Milestones

Honored

Lawrence H. Landweber, professor emeritus in the computer sciences department, received the 2005 IEEE Award in International Communication. The award, sponsored by British Telecom, honors him for creating and enabling networking and Internet technologies to countries throughout the world.

Ed Nuttycombe has been named the Big Ten Conference men’s indoor track and field coach of the year for the third consecutive year. In his 22nd season, Nuttycombe guided his Badgers to their fifth straight Big Ten indoor championship.

Bo Ryan, Wisconsin men’s basketball coach, is one of 20 finalists for the Naismith Coach of the Year Award presented by Coca-Cola. Ryan has led the Badgers to a 19-7 overall record, including a 10-5 mark in the Big Ten, good for third in the conference.

Several UW–Madison employees were given prestigious awards from state officials. UW Police Sgt. Ken Kerl and Christine Lucas, university conference coordinator in the Athletics Department, were the recipients of Secretary’s Awards from Wisconsin Department of Administration Secretary Marc Marotta for their dedication, reliability and outstanding grassroots involvement in the 2004 Partners in Giving campaign. Kerl chaired his department’s campaign, which had a 106 percent increase in employee participation. Lucas chaired her department’s campaign, coordinated the special promotions it sponsored and served as the administrative liaison to the University Campaign Coordinating Committee. David Wallin, motor vehicle operator in the Physical Plant, received a Governor’s Award for assisting volunteers with the delivery of campaign materials to campus units in a timely and efficient manner. The Governor’s Award is given to individuals who exemplify creativity, resourcefulness, enthusiasm and outstanding achievement. Karen Anderson, Susan Anderson, Elizabeth Diez, Bonniejean Hutchison, Anne Murphy-Lom, and Leila Shenk of UW Extension were honored with a Special Events Award for organizing several events that resulted in measurable improvement in their unit’s campaign.

The UW-Madison Clean Snowmobile Team placed third at its national competition held March 14-20 at Michigan Technological University. Competing with an innovative gas-electric hybrid engine, the team also earned the Lotus Engineering Inc. and Horiba Instruments Inc. Award for lowest emissions. The Clean Snowmobile Challenge is the Society of Automotive Engineers’ newest collegiate design competition. Teams of engineering students from participating schools take a stock snowmobile and then re-engineer it to reduce emissions and noise while maintaining or improving performance.

Michael Fiore, professor of medicine, has become just the third researcher ever to receive the prestigious Doll/Wynder Award for Research in Epidemiology and Public Health. The award honors scientists for making “groundbreaking advances” in helping people quit smoking. Fiore is the director of the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention and led the development of the U.S. clinical practice guideline to help doctors assist their patients with quitting. Fiore accepted the award at the annual meeting of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco in Prague.

Betty Hasselkus, professor emeritus of kinesiology, will receive the Eleanor Clarke Slagle Lectureship Award at the American Occupational Therapy Conference in Long Beach, Calif., on Friday, May 13. The award is the highest scholarly honor of the profession. She will be recognized for her standards of research and scholarship, and the creative contributions she has made to knowledge concerning the lived experience of everyday occupation across the lifespan.

Appointed

Three Medical School professors have been appointed to renewable five-year professorships. The professorships honor internationally recognized scholars who show leadership, academic excellence, innovative research or superior teaching.

Paul L. Kaufman, professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, has been appointed as Peter A. Duehr Professor in Ophthalmology. The appointment lasts five years with possible reappointment.

Stuart J. Knechtle, professor in the Department of Surgery, has been appointed as Ray D. Owen Professor in Transplantation. The appointment lasts five years with possible reappointment.

Rodney A. Welch, professor in the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, has been appointed as Robert Turell Professor in Infectious Diseases. The appointment lasts five years with possible reappointment.