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

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
Andrew Taylor, assistant director for the past six years of the Bolz Center for Arts Administration, has succeeded director E. Arthur Prieve, who retired from his position as of September.

The following faculty have been approved for named professorships by the Board of Regents: John J. Coleman (Political Science), David T. Canon (Political Science), Martine Debaisieux (French and Italian), !IR”Mary Lydon” (French and Italian), Christopher Kleinhenz (French and Italian), Byron Shafer (Political Science), John W. Suttie (Biochemistry) and David L. Weimer (Political Science).

Honored
Philip Sobocinski, associate director for technology development and commercialization at University-Industry Relations was among those honored Oct. 3 in the Fifth Annual Tibbetts Awards by the U.S. Small Business Administration in Washington, D.C. The national Tibbetts Awards recognize outstanding SBIR leadership in the state, region or nation.

Richard Weindruch, professor of medicine and an investigator with the Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center at the VA Hospital in Madison, has been awarded the 2000 Glenn Foundation Award for his contributions to the field of aging, which has led to a new understanding of the relationship among caloric intake oxidative stress and aging.

The College of Engineering will honor five outstanding faculty and staff members during the 53rd annual Engineers’ Day Friday, Oct. 20. Three faculty will receive the Benjamin Smith Reynolds Award for Excellence in Teaching: electrical and computer engineering professor John H. Booske, chemistry professor Arthur B. Ellis and biomedical engineering professor John G. Webster. Chemical engineering professor Thomas F. Kuech will be presented with the Byron Bird Award for Excellence in a Research Publication. Jay M. Samuel, a lecturer in the departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, will receive the Bollinger Academic Staff Distinguished Achievement Award.

Matt Rabin, professor of economics at the University of California-Berkeley, has been awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. Rabin was an undergraduate at UW–Madison, receiving his B.A. in economics and mathematics in 1984. Rabin will receive an award of $500,000 over five years.

Jon Ramsey, assistant scientist at the Primate Research Center, has been awarded a four-year, $750,000 grant from National Institute on Aging to study mitochondrial energy metabolism in the contexts of aging and dietary restriction.

Mary Schneider, professor at the Harlow Center for Biological Psychology, has received an 18-month grant from the Wallace Foundation to study sensory modulation disorder, which is a negative or aversive response to certain types of sensory stimuli.

John Karl Scholz, professor of economics, began his tenure as director of Institute for Research on Poverty last month. He succeeds Barbara Wolfe, who had held the post since 1994. Scholz has been at UW–Madison since 1988. His poverty-related research focuses broadly on policies directed toward low-wage labor markets, and narrowly on the effects of the earned income tax credit and means-tested transfer programs.

Ronald Schultz, professor and chair of the School of Veterinary Medicine’s Department of Pathobiological Sciences, was selected to present the second annual Robert M. Cello Distinguished Lecture Series Sept. 16-17 during the University of California-Davis’ 13th annual fall symposium. He gave five presentations.