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
Mary Anderson, professor of geology and geophysics, will receive the C.V. Theis Award from the American Institute of Hydrology in recognition of “outstanding contributions in hydrology.” The award was established after Theis’ death in 1987 to honor a man who had a tremendous impact on the science of groundwater hydrology.

Donald Ermer, professor of mechanical engineering, has been elected a fellow of the American Society for Quality.

Andreas Kazamias, professor of educational policy studies, received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from the University of Bristol, England, in July.

Laura Kiessling, professor of chemistry, has won the Horace S. Isbell Award from the Division of Carbohydrate Chemistry of the American Chemical Society.

“Trusting Nothing to Providence: A History of Wisconsin’s Legal System” by Joseph A. Ranney, a publication of the Law School’s Continuing Education and Outreach Program, was awarded an honorable mention in the 1999 Wisconsin Distinguished Government Document Awards sponsored by the Wisconsin Library Association.

Daesung Lee, assistant professor of chemistry, received a Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award for 2000.

Elmer H. Marth, emeritus professor of food science, bacteriology and food microbiology and toxicology, received a food safety award from the International Association for Food Protection.

Dick Moll, emeritus professor of engineering professional development and materials science engineering, won the lifetime achievement award from the American Society of Quality in recognition of being the outstanding educator in the field of product liability prevention.

Timothy Olander, Christopher Velden and Steven Wanzong, Space Sciences and Engineering Center scientists, received the Banner Miller Award of the American Meteorological Society for research published internationally over four years. They were awarded for two significant papers on hurricane forecasting techniques.

Erica Palmer, 1999 National Collegiate Athletic Association cross-country champion, has been named the 1999-2000 UW female athlete of the year.

Jaimie Powell, research assistant in entomology, Jamie Potter, research assistant in plant pathology, and Marie Trest, research assistant in botany, were each awarded a 2000-01 Ruth Dickie Grants-in-Aid Award. Nora Alvarez, advanced opportunity fellow with the Institute for Environmental Studies, Catherine Woodward, research assistant in soil science, and Amy Cullinan, research assistant in ophthalmology and visual science, were each awarded a Ruth Dickie Scholarship for the academic year 2000-01. These awards are made annually to deserving women in science through a gift made to the Beta Chapter of Graduate Women in Science by Ruth Dickie.

Van Potter, professor emeritus of oncology and environmental studies, has been awarded the 2000 Prize of the International Society of Bioethics for his “invaluable merits as founder and universal disseminator of bioethics.” Potter is the author of “Global Bioethics: Building on the Leopold Legacy” and a pioneer in the field.

Basil Tikoff, assistant professor of geology and geophysics, is the 2000 recipient of the Geological Society of America’s Young Scientist Award, known as the Donath Medal. The award recognizes a young scientist for achievement in contributing to geologic knowledge through original research that marks a major advance in the earth sciences.