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agricultural, consumer and environmental sciences
Poo Chow, professor of wood sciences in the department of natural resources and environmental sciences, received the 2004 Fred Gottschalk Memorial Award from the Forest Products Society. The award is presented in honor of the society’s first president and is its highest recognition for people who have served the organization with distinction and devotion.
applied life studies
Thomas O’Rourke, professor of community health, was awarded the William A. Howe Award at the 78th annual American School Health Association Conference. The award is the association’s highest honor and recognizes outstanding contributions to and distinguished service in school health. Presented in memory of William A. Howe, a founder and first president of the association, the award acknowledges the recipient’s outstanding professional contributions paralleling the aims and objectives of the association. With members in 56 countries, the association is the largest national organization devoted solely to improving the health of school-aged children.
engineering
John Buckmaster, professor of aerospace engineering, was awarded the Ya B. Zeldevich Gold Medal in July 2004 by the Combustion Institute at its 30th International Symposium on Combustion in Chicago. The medal is awarded for “outstanding contribution to the theory of combustion and detonation.” The institute involves 28 countries and is an educational, non-profit scientific society with the purpose of promoting and disseminating research in combustion science.
Frederick K. Lamb, professor of physics and of astronomy, was awarded the 2005 Leo Szilard Lectureship Award from the American Physical Society. Lamb, who co-chaired the APS Study Group on Boost-Phase Intercept Systems for National Missile Defense, shares the award with the 11 other members of the group.
The award, which recognizes Lamb and the study group for “work in producing a report that adds physics insight to the public debate,” will be presented at the APS April meeting in Tampa, Fla.
The award honors outstanding accomplishments by physicists in promoting the use of physics for the benefits of society in areas such as the environment, arms control and science policy.
fine and applied arts
Lynne Dearborn, professor of architecture, will have her collaboratively led studio “Studio VII Returning Home: Integrating Elderly Housing in the South End Neighborhood of East St. Louis” included in the online publication “Architecture for Social Justice and Design Studios 2003-2004.” Dearborn leads the studio with professor Jason Lockhart of Southern University School of Architecture. The studio was one of 10 selected by a national jury for The Architecture for Social Justice Awards: Partnerships in Teaching. The program is conducted by Boston-based Adaptive Environments with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
An essay by Jonathan Fineburg, professor of art history, appears in the catalog that accompanies an exhibition on view at the Arts Club of Chicago through Dec. 17. The retrospective exhibition features paintings by Jorg Immendorff.
law
Richard L. Kaplan, professor of law, was named the Peer and Sarah Pedersen Professor of Law at a Sept. 8 ceremony at the College of Law. A member of the UI faculty since 1979, Kaplan is an internationally recognized expert on U.S. taxation and tax policy.
liberal arts and sciences
Harry Liebersohn, professor of history, has been named one of the 40 fellows who will spend the 2006-07 academic year at the Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study) in Berlin. The institute acknowledges “promising younger scientists and scholars” from around the world. Liebersohn will use his time to continue his research on how non-Europeans formed their ideas about non-Europeans in North American and the Pacific in the post-Columbus world.
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