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 Albert Valdman, Rudy Professor of French and Italian and of linguistics, is the recipient of the 1998 Florence Steiner Award for Leadership in Foreign Language Education, Postsecondary, from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. He received the award last month at the 32nd annual ACTFL convention in Chicago.
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 Mohammad R. Torabi, the W. L. Yarber Professor of applied health science, has received the Tony and Mary Hulman Health Achievement Award from the Indiana Public Health Foundation for distinguished and outstanding service in the field of public health and preventive medicine. Torabi is director of public health in the School of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, and co-director of the Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention.
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Dennis Cromwell has been named campus director of University Information Systems. Since joining the central technology organization at IU in 1990, he has developed a technical infrastructure in support of client/server computing, established a Web development effort, evaluated and selected database and development tools, defined a technical architecture for enterprise systems, and managed systems development activities. He also led the design of the central system Year 2000 plan and is the overall UITS Year 2000 leader.
Billy E. Rhoades, emeritus professor of mathematics, received a certificate of merit earlier this month at the meeting of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) meeting in San Antonio, Texas, for service to the MAA and its Indiana section for which he held vice-chair and chair positions from 1967-69 and was section governor, 1969-72.
Alan Ewert is the Patricia and Joel Meier Chair of outdoor leadership at the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation.
 David Weaver, the Roy W. Howard Professor in journalism and mass communication research, has published a chapter, "International Trends in Agenda-Setting Research," with Maxwell McCombs and Donald Shaw in a volume titled Wei die Medien die Welterschaffen und wei die Menschen darin leben (How the Media Construct the World and How People Live in It), published by Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen, Germany.
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Thomas Sebeok, Distinguished Professor emeritus of linguistics and semiotics, has been invited by the Medical School of the University of Siena, Italy, to address an international colloquium on the topic "Symptoms." From Italy, he will go to England for a week at Cambridge and Oxford, and then to France, where he will be the keynote speaker at an international conference at the University of Besanon. His topic there will be "Speech and Gesture in Multi-Modal Communication and Interaction." Sebeok also is a fellow of Victoria College, University of Toronto.
Barbara Resch, music education, is the first recipient of the Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching from the IPFW School of Fine and Performing Arts.
Sculptor Dana Goodman, fine arts, is participating in the 55th annual juried exhibition at the Sioux City (Iowa) Art Center. His work, What Thunder Looks Like Wet, is on exhibit through April 4 at the art center.
Steven Sarratore, associate dean of the IPFW School of Fine and Performing Arts, has won the 1999 Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival (KC/ACTF) Gold Award of Excellence in recognition of his contributions to the teaching and producing of theater and to the development and quality of the Kennedy Center's American College Theatre Festival. The award was presented Jan. 9 at the KC/ACTF Region III Festival in Indianapolis.
G. Allen Pugh has been named dean of the School of Engineering, Technology and Computer Science. The appointment was approved by the Purdue University president and board of trustees in November. Pugh has been interim dean since 1997.
'Sagamore' publisher reaps yet another honorBy Trisha TurnerThe publisher of the award-winning student newspaper at IUPUI has been honored for his work by the College Media Advisers (CMA). Patrick J. McKeand received the CMA's 1998 Distinguished Newspaper Adviser award during the organization's national convention in Kansas City, Mo. He was selected to receive the award from among advisers at four-year college newspapers.
The Sagamore, a weekly publication, has earned myriad state and national awards under McKeand's leadership. Groups such as the Associated Collegiate Press, the Columbia Scholastic Press Association and the Indiana Collegiate Press Association have recognized the newspaper during his six-year tenure at IUPUI. The CMA noted that McKeand has been described as a publisher who "balances sensible direction with an outgoing, supportive personality" and who "serves as an example for the kinds of standards and lessons that continually need to be passed on to students." McKeand also teaches journalism at IUPUI. He has worked for a variety of news organizations and is the former managing editor at the Anderson Herald. In 1996, he was a liaison for international reporters covering the Olympic Games, and in 1987 he worked with reporters at the Pan American Games in Indianapolis. He also is involved in an IUPUI program promoting the free press in the former Yugoslavia.
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Boschmann, who will assume his new role Feb. 15, has been a member of the IUPUI campus faculty since 1968. His duties will include oversight and responsibility for developing and enhancing instructional capability across all eight IU campuses. He will be instrumental in defining and implementing a distributed education strategy for IU, and he will be responsible for stimulating pedagogic and technological experimentation and evaluation throughout the university. The School of Continuing Studies will report to Boschmann. The school offers programs in independent study, distance learning and professional development, and serves as the academic home for degree programs in general studies, labor studies and adult education. IU's Independent Studies Program is one of the world's largest, serving 18,000 students annually. Boschmann also will be part of the Office of the Vice President for Information Technology and collaborate closely with its Teaching and Learning Information Technology Division. He will report jointly to Kenneth R.R. Gros Louis, vice president for academic affairs and chancellor of the Bloomington campus, and Michael McRobbie, vice president for information technology. "The deployment of information technology in support of distributed education is among the major recommendations made in Indiana University's Information Technology Strategic Plan," McRobbie said. "Professor Boschmann has made very significant contributions in the field of technology-enabled distributed education, and in his new role he will bring his substantial expertise to bear on providing leadership, coordination and focus in this area at IU." Since 1988, Boschmann has served as associate dean of the faculties, charged with responsibilities for faculty development for the 1,500 full-time and 800 part-time faculty at IUPUI. His duties included the implementation of technology in the curriculum, administration of an internal grants program, organizing workshops, facilitation of one-on-one faculty consultations, coordination of all awards, and assistance with promotion, tenure and sabbatical decisions. He also supervised the Center for Teaching and Learning Society, and in 1998, Bethel College presented him with its Distinguished Alumni Award.
http://www.indiana.edu/~disteduc/ Lowther named optometry dean Gerald E. Lowther, a professor at the IU School of Optometry since 1994 and co-director of its Borish Center for Ophthalmic Research since 1995, was named to the deanship of the school last semester. "Dr. Lowther is a distinguished scholar whose research on the physiology and chemistry of the eye and contact lens design is internationally recognized," said IUPUI Chancellor Gerald L. Bepko, who chaired the search committee for the optometry school's new dean. Bepko also cited Lowther's reputation as a progressive and innovative educator. He developed the first videodisc microcomputer system for optometry education, as well as CD-ROMs and other computer-based systems that promote self-paced and interactive earning. Lowther is past president of the International Society for Contact Lens Research and past chair of the Association of Optometric Contact Lens Educators. He conducts clinical research on contact lens materials and design and on issues that affect contact lens users. He also is president of the American Academy of Optometry.
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Victor Childers, associate professor emeritus of international business, spent two weeks last semester as a consultant with the State Pedagogical University in Pskov, Russia. His activities, which included a series of lectures on business and economics, were sponsored by Citizens Democracy Corps.
Michael Cohen, education, presented seminars Oct. 29- Nov. 5 to the science education department at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He outlined his research on curriculum from the 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as alternative assessment using video portfolios in elementary schools. Cohen served as a visiting scholar at the center last semester. William S. Quillen has been named associate professor and director of the physical therapy program in the School of Allied Health Sciences. He was previously associate professor and chairman of the physical therapy program at the College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati.
Michael Tsangaris, pediatrics, received one of ten Leaders in Excellence Awards from the Indiana Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation on Nov. 19. Dr. Tsangaris was nominated by his patients and was recognized for providing excellent and compassionate care to people with cystic fibrosis.
Jane L. Lambert has been named campus director of student services for the Kelley School of Business.
An article by David Orentlicher, co-director of the IU School of Law Indianapolis Center for Law and Health, was featured in a recent edition of the Houston Law Review. "Spanking and Other Corporal Punishment of Children by Parents: Overvaluing Pain, Undervaluing Children" appeared in the publication's 1998 Vol. 35, Issue 1. Orentlicher spent last year as Visiting DeCamp Professor of bioethics at Princeton University.
Jordan Leibman, business law, was part of a team that recently received accolades for its writing about jury deliberations in civil cases. Leibman's group was presented the Ralph C. Hoeber Award at the Academy of Legal Studies in Business conference. The honor recognizes the team for having the outstanding article in Vol. 35 of the American Business Law Journal. The article was titled "The Effect of Lifting the Blindfold from Civil Juries Charged with Apportioning Damages in Modified Comparative Fault Cases: An Empirical Study of the Alternatives."
Marjorie Lyles, business administration, discussed knowledge acquisition and management in international joint ventures with academic and business representatives at the U.S. Embassy in Thessaloniki, Greece, last semester. A paper she co-wrote, "Relative Absorptive Capacity, Trust and Inter-organizational Learning in International Joint Ventures," was recognized in the Proceedings of Academy of Management National Meeting. Another paper for which she was a co-author, "A Longitudinal Study of Learning and Performance in Transitional Economy International Joint Ventures" has been honored by the Strategic Management Society. The papers are part of her ten-year project assessing the private sector in Hungary.
Elaine Crabtree, print manager and supervising editor for the Creative Services Facility of the Medical Educational Resources Program (MERP), presented a paper at a conference of the American Medical Writers Association in Vancouver, British Columbia, recently. Her presentation, "Improving Patient Care Through Cross-Cultural Communication," was based on a MERP project produced for Dr. Patricia Keener, whose case studies were created to help educate first-year medical students about diversity issues. MERP has recently launched a journal editing service that Crabtree heads. The service is intended to help physicians and faculty get articles published in professional journals.
In addition to his work with The Sagamore newspaper, the CMA cited McKeand for a variety of other journalism activities both on and off campus. This fall, he was elected Region 5 director for the Society of Professional Journalists at that organization's national convention in Los Angeles.
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Erwin Boschmann, professor of chemistry and associate dean of faculties at IUPUI, has been named IU associate vice president for distributed education. The appointment was approved last Friday by the Trustees of IU.
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