PUBLICATIONS Inside Illinois Vol. 22, No. 1, July 5, 2002

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

broadcasting
WILL-TV has received a 2002 Preservation Award in Innovative Education Programs for the production of "A Day in Our Hometown: Decatur." Kimberlie Kranich was director and coordinating producer, and Alison Davis Wood was producer of the program.

The award is presented by the city of Decatur's Historical and Architectural Sites Commission for individuals and organizations who demonstrate appreciation for the preservation of historical and architectural heritage. The Hometown Project, a collaborative effort between WILL production and outreach and the residents of Decatur, featured a couple of stories on the city's neighborhoods and their architecture, and the production itself captures Decatur in a series of stories filmed by the residents themselves.

career services center and las
Julian Parrott, assistant dean and director of the General Curriculum Center in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Margaret Schrock, assistant director of the Career Services Center, recently won an Award of Excellence in the category of Information Resources for Students from the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). The national competition recognizes the outstanding achievements of college career services and human resource professionals in two areas: educational programming and information resources.

The entry was titled "Skills for Success! Skills Employers Look For and How to Develop Them Now." Entries were judged on effective use of the medium chosen, success in meeting stated objectives, content, quality, creativity, results and relevance.

liberal arts and sciences
Vernon Burton, professor of history and a UI Distinguished Teacher/Scholar, delivered the presidential address, "Reaping What We Sow: Community and Rural History," at the Agricultural History Society annual meeting April 13 in Washington, D.C.

The society is dedicated to preserving rural heritage. It is the third oldest professional history organization in the United States, organized in 1919 with an international mission to stimulate interest in and preserve the accomplishments of rural people. The society is interdisciplinary, drawing its research from agricultural economics, cultural anthropology, historical geography, rural sociology and the general field of history.

Burton's address will be published in Agricultural History, the journal of record for the field.

Clare Crowston, professor of history, won the Berkshire Conference First Book Prize for 2002 for her book, "Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791" (Duke University Press, 2001). The prize is awarded to the best first book in any field written by a female historian who lives in North America.

Crowston specializes in women's work in early modern France and women's guilds, apprenticeship, material culture and the creation of a consumer society

George Hendrick, professor emeritus of English, was honored with a Certificate of Excellence from the Illinois State Historical Society for "James Jones and the Handy Writers’ Colony" (Southern Illinois University Press, 2001). Hendrick wrote the book with Helen Howe and Don Sackrider, who also were honored. Hendrick edited Jones’ letters. Howe knew all of the people in the colony; Sackrider was the second student at the colony.

Braj Kachru, Center for Advanced Study professor emeritus of linguistics and Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, was a keynote speaker at the international conference on "Anglophone Cultures in Southeast Asia: Appropriations, Continuities, Contexts" at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He also was a plenary speaker at the annual conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics in Salt Lake City.

student affairs
Ed Slazinik, senior associate director of the Illini Union, has been appointed to represent the Association of College Unions International on the Inter-Association Task Force on Alcohol and Other Substance Abuse Issues. The task force is a coalition of higher education associations and organizations that promotes education, prevention, research and national initiatives to eliminate substance abuse on college and university campuses.

veterinary medicine
Gordon Baker, professor of veterinary clinical medicine, received the Grand Prix de Congres for the best scientific contribution for his paper on equine temporomandibular joints, which was presented at the 7th Congress of Equine Medicine and Surgery in Geneva, Switzerland, in December.

Val Beasley, professor of veterinary biosciences, served on the peer review panels for the Environmental Protection Agency’s "Futures in Natural Sciences — Ecosystem Assessment and Effects" research program in January and "Terrestrial Ecology and Ecosystems (Includes Animals)" research fellowships program in March.

Ann Johnson, professor of veterinary clinical medicine, was an invited speaker at the AO/ASIF Advanced Fracture Management Course in Davos, Switzerland, in December and the Michigan Veterinary Conference in Lansing in January. Johnson also was an invited speaker at the Complete Course on External Fixation in Athens, Ga., in March.

Christine Merle, clinical professor of veterinary programs in agriculture, served as Companion Animal Section Coordinator for the 2002 Convention of the Illinois State Veterinary Medical Association, held in February in Springfield.

Ted Valli, professor of veterinary pathobiology, was an invited participant and presided over one of the sessions of the sixth International Symposium on Predictive Oncology and Intervention Strategies at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, in February. The UI College of Veterinary Medicine co-sponsored the symposium.

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