Milestones

Appointed
Michael Johnson has joined the men’s soccer team as an assistant coach. For the last six years, he has been an assistant with the men’s soccer team at Quinnipiac College in Connecticut.

Honored
Daryl Buss, dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine, is the new president-elect of the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges. He will become president of the group in July 2000.

James Danky and Wayne Wiegand, editors of “Print Culture in America,” won the 1999 Carey McWilliams Award from Greenwood Publication’s MultiCultural Review. Danky, a faculty associate in Afro-American studies, journalism and mass communication, and library and information studies, and Wiegand, a professor of library and information studies, are co-directors of the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America, a joint project of UW–Madison and the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.

Raymond Guries, professor of forest ecology and management, will be presented with the Society of American Foresters’ Carl Alwin Schenk Award recognizing excellence in forestry education during its 1999 National Convention in Portland, Ore. Several former UW–Madison forestry students initiated the effort to promote Guries for the award that highlights his creative teaching style.

Brett McKusick, a research assistant in animal science, is doing agricultural research in Rennes, France, this semester as a Fulbright scholar.

Nan Peterson, a senior clinical nurse specialist at Children’s Hospital and the UW General Clinical Research Center, received the Partnership Award for Injury Prevention from Madison and Dane County last spring. The award honors her work as a founder and coordinator of the Madison Area SAFE KIDS Coalition, which is particularly interested in car safety seats.

Stephanie Robert, assistant professor of social work, has received the American Sociological Association Eliot Freidson Outstanding Publication Award for her article “Community-Level Socioeconomic Status Effects on Adult Health,” which was published in the March 1998 issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.

Larry D. Satter, professor of dairy science, received the American Dairy Science Association Award of Honor in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the association.

Doris P. Slesinger, professor emerita of rural sociology, was named the first recipient of the Doris P. Slesinger Outstanding Mentor Award from the Women’s Mentoring Program in 1998. She also was appointed to a three-year term on the Governor’s Advisory Council on Migrant Labor.

Amy Stambach, assistant professor of educational policy studies, has been chosen as a 1999-2000 National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow.

Paul Voss, professor of rural sociology and UW-Extension demographic specialist, was among the members of the U.S. Census Bureau’s project team who received Vice President Al Gore’s Hammer Award in June. The National Partnership for Reinventing Government honored this team for creating the American Community Survey, a new statistical survey method that could replace the decennial census “long-form” questionnaire. The award, which consists of a $6 hammer, ribbon and a note from Gore, all in an aluminum frame, is given to federal employees and their partners who help make government more efficient and less costly.

Published
Doris P. Slesinger, professor emerita of rural sociology, co-authored with E. Howard Grigsby “African Americans in Wisconsin: A Statistical Overview” (Simon and Schuster Custom Publishing, 1999).