Milestones

Milestones covers awards, honors and major publications by faculty and staff. Send your items to Wisconsin Week, 19 Bascom Hall, or e-mail: wisweek@news.wisc.edu

Honored
David Bohnhoff, professor of agricultural and life sciences, received the 2000 Bernon G. Perkins Award for his exemplary service to the post-frame industry.

The Biochemistry addition was recognized for excellence in design and construction in the state building program. Michael Cox, professor of agricultural and life sciences, and Bruce Braun, assistant vice chancellor of facilities planning and management, represented the university.

Harvey M. Jacobs, professor of urban and regional planning and director of the Institute for Environmental Studies, has received honorable mention for the 1999 Best Article Award from the Journal of the American Planning Association Awards Committee for his article “Fighting Over Land: America’s Legacy … America’s Future?”, vol. 65, no. 2. Jacobs will be recognized at the annual meeting of the American Planning Association in mid-April in New York.

Lisa Koch, a wildlife ecology graduate student, was selected for the inaugural Great Lakes Commission-Sea Grant Fellowship. The $38,000 fellowship was created to help advance the goals of GLC, its member states and provinces.

Judith Walzer Leavitt, Ruth Bleier Professor of History of Medicine, History of Science and Women’s Studies, was recently elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Ronald L. Numbers, Hilldale Professor of History of Science and History of Medicine, has won the John Templeton Foundation’s Prize for Outstanding Books in Theology and the Natural Sciences for his book, “Darwinism comes to America.”

Published
Tyrone Greive, professor of violin, has released a new CD entitled, “Polish Romantic Music of Late 19th and 20th Centuries” (Albany Records, 1999), which includes a number of pieces from copies of manuscripts he found during a research trip to Poland.

David Mladenoff, a landscape ecologist, co-edited “Spatial Modeling of Forest Landscape Change” (Cambridge University Press, 1999), a book about the approaches researchers are taking in applying computer models to studies of large, forested landscapes.

Stanley Payne, Hilldale-Jaume Vicens Professor of History, recently published “Fascism in Spain, 1923-1977” (The University of Wisconsin Press, 2000), the first comprehensive history of Spanish Fascism to appear in any language.

David Sorkin, History and Jewish Studies, is the author of “The Berlin Haskalah and German Religious Thought” (London: Vallentine Mitchell), which is based on the Sherman Lectures delivered at Manchester University in 1997.

Clara Penniman, political science professor emeritus, and Paula White, project manager for the National Institute for Science Education, have published “Madison, An Administration History of Wisconsin’s Capital City 1929-79.”

Appointed
Richard Atkinson, clinical nutrition, recently accepted the position as editor of the International Journal of Obesity for North America, a five-year renewable appointment.

Three university faculty received named professorships that were approved for 2000 this month by the UW System Board of Regents. Stephanie Jutt will be the Emily Mead Baldwin Bell-Bascom Professor of the Arts effective July 1; John L. Markley is Steenbock Professor of Biomolecular Structure, a reappointment effective Jan. 1; and George Wilding has been named Donald and Margaret Anderson Professor in Human Oncology, a new appointment effective Jan. 1.