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

Published
Sean B. Carroll, professor of molecular biology and genetics, and former genetics students Jennifer Grenier and Scott Weatherbee are authors of a newly published book entitled “From DNA to Diversity: Molecular Genetics and the Evolution of Animal Design,” (2001, Blackwell Science).

Honored
The Medical School honored 10 faculty and staff who have completed 30 years of Medical School service in the last fiscal year. Those honored include:

Edward Balish, professor, surgery; Matthew D. Davis, professor emeritus, ophthalmology and visual sciences; Carter Denniston, professor, medical genetics; Duane A. Hunter, mortician, pathology and laboratory medicine; Norman M. Jensen, professor, medicine; John Marshall, professor, psychiatry; A. James Olle, assistant dean; Terrance Phernetton, researcher, obstetrics and gynecology; Sung-Feng Wen, professor, medicine; Richard D. Zachman, professor, pediatrics.

S. Gunasekaran, professor of biological systems engineering and food science, will receive a Samuel C. Johnson Distinguished Fellowship for 2001-03. He plans to use this fellowship, which is funded by the S.C. Johnson Wax Company, to support his work on “Smart Hydrogels.”

Brian Holmes, professor of Biological Systems Engineering, received the Wisconsin Forage Council’s Research Award. The Wisconsin Forage Council is the most active statewide council of its kind.

Richard Weindruch, professor of medicine and veterinary medicine, has received the annual Glenn Foundation Award from the Gerontological Society of America. He is honored for his contributions to the field of aging, especially to the new understanding of the relationship among caloric intake, oxidative stress and aging.

Education Dean Charles Read recently returned from a week in Capetown, South Africa, where he met with deans of other major schools of education. Sponsored by the Spencer Foundation, the meeting was convened to assist the University of Capetown in developing a graduate program in education. Read is one of 11 “Spencer deans,” a select group of administrators whose schools of education have received Spencer Foundation grants for graduate studies.

Appointed
Charles Hoslet, a senior special assistant and director of state relations, will chair a campus university relations team, that will assist the chancellor in working on broad campus initiatives.

Henry S. Lufler Jr, who served as former Chancellor David Ward’s executive assistant, continues in his role as associate dean in the School of Education and will serve as co-director of the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education.

Kristin R. Eschenfelder has joined the School of Library and Information Studies as an assistant professor. Her dissertation: “Problems in Managing Large Distributed E-Business Web Systems: A Goal Theory Approach was accepted by the Syracuse University School of Information Studies.

Ethelene Whitmire was selected in 1999 to become an assistant professor for the School of Library and Information Studies but received an Anna Julia Cooper Fellowship from the Chancellor’s Office to develop a research agenda and present at conferences during 2000. She joins the SLIS faculty this spring.