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PUBLICATIONS
Inside
Illinois
Vol.
26, No. 1, July 6, 2006
achievements
A report
on honors, awards, appointments and other outstanding achievements of
faculty and staff members.
administration
| ACES | engineering | law
| LAS | native
american house/american indian studies | public
safety |
administration
UI President B.
Joseph White was named to the Chicago 2016 Evaluation
Committee working on Chicago’s potential bid to host the Olympic
Games in 10 years. Patrick Ryan of Aon Corp. is chairman and CEO of
Chicago 2016; Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley and Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich
are co-chairs. About 50 people are on the Chicago 2016 group, including
leaders of Chicago and Illinois business, industry and education.
agricultural,
consumer and environmental sciences
Cleo D’Arcy, a professor
of crop sciences, has been awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award
from the American Phytopathological Society. The award recognizes excellence
in teaching plant pathology. D’Arcy will receive the award at
the society’s annual meeting being held jointly with the Canadian
Phytopathological Society and the Mycological Society of America, July
29 – Aug. 2, in Québec City.
engineering
Mark Shannon, the James
W. Bayne Professor and Willett Faculty Scholar in mechanical engineering
and director of the Center for Advanced Materials for the Purification
of Water with Systems at Illinois, became chair of the Instrumentation
and Systems Development study section, a standing subcommittee of the
National Institutes of Health Center for Scientific Review, on July
1. Shannon will serve as chair of the committee for the next year. It
evaluates and scores the hundreds of research proposals received by
the NIH annually on the quality of science and merit of the research.
The scores help the NIH’s 20 institutes and seven centers determine
which projects to fund.
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law
An article in the June 1 online edition of The American Lawyer, “The
Law Professor as Public Intellectual,” listed the blog sites of
Lawrence B. Sholum, the
John E. Cribbett Professor, and Larry
Ribstein, the Mildred Van Voorhis Jones Chair, as top
law blogs. Sholum’s Legal Theory Blog (www.lsolum.blogspot.com)
and Ribstein’s Ideoblog (www.Ideoblog.org) are frequently referenced
by legal scholars, law professionals and reporters, and are among the
most popular blog sites in the legal academy, combining for nearly 10,000
visitors daily.
liberal
arts and sciences
Peter Beak, the Eiszner
Chair in Chemistry, was awarded the Silver Medal from the Royal Society
of Chemistry for his seminal contributions to organolithium chemistry,
organic reaction mechanisms, and asummetric synthesis. As part of the
award, Beak was the RSC Merck Lecturer at the University of Oxford and
three other universities and research centers.
Frances Gateward, a professor
in the African American Studies and Research Program, the Center for
East Asian and Pacific Studies, and the Unit for Cinema Studies, has
been awarded an overseas research grant from the Korean Film Council
in Seoul. Her winning project, “A Critical Filmography of World
Cinema – Korea,” was one of only three to be selected in
the international competition.
The volume she produces as a result of her research grant will be her
second book-length project on the national cinema of Korea. Her anthology
“Seoul Searching: Culture and Identity in Contemporary Korean
Cinema” is forthcoming from SUNY Press. The Critical Filmographies
of World Cinema series recounts national film histories through the
various countries’ films and is being published by caboose, a
publisher in Montreal specializing in books about film.
Jonathan Sweedler, the
Lycan Professor of Chemistry and director of the UI Biotechnology Center,
was awarded the 2007 Pittsburgh Analytical Chemistry Award by the Society
of Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh and the 2007 Theopilus Redwood
Lectureship by the Analytical Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
The Pittsburgh award recognizes his pioneering work in bioanalytical
chemistry, in particular his development of methods to detect extraordinarily
small quantities of neurotransmitters. The lectureship is given annually
at one of the RSC’s major national meetings by one of the world’s
leading analytical chemists and was founded in 1972 to commemorate the
society’s formation in 1874.
Andrzej Wieckowski, a
professor of chemistry, was named a fellow of the Electrochemical Society.
About 20 fellows are named each year with the selection made primarily
on the basis of technical contributions in addition to involvement in
the society’s activities. Wieckowski is the North American editor
for Electrochimica Acta, the journal of the International Society of
Electrochemistry, has pioneered the method of electrochemical NMR spectroscopy,
and significantly advanced the field of electrochemical surface science.
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native
american house/american indian studies
Debbie Reese, assistant
professor of American Indian studies, recently was appointed to serve
another term as a member of the Committee on Racism and Bias in the
Teaching of English for the National Council of Teachers of English.
The committee tasks include investigating and making recommendations
to counteract racism and bias in written and visual teaching materials
for English and language arts classrooms, and providing guidance and
serving as a resource in eliminating racism and racial bias in teaching
methods and the administration of programs in language arts and English
classrooms.
public
safety
Tony Carpenter was honored
as the UI’s Police Officer of the Year during the Public Safety
Division’s annual awards ceremony May 4 at the Urbana Civic Center.
Other honors presented at the ceremony:
- Lifesaving Award:
Officer Joe McCullough
- Director of Public
Safety Recognition Awards: Sgts. Joan
Fiesta and Aaron Fredrick;
officers Doug Beckman,
Troy Chew, Aaron Landers, Tony Micele,
Gene Moore, Rob Murphy, Todd Short, Michelle Standifer
and Eric Vogt; Robert
Wilczynski, assistant director of residential life,
Housing Division.
- Carol Bailey
Civilian Employee Award: Angela Marriott,
public safety telecommunicator
- Marksmanship
Awards: first place – Lt. David
Nelson; second place – Officer William
Smoot Jr. and Officer Jody
Huffman (tie); third place – Officer Tim
Harper
- Cecil Coleman
Award: Jim Coleman,
research professor in the Coordinated Science Lab, and of electrical
and computer engineering
- Division commendations:
Officers Gene Moore and
Rob Murphy; Gregor
Vacketta, systems administrator II, Public Safety;
Sgt. Joan Fiesta; Pat
Connolly, Police Training Institute, and Clark
McPhail, professor emeritus of sociology
- Merit Awards:
Officers Curt Bolding, Bruce Rolando,
Jon Whittington, Rob Benoit (2),
Chris Hawk, Eric Helms, Gene Moore, Michelle Standifer
(2) and Brian Tison
- Student Patrol
Officer of the Year: Brandon Stanley
Several officers
and civilian employees also were recognized with five-, 15-, 20- and
40-year service awards.
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