Milestones

Perry Pickhardt, Department of Radiology, and Maureen Smith, Health Innovation Program, have received a $2.7 million grant supporting collaboration between their departments to investigate the dissemination of the technology developed by the UW Radiology team and the impact of this new technique on colorectal cancer screening.

The following faculty members have been awarded a sabbatical leave for 2010–11:

Anna V. Andrzejewski, Department of Art History; Thomas J. D. Armbrecht, Department of French and Italian; Amir H. Assadi, Department of Mathematics; Suman Banerjee, Department of Computer Sciences; Paul Barford, Department of Computer Sciences; Linda L. Bartley, School of Music; Richard J. Begam, Department of English; Ruth Benedict, Department of Kinesiology; Robert H. Blick, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Dan Botez, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Patricia F. Brennan, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering; Thomas H. Broman, Program in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology; Dominique Brossard, Department of Life Sciences Communication; Barbara C. Buenger, Department of Art History; James E. Burt, Department of Geography; Pascale Carayon, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering; Mason A. Carpenter, Department of Management and Human Resources; Erik W. Carter, Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education; Jill H. Casid, Department of Art History; Fong Chan, Department of Rehabilitation Psychology; Susan C. Cook, School of Music; Ivy A. Corfis, Department of Spanish and Portuguese; Donald R. Davis Jr., Department of Language and Cultures of Asia; Onofre T. DeJesus, Department of Medical Physics; Raymond J. Deneckere, Department of Economics; Samuel F. Dennis Jr., Department of Landscape Architecture; Suzanne M. Desan, Department of History; Anthony E. Di Sanza, School of Music; Colleen A. Dunlavy, Department of History; Mark R. Etzel, Department of Food Science; Paul G. Evans, Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Zsuzsanna Fabry, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine; Michael C. Ferris, Department of Computer Sciences; Robert F. Freeland, Department of Sociology; Dana H. Geary, Department of Geoscience; James E. Gern, Department of Pediatrics; Naomi Fujita Geyer, Department of East Asian Languages and Literature; Paula L. Gottlieb, Department of Philosophy; Camille Guerin-Gonzales, Department of History; Robert J. Hamers, Department of Chemistry; Daniel M. Hausman, Department of Philosophy; Mark D. Hill, Department of Computer Sciences; Franz J. Himpsel, Department of Physics; Judith Anne Houck, Department of Medical History and Bioethics and Department of History; Katherine C. Hustad, Department of Communicative Disorders; Lea Jacobs, Department of Communication Arts; Robert Jeraj, Department of Medical Physics; Susan L. Johnson, Department of History; Jessica G. Johnson, School of Music; Albrecht Karle, Department of Physics; Jesse L. Kercheval, Department of English; Judith Kornblatt, Department of Slavic Languages and Literature; Thomas F. Kuech, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering; Maria A. Lepowsky, Department of Anthropology and Women’s Studies Program; Caroline Levine, Department of English; Xiaochun Li, Department of Mechanical Engineering; John A. Logan, Department of Sociology; Zhenqiang Ma, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Katherine Magnuson, School of Social Work; Ella Mae Matsumura, Department of Accounting and Information Systems; Alfred W. McCoy, Department of History; Katherine D. McMahon, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Department of Bacteriology; Grazia Menechella, Department of French and Italian; Cynthia L. Miller, Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies; Regina M. Murphy, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering; J. J. Murphy, Department of Communication Arts; Steven M. Nadler, Department of Philosophy; Kirin Narayan, Department of Anthropology; Mitchell J. Nathan, Department of Educational Psychology; Gilbert M. Nathanson, Department of Chemistry; Leslee J. Nelson, Department of Art and Department of Liberal Studies and the Arts; Larry Nesper, Department of Anthropology; Mario Ortiz-Robles, Department of English; Sean P. Palecek, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering; Joann J. Peck, Department of Marketing; Joel A. Pedersen, Department of Soil Science; Jack R. Porter, Department of Economics; Sadhana Puntambekar, Department of Educational Psychology; Robert G. Radwin, Department of Biomedical Engineering; David A. Riley, Department of Human Development and Family Studies; Lauren V. Riters, Department of Zoology; Joel W. Robbin, Department of Mathematics; Linda J. Roberts, Department of Human Development and Family Studies; Timothy T. Rogers, Department of Psychology; Marjorie A. Rosenberg, Department of Actuarial Science, Risk Management and Insurance and Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics; Matyas Sandor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine; Thomas H. Schaub, Department of English; Dietram A. Scheufele, Department of Life Sciences Communication; Bassam Z. Shakhashiri, Department of Chemistry; Eric V. Shusta, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering; Marc D. Silberman, Department of German; Lloyd M. Smith, Department of Chemistry; Timothy L. Solien, Department of Art; Johann Sommerville, Department of History; Max Statkiewicz, Department of Comparative Literature; Leann M. Tigges, Department of Community and Environmental Sociology; Lyn Turkstra, Department of Communicative Disorders; Monica G. Turner, Department of Zoology; J. Randloph Valentine, American Indian Studies Program; Uri Vardi, School of Music; James R. Walker, Department of Economics; Thad G. Walker, Department of Physics; Amy Wendt, Department of Electrical and Computer; John W. Williams, Department of Geography; Paul P. Wilson, Department of Engineering Physics; Kirsten Wolf, Department of Scandinavian Studies; Lydia Zepeda, Department of Consumer Science; A-Xing Zhu, Department of Geography; Ellen G. Zweibel, Department of Astronomy and Department of Physics.

The following faculty were awarded a Faculty Professional Development Grant for 2010–2011: Guillermina De Ferrari, Department of Spanish and Portuguese; Stephen Kantrowitz, Department of History; Mara Loveman, Department of Sociology; and Basil Tikoff, Department of Geoscience.