IN THIS ISSUE: academic leadership program | ACES | Communications | LAS |
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.
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.
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.
