Milestones

Appointed

Seventeen faculty have been appointed to named professorships following approval during the 2002-03 academic year by the UW System Board of Regents: Neeraj Arora, Business: A.C. Nielsen Jr. Professor of Marketing Research; Mark Beissinger, Political Science: Glenn B. and Cleone Orr Hawkins Professor in Political Science; Barbara Bowers, Nursing: Helen Schulte Professor of Nursing; Frederick Buttel, Rural Sociology: William H. Sewell Professor of Rural Sociology; Li Chiao-Ping, Kinesiology: Emily Mead Baldwin-Bascom Professor in the Creative Arts; William Cronon, History/ Geography/Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies: Vilas Research Professor; T. Randall Fortenbery, Agricultural and Applied Economics: Renk Chair of Agribusiness; Susan Stanford Friedman, English: Sally Mead Hands Bascom Professor of English; Daniel Hausman, Philosophy: Herbert A. Simon Professor of Philosophy; Jan Heide, Business: Irwin Maier Professor of Marketing; Lynn Keller, English: Martha Meier Renk Bascom Professor in Poetry; M. Thomas Record, Chemistry: Steenbock Professor in Chemical Sciences; Michael Schatzberg, Political Science: Glenn B. and Cleone Orr Hawkins Professor in Political Science; Craig Thompson, Business: Gilbert A. and Helen C. Churchill Professor in Marketing; Grace Wahba, Statistics: I.J. Schoenberg Professor of Statistics; Sandra Ward, Nursing: Helen Schulte Professor of Nursing; and Marvin Wickens, Biochemistry: Max Perutz Professor of Molecular Biology.

Seventeen faculty will be appointed to named professorships pending approval by the UW System Board of Regents at its May meeting: Warwick Anderson, Medical History and Bioethics: Robert Turell Professor in Medical History; R. Alta Charo, Law School: Elisabeth S. Wilson-Bascom Professor in Law; Kenneth B. Davis, Law School: George H. Young Chair in Law; Philip Farrell, Pediatrics/Nutritional Sciences: Robert Turell Professor in Medical Leadership; Aaron Friedman, Pediatrics: Alfred Dorrance Daniels Professor on Diseases of Children; Craig Grau, Plant Pathology: Vaughan Bascom Professor of Plant Pathology; Thomas Grist, Radiology/Biomedical Engineering: Robert Turell Professor in Imaging Science; John Harting, Anatomy: UW Medical School/Medical Alumni Association Distinguished Teaching Professor; Sara Hotchkiss, Botany, Environmental Studies: Reid A. Bryson Distinguished Professor of Climate, People and Environment; Jane Larson, Law School: William Voss-Bascom Professor in Law; Richard Moss, Physiology: Robert Turell Professor in Physiology; Hasan Mukhtar, Dermatology: Helfaer Professor of Cancer Research; F. Javier Nieto, Population Health Sciences: Helfaer Professor of Cancer Research; Howard Rowley, Radiology: Joseph Sackett Professor; Jane Schacter, Law School: James E. & Ruth B. Doyle-Bascom Professor in Law; Paul Sondel, Pediatrics/Human Oncology: Reed and Carolee Walker Professor in Pediatric Oncology; and William Van Deburg, Afro-American Studies: Evjue-Bascom Professor in Afro-American Studies.

Honored

Douglas DeBoer, associate professor of veterinary dermatology, School of Veterinary Medicine, recently received the American College of Veterinary Dermatology’s 2003 Award for Excellence based on his outstanding contributions to science and education. The award, established in 1991, is the highest honor that the ACVD can bestow.

Jost Hermand, William F. Vilas Research Professor of German, has been named honorary professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin by the university’s president, and the Berlin Senator for Science and Scholarship.

Mark Johnson, coach, women’s ice hockey, is one of four 2003 inductees into the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame. Johnson helped the men’s hockey team to the 1977 NCAA Championship as a freshman at UW–Madison and is the program’s all-time leading goal scorer.

Jason Yaeger, assistant professor, anthropology, has been named a 2003-2004 National Endowment for the Humanities advanced scholar at the School of American Research in Santa Fe. He will be conducting research on the role of the ancient city of Tiwanaku in the construction of Inka imperial ideology.

The UW–Madison chapter of Phi Kappa Phi recently recognized four members of the faculty and staff by awarding them honorary memberships in Phi Kappa Phi: Yvonne Bowen, assistant dean, College of Letters and Science, chief pre-professional adviser, L&S Advising Center; Deborah Brandt, professor, English; Jenny Saffran, associate professor, psychology; and Steven Zwickel, lecturer, engineering professional development.

A recent video about UW–Madison’s Campus Natural Areas recently won two awards. “University Wild!” earned a silver Telly Award for non-broadcast film and video production and a silver Remi Award from Worldfest-Houston, an annual international competition hosted by the Houston Film Society. The video was produced last year by the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and Worthwhile Films of Poynette, with financial support from the Brittingham Trust and the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.

Deceased

Alfred Glauser, professor emeritus of French, died at his retirement home in Saint-Cannat, France, on March 9, 2003. The Department of French and Italian, through the University of Wisconsin Foundation, has established an annual Alfred Glauser Prize for an outstanding graduate student in French. Interested contributors are invited to contact the chair of the Department of French and Italian, 262-3941.