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
John Jentz, formerly an assistant athletic director at California State University-Fullerton, was named an assistant athletic director for UW Athletics. Jentz, who began his new position Nov. 6, is in charge of eight sports.

Pilar Ossorio, professor of law, has been selected by the National Academy of Sciences for a new project called “Intellectual Property in the Knowledge-Based Economy.” Ossorio will work with a committee of legal scholars, economists, and technical experts and practitioners to examine legal issues surrounding software-enabled business method patents and biotech patents.

The Institute for Research on Poverty has appointed several new affiliates: Michael Handel, professor of sociology, studies the growth of wage inequality in the United States and its relationship to the changing nature of work, including how the shifting demand for skills brought about by information technology may work to the disadvantage of low-skill groups. John Kennan, professor of economics, researches the interaction of migration incentives arising from labor markets and welfare programs. James Montgomery, professor of sociology, studies social networks in the labor market and recently published a paper on adverse selection and employment cycles. Jamie Peck, professor of geography, studies labor markets and the political economy of welfare reform. In a forthcoming book, Workfare States, he offers a critical, comprehensive analysis of workfare experiments in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Ananth Seshadri, professor of economics, analyzes societal investment in children and works to increase academia’s understanding of the determinants of wealth distribution and aggregate wealth. Kristen Shook, professor of social work, studies how economic hardship interacts with individual characteristics and family dynamics to influence child well-being. She recently moved to UW–Madison from Northwestern University.

Published
Arthur Hove, historian and emeritus administrator, has published “Progressive Printmakers: Wisconsin Artists and the Print Renaissance” (University of Wisconsin Press 2000).

Honored
Sean Carroll, professor of genetics, received the Herbert W. Dickerman Award from the Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, for his contributions to biomedical research.

Richard Davis, an internationally recognized jazz bassist and UW–Madison music professor, received the 19th annual Manfred E. Swarsensky Humanitarian Service Award from the Madison Rotary Club. Davis, who has organized numerous programs to aid young musicians and students of color, will receive a $1,000 grant for an agency of his choice.

W. Lee Hansen, emeritus professor of economics, received the Henry H. Villard Research Award from the National Council on Economic Education and the National Association of Economic Educators for his outstanding contributions to economic education research.

Wendy L. Way, professor of family and consumer education, received the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences’ Leaders Award. Way, who has worked to implement a critical science curriculum model for Family and Consumer Science, was honored for her work to promote the incorporation of thinking and reasoning skills within family and consumer education in national education standards.