Milestones
Honored
The Arts Institute announces the recipients of the 2003 awards in the arts, which recognize creative inquiry, outreach and professional excellence. Recipients will be recognized at a program and reception on Friday, April 25.
Nietzchka Keene, professor, communication arts, Arts Institute Creative Arts Award
Funded by the Bassett and Evjue foundations, the Creative Arts Awards recognizes the achievements of a tenured member of the arts faculty and provides general research support for three years. Keene received her master of fine arts degree from the University of California-Los Angeles. Her first feature film, “The Juniper Tree,” has screened at many venues, including the Sundance Film Festival. Her second feature, “Heroine of Hell,” was made for PBS. Both works are in release on DVD domestically and internationally. She also works in animation, having photographed and animated a seven-minute piece called “Aves,” which has shown at such festivals as the International Women’s Film Festival at Creteil, France. Her current feature film, “Entitled Barefoot to Jerusalem,” was filmed in Madison and its surrounding small towns, Milwaukee and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The film is in post-production.
Li Chiao-Ping, associate professor, Dance Program, Emily Mead Baldwin-Bascom Professorship in the Creative Arts
The Emily Mead Baldwin-Bascom Professorship in the Creative Arts recognizes the achievements of a tenured member of the arts faculty and provides general research support for two years. Li is an acclaimed dancer, choreographer, director and videographer. A member of the faculty since 1993, Li has toured extensively as a solo artist with her evening-length works, “Yellow River,” “Entombed Warrior” and “The Men’s Project.” Her work as a videographer in collaboration with Douglas Rosenberg has been presented and screened at festivals throughout the United States, South America and Europe. Li has received numerous awards, grants and honors, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and choreographic fellowships from the Wisconsin Arts Board.
Ralph Russo, Wisconsin Union Galleries, Joyce J. and Gerald A. Bartell Award in the Arts
The Joyce J. and Gerald A. Bartell Award recognizes the achievements of faculty and staff in creative arts outreach, public service and other activities involving the larger community. Russo is adviser to the Wisconsin Union Directorate Art Committee and manages the Wisconsin Union Galleries. Working as a program adviser for the Wisconsin Union since 1984, Russo has proven himself to be a dedicated and devoted educator who has worked with generations of students to develop activities programming in all areas of the arts for the university. He is also an accomplished photographer. As co-founder of the Center for Photography in Madison, Russo helped that organization attain nonprofit status and broaden its membership. Russo has loaned his expertise to numerous organizations, including the Madison Civic Center Foundation, the Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission Grant Review Committee and the Midwest Museums Conference Planning Committee.
Bea Drysdale, art, David and Edith Sinaiko Frank Graduate Fellowship for a Woman in the Arts
The Frank Fellowship supports and encourages women musicians, dancers, artists, actors and creative writers by providing them with an opportunity to present their work in public. Drysdale is a second-year master of fine arts art student working in mixed-media sculpture and fibers. A prolific artist, Drysdale has exhibited her work professionally in Chicago and Wisconsin. The fellowship will enable her to mount an exhibition of room-size fabric pieces.
Chris Walla, art, Lyman S.V. Judson and Ellen Mackechnie Judson Student Award in the Creative Arts
Walla is a third-year master of fine arts student in the 3-D area of the Art Department. Walla is a promising young artist, outstanding teacher and a highly valued graduate teaching assistant in the Art Department. The Judson award will help defray the cost of mounting his final show for the MFA.
Ben Cipiti, doctoral student, engineering physics, received first place for the best student poster at the 15th American Nuclear Society Conference on the Technology of Fusion Energy. The subject of Cipiti’s work was cathode-embedded D-He3 fusion reactions in inertial electrostatic confinement. Two other engineering physics students, John Weidner and Phongsan Meekunnasombat, received honorable mention in the same category.
Betty R. Hasselkus, emeritus professor, occupational therapy/kinesiology, has been awarded a visiting professorship to the University of Ulster near Belfast, Northern Ireland. The position includes several visits to the campus during the next three years to provide consultation and seminars on qualitative research methods to faculty and graduate students in the School of Rehabilitation Sciences.
Ben-Tzion Karsh, assistant professor, industrial engineering, is among several young engineers whose accomplishments are recognized as part of National Engineers Week. The “New Faces of Engineering” program highlights the work of engineers two to five years out of school. The Institute of Industrial Engineers nominated Karsh, who researches in health-care and occupational-safety settings and is a key investigator for the UW–Madison Developmental Center for Evaluation and Research in Patient Safety.
Sanford Klein, Ouweneel-Bascom Professor, mechanical engineering; Doug Reindl, associate professor, mechanical engineering; and David Yu, graduate student, mechanical engineering, garnered the 2002 Technical/Symposium Paper Award by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers Inc. The paper focused on the investigation of solid absorbents for humidity control in display cases.
John Mitchell, Elmer R. and Janet A. Kaiser Professor Emeritus, mechanical engineering; William Beckman, Ouweneel-Bascom Professor Emeritus, mechanical engineering; and Paul Reimer, graduate student, mechanical engineering, have received the 2002 Crosby Field Award from the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers Inc. This award honors their paper on the use of time series analysis in fault detection and diagnostic methodologies as the best paper published. The three also won the Society’s 2002 Poster Presentation Award for the same paper.
L. Burke O’Neal, director, Engineering Technical Services, is the recipient of the Jim Kipp Memorial Award, which recognizes individual dedication, achievement and excellence in the biomedical field. The Biomedical Associations of Wisconsin, an organization of clinical engineers and biomedical technicians, presents the annual award to a Wisconsin individual. O’Neal is one of the pioneers responsible for promoting and developing medical equipment control programs for Wisconsin community hospitals.
Roxann Engelstad, professor, mechanical engineering, has been elected as a fellow of the International Society for Optical Engineering. Fellows are selected through distinguished achievements and contributions in the field of optics or electro-optics, or in related scientific, technical or engineering areas.
Kumar Sridharan, senior scientist, engineering physics, is participating in a two-year, $75,000 NASA grant to research preparation and analysis of calibration samples for the NASA Sample Return Laboratory. The project will use plasma-source ion implantation to simulate how gaseous ion species from the solar wind are incorporated into collector plates placed in the NASA Genesis 2004 mission. The grant is a part of a larger award that includes collaboration with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.; and the University of Minnesota.
Scientists from the United States and South Korea, including researchers from the Department of Engineering Physics, will share a three-year award from the Department of Energy International Nuclear Energy Research Initiative to study and evaluate materials for Generation IV supercritical water reactors. The UW–Madison team includes engineering physics senior scientist Kumar Sridharan, Engineering Physics Professor Michael Corradini and Todd Allen, an Argonne National Laboratory researcher who will join the engineering physics faculty in the fall. They will focus on plasma surface treatment of samples of advanced alloys, hoping to enhance the resistance of the materials to stress- corrosion cracking.
The Fusion Technology Institute has received two grants. A one-year grant from the Department of Energy will fund a project headed by FTI senior Scientist Laila El-Guebaly. Her team will study the commercial potential for laser-driven and stellerator-based fusion power plants under. In addition, a one-year grant from the University of Rochester will fund development of computer models of fusion targets compressed by high-power lasers. Engineering physics professor Greg Moses is directing the project, assisted by FTI research associate Jiankui Yuan and two graduate students. Their computer models will assist University of Rochester scientists in analyzing the performance of matter compressed to very high densities and temperatures.
Appointed
John Mitchell, Elmer R. and Janet A. Kaiser Professor Emeritus, mechanical engineering, has been appointed to serve on the Board of Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Programs Panel for Building and Fire Research by the National Research Council.
Published
Claudia Card, Emma Goldman Professor of Philosophy, recently had her edited book “The Cambridge Companion to Simone de Beauvoir” published by Cambridge University Press in hardback and paperback.
Other
Vicki Bier, professor, engineering physics and industrial engineering, and Paul Wilson, assistant professor, engineering physics, are investigating nuclear fuel-cycle transparency for ways to confidently detect nuclear proliferation under a contract from Sandia National Laboratories.