Milestones

Appointed
The Board of Regents approved the following appointments to named professorships at its September meeting: Laura Pincus Hartman to the Grainger Chair in Business Ethics; Jan B. Heide to the Churchill Professorship in Marketing; Rudy Koshar, professor of history, to the DAAD-Professorship of German and European Studies; Jiwan Palta, professor of horticulture, to the Campbell-Bascom Professorship; and Glen R. Stanosz to the William C. III and Eugene P. Van Arsdel Professorship in Tree Pathology.

Roger Axtell, of Janesville, Gregory Gracz, of Milwaukee, and Lolita Schneiders, of Menomonee Falls, were nominated to the Board of Regents. Axtell currently serves as vice-chairman of the governor’s task force on international education. Gracz is the president and contract administrator for the Milwaukee Professional Fire Fighters Association, Local 215. Schneiders was a Wisconsin state representative from 1980-1996. The appointments require confirmation by the state Senate.

Rod Matthews, a senior lecturer with the School of Business, has been named the Wisconsin Real Estate Alumni Association Distinguished Scholar for his innovations in and out of the classroom. Matthews, who served as Dane County executive from 1987-88, has taught real estate and international business in the School of Business for the past 25 years.

Ali Viola and Deanna Weiman-Garcia have been named assistant coaches in the softball program. Viola was an assistant coach with the University of Louisville last year, and Weiman-Garcia most recently was an assistant coach at the University of the Pacific in California. They played this year in the Women’s Professional Softball League.

Honored
Robert G. Cassens, professor emeritus of animal science, received the Nicholas Appert Award from the Institute of Food Technologists for research on nitrite as a meat-curing agent and preservative.

Jean and Loren Chapman, both professors emeritus of psychology, received the Distinguished Scientific Award for the Applications of Psychology for their research into schizophrenia during the annual convention of the American Psychological Association in August.

Kevin R. Den Dulk, a political science graduate student, has received a Charlotte W. Newcomb Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for his work on “representing Christ in court-political litigation and the reconfiguring of American evangelicalism.”

Eric A. Johnson, professor of food microbiology and toxicology, and bacteriology, received the Educator Award from the International Association of Milk, Food and Environmental Sanitarians for contributions to teaching, research and public service.

Daniel P. Kunene, professor of African Languages and Literature, will receive an honorary doctorate from the University of South Africa Thursday, Oct. 7, for academic contributions during his career.

Ben Niemann, professor of landscape architecture, has received the Special Service Award from the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association for his efforts in founding and developing the URISA journal.

Larry Satter, professor of dairy science, received the 1999 Award of Honor from the American Dairy Science Association for his exceptional and long-term contributions to the group.

Hyuk Yu, Walter H. Stockmayer and Eastman Kodak Professor of Chemistry, is one of two recipients of the 1999 Langmuir Award of the Division of Colloid & Surface Chemistry of the American Chemical Society. He gave a Langmuir Award Lecture at the ACS national meeting.

Published
Merton M. Sealts Jr., the Henry A. Pochmann Professor Emeritus of English, recently wrote “Closing the Books: A Memoir of an Academic Career” (New York: Vantage Press, 1999).