Milestones

Appointed

Frank Kooistra, associate dean, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, has been appointed vice chair of the Higher Education Accounting Committee of the Central Association of College and University Business Officers. Jan Richardson, associate director, accounting services, has been appointed to CACUBO’s Current Issues Workshop Committee. A nonprofit association, CACUBO represents chief business officers at more than 700 institutions of higher learning in the north central United States.

Honored

Cathy Middlecamp, distinguished faculty associate in chemistry, has been selected by the Association of Women in Science as a 2003 AWIS Fellow, the organization’s highest recognition. Fellows are selected on the basis of significant contributions to the AWIS’s mission by promoting women in science through scholarship, leadership, education, advocacy or service.

Bennett Vogelman, director of the internal medicine residency program, UW Medical School, has received the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education’s 2003 Parker J. Palmer Award. This award honors outstanding program directors in graduate medical education.

Grants, fellowships

Ian Duncan, professor, veterinary medicine, has received a grant from the Multiple Sclerosis Cause and Cure Foundation.

Published

Ronald Giese, emeritus professor, and Raymond Young, professor, forest ecology and management, recently had the third edition of their textbook “Introduction to Forest Ecosystem Science and Management” published by John Wiley & Sons.

Katherine Frank, a postdoctoral fellow in sociology, has published “G-Strings and Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire” (Duke University Press, 2002).

Other

Roderick Matthews, senior lecturer, Business School, recently visited the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania to give several lectures for students in the School of Commerce and Management.