PUBLICATIONS Inside Illinois Vol. 21, No. 10, Nov. 15, 2001

achieve ments

alumni association
Loren R. Taylor, president and chief executive officer of the UI Alumni Association, was elected to the Board of Directors of the Council of Alumni Association Executives at its July 30 meeting in Delavan, Wis. The Council of Alumni Association Executives is a national organization of 75 chief executive officers of alumni associations supporting major institutions of higher education. The group advocates and sustains the value of alumni association self-governance by providing its executives with information and support to enhance alumni administration, higher education and professional development.

commerce and business administration
Anil Bera, professor of economics, has been appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Quantitative Economics. The appointment lasts five years. Bera also recently co-edited a volume on Rao's Score Test, which was published as a special issue of the Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, August 2001.

Michael J. Shaw, professor of business administration and Beckman Institute professor, was appointed the Leonard C. and Mary Lou Hoeft Endowed Chair in Commerce and Business Administration. He accepted the position during an Oct. 23 ceremony at the Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion. The chair was established by Leonard C. Hoeft, an alumnus, and his wife, Mary Lou.

communications
Steven Helle, professor of journalism and of advertising, was presented the 2001 James C. Craven Freedom of the Press Award by the Illinois Press Association on Sept. 29 during the statewide newspaper organization's 136th annual convention in Springfield. The award, established in 1993 to honor Judge Craven for his dedication to the preservation and protection of the First Amendment rights and the press freedoms of all Illinois citizens, is presented to individuals who have demonstrated a commitment to the principles of a free and open press through their work as a newspaper employee, as a citizen advocate or as a public official dedicated to the principles of a free press.

engineering
Darrell F. Socie, professor of mechanical engineering, has been elected a 2001 Fellow of the Society of Advanced Materials and Processes "for outstanding and sustained contributions to the understanding and control of fatigue and failure of engineering materials and systems." The society established fellowships in 1969 to provide recognition of members for distinguished contributions in the field of materials science and engineering and to develop a broadly based forum for technical and professional leaders to serve as advisers to the society.

Andrew Webb, professor of electrical and computer engineering, received the Wolfgang Paul Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Nov. 5 during a ceremony in Berlin. The award is sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and was established by Wolfgang Paul, who won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1989. This award enables a foreign researcher to set up a laboratory in Germany and exchange research personnel and ideas between universities in Germany and universities abroad. Webb will receive $1.8 million dollars during the next three years to set up a magnetic resonance imaging research program at the University of Wurzburg, home of some of the most advanced research magnets in the world.

Robert H. Dodds Jr., professor of civil and environmental engineering, was invested as the first holder of the M.T. Geoffrey Yeh Chair in Civil Engineering at an Oct. 2 ceremony. Yeh, chairman of the Hsin Chong Group of Companies in Hong Kong, received his B.S. in civil engineering from the UI in 1953.

law
James Pfander, professor of law, was honored at an investiture ceremony Oct. 19 with a professorship named for Prentice H. Marshall. Marshall was a former United States District Judge, College of Law faculty member and alumnus.

liberal arts and sciences
Daniel Bush, professor of plant biology, assumed the office of president-elect of the American Society of Plant Biologists on Oct. 1. He was elected by a vote of his peers within the society. He will become president Oct. 1, 2002. The organization is a non-profit science society with a membership of nearly 6,000 scientists from the United States and nearly 50 other nations. Its members are scientists from academia, government and industry. The organization is dedicated to advancing research, education and outreach in the plant sciences.

Richard I. Gumport, professor and associate head of biochemistry, has been elected a Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science Council. He is being honored for "distinguished contributions to the understanding of nucleic enzymology and to the teaching of biochemistry."

Benita Katzenellenbogen, Center for Advanced Study professor, a Swanlund Endowed Chair, professor of molecular and integrative physiology and of cell and structural biology, received a grant worth $220,000 to research breast cancer. The board of directors of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation awarded her the grant. It is distributing $8.5 million worth of grants this year to breast cancer research programs across the country.

Gene E. Robinson, professor of entomology and director of the neuroscience program, was elected president of the North American Section of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects.

nursing
Cheryl Crowley Schraeder, professor of nursing and adjunct faculty member of the College of Medicine, received the 2001 Illinois Wesleyan University Distinguished Alumna Award for Excellence in Nursing. Schraeder, who earned her bachelor's of science in nursing from IWU in 1968 and taught there from 1973 to 1977, received the honor during Wesleyan's Homecoming weekend in October.

student affairs
Ilene Harned, director of the Alcohol and Other Drug Office, submitted an abstract of a practice model that is being cited in "Promising Practices: Campus Alcohol Strategies 2001 Sourcebook." The practice model was developed by UI's Policy and Oversight Steering Committee on Alcohol Use, Abuse, and Educational Programming.

Tom Seals, director of the Counseling Center and clinical counselor, presented a summary description of the Alcohol and Other Drug Office's "Mandatory and Voluntary Referral Process" at an American College Personnel Association Meeting as part of a panel. The program was selected as one of 10 "Innovative Programs in College Counseling Centers" for 1999-2000.

veterinary medicine
Gordon Baker, professor of veterinary clinical medicine, presented two research and two clinical papers as an invited speaker at a meeting of the French Equine Veterinary Association (AVEF).

Val Beasley, veterinary biosciences, gave a keynote address at Tufts University and lectured in a conversation medicine course last spring. He also lectured recently at the University of Connecticut.

Kimberlee B. Beckmen, research scientist in veterinary biosciences, was invited to attend an expert workshop of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program in Seattle. She presented research on the potential effects of PCB and DDT exposure on immune function in free-ranging northern fur seal pups in Alaska. The results of her study were to be included in an international AMAP assessment report.

Peter D. Constable, professor of veterinary clinical medicine, served on the USDA Animal Health and Well-Being grant review panel in Washington, D.C., in May.

Roberto Docampo, professor of veterinary pathobiology, served as chairman of a Special Emphasis Panel of the National Institutes of Health to review proposals concerning tropical medicine research centers. He also served as a peer review panel member for the Fiscal Year 02 Intramural Military Infectious Diseases Research Program proposal review. He also gave an invited presentation and participated in a roundtable on pyrophosphatases at the Second International Meeting on Inorganic Pyrophosphatases held in Seville, Spain, in May.

David Gross, head of veterinary biosciences, was elected a Fellow of the Cardiovascular Section of the American Physiological Society.

Wanda Haschek-Hock, professor of veterinary pathobiology, was inducted as the president of the Comparative and Veterinary Specialty of Toxicology at the Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting in San Francisco in March.

Patricia Heine, professor of veterinary biosciences, was invited to discuss the state of the science and research needs concerning the pathophysiology of obesity-associated diseases at a joint meeting of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases in Bethesda, Md., in May. She spoke on the effects of sex steroids on adipose tissue.

Rex Hess, professor of veterinary biosciences, gave an invited lecture titled "Estrogen and Male Reproductive Function" at a symposium of the Society of Gynecologic Investigation in Toronto, on March 16.

Lois Hoyer, professor of veterinary pathobiology, accepted a three-year term as a regular member of the Bacteriology and Mycology Study Section (2), Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health.

Barbara Kitchell, professor of veterinary clinical medicine, gave the keynote address at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Veterinary Dermatology in Norfolk, Va., and spoke to the Interior Veterinary Medical Association in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Eric Vimr, professor of veterinary pathobiology, was elected a fellow of theAmerican Academy of Microbiology.

Federico Zuckermann, professor of veterinary pathobiology, co-chaired the American Association of Veterinary Immunologists/American College of Veterinary Medicine annual symposium on viral immunology in Chicago.