PUBLICATIONS Inside Illinois Vol. 21, No. 17, April 4, 2002

achieve ments
A report on honors, awards, offices and other outstanding achievements of faculty and staff members.

applied life studies
Ehud Yairi, professor of speech and hearing science, was awarded the 2002 Distinguished Alumni Award of the University of Iowa’s department of speech pathology and audiology.

engineering
David C. Munson Jr., professor of electrical and computer engineering, research professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory and in the Beckman Institute, was invested as the first Robert C. MacClinchie Distinguished Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering on Feb. 19.
MacClinchie, an electrical engineering alumnus, worked 28 years as an engineer for the federal government and then at age 57 changed career paths and decided to join his wife as an educator. He was a high school teacher before becoming a professor of physics and mathematics at Olivet College in Michigan.

James J. Coleman, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and of materials science and engineering, was invested as the third Franklin W. Woeltge Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at a Feb. 19 ceremony in Beckman Institute. Woeltge, an electrical engineering alumnus who worked in the avionics and space division at Emerson Electric Co., created the professorship with a $4 million gift.

liberal arts and sciences
Astronomy professor Jim Kaler won the 2001 award for excellence from the Association of American Publishers’ Professional/Scholarly Publishing division in the category of physics and astronomy for his latest book, "Extreme Stars: At the Edge of Creation." "Extreme Stars" is his 12th book.
The awards acknowledge excellence in book, journal and electronic publishing in all the disciplines represented by professional, scholarly and reference publishing.

veterinary medicine
Robert Clarkson, professor of veterinary clinical medicine, was part of a National Institutes of Health team sent to review the Center for In Vivo Electron Spin Resonance at Dartmouth Medical School, in Hanover, N.H., in September. In recognition of his contributions to its program, Dartmouth Medical School subsequently made Clarkson an adjunct professor in the department of radiology.

Thomas Eurell, professor of veterinary biosciences, passed the certification examination and is a diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology. A focus of his research program is the development of alternative in vitro methods for toxicity testing.

Rex Hess, professor of veterinary biosciences, was invited to give a workshop on genomic vs. non-genomic steroid actions at the Centre for International Meetings on Biology in Madrid, Spain, in December.

John Silbernagel, professor of veterinary clinical medicine, was elected to the American Animal Hospital Association’s Board of Directors. The position will become official during the association’s annual meeting in March 2002.

H. Fred Troutt, professor of veterinary clinical medicine, was elected to serve on the American Veterinary Medical Association’s Council on Education, representing large animal clinical science.