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Sheplock's work creating three-dimensional illustrations of the human
anatomy was featured in the Winter 1997 issue of the IUSM alumni
magazine, Indiana University Medicine. That article, along with the
remainder of the magazine, can be found on the Web at:
http://medicine.indiana.edu/NP.html
Sheplock is co-author and illustrator of the award-winning book Regional Anesthesia: An Atlas of Anatomy and Techniques.
IUPUI Chancellor Gerald L. Bepko was one of three honored for their service to the IUPUI campus at the 25th annual Alumni Leadership Dinner, Feb. 26. The other two honorees were bank officer Robert H. Everitt and industrial engineer Cleveland A. Lewis. Each received the Maynard K. Hine Medal, named in memory of IUPUI's first chancellor and former dean of the IU School of Dentistry. The Alumni Association has presented the Hine Medal since 1974.
Greg Lindsey recently won best paper award in a competition sponsored by
the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP). The paper is
titled "Willingness to Pay for Greenway Projects." Lindsey wrote the
paper with University of Illinois economist Gerrit Knaap. Lindsey and
Knaap will receive the award at the 1998 American Planning Association
conference in April. (ACSP is affiliated with APA). This is the second
consecutive year that Lindsey, who is also associate director of the
Center for Urban Policy and the Environment, has won this award.
Lillian Stokes, nursing, (see related story, right)
Mary Helen Thuente, chair of the Department of English and Linguistics, was in Dublin, Ireland, this week to attend a state reception in honor of the publication of The Women of 1798. She wrote the lead essay in the book, "Liberty, Hibernia, and Mary Le More: United Irish Images of Women." The reception was held in Dublin, Monday (March 9). Modern Irish nationalism originated in the 1798 Rebellion, which Ireland is commemorating this year. Thuente's book, The Harp Re-Strung: The United Irishmen and the Rise of Irish Literary Nationalism (1995) has been recognized as an important study of the period. In July, she will present an invited plenary lecture on the rebellion to the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures Conference at the University of Limerick. Thuente has served as a consultant with the Radio Telefis Eireann (RTE), the Irish national television network.
The IU Foundation has received its first ADDY award for the Endowment Campaign for Indiana University newsletter, Update, in its first year of publication. The ADDY, awarded by the American Advertising Awards Competition, recognizes and rewards creative excellence. Kathryn Carmony, a publications associate at the IU Foundation, is the newsletter's writer. Update now advances to the 6th district competition of the American Advertising Awards.
Seven new chefs have been certified by the American Culinary Federation and are assigned to dining halls in the Division of Residential Programs and Services. The seven have a total of 117 years of food preparation experience among them and have prepped nearly six million meals, according to Sandra Fowler, director of dining services. They are Amy Blaisdale, chef de cuisine; Rob Papesh, sous chef; Marcie Corbin, sous chef; Patricia Brosman; chef de cuisine; Susan Lucas, pastry chef; Honey Lyons, sous chef; and Carrie Decker, chef de cuisine. Ancil Drake, executive chef of dining services, has received an achievement award for his outstanding contributions to the chefs' program.
Jane Horner has been named director of the campus Child Care Center. The new administrative support assistant is Melissa Jolliffe. The center employs 18 part-time employees, most of whom are IUK students.
Kimberly Parker, supervisor of the Learning Resource Center, recently revised and expanded Standpipe Stories, an historical account of the beginning of the South Bend/St. Joseph River Valley, a text used by local fourth-grade students.
Tom Vander Ven, English, has won best director honors for his production of Shadowlands from the South Bend Civic Theatre. He also received best set construction honors. His production of Edward Albee's Seascape will open at the civic theater next month.
Bruce Wrenn, business and economics, co-authored The Marketing Research Guide (Haworth Press). The book is one of 14 in business management and labor selected as outstanding academic books for 1997 by the editors of Choice magazine.
An article by W. Christopher Lang, mathematics, and Kyle Forinash, physics, will appear in an upcoming issue of American Journal of Physics. "Time-Frequency Analysis with the Continuous Wavelet Transform" describes a mathematical technique that can track frequencies as they change over time, just as sheet music displays pitches as they change over time. Both spoke at the 81st annual meeting of the American Mathematical Association meeting in Baltimore, Jan. 9. Their talk described a course they are developing with support from IU and the NSF.
Lillian Yeager, nursing, was the keynote speaker at the 109th induction ceremony of Sigma Theta Tau International nursing honorary on the IUPUI campus recently. Her topic was "Exploring the World Within Us: to be and to be Better."
Lillian Stokes, director of diversity and enrichment at the IU School of
Nursing at IUPUI, has received the Distinguished Hoosier Award, one of the
highest awards that can be given by the State of Indiana to one of its
citizens. In a letter from Indiana Gov. Frank O'Bannon, Stokes was cited
for her service to health care and education in Indiana. Stokes is the
author of two books widely used as text in leading nursing schools
throughout the country, Canada and Australia. She also has had chapters
published in books related to health care in the African-American
community. She has been the recipient of the Lucile Petry Leone Award
from the National League for Nursing, the Madame C.J. Walker Award from
the Center for Leadership Development and outstanding teacher awards
from her school. In addition, the Stokes Award is given annually by the IU
Alumni Association in her name to an associate degree student for
excellent academic and clinical performance.
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