Milestones

HONORED

Lyn Abramson, professor of psychology, and her long-term research collaborator Lauren Alloy, Temple University, have been awarded the 2004 Distinguished Scientist Award of the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology.

Paul M. Harari was selected as the first Jack Fowler Professor of Human Oncology at UW–Madison. This endowed professorship honors the lifetime achievements and contributions of Fowler to the disciplines of radiation oncology, biology and physics. Fowler will retire in 2004 following five decades of unparalleled research and teaching accomplishments. Harari and Fowler were both honored at a December reception in Madison at which time the Fowler Professorship was awarded.

Robert Holz, a Ph.D. student in atmospheric and oceanic sciences, has been awarded the second Suomi-Simpson Graduate Fellowship. The award, named after longtime collaborators Verner Suomi and Joanne Simpson, both atmospheric scientists, enables Holz, who works with scientists in the Space Science and Engineering Center’s Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, to collaborate with researchers in other institutions. Holz studies the impact of clouds on climate.

Art Nesbitt, Fort Atkinson, was recognized at the 2004 Short Course Reunion, held Jan. 24, with a Service to Agriculture Award for his years of service to the dairy industry in Wisconsin as well as nationally. More than 200 Short Course alumni attended the annual event.

GRANTS

Michael Adams, professor of botany and environmental studies; and Fred Newmann, emeritus professor of curriculum and instruction; have received prestigious Fulbright senior specialist grants for international study. Adams’ grant is for study (environmental science) at the University of Hamburg, Department of Geography. Newmann’s grant is for study (education) at the University of Newcastle in Australia.

OTHER MILESTONES

Jenny Angus, assistant professor of environment, textiles and design, has an exhibition, “Goliathus Hercules,” at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan Feb. 29-June 6. An artist’s talk is set for Sunday, March 7.

Louise Robbins, professor and director of the School of Library and Information Studies, and author of “The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown: Civil Rights, Censorship and the American Library” was a guest of Gretchen Helfrich on Chicago Public Radio’s hourlong “Odyssey” show on Jan. 22. Helfrich’s topic was the role of libraries in society.