Milestones

HONORED

James Dumesic, professor of chemical and biological engineering, and manufacturing company nPoint Inc. received Technological Achievement Awards from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Club of Wisconsin. nPoint products use technology developed by Max Lagally, materials science and engineering, and physics.

Robert G. Kauffman, professor emeritus of animal science, is the recipient of a 2004 Wisconsin Meat Industry Hall of Fame Award and will be inducted into the Hall of Fame at a recognition luncheon Thursday, May 6. The Hall of Fame was created in 1993 to recognize individuals throughout the state who have contributed to Wisconsin”s meat industry.

The book “Native People of Wisconsin,” by Patty Loew, life sciences communication, won the 2004 award in the juvenile nonfiction category from the Council for Wisconsin Writers. Loew will read from her book and accept the award at the council’s awards convocation and luncheon, Saturday, May 8, at the Wisconsin Club in Milwaukee.

Carla MacLeod, a junior defender on the women’s hockey team, was named a 2004 American Hockey Coaches Association Second-Team All-American. MacLeod, a native of Calgary, Alberta, captained the Badgers to the program’s best-ever finish at 25-6-3 overall for the 2004 season.

Twenty-six student-athletes were named to the Big Ten’s 2003-04 Winter Academic All-Conference Team in men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s swimming and diving, and wrestling. The selected Badgers are letterwinners that have achieved a career grade-point average of 3.0 or better and are at least in their second academic year at the UW:

Men’s Basketball: Clayton Hanson and Ike Ukawuba; Women’s Basketball: Emily Ashbaugh, Ebba Gebisa, Margaret Gilmartin, Annie Nelson, Erin Olson, Abby Simmons and Jordan Wilson; Men’s Swimming and Diving: Tim Liebhold, Dale Rogers, Pat Torpey and Eric Wiesner; Women’s Swimming and Diving: Molly Buhrandt, Emily Carpenter, Caiti Deppa, Sarah Hernandez, Rebecca Johansson, Cassie Kubly, Lindsay Leech and Bethany Pendleton; Wrestling: Eitan Boral, Ryan Button, Daniel Hoffman, Lee Kraemer and Brady Reinke.

UW police honor civilians: At its annual awards ceremony on March 31, the UW Police Department honored 14 civilians who assisted the department in solving crimes or performed other commendable acts in the past year. Chief’s awards went to:

Recreational Sports financial specialist Beth Reuter and Morgridge Center campus-community liaison Leotha Stanley, along with Paul Elvoro and Peter Halverson, who used CPR and an automatic external defibrillator to save the life of a man who had suffered a heart attack while running at the Camp Randall Memorial Shell last April.

Peggy Soehnlein, clinic manager at the Wingra Family Medical Center. Her quick thinking and actions, along with those of other employees, ensured the safety of staff and patients following a shooting on Taft Street that resulted in the deaths of two young men last June.

Chemistry building manager Tom Foseid for his quick response to a fire alarm in his building on July 1. He put out the blaze with an extinguisher before firefighters arrived. This was Foseid’s second chief’s award in five years.

Kelly Lyle, a financial specialist in the Medical School, who uncovered a case of payroll fraud within her department.

Athletics department employee Jessica Burda for reporting a crime in progress in the restricted construction area at Camp Randall last May. Two juveniles were subsequently arrested for spray-painting construction equipment.

Reagan Miller of the Chemistry Department, Sarah Maifield, Jack Sadousky and custodian Loren Farris, who reported suspicious activity that led police to the arrest of two persons on burglary and related charges.

Mark Jensky, who helped officers locate a man who had approached him in a parking lot last July, displayed a knife and told him he needed a drink. Jensky took him to the Union Terrace, poured him a beer, left him with friends and called police, who quietly apprehended him.

Jim Schumacher and Cullen-Smith Construction for exceeding expectations in ensuring a safe and functional football environment during the first year of the Camp Randall renovation project.

Lifesaving awards went to Sgt. Kurt Feavel and Det. Bruce Carroll. In December 1986, Feavel conveyed a 14-year-old girl with life-threatening injuries to the St. Marys emergency room following a one-car crash in the Arboretum. He received the honor 18 years later because the awards program did not exist then. Carroll came upon an accident last April while off-duty and kept the victim’s airway open for a significant period of time.

Feavel and Carroll were also among 29 police department employees who received excellent service awards. Awards for meritorious service went to Lt. Joe Hornbeck, Sgt. Tamara Kowalski and Officer Jean VandenBogart. Community Service awards were given to Kowalski, Det. Carol Ann Glassmaker, Sgt. Kari Sasso and Officer John Deering.

OTHER MILESTONES

The Clean Snowmobile Team, made up of nine College of Engineering students, emerged as national champions at a competition March 15-20 in Houghton, Mich. The Clean Snowmobile Challenge, sponsored by the Society of Automotive Engineers, is a collegiate design competition that calls for teams to re-engineer an existing snowmobile to make it run with cleaner emissions and less noise, while at the same time maintaining or improving the performance of the original snowmobile.