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Linda Hunt has been named IU assistant vice president for administration.
George Kuhl, education, has been named a diamond anniversary honoree by the American College Personnel Association's Education Leadership Foundation.
"Linguistic Fascination with Globalism," a paper by Gyula Descsy, Central Eurasian studies, was published in the 1999 Eurasian Studies Yearbook.
Ernest R. Davidson, chemistry, has been selected as a recipient of the year 2000 American Chemistry Society Award in Theoretical Chemistry, sponsored by IBM Corporation. The award will be presented in March at the 219th ACS national meeting in San Francisco.
Milos Novotny, chemistry, has been selected for the 1999 Distinguished Faculty Award by the College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Association. The award will be presented to him at the COAS recognition banquet Oct. 22. Novotny recently was elected as foreign member of Sweden's Royal Society of Sciences.
David Weaver, journalism, has published an article in the spring/summer issue of Media Studies Journal entitled "Who Will Be Journalists in the Next Century?" Read it on line at this Web site:
http://www.mediastudies.org/wn.html#weaver
James Perin has been named vice president and chief financial officer for the IU Foundation. He was formerly IU assistant vice president for finance.
Daniel Smith, business, has received $150,000 from the Procter & Gamble Curriculum Development Grant Program for his project, "Problem-Focused Learning As A Vehicle for Helping Students Effectively Handle Complex Business Problems." The project will create unstructured case scenarios organized around the kind of ambiguous, complex problems experienced corporate managers face.
Daniel Conkle has been named the Robert H. McKinney Professor of law and Roger Dworkin has been named first recipient of the Robert A. Lucas chair at the law school.
Donald Gray, who retired last year after a 42-year career in the Department of English, was awarded the President's Medal for Excellence this past spring by IU President Myles Brand. Gray served as special assistant to the president for faculty relations and was the first holder of the Culbertson Chair in writing.
Ed Brown, criminal justice, presented at the American Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences meeting earlier this year in Las Vegas. His topic was "Proactive Responses to Serious School Yard Violence: A Partnership between Criminal Justice Practitioners and Educators; Information Sharing; Curriculum Adjustment; and the Law."
AnnMarie LeBlanc, fine arts, received the 1999 Friends of IPFW Outstanding Teacher Award in recognition of her development of the computer graphics laboratory and her contribution to fine arts course and curriculum development.
Robert Murray, fine arts, received a research support grant for "Real-time, Virtual, Interactive, Environments" (to create a fully navigable, three dimensional IPFW campus view for digital exploration) from IU Bloomington.
Carl Drummond, geosciences, was appointed editor of the Journal of Geosciences Education, which consists of five issues each year and a circulation of approximately 3,400.
Beatriz D'Ambrosio, education, was named Distinguished Teacher Educator of 1999 by the Indiana Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.
Prisca Martens, education, has received two grants to support her study of literacy in urban schools. The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) awarded her $12,500 to work with Indianapolis Public Schools students in kindergarten and first grade, while a $15,000 grant from the IU School of Education in Bloomington will support her work with third-graders in Chicago. She also has been elected to the elementary section nominating committee of the NCTE.
Stephen Bogdewic, IUSM, recently became the first person in history to be elected president of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine and to receive the society's Excellence in Education Award in the same year. He teaches family medicine and is assistant dean for primary care education.
Martin Spechler, economics, is a member of the executive committee of the national Association for Comparative Economic Studies. Spechler's survey articles on the economics of nationalism appear in Vol. I of the new Encyclopedia of Nationalism (Academic Press).
Julie Johnson McGowan is the new director of the Ruth Lilly Medical Library at the School of Medicine. She was formerly associate dean for Health Sciences Informatics and Library Resources at the Charles A. Dana Medical Library, University of Vermont at Burlington.
Eleanor Kinney, law, has been awarded a Fulbright grant worth approximately $25,000 to work in Argentina. Kinney will work with officials in the city of LaPlata on health policy reform.
Linda Houser has assumed leadership of student services and student teaching and field experience in the IU School of Education as its assistant dean for student services.
Vicki Meredith, accounting, recently was appointed the chair of the Kentucky Society of Certified Public Accountants members-in-education committee.
Eugenia Badger, communications, attended the 7th International Conference on Cross-Cultural Communication, sponsored by the International Communication Association, at the University of Louisville.
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