Milestones

Honored

Mike Eaves, head coach for UW men’s hockey, was selected as the Ice Hockey National Coach of the Year for the U.S. Olympic Committee’s Coach Recognition program. Winning the award for the 2004 calendar year, Eaves opened 2004 as head coach of the 2004 U.S. National Junior Team that won gold at the 2004 IIHF World Junior Championship, held in Finland.

Betty Hasselkus, professor emeritus in the Department of Kinesiology, will receive the Eleanor Clarke Slagle Lectureship Award at the American Occupational Therapy Conference in California in May. The award is the highest scholarly honor of the profession and recognizes Hasselkus’ standards of research and scholarship and creative contributions to the occupation.

Abbie Loomis, Library Information and Literacy Instruction coordinator, received the 2005 Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians Information Literacy Award. Loomis was a charter member of the WAAL Information Literacy Committee in and has been instrumental in various WAAL programs throughout the state.

Judith Mitchell, assistant professor in the Department of English, received an honorable mention from the Council for Wisconsin Writers for her fiction book “The Last Day of the War,” published by Pantheon.

Stephanie Robert, associate professor in the School of Social Work, will receive the Wisconsin Public Health Association’s 2005 Excellence in Public Health Research Award. The award recognizes outstanding scientific investigations in public health that have contributed to, or have the potential to contribute to, a change in public health practice, policy, science or technology.

The UW Senior Women’s Fitness Program celebrated its 25th anniversary April 21 at a reunion dinner. The group of women, aged 50-83 exercises weekday mornings from 6:40-7:40 a.m. with dance aerobics and strength and flexibility. The program, now part of the Department of Kinesiology, was organized in 1980 by the Department of Preventive Medicine for a 10-year study on osteoporosis prevention. When the study ended in 1990, the women requested the classes continue, and 58 members now participate in the fee-based outreach program.

The University of Wisconsin ranks third in the latest 2004-05 Sports Academy Directors’ Cup Standings, announced earlier this month. The Badgers are poised to beat their highest finish at 12th place in 1993-94. In the latest standings, Wisconsin has a total of 626.75 points, Stanford leads with 797.75 points and Michigan is second with 781.25 points. UW–Madison was 10th in the final fall standings from a second-place finish in cross country, a fifth-place finish in volleyball, a 17th-place finish in women’s soccer and an 18th-place finish in football. Winter sports boosted its rank with a third-place finish in men’s indoor track and field, a fifth-place finish in men’s basketball, an 11th-place finish in women’s swimming, a 15th-place finish in wrestling, a 19th-place finish in men’s swimming, a ninth-place finish in men’s hockey and a fifth-place finish in women’s hockey. The final winter rankings will be released April 28.