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
Awards and honors
Dennis Buege, professor of animal science, received the 2001 American Association of Meat Processors Annual Achievement Award.
Mary Anne Fitzpatrick, associate dean of the College of Letters and Science, and professor of communication arts, received the 2001 International Communication Association Career Productivity Award in June for her sustained scholarship in interpersonal and relational communication. Fitzpatrick’s work has addressed marital and family communication, health, AIDS, aging and television.
Jan Heide, professor of marketing, received the Louis W. Stern Award from the American Marketing Association for best article in an AMA refereed journal in the area of marketing channels and distribution.
Jon C. Pevehouse, assistant professor of political science, was awarded the American Political Science Association 2001 Helen Dweight Reid Award for his dissertation, “Democracy from Above? Regional Organizations and Democratization.”
Geoffrey Thompson, assistant dean of the College of Letters and Science and John Westbury, associate professor of communicative disorders, have won advising awards from the College of Letters and Science. They receive $3,500 each in honor of their contributions to advising, their efforts to develop students’ potential, willingness to work beyond L&S to serve students and for their contributions beyond the call of duty.
Aili Tripp, associate professor of political science and women’s studies, and director of the Women’s Studies Research Center, was awarded the American Political Science Association 2001 Victoria Schuck Award (best book published on women and politics in 2000) for “Women and Politics in Uganda” on Aug. 30 at the association’s annual meeting. The book, published by the University of Wisconsin Press, also won a 2001 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award.
Jerry J. Weygandt, professor of accounting, was presented with the American Accounting Association Outstanding Accounting Educator Award in Atlanta in August. He was one of only two accounting educators in the nation to receive the award.
Appointments, Elections
Jane Albright served as the head coach for the 2001 Big Ten Conference Women’s Basketball Foreign Tour team this summer. The team spent five nights each in France and Switzerland in August.
Mary P. Anderson, professor and chair of the department of Geology and Geophysics, has been appointed editor-in-chief of the bimonthly journal “Ground Water,” effective Jan. 1. The National Ground Water Association publishes the 39-year-old peer-reviewed journal, which features articles written for and by professional ground-water hydrologists.
Kristie Braunston, former graduate assistant coach at Texas Christian University, has joined the UW–Madison women’s soccer program as an assistant coach. Braunston has also coached for Louisiana State, played for the Texas Odyssey in the United Soccer League’s W-1 League and was a three-year starter at Vanderbilt University from 1995 to 1997.
Dennis Dorn, professor of theatre and drama, was elected vice president for commissions of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology Inc. Dorn will serve a two-year term for the organization, which promotes the skills and knowledge of its 3,000-plus members by sponsoring projects, programs and symposia; participates in the development of industry standards; and provides professional networking and contacts.
Carl J. Getto, former UW Medical School dean and professor and chair of psychiatry, will return to the university as senior vice president for medical affairs at the UW Hospital and Clinics in November. He will also serve as associate dean for hospital affairs at UW Medical School.
Mark D. Markel, professor of large animal surgery and chair of the Department of Medical Sciences at the School of Veterinary Medicine, has been named associate dean for advancement. The new position was established to lead the school’s programs in advancement and development.
William P. Morgan, professor of kinesiology, was recently appointed to a three-year term on the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Military Nutrition Research. The committee’s task is to advise the U.S. Department of Defense on the need for and conduct of nutrition research and related issues.
Scott A. Rankin has joined the Department of Food Science as assistant professor of food science and extension processing specialist. He will develop and provide outreach programs to the dairy processing industry, especially in the area of fluid milk, ice cream and cultured products. He will also provide support to the farmstead milk processing industry.
Larry E. Rittenberg, professor of accounting, has been named vice chairman of research and president of the Institute of Internal Auditors’ Research Foundation board of trustees.
Appointments
The following faculty members, listed by name, professorship and department, have been appointed to named professorships.
Franco Cerrina, McFarland-Bascom Professorship, electrical and computer engineering
Bruce M. Christensen, H. Edwin Young Professorship, animal health and biomedical sciences
Nikolas Christensen, Albert and Alice Weeks Professorship, geology and geophysics
Jorge C. Escalante-Semerena, Ira L. Baldwin Professorship, bacteriology
Theresa Kelley, Tiefenthaler Professorship, English
David Loewenstein, Tiefenthaler Professorship, English
Stephen Nakada, David Theodore Uehling Professorship, surgery
Walter R. Stevenson, Friday Chair for Vegetable Research, plant pathology
Mariamne Whatley, Evjue-Bascom Professorship in Women’s Studies, curriculum and instruction and women’s studies
Gary S. Wood, Geneva F. and Sture Johnson Professorship in Dermatology, medicine
Book publications
“The Correspondence of John Cotton,” edited by Sargent Bush Jr., John Bascom Professor of English, was published in June by the University of North Carolina Press.
Halina Filipowicz, professor of Slavic languages and literatures, has just published a book entitled “Laboratorium form nieczystych: Dramaturgia Tadeusza Rozewicza.” Translated into Polish by Tomasz Kunz, it was published by Wydawnictwo Literackie in Cracow, Poland.
Liam E. Gumley, associate instrument innovator in the Space Science and Engineering Center, recently published “Practical IDL Programming,” a guide to procedural programming in interactive data language. The book, published by Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, will be useful to students and researchers who wish to analyze and visualize data in fields as diverse as the physical sciences, medical physics, and engineering test and analysis.
Gloria Ladson-Billings, professor of curriculum and instruction, recently published “Crossing Over to Canaan: The Journey of New Teachers in Diverse Classrooms.” The book documents the experiences of successful novice teachers who work in challenging classrooms.
William P. Morgan, professor of kinesiology, recently co-edited a monograph titled “Adherence to Exercise and Physical Activity” with Professor Rod Dishman of the University of Georgia. The monograph, published by Human Kinetics Publishers, is based on papers presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education.
Cora Lee Nollendorfs, professor of German, published her book, “Teaching German in Twentieth-Century America” with the University of Wisconsin Press.
Steve Spoerl, senior library service assistant at Memorial Library, published his first novel, “Sut McCaslin, a Baseball Romance” last November.
Mariamne Whatley, professor of curriculum and instruction, and women’s studies, co-authored “Did You Hear about the Girl Who …?” with Elissa Henken, professor of English at the University of Georgia. The book confronts common beliefs and stereotypes about sexual behavior and uses folklore as a tool to educate students about sexual health and gender relations.
Grants
Jeffrey P. Braden, professor of educational psychology, received a Fulbright grant for the 2001-02 academic year from the United States Educational Foundation in Greece in April.
Other milestones
The following candidates received the master of science degree in administrative medicine from the Medical School on June 9: Steven Andrews, Theresa Cullen, Bikram Dhillon, Sherry Dubester, Allan Frank, Thomas Hardy, James Hernandez, James Huey, Marcille Jorgenson, Steven Kouris, Dean Krahn, Diana Netherton, Andrew Oswiak, John Sterling, Victor Trinkus, Christopher Watson.
Michael Amman, Maximillian Ashwill, Jamie Duro and Joseph Schwartz, all forestry students, teamed up to take first place in the fifth annual Upper Midwest Capstone Report Award Competition for their land and resource management plan for the Cross Plains Ice Age Reserve. The team received a $500 prize.
School of Business research was featured in The New York Times and Business Week recently. The research, on repricing of executives’ options, was conducted by assistant professor Tim Pollock, associate professor Jim Wade and Ph.D. candidate Harald Fischer, all of the Business School’s Department of Management and Human Resources.
UW–Madison received the Educational Fund-raising Award from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education in May. The university was selected for the superior performance of its fund-raising programs.
UW–Madison’s athletic program has regained the title of No. 1 program in the Big Ten by leading the conference’s all-sports standings for 2000-01. The program also tied Michigan for most championships won with five titles in men’s and women’s cross-country, men’s indoor and outdoor track, and volleyball.
Flad and Associates, the designers of the research tower addition to the Chemistry Building, received a 2001 Wisconsin Design Award for its excellence in architecture from the American Institute of Architects in May.