assistant professor, industrial engineering, will serve a three-year term on the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ Manufacturing Engineering Division Technical Committee on Manufacturing Processes, Quality and Reliability. Ceglarek was also elected to the Scientific Committee of the North American Manufacturing Research Institution.

R. Alta Charo, associate dean, Law School, has been appointed to the National Institute of Medicine’s Smallpox Vaccination Program Implementation Committee, which will monitor legal, ethical and safety issues during the rollout of the national smallpox vaccine program.

Jane Collins, professor, rural sociology; Ruth N. Lopez Turley, assistant professor, sociology; and Charles Hatcher, assistant professor, consumer science, have been approved for affiliation with the Institute for Research on Poverty.

Adrienne Dillard has joined the Office of International Studies as a development specialist. She is responsible for developing long-term fund-raising strategies for OISP and International Institute programs and projects. She most recently served as the liaison to the College of Computer Sciences and Engineering at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville.

Steven Duke has joined International Academic Programs as a student services coordinator. He is a specialist in Russian and Baltic history, and has served as associate director of the UW Center for Russia, East Europe and Central Asia.

Patrick Eagan, professor, engineering professional development, served last summer on Motorola’s 2002 Environmental Issues and Responsibility Research Visionary Board. He identified environmental trends and potential disrupters that could affect environmental attributes of Motorola products and services.

Ken Ebbe, director, administrative computer services, information technology, has been elected to the board of directors for SHARE Inc., a volunteer-run association providing IBM customers with user-focused education, professional networking and a forum to influence the information technology industry.

Alberta Gloria, associate professor, counseling psychology, was appointed senior editor of the Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development.

Jan Heide, professor, marketing, has been named the Irwin Maier Chair.

Abhiyan Humane is the new Web master for International Studies. Humane is a doctoral student in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Eddie Harmon-Jones, associate professor, psychology, has been appointed associate editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Personality Processes and Individual Differences.

Maryellen MacDonald, professor, psychology, has been named associate editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition.

Howard Martin, dean, Division of Continuing Studies, has been elected president of the North Central Conference on Summer Schools, which includes colleges and universities offering summer undergraduate and graduate programs. Martin’s term begins in March.

Marygold Melli, professor emeritus, Law School, was elected to a three-year term as a vice president of the International Society of Family Law at the meeting of the society in Oslo, Norway, in August.

Gaye Mueller has joined International Academic Programs as a program assistant. She was most recently employed by John Deere Credit after a 20-year career with Wisconsin’s Department of Corrections and the Department of Administration.

Andrew Porter, director of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research and professor, educational psychology, has been named the Anderson-Bascom Professor of Education.

Stephen Quintana, professor and chair, counseling psychology, was appointed associate editor of Child Development.

Kim Rapp-Hanretta is the new assistant director of the Global Studies program. As a graduate student, she worked for International Academic Programs and was also the assistant director of the African Studies Program.

Several assistants have joined the International Institute, including Maki Raymo, Global Studies; Jinxin Huang, East Asian Studies; Anne Genereux, the European Union Center; and Cathy Schmitt, South Asian Studies.

Larry Rittenberg, professor, accounting and information systems, has been elected by the Institute of Internal Auditors to the positions of vice chairman of the board-research and president of the IIA Research Foundation..

John Chappell Stowe, professor, music, has been re-elected vice president of the American Guild of Organists. He will serve a term of two years.

Craig Thompson, associate professor, marketing, has been named the Churchill Professor of Marketing.

Douglas Wittner has joined the Division of International Studies as an information processing and technology specialist. He worked previously for Sonic Foundry as a technical support specialist and as a quality assurance engineer.

Awarded

Anthony Auger, assistant professor, psychology, will receive the Frank A. Beach Award for the best young investigator in behavioral neuroendocrinology. The award will be presented at the Society for Neuroscience meeting this November.

Leonard Black, senior academic librarian, engineering, received the Bollinger Academic Staff Distinguished Achievement Award from the College of Engineering on Oct. 18.

Rick Brooks, professional development and applied studies, was selected for a national “E-chievement Award” by the syndicated radio program “eTown.” He was recognized because of his students’ service learning efforts associated with an off-campus class he teaches, Facilitating Health and Social Change.

Gilles Bousquet, dean, International Studies and Programs, and David Trubek, professor, Law School, have been awarded the title “Cheavlier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Academiques” by the French Ministry of Culture.

Alberto Cabrera, professor, educational administration, has received the annual William Elgin Wickenden Award, given for the best paper published in the American Society of Engineering Education’s Journal of Engineering Education. Cabrera collaborated with Patrick Terenzini and Carol Colbeck in writing “Collaborative Learning vs. Lecture/ Discussion: Students’ Reported Learning Gains.”

Fong Chan, professor, rehabilitation psychology and special education, received the 2002 James Huff Stout Award. The award is presented to a UW-Stout alumnus who has exemplified Stout’s “learning through involvement” attitude and manner.

M. Vere DeVault, emeritus professor, curriculum and instruction, was among 20 charter members inducted into the Educators Hall of Honor at the University of Tennessee College of Education.

Nancy Diekelmann, Helen Denne Schulte Professor, School of Nursing, won the Excellence in Teaching and Faculty Service Award from the University Continuing Education Association, Region 4.

Dave Dickson, emeritus professor, dairy science, and Ted Halbach, dairy cattle evaluation instructor, coached UW–Madison’s teams at the Accelerated Genetics 9th Annual Midwest Intercollegiate Dairy Cattle Judging Contest. A team of dairy cattle judges took first place in oral reasons at the competition. Elizabeth Walker of Portage, a sophomore majoring in secondary education, was high individual overall. UW–Madison placed third overall.

R. Tass Dueland, professor emeritus, School of Veterinary Medicine, received the American Kennel Club Career Achievement Award in Canine Research, presented at the annual American Veterinary Medical Association meeting.

James Dumesic, professor, chemical engineering, received the Byron Bird Award for Excellence in a Research Publication from the College of Engineering on Oct. 18.

Tuncer Edil, professor, civil and environmental engineering, and chair of the geological engineering program, was recently presented with the Engineering Achievement Award by the Wisconsin section of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Fred Fenster, professor, art, received the Hans Christensen Sterling Silversmith’s Award from the Society of American Silversmiths. The annual award honors those individuals who have made significant contributions to the field.

Alberta Gloria, associate professor, counseling psychology, was awarded the Emerging Professional Award at the 2002 American Psychological Association Annual Conference for the Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues.

Leonard Kaplan, professor, Law School, was honored by the International Academy of Law and Mental Health at its 27th annual conference in Amsterdam in July. Kaplan was commended for his distinction in pursuit of scholarship, pedagogy and human rights initiatives in the field of mental health.

Walter Lane, assistant dean, School of Education, received the 2002 Chancellor’s Award from the UW–Madison Student Personnel Association for his 25 years of work with minority and disadvantaged students through the university’s TRIO program.

Li Chiao-Ping, associate professor, dance, has released a 75-minute video entitled “Extreme Moves Training Method” that shows dancers how to prepare to perform the extreme moves of contemporary dance. The video was released by ADF Video.

Robert Livingston, assistant professor, Afro-American studies and psychology, has received one of two dissertation awards offered each year by Division 8 of the American Psychological Association (Social Psychological Society of Social Issues). His dissertation is titled “Bias in the Absence of Malice: The Phenomenon of Unintentional Discrimination” and was completed at Ohio State University.

Robert Lorenz, professor, mechanical engineering, and electrical and computer engineering, received the Ragnar E. Onstad Service to Society Award from the College of Engineering.

Patrick McBride, director, UW Hospital and Clinics Preventative Cardiology program, and professor, Medical School, is one of eight U.S. physicians invited to review the National Institutes of Health’s Heart, Lung and Blood Institute ALLHAT (Anti-Hypertensive Lipid-Lowering) study.

Jeff Miller, senior photographer, University Communications, has several photographs on exhibit in the Rike Center for Fine Arts Gallery in Dayton, Ohio, as part of the University of Dayton Alumni Art Invitational. Miller graduated from the University of Dayton with a BFA in photography.

Norm Olson, emeritus professor, food science, received the Distinguished Service Award from the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.

Douglas Rosenberg, assistant professor, dance, received the Phelan Art Award in Video.

Bonnie Shucha, academic librarian, Law School, received the award for best paper in the 2002 American Association of Law Libraries Lexis Nexis Call for Papers competition in July. Her winning paper, entitled “The Circle of Life: Managing a Law Library Web Site Redesign Project,” has been accepted for publication in the Law Library Journal.

Willis Tompkins, professor, biomedical, electrical and computer engineering, has received the Career Achievement Award from the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

David Trubek, Voss-Bascom 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. Trubek has also been named a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School and Center for European Studies for 2002-03. The U.S. Department of State has appointed Trubek a Fulbright senior specialist.

Louise Trubek, professor, Law School, has been named a visiting professor at Harvard Law School for 2002-03.

David Weerts, visiting scholar, Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education, has been selected by the Kellogg Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good as one of five National Rising Scholars for the 2002-2003 cohort.

David Werther, outreach program manager, Division of Continuing Studies and Independent Learning, received the Professional Continuing Educator Award from the University Continuing Education Association, Region 4.

John Wright, professor, chemistry, received the Benjamin Smith Reynolds Award for Excellence in Teaching from the College of Engineering Oct. 18.

A book co-authored by Terrie Moffitt and Avshalom Caspi, professors, psychology, has been selected for the 2003 Eleanor Maccoby Book Award in Developmental Psychology from the American Psychological Association. The book, “Sex Differences in Antisocial Behavior,” was published by Cambridge University Press in 2003.

More than 60 works by UW System visual artists are on display as part of the second annual Brittingham Art Invitational. The invitational features selected pieces of artwork by 44 art faculty and instructors from throughout the system. The artwork can be seen at Brittingham House and at the Office of the President in Van Hise Hall. UW–Madison artists chosen for inclusion are: John Hitchcock, assistant professor, relief and screenprinting; Debra Lawton, lecturer, art; Leslee Nelson, professor, art, and liberal studies and the arts; and Enrique Rueda, multimedia research artist, Wisconsin Center for Education Research.

The Department of Counseling Psychology received UW–Madison’s 2002 Small Department Teaching Award from the Chancellor’s Office and the Creating a Collaborative Academic Environment program. The department was recognized in part for the innovative redesign of two training programs to prepare counseling psychologists and counselors to serve a culturally diverse society.

The Friends of the Arboretum have selected two recipients for their new Leopold Restoration Awards. Wayne Pauly, Dane County Parks naturalist, will receive the John T. Curtis Award for career excellence in ecological restoration. The Sisters of Saint Benedict in Middleton will receive the Virginia M. Kline Award for excellence in community-based restoration.

Granted

Judi Bartfeld, Institute for Research on Poverty, has received funding from the Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services for research on food insecurity in Wisconsin.

Geoffrey Borman, assistant professor, educational administration, will study the consequences of attending elementary schools that have high concentrations of poor students as a 2002-03 National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow.

Avshalom Caspi and Terrie Moffitt, professors, psychology, have received a five-year renewal of their National Institutes of Mental Health grant on personality and health from childhood through adulthood.

Rob Carpick, assistant professor, engineering physics, is leading a group that has been awarded a three-year grant from the Department of Energy’s Basic Energy Sciences Program to study fundamental nanometer-scale mechanisms of friction in micromachines, which often are critically limited by friction-related failures. Carpick will work with Mike Plesha, professor, engineering physics, and others on the project.

Thomas Corbett, Institute for Research on Poverty, with funding from the Joyce and the Annie E. Casey foundations, and in cooperation with members of the Midwest Welfare Peer Assistance Network, has initiated a project on state welfare programs.

H. Hill Goldsmith, professor, psychology, received a renewal award from the National Institutes of Mental Health to extend for five years his research on longitudinal twin studies of early emotional development.

David Gustafson, professor, industrial engineering, is leading research teams at the Center for Health Systems Research and Analysis that have received two five-year grants from the National Institutes of Health. The first grant will enable the group to develop and test systems to help parents cope with severe pediatric asthma, while the other grant will fund testing of systems to support caregivers of patients with advanced breast and prostate cancer.

Janet Hyde, professor, psychology and women’s studies, has received a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation on mothers’ interactions with children doing mathematics.

Jerlando Jackson, assistant professor, educational administration, received a Minority Faculty Research Award from the UW System’s Institute on Race and Ethnicity. He will use an existing national data set to examine the decisions of university and college administrators to remain in leadership positions.

Stephen Kantrowitz, associate professor, history, has been awarded a 2002-03 fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for advanced study at Harvard University. Kantrowitz will write a book on the struggles of Massachusetts’ racial abolitionists after their emergence as a major political force during the 1850s.

Marzena Krawiec, UW Children’s Hospital, was selected as a 2002 recipient in the Pfizer Scholars Grants for Faculty Development in Pediatric Health. The award enables Krawiec to conduct research for a project entitled “Identifying Markers of Airway Inflammation in Young Wheezing Children.”

Stephen Meili, associate professor, law school, received a Tinker-Nave Travel Grant from the Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies program to conduct research on public interest law in Argentina.

Shaima Nasiri, doctoral student, atmospheric and oceanic sciences, has received the first Suomi-Simpson Graduate Fellowship, sponsored by UW–Madison and NASA. Nasiri will work with scientists at Goddard Space Flight Center’s Earth Observing System.

Adam Nelson, assistant professor, educational policy studies, has received a National Academy of Education/Spencer postdoctoral fellowship for his study of “Nationalism, Internationalism and the Origins of the American Research University, 1785-1915.” Nelson also received an advanced studies fellowship from Brown University for his project on “Boston’s Public Schools and the Evolution of Federal Aid to Education, 1950-2000.”

John Ohnesorge, assistant professor, Law School, received his S.J.D. degree in June from Harvard Law School. His dissertation, “Western Administrative Law in Northeast Asia: A Comparativist’s History” won the Harvard Law School’s Yong K. Kim Award for best student paper concerning law or legal history of the nations and peoples of East Asia.

Christopher Olsen, professor, School of Veterinary Medicine, has been awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to study the pathogenesis of an unusual avian influenza virus that was recently isolated from pigs in Ontario, Canada.

William Reese, professor, educational policy studies and history, has received a grant from the Spencer Foundation to study the rise of academic standards and social promotion in American’s urban schools.

Mary Schneider, professor, occupational therapy, received a grant from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism for a five-year study on the effects of fetal alcohol exposure in monkeys.

Leyuan Shi, professor, industrial engineering, and Harriet Nembhard, assistant professor, industrial engineering, have received a grant from the National Science Foundation to support their project, “An Evaluation Approach for Flexibility in Manufacturing Enterprises.” The award will support their collaborative research on using financial engineering and real-options principles to model and value manufacturing decisions related to process or system changes.

Carl Sovinec, assistant professor, engineering physics, has received a three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Energy Plasma Physics Junior Faculty Development Program.

Kumar Sridharan, senior scientist, engineering physics and the Center for Plasma-Aided Manufacturing, and Michael Corradini, Wisconsin Distinguished professor, engineering physics, have received a two-year grant from the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy Research Initiative.

Amy Stambach, assistant professor, educational policy studies and anthropology, received a Spencer Small Research Grant to study the impact of American faith-based educational initiatives in East Africa and explore American and East African views of education in the context of the debate about the separation of church and state.

Barbara Wolfe, Thomas Kaplan and Robert Haveman, Institute for Research on Poverty, are co-principal investigators on a study of the implications of BadgerCare for work and earnings.

Jin-Wen Yu, assistant professor, dance, received an outreach grant from the Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission to bring elementary students to campus and to visit schools for dance demonstrations.

The Center for Patient Partnerships received a grant from the Wisconsin Department of Justice in August. Meg Gaines, clinical associate professor, Law School, is the director of the center.

The Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement, directed by Pascale Carayon, professor, industrial engineering, has received a grant from the National Institute on Aging for its part of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Survey project, “Work, Health and Well-Being.” Carayon’s collaborators include Rob Warren, assistant professor, sociology.

Published

Birute Ciplijauskaite, professor emirita, Spanish and Portuguese and Institute for Research in the Humanities, has published three translations. “La milagrosa hierba del la raiz amarga” was written by Vidmante Jasukaityte (Horas y Horas, 2002). “Entre el sol y la desposesion: Poemas de Janina Degutyte y Birute Pukeleviciute” was published by la Universidad de Cadiz. “Moteris tarp balandziu” was written by Merce Rodoreda and published by Charbide.

Linda Essig, professor, lighting design and director of University Theatre, has just published “The Speed of Light: Dialogues on Lighting Design and Technological Change” (Heinemann Drama).

Daniel Gianola, professor, animal sciences and dairy science, co-authored “Likelihood, Bayesian and MCMC Methods in Quantitative Genetics” (Springer Verlag, 2002) with Daniel Sorenson, research leader at the Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences.

Neil Whitehead, professor, anthropology, has published “Dark Shamans — Kanaima and the Poetics of Violent Death.” (Duke University Press, 2002)

Other milestones

Heinz Klug, associate professor, Law School, served as a temporary adviser to the World Health Organization in regard to the implementation of the Doha Declaration on TRIPS (Trade-Related aspects of Intellectual Property) and Public Health in Developing Countries, participating in meetings in New York and Stavanger, Norway, this summer.

Greg Armb, director, UW Arboretum, coordinated activities of a delegation of Russian architects.