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
The UW System Board of Regents has approved several named professorships:

Ramon J. Aldag has been named the Glen A. Skillrud Family Chair in Business. Barry Gerhart has been named the John and Barbara Keller Distinguished Chair in Business. Ann S. Miner has been named the Ford Motor Company Distinguished Chair in Management and Human Resources.

Michael Sussman, director of the Biotechnology Center, has been named to the Wisconsin Technology Council, which is charged with promoting the development of science and technology companies in Wisconsin. Dick Leazer, former managing director of WARF, serves as the executive director of the council.

Honored
Betty Kramer, associate professor in social work, has been selected as a Hartford Foundation Geriatric Social Work Faculty Scholar. She will receive $50,000 a year in support during the next two years. The program improves the well-being of older Americans by strengthening education of social workers in geriatrics.

Sandy Pfahler, deputy director and associate director for member libraries, and Carrie Kruse, library instruction coordinator in College Library, featured at right, have been named the 2001 Librarians-of-the-Year by their peers in the Librarians Assembly. The awards are given annually to recognize outstanding contributions to campus library services by two unclassified staff members of the General Library System.

Roger Williams, chair, Professional Development and Applied Studies Department, Division of Continuing Studies, was honored by University Continuing Education Association-Midwest Region for coordinating the most creative noncredit program, “Boys to Men Cultural Exchange Program.” Williams also was recognized by the National Health Service Corps in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for “exceptional contributions in bridging the gap between primary care, mental health and substance abuse in the state of Wisconsin” for the Sowing the Seeds of Hope project, which responds to the stress of farm families.

Three professors have received 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship Awards:
Florence Bernault, associate professor of African history, selected for her studies of the invention of witchcraft in colonial and postcolonial Gabon.

Michael Ferris, professor of computer science and industrial engineering, selected for his development of mathematical models to optimize the function of medical devices.

Ronald Raines, professor of biochemistry and chemistry, selected for his work on automated protein assembly to mine the human genome.

The School of Education presents its annual Distinguished Achievement Awards to six members of its faculty and staff: Nancy Bubier, program assistant in Testing and Evaluation Services; Philip Hamilton, professor of art; Bruce Howdle, lecturer in art; Julia McGivern, clinical assistant professor of educational psychology; Diana Taylor, chief administrative secretary in kinesiology; and Patricia Wolleat, professor of counseling psychology.

Published
Greg Shaffer published “The World Trade Organization Under Challenge: Democracy and the Law and Politics of the WTO’s Treatment of the Trade-Environment Matters,” 25 Harvard Environmental Law Journal 1 (Winter 2001).