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

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
Stephen M. Born, chair of urban and regional planning, was appointed as a member of the Special Committee on Navigable Waters by the state legislative council.

Deborah A. Durcan, acting vice president for finance with the UW System, has been named to the position on a permanent basis.

Debra Gordon, clinical instructor at the School of Nursing and senior clinical nurse specialist at the UW Hospital and Clinics, was elected director-at-large of the American Pain Society for the 2000-02 term.

Richard G. Roberts, professor of family medicine, was named president of the American Academy of Family Physicians. Roberts practices at the Belleville Family Medical Clinic, which is owned and operated by the Department of Family Medicine of the UW Medical School.

Published
Arnold R. Alanen, professor of landscape architecture, is the co-editor of “Preserving Cultural Landscapes in America” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000).

Margaret Beattie Bogue, emeritus professor of history, has published “Fishing the Great Lakes: An Environmental History, 1783-1933” (University of Wisconsin Press, 2000).

Hermine G. De Soto, a 1989 Ph.D. recipient, has published “Fieldwork Dilemmas: Anthropologists in Postsocialist States” (University of Wisconsin Press, 2000).

Susan C. Hagness, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, has co-authored a book, “Computational Electrodynamics: The Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method, 2nd ed.” (Artech House, 2000).

William H. Tishler, professor of landscape architecture, has edited “Midwestern Landscape Architecture” (University of Illinois Press, 2000).

Honored
Robert Bray, emeritus professor of meat and animal science, will receive the Distinguished Service Award from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at its annual banquet Tuesday, Oct. 26.

Lindsay Gorsuch and Tessa Michaelson, members of the women’s crew team, were selected for the 2000 USRowing Collegiate Honor Roll First Team.

Mike Kelley, a guard for the basketball team, was chosen as one of 50 preseason candidates for the John R. Wooden Award, which is given annually to the nation’s “Most Outstanding Collegiate Basketball Player of the Year.”

M. Thomas Record Jr., John D. Ferry Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has been chosen to receive the Biophysical Society 2001 Founders Award for outstanding achievement in biophysics. The award will be presented at the 2001 annual meeting in Boston, Feb. 17-21.

Dan L. Ross, a computer programmer in the Institute for Research on Poverty, received the 2000 Man of the Year award from OutReach, for his volunteer work on furthering lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equal rights in Wisconsin, especially in the area of domestic partner benefits.

Amy Stambach, professor of educational policy studies and anthropology, was awarded a Spencer Advanced Studies Institute grant to hold a series of meetings on the Interrelationship of Anthropology and Education. The meetings will bring together junior and senior scholars of anthropology and education to discuss new directions for the field.