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

Appointed
Chris Schappel, an assistant ticket manager in the UW Athletic Ticket Office since 1998, has been promoted to associate director of ticket operations.

Michael Strigel has been hired as programs director and Joan Fischer as director of communications by the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. Strigel organized last year’s national conference, “Building on Leopold’s Legacy: Conservation for a New Century.” Fischer was managing editor of Madison Magazine.

Honored
Gordon Baldwin, professor emeritus of law, was appointed by Gov. Tommy Thompson to serve a two-year term on the state Ethics Board; the appointment requires state Senate confirmation.

The Biochemistry building addition won an excellence in design and construction award in the State Building Program.

Donald D. Hester, professor of economics, received the Faculty Teaching Award for 2000 from the Madison chapter of Phi Beta Kappa for his teaching.

Silvia Montiglio, assistant professor of classics, received a $4,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for her research entitled “The Figure of the Wanderer in Ancient Greece.”

Dale A. Schoeller, professor of nutritional sciences, received the Robert H. Herman Memorial Award from the American Society for Clinical Nutrition for his work in biochemical and metabolic aspects of human nutrition.

Timothy B. Tyson, assistant professor of Afro-American studies, received the James A. Rawley Prize and the Frederick Jackson Turner Award for his book “Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power” (University of North Carolina Press, 1999) from the Organization of American Historians.

University Housing was named by the Dane County Job Center as the Large Employer of the Year based on its efforts in hiring women, non-white and non-English-speaking employees.

Joseph Wiederholt, professor of pharmacy, recently was named a 2000 American Pharmaceutical Association Fellow. The fellowship is given to APhA Academy members in recognition of outstanding service to the profession.

Published
Tyrone Grieve, professor of violin, has a newly issued CD from Albany Records, entitled “Polish Romantic Music of Late 19th and 20th Centuries” (Troy 338). Ellen Burmeister, professor emeritus of music, plays the piano on the 63-minute recording.

Stephen Kantrowitz, assistant professor of history, wrote “Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy,” which was published in April (The University of North Carolina Press).

Andrew L. Sihler, professor emeritus of linguistics, has written “Historical Linguistics, Coursebook” (John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1999).

Consuelo Lopez Springfield and Geoffrey Thompson, assistant deans in the College of Letters and Science’s Student Academic Affairs, published “Rosie Perez at the Crossroads of Cultures” in Latino(a) Review (Spring/Winter 1999), published by the Center for Latino, Latin American, and Caribbean Studies (CELAC) at the University of Albany, State University of New York.