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 P. Harrod, Jr., director of the Physical Plant since 1991, has been installed as president of the Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers for 2000-01.

Andrew J. Policano, Business School dean, has been chosen to lead a blue- ribbon committee on accreditation quality for the International Association for Management Education.

James Weisshaar, professor of chemistry, was recently elected to a fellowship in the American Physical Society. Weisshaar was commended by the society for his “groundbreaking applications of photoionization and photoelectron spectroscopy to molecules and radicals and for incisive spectroscopic and dynamics studies of complex chemical reactions.”

Published
Christopher Kleinhenz, professor of French and Italian, has edited a new book with Santa Casciani entitled “The Fiore and the Detto d’Amore: A Late 13th-Century Italian Translation of the Roman de la Rose, Attributable to Dante Alighieri” (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2000).

Robert T. O’Brien, veterinary radiologist, is author of the first commercially published book on veterinary thoracic radiology. The book, entitled “Thoracic Radiology for the Small Animal Practitioner,” will be published in January. O’Brien is chief of staff of Small Animal Services at the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital.

Arthur Reynolds, associate professor of Social Work, Child and Family Studies and Educational Psychology, has authored “Success in Early Intervention: The Chicago Child-Parent Centers” (University of Nebraska Press, 2000).

Honored
Two UW–Madison summer programs captured awards for creative and innovative programming from the North American Association of Summer Sessions. “Mosquitoes in the Classroom: Lifestyles of the Itch and Infamous” was judged “the most outstanding credit course.” Youth Entrepreneur Camp, a new offering from the Small Business Development Center in the School of Business, won the merit award in the noncredit division. At the weeklong camp, middle school students learn such real-world business skills as team building, financial management, communication and leadership.

Tom DuBois, professor of Scandinavian Studies, received the annual medal of the Kalevalaseura, one of the oldest and most prestigious learned societies in Finland, for his years of efforts to advance knowledge of Finnish folk culture in North America.

John Kutzbach, Plaenert-Bascom Professor and director of the Center for Climatic Research, will be awarded the Milankovitch Medal for outstanding achievements in climatological sciences. Kutzbach will receive the award at the European Geophysical Society meeting in Nice, France, March 25.

Dianne McAfee Hopkins, professor in the School of Library and Information Studies, received the Wisconsin SIRS/ Mandarin Intellectual Freedom Award at the Wisconsin Library Association conference.

Brien Neudeck, assistant professor of pharmacy, is one of two U.S. researchers to receive a $15,000 AstraZeneca Clinical Pharmacy Research Award, an annual grant that supports and recognizes original, independent research.

Joseph Wiederholt, professor of pharmacy administration, was recently named a fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists.