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
Peggy Farnham, professor, oncology, has been appointed associate editor of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, a top-tier scientific journal. Farnham will work under a main editor with only a handful of other associate editors who will distribute the papers to a larger editorial board.
Honored
Nancy Malz, disability coordinator of the Equity and Diversity Resource Center, accepted a merit award on behalf of the UW–Madison Division Level Representatives Program from the Wisconsin Department of Employee Relations. The award recognizes “a commitment to promote accessibility of facilities, programs and services for customers with disabilities.”
Patricia Flatley Brennan, professor, School of Nursing and College of Engineering, has been nationally recognized as an expert in the use of electronic technology in health care and elected to the Institute of Medicine. Brennan is the the only Wisconsinite with the Institute, a national advisory board to the federal government for issues in health and medicine.
Marsha Mailick Seltzer, professor of social work and acting director of the Waisman Center, received the 2001 Distinguished Research Award from the Arc of the United States. Seltzer was honored with her research associate, Marty Wyngaarden Krauss of Brandeis University. The Arc cited the two for their accomplishments in understanding and improving the social status, living conditions, and social needs for people with mental retardation and their families.
Grants and fellowsips
Xiaodi Chen, a postdoctoral research associate of William F. Dove at McArdle Laboratory, has been awarded a two-year fellowship to study colorectal cancer, the third most common cancer in the United States.
The Center on Education and Work has received a $699,634 grant for its project “Using School-Based Enterprises to Help Special Education Students Connect Classroom, Community and Career Options.” The department has received a $873,693 grant for a second project, “An Investigation of Factors Associated with Degree Completion and Postschool Success of University Students with Disabilities Served Through Disabled Student Services Offices.” Both grants were made possible through funding from the U.S. Department of Education.