PUBLICATIONS Inside Illinois Vol. 25, No. 6, Sept. 15, 2005

achievements A report on honors, awards, appointments and other outstanding achievements of faculty and staff members.

ACES | ALS | communications | cosmopolitan club | engineering | law | LAS |

agricultural, consumer and environmental sciences
Sustained groundbreaking work in animal nutrition has earned Jimmy H. Clark, professor emeritus of animal sciences, the New Frontiers in Animal Nutrition Award, from the Federation of Animal Sciences Societies and the American Feed Industrial Association. The award committee honored Clark for his concept of feeding lactating dairy cows, which is currently utilized throughout the world.

applied life sciences
Laura DeThorne, professor of speech and hearing science, received the 2005 Advancing Academic-Research Careers Award from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. The award is part of the association’s Focused Initiative on the Doctoral Shortage and is designed to provide financial incentives to new faculty members in higher education by providing awards to support their contributions to academia and research in their beginning careers. DeThorne will use the award to build collaborations across the areas of child language, stuttering and genetics. Among other activities, the award will support DeThorne in taking an advanced course in genetics in London next year. DeThorne received the New Investigator Award from the association last year.

Schuyler S. Korban, professor of molecular genetics and biotechnology in the department of natural resources and environmental sciences, was awarded the 2005 Wilder Silver Medal from the American Pomological Society in recognition of his outstanding contributions to pomology. Korban, who received the award at the society’s annual meeting in Las Vegas, was recognized for his research accomplishments in apple genomics, molecular genetics and breeding.

communications
The newest short documentary by professor of journalism Jay Rosenstein has been selected to be screened at the Portland, Ore., International Short Short Film Festival, on Oct. 21-24. “Heroes: The Year in Sports” takes a critical look at sports heroes as seen through newspaper headlines.

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cosmopolitan club
The oldest international organization on the Urbana campus, the Cosmopolitan Club has been cultivating social and intellectual relationships among persons of different nations through a variety of activities and services since 1907. Recognizing the club’s contributions, the city of Champaign has honored the club with its 2005 Hospitality Award, one of its International Humanitarian Awards. The awards honor groups and individuals who have contributed significantly to international understanding, cooperation, friendship and development.

engineering
Ronald J. Adrian, professor emeritus of theoretical and applied mechanics, will receive the 2005 Fluid Dynamics Prize of the American Physical Society in November at a meeting of the society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics in Chicago. The only award the society makes annually to a senior researcher in fluids was established to recognize outstanding achievements in fluid dynamics research. Adrian is being recognized “for his advancement of experimental techniques and their integration into experiments that have led to new insight into complex flows.”

UI physicists Brian DeMarco and Paul Kwiat are among 18 young physics researchers selected as finalists in a global competition to participate in “Amazing Light: Visions for Discovery,” an international symposium inspired by and honoring Charles Townes, winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in physics. The symposium will bring together renowned scholars and researchers to explore the extraordinary challenges of 21st century physics and cosmology, the possibilities for innovative technologies and questions at the boundaries of science. These young scientists will present their research at the symposium Oct. 6-8 on the campus of the University of California. DeMarco’s presentation, “Quantum Simulations using Ultra-cold Atoms,” describes his research aimed at realizing quantum simulation using atoms trapped in an optical lattice. Kwiat will present “The Entanglement Revolution,” which addresses his work on the elusive concept of entanglement considered to be the crown jewel of quantum mechanics.

The Biophysical Society named Martin Gruebele to its 2006 class of fellows. Gruebele, professor of physics and director of the Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, was recognized by the society for his significant contribution to the fields of fast protein folding dynamics and kinetics. He will be honored at the society’s February meeting in Salt Lake City.

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law
Professor Matthew Finkin, the Albert J. Harno Professor of Law, was formally inducted earlier this month as a fellow of the College of Labor of Labor and Employment Lawyers. Finkin was elected as a fellow by a vote of the college board of governors on May 27 and was formally introduced at the 10th annual induction ceremony Aug. 7 at Navy Pier in Chicago. This honor is bestowed on individuals who have demonstrated a long and prolific contribution to the practice of labor and employment law.

Professor Lawrence B. Solum, an internationally renowned legal theory expert, was invested as the John E. Cribbet Professor Sept. 7 at the UI College of Law. Solum is an expert on civil procedure, constitutional law, intellectual property law and legal philosophy. The ceremony featured comments by UI President B. Joseph White, UI Chancellor Richard Herman, Dean Heidi M. Hurd and Cribbet, a longtime law professor who was dean of the college from 1967-1979 and chancellor from 1979-1984.

liberal arts and sciences
Martin Burke, professor of chemistry, has been awarded the Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award. The highly competitive award, which provides an unrestricted research grant of $50,000, was presented to 11 people in the U.S. this year. It is given to a new faculty member at the beginning of their career “based on evidence that the nominee has the potential to produce an independent body of scientific scholarship of outstanding quality and will make significant contributions to overall education in the chemical sciences.” The award will help fund Burke’s research on the synthesis and study of amphotericin B, a prototypical small molecule-based ion channel.

Chemistry department professor Wilfred van der Donk has been selected to receive a 2006 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society, which includes $5,000 and a $40,000 unrestricted research grant. In addition, he will present an address at the society’s national meeting next year. Van der Donk earned this award for his work in answering longstanding questions about the action of enzyme (COX-2) in the body’s physiological response to injury and infection and elucidating the mechanism by which certain enzymes render chlorocarbon pollutants less toxic. Further, he uncovered a chemical pathway responsible for the enzymatic conversion of phosphite to phosphate and developed a general method for the biosynthesis of new kinds of lantibiotics, molecules that are powerful antibiotics of therapeutic significance.

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