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
Arnold Alanen, professor of landscape architecture, and Holly Smith-Middleton, a graduate student in landscape architecture, received a 1999 national research award from the American Society of Landscape Architects for their work in documenting the cultural landscape of Sitka National Historical Park in Alaska. The award was given at the Centennial Anniversary meeting of the ASLA.

Michael W. Apple, John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies, has had one of his works, “Ideology And Curriculum,” selected as one of the most important books in education in the 20th century by Education Week. Apple also has recently been named as one of the 50 most important writers in the world of education.

Susan Stanford Friedman, Virginia Woolf Professor of English and Women’s Studies, is the recipient of the 1999 Perkins Prize for the best book in narrative studies, awarded by the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, for “Mappings: Feminism and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter,” Princeton University Press (1998).

Mary Hayney, assistant professor of pharmacy, received a Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists/Pfizer Award for her project, “Vaccine-Induced Cytokine Production as a Predictor of Life History and Health.”

David A. Mann, a research assistant in chemistry, was awarded a Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Foundation postdoctoral fellowship for his work entitled, “A New Era in Drug Discovery: Tapping into the Soil Metagenome for Cancer Drug Discovery.” His Runyon-Winchell sponsor is Jo Handelsman, professor of plant pathology.

Julie Mares-Perlman, associate professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences, received the Research to Prevent Blindness Lew R. Wasserman Merit Award, contributing $55,000 to her research in diet and age-related eye diseases.

Daniel H. Rich, Ralph F. Hirschmann Professor of Medicinal and Organic Chemistry, received the 1999 Merrifield Award for his research to design inhibitors of therapeutically important enzymes. He also recently received a Cope Scholar Award from the American Cancer Society for his contributions to bioorganic chemistry and chemical biology.

Two summer session programs captured top national awards for creative and innovative programming at the annual conference of the North American Association of Summer Sessions. Exploring Biotechnology, which offered fourth-grade girls an opportunity to “do science” in a supportive, collaborative classroom setting, won first place in the noncredit division; the Biotechnology Center and the School of Education sponsored the weeklong program. A graduate course, Chernobyl: A Theme to Integrate the Natural and Social Sciences, won the merit award in the credit category. This one-week program was designed for sixth through 12th grade teachers and was hosted by the UW Center for Russia, East Europe and Central Asia, Wisconsin Teachers Enhancement Program in Biology and United States Friends of Chernobyl Centers.

Tien Yin Wong, a research associate in ophthalmology and visual sciences, was one of 10 recipients of “The Outstanding Young Persons of the World 1999” award, in the category of academic leadership and achievement in the Junior Chamber International.

Published
Muhammad Umar Memon, professor, Languages and Cultures of Asia, has edited and translated “The Tale of the Old Fisherman: Contemporary Urdu Short Stories ” (HarperCollins).