Milestones

Appointed

Three UW–Madison staff were appointed to serve on committees for the Central Association of College and University Business Officers, which encourages professional and personal development for business and financial managers in higher education. Paul Jelle, assistant dean in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, was appointed vice chair of the Higher Education Accounting Workshop. Frank Kooistra, associate dean for administration in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, was reappointed to the Higher Education Accounting Workshop Committee of the Central Association of College and University Business Officers. Jan Richardson, associate director of Accounting Services, was appointed chair of the Current Issues Workshop Committee of the Central Association of College and University Business Officers.

Hnored

Brian White, UW football offensive coordinator and running backs coach, has been named NCAA Division I-A Assistant Coach of the Year by the American Football Coaches Association. The award recognizes assistant coaches who excel in community service, commitment to the student-athlete, on-field coaching success and professional organization involvement.

Published

Jan Vansina, professor of history, has recently published two books. “How Societies are Born: Governance in West Central Africa before 1600,” (University of Virginia Press, 2004) relates how large-scale societies first coalesced from the small foraging communities that had roamed West Central Africa. “Antecedents to Modern Rwanda: The Nyiginya Kingdom,” (University of Wisconsin Press, 2004) investigates Rwanda’s pre-colonial past and a demystification of the colonial historiography of Rwanda.

Sabbaticals

The Board of Regents approved the following faculty for 2005-06 sabbatical awards:
Leonard Abbeduto, professor, educational psychology
Nicholas Abbott, professor, chemical and biological engineering
Arnold Alanen, professor, landscape architecture
Martha Alibali, professor, psychology
Mary Anderson, professor, geology and geophysics
James Andreoni, professor, economics
Robert Asen, associate professor, communication arts
Bernadette Baker, associate professor, curriculum and instruction
David Becker, professor, art;
Florence Bernault, professor, history
Susan Bernstein, professor, English
Matthew Bershady, associate professor, astronomy
Robert Bickner, professor, languages and cultures of Asia
John Booske, professor, electrical and computer engineering
Stefania Buccini, professor, French and Italian
James Bucklew, professor, electrical and computer engineering
Stephen Bunker, professor, sociology;
Nicholas Cahill, associate professor, art history;
Colleen Capper, professor, educational leadership and policy analysis
Michael Connors, associate professor, art
Mark Covaleski, professor, business;
Thomas Cox, professor, agriculture and applied economics
Narra Cox, associate professor, professional development and applied studies
Wendy Crone, associate professor, engineering physics
David Danaher, associate professor, Slavic languages
David DeWitt, professor, computer sciences
Stanley Dodson, professor, zoology
James Donnelly Jr., professor, history
Patrick Eagan, associate professor, engineering professional development
Mark Ediger, professor, chemistry
Ellery Eells, professor, philosophy
Julia Evans, associate professor, communicative disorders
Mikhail Feldman, associate professor, mathematics
Cecilia Ford, professor, English
Cary Forest, associate professor, physics
Katrina Forest, associate professor, bacteriology
Michael Fox, professor, Hebrew and Semitic studies
Charles Franklin, professor, political science
Diana Frantzen, associate professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Mimmi Fulmer, professor, music;
Aristotle Georgiades, associate professor, art;
Morton Gernsbacher, professor, psychology;
Maribeth Gettinger, professor, educational psychology
Daniel Gianola, professor, animal sciences;
Arthur Glenberg, professor, psychology;
Mary Gomez, professor, curriculum and instruction;
Stith Gower, professor, forest ecology and management
Mary Elizabeth Graue, professor, curriculum and instruction
Jan Greenberg, professor, social work
David Griffeath, professor, mathematics
Matthew Hitchman, professor, atmospheric and oceanic sciences
William Hoyt, associate professor, counseling psychology
Steven Ingham, professor, food science
Harvey Jacobs, professor, urban and regional planning
Janet Jensen, professor, music;
Stephen Kantrowitz, associate professor, history;
Shanti Kumar, assistant professor, communication arts
Ullrich Langer, professor, French and Italian;
Alexander Lazarian, associate professor, astronomy
Jean Lee, professor, history
David Loewenstein, professor, English
Monica Macaulay, professor, linguistics
Sally Magnan, professor, French and Italian
David McDonald, professor, history
Julie Mead, associate professor, educational leadership and policy analysis
Mary Metz, professor, educational policy studies
Daniel Meyer, professor, social work
Nancy Mladenoff, assistant professor, art
Gilead Morahg, professor, Hebrew and Semitic studies
Lisa Naughton, associate professor, geography
P. Martin Nystrand, professor, English;
Hakki Ogelman, professor, physics
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, professor, anthropology
Donald Passman, professor, mathematics
John Perepezko, professor, materials sciences and engineering
J. Paul Peter, professor, marketing
Cyrena Pondrom, professor, English
Pamela Potter, associate professor, music
Lincoln Quillian, associate professor, sociology
Arun Ram, professor, mathematics
Stephanie Robert, associate professor, social work
Jean-Pierre Rosay, professor, mathematics;
Douglas Rosenberg, associate professor, dance;
Mark Saffman, associate professor, physics
Frank Salomon, professor, anthropology
Larry Samuelson, professor, economics
Joan Schmit, professor, business
David Schwartz, professor, chemistry
William Sethares, professor, electrical and computer engineering
Dhavan Shah, professor, journalism and mass communication
Jude Shavlik, professor, computer sciences
Edwin Sibert, professor, chemistry
Bradley Singer, associate professor, geology and geophysics
Stephen Small, professor, human development and family studies
Elliott Sober, professor, philosophy
Amy Stambach, associate professor, educational policy studies;
James Steakley, professor, German;
Jeffrey Steele, professor, English
James Stewart, professor, curriculum and instruction
Michale Streibel, professor, curriculum and instruction;
Gregory Tripoli, professor, atmospheric and oceanic sciences
Manon Van de Water, associate professor, theatre and drama
Stephen Vaughn, professor, journalism and mass communication
V. Giri Venkataramanan, associate professor, electrical and computer engineering
Bruce Wampold, professor, counseling psychology
John Wild, professor, business
Andrew Wolpert, associate professor, classics;
Richard Zeldin, associate professor, human ecology and human development
Hongming Zhang, associate professor, East Asian languages and literature.