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PUBLICATIONS
Inside
Illinois
Vol.
25, No. 7, Oct. 6, 2005
achievements
A report
on honors, awards, appointments and other outstanding achievements of
faculty and staff members.
academic
leadership program | ACES | Communications
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academic
leadership program
The Committee on Institutional Cooperation has chosen five people from
the UI as 2005-2006 Fellows in its Academic Leadership Program: Abbas
Aminmansour, professor of architecture and chair of the architectural
structures division; Geoffrey E. Dahl,
professor of animal sciences and Extension dairy specialist; Wanda
Pillow, professor of gender and women’s studies and director
of Native American House; Deanna M. Raineri, associate
dean for instructional technologies and information services and professor
of microbiology; and Steven R. Williams, professor
and head of economics. The committee is an academic consortium that
links 12 major research universities in the U.S. The program is designed
to develop the leadership and managerial skills of faculty members on
CIC campuses who have demonstrated exceptional ability and administrative
promise. The fellows will attend seminars, workshops and other activities
throughout the year.
agricultural,
consumer, and environmental sciences
Wayne L. Banwart, interim associate dean
for academic programs and professor of natural resources and environmental
sciences, received the Teaching Award of Excellence from the North American
Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture. The purpose of the award is to
provide professional advancement of faculty members engaged in classroom
teaching and also to share teaching methods, philosophies and styles
of instruction.
The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers has awarded
Carroll Goering one of the most prestigious
awards in his field, the Cyrus Hall McCormick Jerome Increase Case Gold
Medal Award. Goering, professor emeritus of agricultural and biological
engineering, received the award for his pioneering work in alternative
fuels and his leadership in agricultural engineering education.
communications
Jay Rosenstein’s newest documentary
short, “Heroes: The Year In Sports,” has been selected for
screening at the Detroit Docs International Film Festival, Nov. 2-7.
liberal
arts and sciences
Antoinette Burton, professor of history,
wrote a chapter in the book “Exploring Women’s Studies:
Looking Forward, Looking Back,” a new anthology that chronicles
the rise of women’s studies across the disciplines during a 30-year
period.
Adrian Burgos Jr., professor of history,
has been selected to serve on two committees for the National Baseball
Hall of Fame. The committees will participate in the screening and final
selection of Negro leagues and pre-Negro leagues candidates to the Hall
of Fame in 2006. The committees were approved after the research team
that Burgos participated in during the past four years completed a comprehensive
study of African Americans in baseball.
Laura H. Greene, Swanlund professor of
physics, is one of 13 distinguished scholars named a Phi Beta Kappa
Visiting Scholar for 2005-2006. Greene will visit eight institutions
to discuss topics such as “High-Temperature Superconductors: Playground
for Broken Symmetries” and “Detection of Broken Symmetries
in Unconventional Superconductors.”
Stephen Jaeger, professor of Germanic languages
and literatures, was awarded a 10-month fellowship as a Scholar at the
Getty Research Institute of Los Angeles. Jaeger’s proposal addresses
the theme “The Persistence of Antiquity.” His project, “Charisma
and Art,” claims that art and literature exercise effects on a
viewer or reader comparable to that of charismatic effects.
Clark McPhail, retired professor of sociology,
received the George Herbert Mead Award from the Society for the Study
of Symbolic Interaction. The award is conferred annually in recognition
of lifetime achievement in the field of symbolic interaction.
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