Milestones
Appointments
Steven N. Durlauf, professor and chair, economics, has been appointed as an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute. Durlauf is a former director of the institute’s economics program.
Sevie Kenyon and Michael J. Maroney have joined the Department of Dairy Science. Kenyon, a 1980 graduate of the Department of Life Sciences Communication, works as the Extension milk safety and quality outreach specialist. Maroney is a 1992 graduate of the UW School of Veterinary Medicine and serves as the Extension milk safety and quality outreach veterinarian.
David Larbalestier, professor, materials science and engineering, was named a board member of the Japanese National Institute for Materials Science Superconducting Materials Center. As part of his role on the board, Larbalestier, will travel annually to Japan and help advise the center on effective management and research strategies. Larbalestier also was recently elected a fellow of the United Kingdom Institute of Physics.
Phil McDade has joined Engineering External Relations as a university relations specialist. He is a former reporter for the Wisconsin State Journal, covering higher education and the Wisconsin Legislature.
Christine Schindler has joined the International Institute as academic adviser for the International Studies major program. Schindler most recently served as the undergraduate adviser in the Department of Economics.
Honored
Fernando Alvarado, professor of electrical and computer engineering, is being recognized for his distinguished service to the field of engineering by the National University of Engineering in Peru. The university’s latest electrical engineering graduating class has been named the Fernando Luis Alvarado Bouroncle Ph.D. graduating class of 2001.
Avshalom Caspi and Terrie E. Moffitt, psychology professors, have jointly received the John P. Hill Memorial Award from the Society for Research on Adolescence. The award recognizes individuals whose overall program of work has had a significant impact on the understanding of development and behavior in the second decade of the lifespan.
Christopher Coe, professor, psychology and Primate Research Center, received the 2001 Norman Cousins Award from the PsychoNeuroimmunology Research Society.
Donald S. Ermer, professor, mechanical engineering, received the Eugene L. Grant Medal from the American Society for Equality. This honor recognizes outstanding leadership in the development and presentation of a meritorious educational program in quality control. Grant received his B.S. and M.S. in civil engineering, as well as a Distinguished Engineering Service Citation, from the College of Engineering at UW–Madison.
Jack Jiang, associate professor of otolaryngology, Medical School Department of Surgery, has received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the National Institutes of Health. Jiang’s research focuses on the biomechanics of vocal fold vibration, instrumentation for laryngeal function assessment and laryngeal physiology. Jiang will be presented with the award at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., later this spring.
Jenny Saffran, assistant professor, psychology and the Waisman Center, has received the Young Investigator Award from the International Society for Infant Studies, which is awarded every two years.
Yi-Fu Tuan, John K. Wright and Vilas Research Professor of Geography Emeritus, has been awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Guelph. The award will be presented in October. Tuan also has an honorary Doctor of Environmental Science degree from the University of Waterloo.
Ken Zeichner, associate dean of education, received the Margaret B. Lindsey Award. The award, presented by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, honors a decade of research and writing that has great impact in the field of teacher education.
Five staff members of the College of Engineering have received 2002 Faculty Early Career Development Program awards from the National Science Foundation: Robert Carpick, assistant professor, engineering physics; Wendy Crone, assistant professor, engineering physics; Xiaochun Li, assistant professor, mechanical engineering; Manos Mavrikakis, assistant professor, chemical engineering; and Tim Shedd, assistant professor, mechanical engineering. Each award is granted on the basis of creative career-development plans that effectively integrate research and education.
Appointments
Mauricio Garcia-Villegas, visiting professor at the Law School and honorary fellow of the Institute for Legal Studies, is the spring 2002 Tinker fellow. The Edward Larocque Tinker Visiting Professorship Program is funded by the Tinker Foundation and administered by the Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program. Garcia-Villegas is also on the faculty of the Universidad Nacional in Bogota, Colombia.
Timothy J. Kamp, assistant professor, Department of Medicine (cardiovascular medicine), and James Thomson, professor, Department of Anatomy and Primate Center scientist, have received a two-year grant for their proposal “Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes” from the National Institutes of Health.
Thomas Mitchell, assistant professor at the Law School, has received a grant from the Ford Foundation. The grant will support Mitchell as he examines the impact that partition sales have had on black wealth in selected communities of the rural South and assesses the non-economic impact on these communities.
Gregg Vanderheiden, professor of industrial engineering, and Gottfried Zimmerman, Trace Research and Development Center information technology researcher, are the co-investigators for a research project that aims to help people with mild cognitive impairments access community resources and orientation services. The Trace Center received a five-year contract from the University of Florida International Center on Technology and Successful Aging to fund this project.
Five individuals from the Laboratory of Genetics have been awarded postdoctoral fellowships: Richard Clark received the NIH/NRSA fellowship; Xiaodi Chen received the Cancer Research Foundation Fellowship; Young-Ho Koh received the Torsion Dystonia Foundation Fellowship; Michael Palladino received the Jane Coffin Childs Fellowship and the Wills Foundation Fellowship; and Julie Simpson received the Helen Hay Whitney Fellowship.
Published
Arthur S. Goldberger, professor emeritus of economics, has published a Spanish translation of his 1998 textbook “Introduction to Econometrics.” The title of the Spanish version, published by Editorial Ariel of Barcelona, is “Introduccion a la Econometrica.”
Awarded
Richard Weindruch, professor, Medical School (medicine-geriatrics and adult development) and Primate Research Center, spoke at the National Institutes of Health’s Women’s Initiative Steering Committee Meeting in Arlington, Va. Nov. 29. Weindruch’s speech was entitled “Caloric Intake, Gene Expression and Aging.”
Two UW–Madison summer programs have won awards from the North American Association of Summer Sessions for 2001. “Freedom Ride: the Sites and Sounds of the Civil Rights Movement” won first prize in the Credit Programs category, and “Dance Millennium Summer Dance Camp” won a merit award for Noncredit Programs.
The Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program has been awarded a grant from the Tinker Foundation to support graduate student short-term field research grants in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula.
The African Studies Program, WisTEP (Wisconsin Teacher Enhancement Program) and the Department of Astronomy have received special funding from the Chancellor’s Office to internationalize WisTEP while simultaneously contributing to the improvement of science education in South Africa. This summer and next, 10 South African teacher trainers and science teachers will participate in WisTEP courses in Madison, joining dozens of Wisconsin high school science teachers in short courses, demonstrations and discussions of science in the classroom.