Awards briefs

School of Ed honors staff
The School of Education presented its annual Distinguished Achievement Awards to six faculty and staff members earlier this month. The recipients are: Jim Escalante, professor of art; Chris Kruger, program assistant in curriculum and instruction; Jane Kwiecinski, data processing operations technician in the Wisconsin Career Information System, Center on Education and Work; Linda Newman, senior student services coordinator in Education Academic Services; Debbie Stewart, distinguished editor with the Wisconsin Center for Education Research; and Ken Zeichner, Hoefs-Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction.

Vilas Associates named
Fifty-two faculty members have been named Vilas Associates for 2000-2001. The award carries a research stipend. They are:

In biological sciences: Caitilyn Allen, plant pathology; Alan Attie, biochemistry; William Bement, zoology; Seth Blair, zoology; Emery Bresnick, pharmacology; Daniel Gianola, animal sciences; Robert Goodman, plant pathology; F. Michael Hoffmann, oncology; Denise Ney, nutritional sciences; Thomas Osborn, agronomy; Kenneth Raffa, entomology; Gary Roberts, bacteriology; and Barbara Schneider, nursing.

In humanities: Rachel Brenner, Hebrew and Semitic studies; Stefania Buccini, French and Italian; Gudrun Buhnemann, languages and cultures of Asia; Ivy Corfis, Spanish and Portuguese; Alexander Dolinin, Slavic languages; Steve Feren, art; Michelle Grabner, art; Lester Hunt, philosophy; Priya Joshi, English; Nietzchka Keene, communication arts; Joseph Koykkar, dance; Yafei Li, linguistics; Silvia Montiglio, classics; and Pamela Potter, music.

In physical sciences: Chuck DeMets, geology and geophysics; Samuel Gellman, chemistry; Hazel Holden, biochemistry; Keith Kelling, soil science; Steffen Lempp, mathematics; Zhengyu Liu, atmospheric and oceanic sciences; Robert McMahon, chemistry; John Moskwa, mechanical engineering; Jeffrey Naughton, computer sciences; Kenneth Nordsieck, astronomy; Kenneth Potter, civil and environmental engineering; Mary Vernon, computer sciences; and Thad Walker, physics.

In social sciences: Katherine Bowie, anthropology; Mark Browne, business; Steven Durlauf, economics; Adam Gamoran, sociology; Arthur Glenberg, psychology; Donald Hausch, business; Robert Kaiser, geography; Catherine Marler, psychology; Jenny Saffran, psychology; Nora Schaeffer, sociology; Robert Staiger, economics; and Lee Palmer Wandel, history.

L&S honors its own
At the first annual Recognition Reception in the College of Letters and Science earlier this month, three faculty and staff members were honored for their exemplary work both past and present. Patti Puccio, who retired as a program assistant in the chemistry department last year, received the classified staff Distinguished Career Award; Mary Feirn, who retired as a teacher and administrator in the Writing Center, received the academic staff Distinguished Career Award; and Stan Henning, professor emeritus of English, received the Distinguished Career Award for faculty.

Medical faculty honored
Patricia Keely, an assistant professor of pharmacology, was recently awarded the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Career Development Award, which supports the cancer research of junior faculty anywhere in the world.