Milestones

Appointments

Deanna Dietrich has been named associate dean for research and policy administration for the College of Engineering. Previously she served as assistant dean for research and contracts for the college.

Howard Erlanger, professor, Law School, has been elected president of the Law and Society Association, an organization of scholars from many countries who study the place of law in social, political, economic and cultural life. Erlanger assumes the office in June.

Gerald Kulcinski, professor, engineering physics, will serve as chair of a National Research Council committee that will review the technical opportunities in reducing electricity-generating costs via concentrating solar power technologies.

Max Lagally, E.W. Mueller Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, has been named to the New Directions in Manufacturing Committee of the Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design. The board is part of the National Research Council of the National Academies Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences.

Edris Makward, emeritus professor, Department of African Languages and Literature, has been appointed deputy vice chancellor of the University of the Gambia. Originally from Gambia, Makward has been serving as dean of humanities and social science at the University of the Gambia since his retirement from UW–Madison last year.

Leslie Smith, professor, mechanical engineering, has transferred to the Department of Engineering Physics. Also a mathematics professor with a 25-percent appointment in the College of Engineering, Smith will annually teach a course in energy systems in the mechanical engineering curriculum.

Keith White, associate director of admissions, was elected president-elect of the National Association for College Admission Counseling in October at its national conference in Salt Lake City.

Honored

Carola Blazquez, a geographic information systems engineering student pursuing her doctorate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was recently named a 2002 Eno Transportation Foundation fellow. Blazquez was one of 20 students selected nationally for the fellowship. She traveled to Washington, D.C., to hear speakers and attend seminars on transportation policy.

Kerry Gleason, library and information literacy instruction assistant, is the 2002-03 winner of the Wendy Woodfill Children’s Literature Scholarship. This award recognizes a graduate student in the School of Library and Information Studies who is committed to children’s literature and services. Louise Robbins, director, School of Library and Information Studies, is the chair of the Wendy Woodfill Children’s Literature Scholarship Committee.

Walter Block, assistant professor, departments of Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics, and his collaborators have been awarded an R01 grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to study 4D magnetic resonance angiography. Block, the principal investigator, is joined by Charles Mistretta (professor, Medical Physics, Radiology, and Biomedical Engineering departments), Thomas Grist (professor, Radiology, Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering departments) and Andrew Alexander (assistant professor, Medical Physics and Psychiatry departments).