Milestones

HONORED

Bernd Brückler, senior goal tender for the men’s hockey team, was chosen in September as 2004-05 WCHA Preseason Player of the Year by the league coaches.The league’s lone returning JOFA All-American, and named a preseason third-team All-American by insidecollegehockey.com, Brückler earned five of 10 votes from league members to take the preseason honor. Wisconsin had the greatest defensive season in school history last year, with Brückler setting other UW netminding records, a 2.09 goals-against average and a .924 save percentage in 38 games played.

Thomas Friedrich, assistant scientist in David Watkins’ HIV vaccine development lab, and head of Virology Services at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, received a prestigious Young Investigator Award in July from the International AIDS Society in Bangkok. To date, two investigators from the Watkins Lab have earned this honor, a rare achievement. David O’Connor, associate scientist, received the honor in 2002. The award goes to the highest-scoring abstracts in each of five categories; Friedrich and O’Connor won in the basic sciences category.

Jerlando F.L. Jackson, assistant professor of higher and post-secondary education, received the Outstanding Young Professional Award this month from Iowa State University College of Education. The award annually recognizes extraordinary early career achievements by an alumni of Iowa State University College of Education, where Jackson received a Ph.D. in 2000.

Mark Johnson, women’s hockey head coach, was inducted this month to the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame in St. Paul, Minn. He was recognized for his individual accomplishments as a player, for which he was previously inducted to the Hall of Fame as a member of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, and coach. Johnson is one of four men named to the National Shrine of American Hockey.

Thongchai Winichakul, professor of history, was awarded the Grand Prize of the 16th Asian Pacific Awards from the Mainichi Newspapers and the Asian Affairs Research Council. He received the honor for the recent Japanese translation of his work “Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-body of a Nation.” The work also received the Harry J. Benda Prize from the Association for Asian Studies in 1995.

The women’s hockey team debuted at No. 3 in the USCHO.com preseason standings for the first time in school history, and set a Kohl Center record for goals — men’s and women’s — with an 11-0 victory over Wayne State Oct. 9. The Badgers weighed in the third slot behind 2003 National Champions Minnesota and powerhouse Dartmouth. Last season the Badgers compiled a program-best 25-6-3 record, but never broke the top three.

David Drummond, director of the safety department, received the Distinguished Service to Safety Award, the highest award given to an individual by the National Safety Council. He was one of six people nationwide to receive the award at the council’s annual meeting in New Orleans.

Daniel Kurtycz, professor of pathology, and the medical director for the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene, will receive the 2004 American Society of Cytopathology’s President’s Award, which has been presented annually since 1992 to a pathologist or cytotechnologist. He will receive the award during the ASC’s annual scientific meeting on Nov. 16 in Chicago.

James M. Sosman, associate director of the UW HIV Care Program and associate professor of medicine, was elected to the board of directors of the American Academy of HIV Medicine, the largest independent professional organization of HIV care clinicians in the country. In addition to patient care and research, Sosman is also medical director and principal investigator of the Midwest AIDS Training and Education Center of Wisconsin.