Academic advisers David Silberstein, Mary Sullivan-Cooper, Jan Robey Marker, Kay O'Brien, Jana Lehman and Carolyn Wagner attended the National Academic Advising Association's national conference in Washington, D.C. Marker, Silberstein and Sullivan-Cooper were presenters. Sullivan-Cooper recently published a book review in the NACADA Journal.
Paul Barton-Kriese, political science, recently attended the Third World Studies Conference and presented the paper, "When You Have Struck a Woman, You Have Struck a Rock: Third World Women Who Make a Difference," and chaired two panels. He is also a newly elected member of the editorial review board for the International Third World Studies Journal and Review.
Eleanor Turk, history, served on the North Central Association evaluation team reviewing the University of Wisconsin-Platteville in December.
Carol Steinhaus, SPEA, gave two presentations at the 16th annual Lilly Conference on College Teaching, held at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, Nov. 21-24. Her presentation titles were "Evaluating Teaching Effectiveness: A Video Approach" and :"Using 'Gangsta's Paradise' from the Movie Dangerous Minds to Teach the Cultural Basis of Perception."
Martin Kleiman, pediatrics, has been named the Ryan White Professor of pediatrics. He directs both the Pediatric Infectious Disease Section and the Department of Infection Control at Riley Hospital. Kleiman served as the attending physician for Ryan White, an advocate of public support for patients with AIDS. The student-driven IU Dance Marathon in Bloomington raised $140,000 in October for the Ryan White Infectious Disease Clinic and toward endowment of the named professorship.
Robert D. Yee, chairman of ophthalmology, has been elected to the board of trustees of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, the largest international organization of ophthalmologists, optometrists and scientists who are active in basic science and clinical research about the eye and vision.
Frederick B. Stehman, chair of obstetrics and gynecology, is the first Clarence E. Ehrlich Professor of obstetrics and gynecology. The professorship is named in honor of the late chair of the department and was established by former and currents residents, friends, staff and colleagues of Ehrlich, who died in 1992.
Roger B. Dworkin has been named the Robert H. McKinney Professor of law. On the faculty at the law school since 1968, Dworkin is also a Nelson Poynter Scholar and director of medical studies at the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions. He is the second recipient of the professorship, named and established with a gift from Indianapolis lawyer, businessman and IU Trustee Robert McKinney.
Ronald A. Hites, Distinguished Professor of public and environmental affairs and professor of chemistry, has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
David Weaver, Roy W. Howard Professor of journalism, and doctoral student Wei Wu presented a paper, "Online Democracy or Online Demagoguery--Public Opinion 'Polls' on the Internet," at the annual conference of the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research in Chicago.Weaver also spoke about the constituents and consequences of online polling in a panel, co-sponsored by the Communication Theory and Methodology Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, on theoretical and methodological paths to "true" public opinion. Weaver also lectured on "Challenges Facing Journalists in the 1990s and Beyond" at the 11th International Symposium for Information Sciences at the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain, Nov. 7-8. He was a guest of the faculty of the School of Public Communication at the university. Weaver's manuscript for a book entitled The Global Journalist is scheduled for publication by Hampton Press.
Randall Baker, director of international programs at SPEA, received the title Doctor Honoris Causa at a ceremony held in Sofia, Bulgaria, Nov. 27. Bestowing the honor was the New Bulgarian University, created by the Bulgarian National Assembly in 1992. In making the presentation, Ambassador Bogdan Bogdanov, chairman of the board of trustees, praised Baker's international scholarship and, in particular, his role in creating Bulgaria's first master's degree program in public administration. A delegation from the U.S. embassy attended and Baker delivered the address, "Democracy versus Bureaucracy." Later in the week, Baker was made an honorary citizen of Breze, an isolated community in the Stara Planina mountains of central Bulgaria which Baker wrote about in his book, Summer in the Balkans.
An article by Joseph Pellicciotti, PEA, was published in the spring 1996 edition of the Pace International Law Review. The article was titled "Workplace Sexual Harassment Law in Canada and the United States: A Comparative Study of the Doctrinal Development Concerning the Nature of Actionable Sexual Harassment."
Edythe Feazel, associate librarian, was one of five Commission for International Library Assistance(CILA) members who traveled to Kingston, Jamaica, to conduct a library training seminar and evaluate the effectiveness of The Librarian's Manual, an instructional book, created by the CILA. The commission has been working over the past few years to provide assistance to library staff in small colleges in third-world countries. Twenty-two participants from 15 academic institutions in Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Trinidad completed the seminar.
Allen F. Anderson, assistant dean, SPEA, had a manuscript, "A Commentary on Nursing Mothers, Drugs, and the Limits of the Criminal Process," accepted for publication in the May 1997 issue of the Juvenile and Family Court Journal.
Bridget Brewster, development officer, received certification in fundraising management with endorsement from the IU Center on Philanthropy.
Gretchen Anderson, chemistry, was named the recipient of the annual IUSB Distinguished Teaching Award, presented at the November IUSB Faculty Senate meeting. The award is the highest teaching award the campus offers. She was cited for her techniques in effectively explaining highly complex materials, the success of her students on campus and at other institutions, and the learning environments she creates for non-majors.
Ken Mentor, SPEA, presented papers at the American Society of Criminology annual meeting, held in Chicago Nov. 20-23. His papers were titled "The Authoritarian Personality and Criminal Justice Policy" and "Peacemaking and Criminal Justice: A Humanistic Approach to Criminal Justice Education."
Anita Hufft, dean of nursing, presented her research on inmate mothers in a paper, "Attitudes Toward Prison Parenting Programs," at the International Association of Forensic Nurses in Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 1-3.
Christa Zorn, English, presented her paper, "Outrageous Women: How to Keep the Sense of Struggle Alive," at the Morehead (Ky.) State University at the Wilma E. Grote Symposium for the Advancement of Women in November.
Granville King III, speech communication, presented a paper at the Kentucky Communication Annual Conference recently. The paper was titled "The Implications of an Organization's Structure on Whistleblowing."
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