Milestones

APPOINTED

Maria Cancian, professor of public affairs and social work, will assume directorship of the Institute for Research on Poverty in September, succeeding economics professor John Karl Scholz, who has been IRP director since 2000.

Sue Ela, former women’s rowing coach, has been named interim director of women’s crew. Ela replaces Maren LaLiberty, who resigned as rowing coach in February.

HONORED

Michael W. Apple, John Bascom Professor of curriculum and instruction and educational policy studies, has been selected as one of the 50 most influential authors in education in the 20th century by the University of Durham research project on the history of Western education. In addition, the National Museum of Education named his book “Ideology and Curriculum” as one of the most significant books in education in the 20th Century. The 25th anniversary, third edition of Apple’s book was recently published by Routledge.

Richard Bilder, Foley and Lardner emeritus professor of law, was honored at the annual Wisconsin International Law Journal symposium, “Speaking Law to Power: International Law and Foreign Policy,” on March 5-6. The conference was dedicated to Bilder, who has taught at the Law School since 1965.

Nina Emerson, director of the Resource Center on Impaired Driving at the Law School, was profiled in Wisconsin Traffic Safety Reporter as a highway safety partner, helping to improve traffic safety in Wisconsin.

Keith Findley and John Pray, clinical associate professors of law, have been jointly named the American Civil Liberties Union-Wisconsin Civil Libertarian of the Year for their work in directing the Wisconsin Innocence Project at the Law School’s Frank J. Remington Center. Findley and Pray have also been named Leaders in the Law by the Wisconsin Law Journal.

Betty R. Hasselkus, emeritus professor of occupational therapy and kinesiology, gave the keynote address at the 10th anniversary symposium of the Danish Foundation for Occupational Therapy Research, held March 26 near Copenhagen.

Mark Johnson, women’s hockey head coach, was selected as the Vince Lombardi “Award of Excellence” honoree for 2004 by the Vince Lombardi Charitable Funds, an organization that raises funds for cancer research, education, patient care and early detection.

James E. Jones Jr., professor emeritus of law, was honored in January by the Association of American Law Schools labor and employment law section for outstanding contributions to the field and teaching of labor relations and employment law.

Ed Nuttycombe, men’s track and field head coach, has been named the Big Ten Conference indoor coach of the year. Nuttycombe, who was selected by a vote of his conference peers, recently led his team to the 2004 Big Ten Indoor Championship.

Gordon Smith, professor of law, had his article “Toward a New Theory of the Shareholder Role: ‘Sacred Space’ in Corporate Transactions,” (with Robert B. Thompson), selected as one of the top 10 corporate and securities law articles of 2002 in a poll of law teachers conducted by the Corporate Practice Commentator.

Sherry Tanumihardjo, assistant professor of nutritional sciences, was recently awarded the 2004-2006 International Life Sciences Institute Alex Malaspina Future Leader Award. The $30,000 research award began March 15 and is only the second award of its type to ever be given.

Louise Trubek, clinical professor of law, was honored in September for 30 years of service to the Center for Public Representation and the people of Wisconsin. Trubek also received the Wisconsin Public Health and Health Policy Institute’s award for excellence in a peer-reviewed publication for her article “Achieving Equality: Healthcare Governance in Transition,” co-authored with Maya Das.

Journalism awards to be given
Six communications professionals will be honored for their leadership, accomplishment and service at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication annual banquet on Friday, April 16.

Three UW–Madison graduates will receive the school’s Distinguished Service Award for professional contributions in mass communications. They are:

Ed Bark, a nationally syndicated television critic for the Dallas Morning News, where he has worked since 1980. Bark, a Racine native, is a former Daily Cardinal city editor and worked as a reporter for The Capital Times and Madison Press Connection.

Ellen Foley, managing editor of the Philadelphia Daily News, where she was instrumental in civic journalism projects and in enhancing lifestyle coverage. A Milwaukee native, she has worked for the Kansas City Star, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Milwaukee Sentinel and Detroit News.

Jill Geisler, leadership and management group leader for the Poynter Institute, who is responsible for the institute’s seminars for print, broadcast and online managers. She was the nation’s first female news director for a major network affiliate and built an award-winning culture in the newsroom of Milwaukee’s WITI-TV.

The Ralph O. Nafziger Award for distinguished achievement by an alumnus within 10 years of graduation will be presented to Stephen Thompson, A.V. Club editor of The Onion. Thompson, a 1994 graduate, conceived and edited the section’s first book, “The Tenacity of the Cockroach: Conversations with Entertainment’s Most Enduring Outsiders.”

Receiving the Harold L. Nelson Award for achievement in journalism education will be Guido H. Stempel III, an emeritus professor of mass communication at Ohio University. Stempel was the first recipient of a UW–Madison doctorate in mass communication in 1954 and joined the Ohio University faculty in 1965.

The Director’s Award will be presented posthumously to Brian Howell, the Madison magazine editor and former Wisconsin State Journal staffer who died last year of cancer. He was a popular lecturer in the journalism school and in the department of Life Sciences Communication.

For information and reservations for the dinner, contact Janet Buechner, 263-4080 or jbuechne@wisc.edu, by Wednesday, April 7.

GRANTS

Gregory Shaffer, associate professor of law, has received grants from both the National Science Foundation and the International Centre on Trade and Sustainable Development to study World Trade Organization dispute settlements and developing countries. In February, Shaffer was named a UW–Madison Vilas Associate in recognition of scholarly achievement.

PUBLISHED

Marianne Bloch, professor of curriculum and instruction and child and family studies, is co-editor with Thomas Popkewitz, Kerstin Holmlund and Ingeborg Moqvist of “Governing Children, Families and Education: Restructuring the Welfare State” (New York, Palgrave Press, 2003).

Joe Soss, associate professor of political science, is co-editor with Sanford S. Schram and Richard C. Fording of “Race and the Politics of Welfare Reform” (Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2003).

OTHER MILESTONES

Devin Harris, junior guard on the men’s basketball team, was named the Big Ten Player of the Year by the coaches and media. Harris was also named to the first-team All-Big Ten by both the coaches and media, the only player to be unanimously chosen.

Rex, a 21-month-old German Shepherd from Czechoslovakia, became a member of the UW–Madison Police Department in October. Rex, who spends his time patrolling and training on campus with officer Shane Driscoll, is the second dog to be added to the departments’ K9 team, following K9 Mosely. Both Mosely and Rex are trained for explosives detection and tracking.

Michael Scott, clinical assistant professor of law, is providing technical assistance to the Madison Police Department under a federally-funded project aimed at enhancing and institutionalizing the department to analyze complex public safety problems. Scott is director of the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing, a non-profit group working to advance emeritus professor Herman Goldstein’s concept of problem-oriented policing.

Gerald Thain, professor of law, participated in February in the sixth annual meeting of the Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue in Brussels, Belgium. Thain participated in drafting and advocating new international rules to control spam and to ensure greater privacy in Internet transactions.

The Dictionary of American Regional English, a multi-volume reference work based at UW–Madison, was one of five projects to be showcased at Humanities Advocacy Day in Washington, D.C. DARE provides a comprehensive collection of written materials documenting words, phrases and pronunciations that vary across the country by region.

Three visiting scholars will be in residence for a one-week period at the Institute for Research on Poverty during the spring semester: Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, an associate professor of economics at San Diego State University (week of May 3); Jacqueline Olvera, an assistant professor of sociology at Connecticut College (week of April 26); and Diana Romero, an assistant professor of population and family health, Columbia University (week of April 19).