Milestones

Honored

Martha Alibali, psychology professor, has received the 2004 Robert L. Fantz Memorial Award of the American Psychological Association. The award recognizes promising young investigators in psychology or related disciplines through a $2,000 grant.

Barry Alvarez, UW football head coach, has been named the American Football Coaches Association Region 3 Coach of the Year as voted by the AFCA membership. Alvarez led the Badgers to a 9-2 regular season record, including a 9-0 start to the season and a national ranking as high as No. 4.

Erasmus James, Badger defensive end, has been named the national defensive lineman of the year by the Touchdown Club of Columbus (Ohio). James was also named a first-team All-American by College Sports Television.

Mark Nelson, professor in the School of Human Ecology, won an award for one of two pieces in the Design Educators’ National Exhibition at Oklahoma State University. He received second place in the professional category for a video of his design proposal for the World Trade Center Memorial, called Stairways of Hope. It can be viewed online at www.okstate.edu/dene/p8.htm.

Twenty UW Medical School faculty and staff completed 30 years of service in the last fiscal year. Dean Philip M. Farrell will honor them at a University Club luncheon on Jan. 26. Achieving this milestone are Natalie Borenstein, oncology; William W. Busse, medicine; Suresh R. Chandra, ophthalmology and visual sciences; Joanne T. Croft, laboratory animal resources; Carol L. Dizack, medical illustration; David T. Gaulrapp, laboratory animal resources; Sally E. Healy, continuing medical education; Colin R. Jefcoate, pharmacology; Nadine F. Jones, psychiatric institute; Lawrence Kahan, biomolecular chemistry; Ronald D. Kalil, ophthalmology and visual sciences; Dennis G. Maki, medicine; Wolfram E. Nolten, medicine; Bhudatt R. Paliwal, human oncology; Mary A. Pankratz, comprehensive cancer center; Carolyn E. Prucha, academic affairs; William E. Scheckler, family medicine; Kathy A. Schlimgen, biomolecular chemistry; Thomas S. Stevens, ophthalmology and visual sciences; and Daniel Y. Yee, electronics laboratory.

Academic staff who have been selected to receive a 2004-05 Academic Staff Professional Development Grant are Mercedes Alcala Galan, Spanish and Portuguese; Svetlana Amineva, pediatrics; Jeffrey Anders, University Health Services; Patrick Barrett, sociology; Anita Bhattacharyya, Waisman Center; Robert Bohanan, Center for Biology; Timothy Bohm, medical physics; Kathleen Cantu, School of Nursing; Rosemarie Carbino, social work; Lester Dore, School of Nursing; Lynn Edlefson, University Housing; Jacqueline Evenson, nutritional sciences; Jason Foell, medicine; Jacquelyn Hank, human ecology; Melissa Harrell Robinson, College of Engineering; Noriko Kita, geology and geophysics; Brian Kreblin, communicative disorders; Erica Laughlin, Division of Information Technology; Yaniv Lazimy, physiology; Kristine Lee, ophthalmology and visual sciences; Gail Loughridge, comparative biosciences; Kathleen Madden, population health science; Sara McClintock, languages and cultures of Asia; Annette McDaniel, School of Business; Ann Mitzey, medical sciences; Christopher Moore, Synchrotron Radiation Center; Karen Moriello, medical sciences; Kalen Nichols, comparative biosciences; Kevin Niemi, center for biology; Susan Nossal, physics; Sybil Pressprich, division of continuing studies; Gregory Rodgers, psychiatry; Thomas Rooney, botany; Margaret Rosin, communicative disorders; Cynthia Severt, data and program library service; Rebecca Stepien, medical sciences; Mary-Priscilla Stevens, center on education and work; Gail Stirr, agricultural and life sciences research division; Karen Tusack, learning support services; Luanne von Schneidemesser, English; George Watson, office of quality improvement; Katherine Weber, agricultural and life sciences; and Douglas Worsham, learning support services.

Those selected to receive 2005-06 Faculty Development Grant Awards are Hans Adler, German; Florence Bernault, history; Katherine Bowie, anthropology; Gelsomina DeStasio, physics; Francine Hirsch, history; and Mark Seidenberg, psychology.

The UW volleyball team ended its season ranked 14th with a 22-10 record in the final USA Today/CSTV Top 25 Coaches poll. It is the ninth straight year that the Badgers have ended the season ranked among the top 25 teams in the nation. In the NCAA regionals, Wisconsin upset then-No. 2 Hawaii in the Sweet 16 before falling to eventual national champion Stanford in the regional finals last month.

Appointments

Paul L. Kaufman, professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences in the Medical School, has been named chair of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences. After nearly 30 years in the department, Kaufman will facilitate its mission of excellence in teaching, research and patient care by expanding and strengthening key clinical and research areas with new recruitments and new facilities.

Geoffrey Wallace, assistant professor of economics and public affairs, has been elected to a four-year term, 2005-08, on the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management’s Policy Council. APPAM brings together policy practitioners and researchers across the nation to address substantive public policy problems.

WARF hires new director of investments
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has hired a new director to manage the endowment it uses to help support UW–Madison research.

Tom Weaver recently joined WARF — UW–Madison’s non-profit patent management organization — as the leader of the foundation’s investment department. His appointment follows the departure of the previous director of investments, Mark Bear, who retired from WARF on Dec. 31 after 26 years of service.

Weaver holds a bachelor’s degree and a master of business administration degree from the University of Missouri and is a chartered financial analyst. He has spent the past five years as senior investment manager of the $2.1 billion Fairfax County Employees Retirement System in Fairfax, Va.

WARF serves UW–Madison by patenting inventions made by university faculty, staff and students; licensing the technology to companies for commercial development; and returning the revenues to the university to fund further research. The income WARF shares with the university comes from two sources: the royalties paid on licensed inventions and the income from WARF’s investment portfolio.