Milestones

Milestones covers awards, honors and major publications by faculty and staff. Send your items to Wisconsin Week, 19 Bascom Hall, or e-mail: wisweek@news.wisc.edu

Appointed
Srinivasan Damodaran, professor of food chemistry in the Department of Food Science, was appointed to the Winder-Bascom Professorship, and Charles Camic, sociology professor, was named the William C. Martindale-Bascom Professor, by the Board of Regents during its December meeting.

Linda L. Weimer, who has held senior public affairs positions at the University of California, Berkeley, and UW–Madison, has been named vice president for university relations for the UW System, starting Feb. 1. She will be responsible for coordinating external relations including government relations, communications and public information for the UW System Administration and the Board of Regents. Previously, Weimer served as director of university relations at UW–Madison (1989-92) and as director of the University News and Information Service (1983-90), where she founded Wisconsin Week.

Published
Ramon Aldag, professor of management and human resources, and Buck Joseph, associate professor in the executive education department of the business school, have co-authored a book, “Leadership and Vision, 25 Keys to Motivation,” part of the New York Times Pocket MBA series (Lebhar-Friedman Books, 2000).

The career of Charles A. Bunge, professor emeritus of library and information studies, is honored in a new book, “From Past-Present to Future-Perfect: A Tribute to Charles A. Bunge and the Challenges of Contemporary Reference Service” (New York: Haworth, 1999). Bunge taught at UW–Madison for 30 years and was director of the School of Library and Information Studies from 1971 to 1981.

Chester C. I. Wang, assistant professor emeritus and East Asian Studies bibliographer, has published two books: “A New Treatise on the Methodology of Metaphysics,” an English translation of Fung Yu-Lan’s “Hsin-chih-yen” (Foreign Languages Press, 1999), and “Principles of Poetry,” a translation of Hagiwara Sakutaro’s “Shi no Genri” (Cornell University’s East Asia Series, 1999).

Ken Zeichner, Hoefs-Bascom Professor of Education, and Lars Dahlstom of Umea University, Sweden, recently edited “Democratic Teacher Education Reform in Africa: The Case of Namibia” (Westview Press, 1999).

Honored
Robert B. Asen, assistant professor of communication arts, received the 1999 Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Dissertation Award from the National Communication Association in November. He completed his dissertation, “Imagining the Poor: Arguments and Imagery in Welfare Policy Discourse, 1980-1996,” at Northwestern University. Nina Eliasoph, assistant professor of sociology, received the 1999 Diamond Anniversary Book Award from the NCA for her book, “Avoiding Politics: How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life.” Stephen E. Lucas, professor of communication arts, received the 1999 Golden Anniversary Monograph Award from the NCA for his essay, “The Rhetorical Ancestry of the Declaration of Independence,” published in the 1999 volume of “Rhetoric and Public Affairs.”

Richard Burgess, oncology professor, was awarded the Medal of the Waksman Institute as part of a symposium, “The 30th Anniversary of the Discovery of Sigma Factor,” at Rutgers University in December.

Hannah V. Carey, associate professor of comparative biosciences in the School of Veterinary Medicine, was elected to a three-year term on the Council of the American Physiological Society.