Milestones

APPOINTED

The following academic staff members were granted indefinite appointments by Chancellor John Wiley. They did not retire as was reported in error in the Sept. 22 issue of Wisconsin Week. They are listed by name, school and department.

Carol L. Borcherding, College of Letters and Science/Biology Core Curriculum; Michael L. Cohen, General Library System; Kathryn B. Dike, Academic Services/Student Financial Services; Mary E. Elliott, School of Pharmacy; Mary S. Hayney, School of Pharmacy; Jane Pearlmutter, College of Letters and Science/ Library and Information Studies;

Gordon S. Sacks, School of Pharmacy; and Denise L. Walbrandt Pigarelli, School of Pharmacy.

Baha Balantekin, Eugene P. Wigner Professor of Physics, has been elected a fellow by the London, England-based Institute of Physics. The lifetime fellowship at the institute indicates a high level of achievement in physics and an outstanding contribution to the profession.

Berry Gerhart, professor of management and human resources, and the dean’s research scholar, was appointed the first Bruce R. Ellig Distinguished Chair in Pay and Organizational Effectiveness effective Aug. 27. The five-year appointment provides $63,350 annually to support summer research expenses.

Gloria Ladson-Billings, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, was appointed the Kellner Family Professor in Urban Education effective July 1. The five-year appointment was created to support a faculty member in the School of Education who is nationally recognized as an expert on urban education.

Carolyn Milanes Dejoie, professor emerita, continuing education and professional development, was appointed by the Wisconsin Supreme Court in August to the Wisconsin Board of Bar Examiners. Board members, who serve an initial three-year term, are responsible for administration of Wisconsin’s continuing legal education requirements for lawyers and for writing and grading the bar exam.

Alexander Nagel, Lipman Bers Professor of Mathematics, was appointed Steenbock Professor of Mathematical Sciences effective July 1. Funds from the 10-year professorship may be used to support research and scholarly activities.

Grace Wahba, statistics professor, was appointed Hilldale Professor effective July 1. The five-year, $15,000-per-year professorship is given to faculty who excel in scholarly activity and have outstanding research records with promise of continued productivity.

HONORED

Sara Rab, assistant professor of educational policy studies and sociology, and faculty associate at the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE), received one of five 2004 Rising Scholars Awards from the National Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good, which is funded by the Kellogg Foundation. The award provides $3,000 to further her research and publication of a paper in a Rising Scholar monograph about her project “Social Class and the ‘Swirling Student:’ The Relationship of Socioeconomic Status to the Temporal Dimensions of Nontraditional Attendance Patterns.”

Richard Davis, Stephen Dembski and John D. Stevens, professors in the School of Music, recently received American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Awards. Granted by an independent panel, the awards are based on the prestige value of each writer’s catalog of original compositions and recent performances.