Milestones

Milestones covers awards, honors and major publications by faculty and staff. Send your items to Wisconsin Week, 19 Bascom Hall, or e-mail: wisweek@news.wisc.edu

Honored
Associate professors Rachel F. Brenner, Pamela M. Potter and Neil L. Whitehead each have received $30,000 fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Brenner, of Hebrew and Semitic studies, will research “Domination and Dissent: Responses to Zionism in Israeli Jewish and Israeli Arab Literatures.” Potter, of the School of Music, will research “Musical Life in Berlin, 1900-1961: Politics, Patronage and the Cultivation of Popular and Serious Music.” Whitehead, of anthropology, will research “Cultures of Violence and the Violence of Culture: A Hermeneutic Approach to Ethnic Conflict and Warfare.”

Three affiliates of the Center for Plasma-Aided Manufacturing – Ferencz Denes, associate scientist in engineering, Raymond A. Young, professor of forest ecology and management, and Sorin Monalache – have been named recipients of the Japan Photopolymer Science and Technology Award. They will receive the award June 29 at a ceremony at Chiba University in Japan.

Mary Beth Elliott and Weiyuan John Kao, both assistant professors of pharmacy, received two of 14 New Investigator Program Awards from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. Elliott will use her grant to develop ways to assess osteoporosis levels in institutionalized men in the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital; Kao will use his to focus on the role of biomaterials in the management of various pathological conditions.

Betty Hasselkus, professor emerita of kinesiology, received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Wisconsin Occupational Therapy Association.

The following faculty and staff won grants from the Teaching Academy last fall: Teresa Hayden, senior lecturer in psychology, “The Use of Videotaped Everyday Interactions to Assess and Teach Skills in Identifying Psychological Problems.” Stephen R. Hoffmann, a research assistant in engineering, and Bassam Z. Shakhashiri, chemistry professor, “Enhancing the Quality of Learning in Undergraduate Education: An Assessment of a ‘Retake Exam’ Strategy for Students in First Year Chemistry Courses.” J. M. Pfotenhauer, associate professor of mechanical engineering and engineering physics, “Experimenting with PBL and the Kolb Learning Cycle: A ‘Hands-On’ Course in Vacuum Technology.” Caton Roberts, lecturer in psychology, and Tamara Hagen, a teaching assistant, “Estimating the Effects of Interactive Web-based Instructional Features on Learning Processes and Outcomes.” Medical resident Colette Salm-Schmid, vascular surgeon Anselmo Nunez, trauma surgeon Randolph Szlabick and vascular surgeon Marvin Kuehner (all at the Marshfield Clinic), “Proposal for a Supplemental Surgical Anatomy Course During Surgical Residency.” Antonia Schleicher, associate professor of African languages and literature, “Interactive Web-based Language Learning Strategy Training Project.”

David C. Lindberg, Hilldale Professor of History of Science, received the gold Sarton Medal for his lifelong contributions to the field from the History of Science Society in November. John Neu, recently retired senior librarian and assistant professor in history of science, was recognized for his 31 years as editor of the society’s critical bibliography. Lynn K. Nyhart, associate professor of history of science, won the Derek de Solla Price Award for “Civic and Economic Zoology in Nineteenth-Century Germany: The ‘Living Communities’ of Karl Moebius” (Isis, 89, 1998), considered the best article published in three years.