Milestones
Appointments
Carrie Barker, former UW athlete, was named assistant coach for the Wisconsin women’s soccer team.
Bebe Bryans will lead the UW women’s openweight and lightweight rowing teams. Bryans named Amy Appleton, Nicole Borges, Mary Shofner and Dusty Darley to the assistant coaching staff. Appleton and Borges will assist the openweight program, while Shofner and Darley will help direct the lightweights.
Duffy Conroy, who spent two seasons as the men’s basketball video coordinator, will take over the role of director of basketball operations.
Henry L. Cuthbert, senior university legal counsel, was elected second vice president of the National Association of College and University Attorneys; he will become president in 2007. NACUA is the premier professional organization for attorneys practicing in higher education law.
Elizabeth Gould has been appointed to assistant professor of music education, beginning fall semester. Gould’s new responsibilities include instrumental music education at the School of Music.
Marion Greaser, professor of animal sciences, was appointed to Campbell-Bascom Professor. The five-year professorship recognizes those who have and will continue to make outstanding contributions in the field of agriculture.
Charles Halaby, professor of sociology, was appointed to Martindale-Bascom Professor. The five-year professorship honors outstanding faculty in the Department of Sociology.
Robert Hamers, professor of chemistry, was appointed to Irving Chain Chair of Chemistry.
Mark Hetzler was appointed to assistant professor of trombone. Hetzler will assume full-time responsibilities with the trombone studio at the School of Music and will perform with the Wisconsin Brass Quintet.
Michael Hinden, professor of English and integrated liberal studies, was appointed to Herbert and Evelyn Howe Bascom Professor in integrated liberal studies. The two-year professorship honors Hinden’s extrodinary contributions to the ILS program over the past several years.
Lance Lunsway, director of transportation services, was elected to the International Parking Institute’s Board of Directors by the general membership in June. Lunsway will serve a two-year term.
Howard Martin, associate vice chancellor, general education administration and division of continuing studies, will become the president of the Association of University Summer Sessions in October.
Nellie McKay, professor of Afro-American studies and English, was appointed to UW Foundation Chair Fetzer Bascom Professor. The five-year professorship recognizes faculty for balanced contributions to teaching, research and service.
Steven Nadler, professor of philosophy and Jewish studies, was appointed to Max and Frieda Weinstein-Bascom Professor. The five-year professorship honors a faculty member who has contributed to a deeper understanding of the Jewish experience.
Pamela Oliver, professor of sociology, was appointed to Conway Bascom Professor. The five-year professorship supports research for a faculty member in the Department of Sociology.
Tim Riddiough, E.J. Plesko Chair of Real Estate, was named the new academic director of the Center for Real Estate (formerly the Center for Urban Land Economics Research). Riddiough will oversee all aspects of the center’s operations.
Benjamin Rifkin, chair of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, was named the new director of the Center for Russia, East Europe and Central Asia. He succeeds Robert J. Kaiser, geography, whose three-year term ended in August.
David Riley, Audrey Rothermel Bascom Professor in Human Ecology, was named associate dean for outreach and extension in the School of Human Ecology. He began his new appointment July 1, replacing John Merrill, who is retiring. Riley is also professor of human development and family studies.
Laura Schwendinger has been appointed to visiting assistant professor of composition, beginning fall semester. Schwendinger will reduce her teaching load at the University of Illinois-Chicago, where she is associate professor, and divide her time between the two institutions.
Jennifer Ryan Tishler has been promoted to associate director of the Center for Russia, East Europe and Central Asia. She succeeds Rita Krueger, who is now an assistant professor of history at Temple University in Philadelphia.
Marc Vallon has been appointed to assistant professor of bassoon, beginning fall semester. Vallon will assume full-time responsibilities for the bassoon studio at the School of Music and perform with the Wingra Woodwind Quintet.
Steve Waterfield, assistant compliance director at Ohio State University, has been named assistant athletic director for compliance at Wisconsin.
Wendy Way has been named associate dean for academic affairs in the School of Human Ecology. Way, a professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, also holds faculty appointments with the School of Education Departments of Curriculum and Instruction, and Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis; the Graduate Program in Continuing and Vocational Education; and the Center on Education and Work, where she serves as interim director.
Craig Werner, professer of Afro-American studies and integrated liberal studies, was appointed to Herbert and Evelyn Howe Bascom Professor in integrated liberal studies. The two-year professorship honors Werner’s extraordinary contributions to the ILS program over the past several years.
Joan Addington-White, clinical assistant professor of medicine, was elected a fellow of the American College of Physicians. Addington-White was elected upon the recommendation of peers and the review of ACP’s credentials subcommittee. The distinction recognizes achievements in internal medicine and the specialty of adult medical care.
Grants
Kristen Eschenfelder, assistant professor, School of Library and Information Studies, was awarded an ALA Government Documents Round Table Research Grant. The grant will help fund a case study with Clark Miller, La Follette School of Public Affairs, about the management of government information related to chronic wasting disease, a transmissible and fatal disease affecting deer and elk in numerous Western and Midwestern states.
Kyung-Sun “Sunny” Kim, assistant professor, School of Library and Information Studies, was awarded an ALA Diversity Research Grant. Kim’s project will assess what Library and Information Science schools and other library/information professional associations have undertaken for the recruitment and retention of minority students, from the minorities’ point of view.
The School of Library and Information Studies, along with the University of Maryland College of Information Studies and its library partners, is the recipient of an Institute for Museum and Library Services grant of $347,019 to research supply and demand of subject specialists in research libraries, develop recruiting approaches, and create and test a curricular structure responsive to the future needs of libraries and librarians.
Honored
Alan Ameche, the 1954 Heisman Trophy winner and a legend of Wisconsin football, will be inducted into the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame on Dec. 31. The induction will take place at the Rose Bowl kickoff luncheon the day before the 91st Rose Bowl game.
Michael W. Apple, John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies, gave the plenary address on “Knowledge, Power and Emancipation” to the 25,000 people attending the World Education Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in July.
N. J. “Ben” Benevenga, emeritus professor of animal science and nutritional sciences, received the American Society of Animal Science Fellow Award at a ceremony in St. Louis, Mo., for his outstanding work in the industry.
Peggy Choy, dance program instructor, received two awards from UW-Milwaukee: the Chancellor’s Graduate Student Award and the Peck School of the Arts Dance Program Award. Choy is pursuing a master of fine arts degree in dance and choreography at UW-Milwaukee.
Biruté Ciplijauskaité, John Bascom Professor Emerita of Spanish and Portuguese, and the Institute for Research in the Humanities, in December 2003 was given the honorary title and medal of Commander of the Order of Alfonso X el Sabio by King Juan Carlos and the Ministry of Education and Culture of Spain in recognition of her contributions to the advancement of Spanish culture.
Alice DuBois, senior adviser, College of Letters and Science, received the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Student Affairs from the National Academic Advising Assocation. DuBois was honored for the high-quality advising she provides to students.
Mike Eaves, men’s hockey head coach, was honored at the 2004 USA Hockey Annual Congress, held in June in Colorado Springs, Colo., as winner of the USA Hockey Distinguished Achievement Award. Eaves, along with nine athletes, coaches, officials, administrators and volunteers, was honored for his excellence, dedication and contributions to the sport of hockey in the United States.
Karen Goebel, professor of human ecology and extension specialist, received one of four Distinguished Service Awards given nationally by the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences. The awards were presented at the association’s annual convention in San Diego, Calif., in June.
Robert Paul Hanson, who died in 1979, was recently honored by Northland College in Ashland with its Eternal Flame Award. The award recognizes deceased alumni who provided outstanding service to Northland or their profession. Hanson served as a member of the UW faculty from 1949-1987, including a term as chair of the Department of Veterinary Science (1982-1984).
Mark Johnson, women’s hockey head coach, was one of four inductees named to the National Shrine of American Hockey in Eveleth, Minn. Johnson will be formally inducted on Oct. 7 in St. Paul, Minn.
Philip Keillor, former coastal engineering specialist at the UW Sea Grant Institute, received the William Q. Wick Visionary Career Leadership Award during the national conference of the Assembly of Sea Grant Extension Program Leaders. The award recognizes achievements and contributions to Sea Grant Extension programming or administration by an outstanding individual who has retired or will retire soon. Keillor was employed at the UW Sea Grant Institute from 1975 to 2003.
Thomas Koch, doctoral candidate, plant breeding and plant genetics, received the first Gabelman-Seminis Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship, which awards top students in the field. The fellowship was established to recognize Wisconsin plant researcher Buck Gabelman and Seminis Inc., the world’s largest developer, producer and marketer of vegetable and fruit seeds.
Patty Loew, assistant professor of life sciences communication and co-anchor of “In Wisconsin” on WHA-TV; and Joy Zedler, Aldo Leopold Professor in Restoration Ecology and professor of botany, were elected to the Nature Conservancy Board of Trustees. The board oversees the organization’s efforts to protect Wisconsin’s most ecologically significant land and waters.
Cora Marrett, emeritus professor of sociology and UW System senior vice president for academic affairs, received the Berkshire Hills Music Academy Visionary Award. The award recognizes her role in establishing a permanent location for the academy in western Massachusetts that started as a music camp for young adults with cognitive disabilities.
Rod Matthews, senior lecturer, School of Business, received the 2004 Beta Gamma Sigma Alpha Chapter Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence. The award is decided by a vote of the top students in the School of Business.
Lorrie Moore, Delmore Schwartz Professor in the Humanities, was one of three distinguished graduates of St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y., to receive an honorary degree at commencement May 16. Moore also spoke at the ceremony.
Louise Robbins, professor and director of the School of Library and Information Studies, won the first-ever Eliza Atkins Gleason Award this summer for the best book in library history published in the preceding three years. Robbins’ book, “The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown: Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library” (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000), tells the story of the 1950 dismissal of Ruth W. Brown, whose 30-year career at the Bartlesville, Okla., Public Library ended amid charges of her circulating subversive materials.
Rebecca Ryan, senior adviser, College of Letters and Science, received the L&S Mid-Career Achievement Award from the National Academic Advising Association. Ryan was honored for the high-quality advising she provides to students.
Jeff Sauer, former Badger hockey coach, will be inducted into the Wisconsin Hockey Hall of Fame. Sauer and his family will be the guests of honor at ceremonies to be held in Eagle River on Sept. 18.
Ronald T. Schuler, professor of biological systems engineering, was named a Fellow of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers. Schuler was inducted Aug. 4 at the 2004 ASAE Annual International Meeting for his contributions to academics through classroom instruction, research, administration, extension work and his service to ASAE.
Dave Thomas, professor of animal science and extension sheep specialist, and Yves Berger, superintendent of the Spooner Agricultural Research Station, jointly received the Animal Management Award at the American Society of Animal Science ceremony in St. Louis. The award recognizes their outstanding work in the industry.
Ethelene Whitmire, assistant professor, School of Library and Information Studies, was awarded a Ford Foundation postdoctoral fellowship for the 2004-05 academic year. Whitmire will spend a year at the University of California at Los Angeles studying the use of the academic library as a “third place” by African-American and Latino undergraduates.
Five members of the UW women’s openweight rowing program were named 2004 Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association National Scholar-Athletes: Nicole Weir, Beth Redfearn, Leah Gordon, Kim Ackerbauer and Meghan Filbrandt.
Seven former student-athletes will be inducted into the UW Athletic Hall of Fame on Sept. 3: Kathy Butler (women’s track/cross country), Michael Finley (men’s basketball), Randy Jablonic (men’s rowing), Steve Lacy (men’s track/cross country), Dennis Lick (football), Oscar Osthoff (football, swimming, gymnastics and track) and Bob Rennebohm (football, baseball).
Nine partnerships were honored at a reception hosted by Chancellor John D. Wiley on June 21 for using university resources and expertise to better the lives of others. The partnerships represent the best of the university’s work with community businesses, neighborhood groups and citizens. The university-community partnerships being recognized include:
The Mentoring Achievement Project, which connects UW Medical School students with at-risk children at O’Keeffe and Toki middle schools in Madison.
The Medical Information Center, which provides health-care services to underserved groups in the Madison community while allowing UW Medical School students to advance their education through direct patient interaction at MEDIC’s six free medical clinics.
Doctors Ought to Care, which provides local educators with health-related presentations by UW Medical School students who are trained to discuss body systems, body image, sexual responsibility and tobacco use.
Harambee Health Hour, which promotes physical activity and good nutrition to help reduce obesity and cardiovascular disease. Students from the School of Nursing and the Department of Nutritional Sciences organize the weekly Health Hour each Saturday at which up to 12 women from the Hispanic community take part in aerobic activity and nutritional education.
Student Outreach to Prevent and Reduce Smoking, which is run by 11 fourth-year students from the School of Pharmacy and provides assistance as part of a statewide smoking cessation service.
Guadalupe Pastoral Center Partnership, a partnership between the School of Pharmacy and the pastoral center that connects bilingual pharmacy students with Spanish-speaking community members to assist with their reading and writing skills.
Memorandum of Understanding with Campus Neighbors, which establishes guidelines for building and managing facilities that have an effect on neighborhoods adjacent to campus.
English as a Second Language Classes for Custodial Staff helps employees accomplish their work tasks, ensures the safety of staff and others in the campus community, and creates a more welcoming and respectful work environment.
Engineering Projects in Community Service is an undergraduate service-learning course that organizes student teams that address technology and business problems that local not-for-profit organizations face.
At its annual Distinguished Alumni Brunch on July 18, the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Alumni Council of the Wisconsin Alumni Association awarded $2,000 in scholarships to be applied toward fall 2004 tuition to four UW–Madison students: Emma Bailey, Lorenzo Edwards, Selamawit Zewdie and Adam Kelley. The scholarships honor students who have shown an exemplary commitment to the GLBT community, maintained outstanding academic success and demonstrated financial need.
The Institute for Research in the Humanities announced the results of its fellowship applications.
The two new senior fellows are Lee Wandel, history, and John Niles, English. The institute’s eight senior fellows are appointed for five years and have a half-time teaching release. An open house on Wednesday, Oct. 27, 4-5 p.m., will explain the senior fellowship application process.
Six annual resident fellowships provide a one-semester release from teaching to work on a major research project in the humanities. The 2004-05 recipients and their projects are Anne Enke, women’s studies, “Locating Feminist Activism: Sexuality and Contested Space in the Upper Midwest”; Judith Kornblatt, Slavic languages, “Divine Sophia: Russian Visions of the Eternal Feminine”; Monica Macaulay, linguistics, “The Amos Striker Letters: Menominee Language, Customs and History”; Cynthia Miller, Hebrew and Semitic studies, “Elliptical Structures in Biblical Hebrew Poetry”; David Morgan, history, “Ghazan Khan and His Historian”; and Mary Louise Roberts, history, “Eccentric Women: Gender, Oddness and the Orient.”
Aliko Songolo, French and Italian, is the first faculty member appointed to an institute sabbatical fellowship. Supported by the Humanistic Fund, this fellowship supplements a faculty member’s sabbatical salary with an additional 35 percent.
