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

Appointed
Buff Brennan, professor of dance, was selected to serve on the editorial board for a new Dance Education Journal published by the National Dance Education Organization.

Judy Brown, emerging technology analyst for the Wisconsin Technical College System, has been named UW system senior consultant for learning technologies research and development. Brown will work on partnership development, research and assessment, planning and procurement, and coordination and communication for learning technology.

Honored
Sybil Better, special assistant to the chancellor-health sciences, has been honored by the editorial board of Rehabilitation Nursing. An article she co-authored in 1978, entitled “The Operation of a Hospital Based Specialty Home Health Team: Activities and Associated Costs,” has been selected as one of the “outstanding contributions to the rehabilitation nursing literature during the past 25 years.” In recognition, the article is reprinted in the March/April 2000 issue of Rehabilitation Nursing.

Daniel F. Doeppers, geography professor, recently won the Philippine National Book Award for the social sciences for a book he co-authored, “Population and History: The Demographic Origins of the Modern Philippines.” Michael Cullinane, Center for Southeast Asian Studies and history faculty associate, was one of the authors.

Ronald Laessig received the Russell J. Eilers Award for Outstanding Contributions to Voluntary Consensus from the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards. Laessig is director of the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene and a UW Medical School professor of preventive medicine and professor of pathology and laboratory medicine. NCCLS is responsible for creating voluntary standards of practice by achieving consensus among the entire laboratory community.

Joy Newmann and Mary Ann Test, social work professors, have received the “Research Award for 2000” from the Wisconsin Chapter of The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill for their research towards improving the quality of life for people with mental illnesses.

The following dance program faculty have received special awards and grants that provide support for research or teaching: professor Joseph Koykkar, Vilas Associates Award; professor Li Chiao-Ping, Faculty Development Grant; assistant professor Douglas Rosenberg, Graduate School Research Grant; and assistant professor Jin-Wen Yu, Graduate School Research Grant and Research Service Award.

Published
Clara Penniman, political science professor emeritus, and Paula White, project manager for the National Institute for Science Education, housed in the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, are authors of a LaFollette Institute book titled “Madison, An Administration History of Wisconsin’s Capital City 1929-79.”

David Sorkin, history and Jewish Studies professor, recently wrote “The Berlin Haskalah and German Religious Thought” (London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2000), which is based on the Sherman Lectures delivered at Manchester University in 1997.

James G. Nelson, English professor emeritus, recently wrote “Publisher to the Decadents: Leonard Smithers in the Careers of Beardsley, Wilde, Dowson” (Penn State University Press; Rivendale Press, Oxford, 2000).