Achievements

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

Gary Althouse, professor of veterinary clinical medicine, recently passed
the American College of Theriogenologists board examinations, making him a
diplomate of the organization. Board-certified theriogenologists are
considered specialists in the disciplines of veterinary obstetrics, genital
diseases and animal reproduction in both large and small animals.
Specialization requires a veterinary degree along with documented evidence
of advanced competence in theriogenology. Qualified individuals have
devoted at least five years to the field of theriogenology, including
formal advanced training in a post-doctoral program and passing stringent
qualifying examinations. Internationally, there are about 300 specialists
who are board-certified in this discipline.

German Gurfinkel, professor of civil engineering, had three award-winning
structures featured in "Award-Winning Structures," a compendium of
award-winning designs created between 1979 and 1994, published by the
Structural Engineers Association of Illinois. Included were Gurfinkel's
750,000-bushel grain-storage tank in Homer, Ill.; a 12 1/2-foot diameter
suspended bridge duct in Jackson, Tenn.; and a 15,000-metric-ton
grain-storage tank in Za•re, West Africa.

Randy Kornegay, assistant superintendent of building services in the
Operation and Maintenance Division, received the Environmental Management
Association's J. Lloyd Barron Member of the Year award. The award is
presented for exceptional services to the advancement of the association
and the environmental sanitation profession.

Mark J. Kushner, professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been
elected to chair the Plasma Science and Technology Division of the American
Vacuum Society for the 1996-1997 fiscal year. As a result, Kushner also
will be a member of the division's executive committee for the 1995-1998
fiscal years. He also has been elected chair of the American Physical
Society's Gaseous Electronics Conference for the 1996-1998 fiscal years. As
a result, Kushner also will be a member of conference's executive committee
for the 1995-1999 fiscal years.

Christine Lockmon, director of development research at the UI Foundation,
was elected to the board of the Association of Professional Researchers for
Advancement. She will serve as the communications director. The association
is an international private non-profit organization dedicated to promoting
educational and professional opportunities in the field of fund-raising
research.

Harold Scott, professor emeritus of geology, has been selected to receive
the 1995 Geology Alumni Achievement Award. The award honors a graduate of
the department of geology who meets at least one of three criteria:  a
career of outstanding professional achievement, outstanding academic or
research achievement, or outstanding service to the department of geology.
Scott joined the geology faculty in 1937 and retired in 1967. He then
served for six years as head of the geology department at Michigan State
University. His research interests dealt with stratigraphy and a number of
groups of microfossils. Scott is also noted for the discovery of conodont
assemblages. He also served as a consultant to the petroleum industry and
was involved in discovering major petroleum reserves in Libya.

Phil Solter, assistant professor of veterinary pathobiology, recently
became board certified as a clinical pathology specialist with the American
College of Veterinary Pathologists. Specialization requires a veterinary
degree, followed by an additional four years of pathology training, and
passing stringent national qualifying examinations. Veterinary clinical
pathologists are concerned with the antemortem (i.e., living animals)
diagnosis of disease and evaluating changes to the biochemical and cellular
components of blood and other body fluids.

Martha Williams, professor of information science, was a keynote speaker at
the Third Annual Database Conference sponsored by the Database Promotion
Center, South Korea. Williams' talk was titled "Costs, Pricing and Revenue:
On-line Databases and the Internet."