Milestones
Appointed
Baha Balantekin, physics was elected as a member-at-large of the executive committee of the American Physical Society Forum on International Physics. Forum on International Physics encourages cooperation activities between American Physical Society members and members of other national physics organizations and supports the development of physics worldwide. In addition, Balantekin is serving as the chair-elect of the Division of Nuclear Physics of the American Physical Society.
Bruce Beck was elected to fill the unexpired term of Jean Buehlman on the Academic Staff Executive Committee until June 30.
Gary A. Brown has been named interim assistant director for planning. Brown has served as the campus senior landscape architect in planning for the past two years and worked for UW System Administration prior to that as a facilities planner and landscape architect for 15 years.
Sheilah Harrington has joined the Chemistry Library staff as the part-time library services assistant-advanced. Harrington received her MLS from the UW–Madison in 1996 and worked most recently at the Wisconsin Historical Society Library.
Sandy Phelps recently joined the staff of the Health Sciences Libraries as an academic librarian. Phelps comes to the UW–Madison from the University of Iowa with many years of experience in health sciences reference. Her office is located in the Clinical Science Library-Weston.
Amy Rudersdorf will join the UW–Madison Library staff as the digital services librarian for the digital content group. Rudersdorf will be coming from the University of Pittsburgh and will start Feb. 1.
UW–Madison Police sergeants Karen Soley, Joe Hornbeck and Bill Larson have been promoted to the rank of lieutenant. Soley has been assigned to Support Services, Hornbeck to the Clinical Sciences Center, and Larson to second and- third shift police patrol and security. Hornbeck and Larson will assume their new duties later this month. Soley will be attending Northwestern University’s School of Police Staff and Command for 10 weeks, and will assume her new role in late March.
Honored
Chris Eisele, an instructional specialist for the Food Animal Production Medicine program at the School of Veterinary Medicine’s Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital, received the fourth annual Outstanding VMTH Employee of the Year award. Faculty, staff and students vote for the outstanding employee based on significant contributions to the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital’s mission of excellence in patient care, teaching, and research.
Benjamin Rifkin, professor of Slavic languages, won the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages award for best book in the area of language pedagogy for the volume he edited with Olga Kagan of University of California-Los Angeles, “The Learning and Teaching of Slavic Languages and Cultures” (Slavica 2000). The book includes two chapters written by Rifkin as well as chapters written by other UW–Madison Slavic Department faculty: one chapter written by assistant professor Margaret Beissinger and one by assistant professor David Danaher, coauthored with Christopher Ott.
Evelyn Shimshak and Barbara Allen of University Communications received “Excellence in Procurement” awards at the 2001 State Procurement Conference for their substantial contributions to the Department of Administration’s efforts to meet statutory requirements and DOA’s initiatives to reshape the state printing operation.
David Tenenbaum, staff writer for the award-winning science Web site The Why Files, http://whyfiles.org, has been named a recipient of the National Association of Science Writers’ prestigious Science-in-Society Journalism Award for 2001. The award is the first to be given by NASW for work appearing in the medium of the World Wide Web.
Louise Trubek, director of the Law School’s Center for Public Representation, has been awarded the William Pincus Award for Outstanding Contributions to Clinical Legal Education by the Association of American Law Schools. The AALS presents the award annually to one or more individuals or institutions, based on service, scholarship, program design and implementation, or for other activities beneficial to clinical education or the advancement of justice. Trubek and co-recipient Bernida Reagan of University of California-Berkeley received the award Jan. 5 at the annual AALS conference.
Grants, Fellowships
Associate professor Craig Berridge, psychology, has received National Institute of Mental Health support for research into the neurobiology of orexin/hypocretin-induced arousal.
Associate professor Catherine Marler, psychology and zoology, has received National Science Foundation support for “the phylogenetics and functional integration of complex phenotypes regulating social and reproductive interactions.”
Professor Charles T. Snowdon and scientist Toni E. Ziegler have received five additional years of support from the National Institute of Mental Health for “breeding biology and behavior of monogamous monkeys.”
Published
James L. Baughman, journalism professor, has recently published a new edition of the interpretive biography, “Henry R. Luce and the Rise of the American News Media” (Johns Hopkins University Press). The book originally appeared in 1987. The Hopkins edition includes an afterword that discusses Time Inc.’s many marriages since 1990.
Other Milestones
Robert F. Hendricks has retired from Facilities Planning and Management. Hendricks has worked on much of the campus development over the last three decades and helped facilitate the 1996 Campus Facilities Master Plan.
James Sykes, a senior adviser for aging policy in the Department of Population Health Sciences at the Medical School participated in the Seniors Commission’s Jan. 14 Congressional field hearing in Miami.
Dean Philip M. Farrell will host a University Club luncheon honoring the nine UW Medical School faculty and staff who completed 30 years of Medical School service in the last fiscal year. Achieving this milestone are: Marvin L. Birnbaum, medicine; Paramjeet S. Chopra, surgery; June L. Dahl, pharmacology; Arthur A. Eggert, pathology and laboratory medicine; Kenlyn A. Fenrick, administration; Patricia A. Hauser, psychiatry; Inge R. Siggelkow, physiology; Thomas H. Steele, medicine; and Janice A. Waisman, academic affairs.