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Shiffrin named Distinguished Hoosier By Jayne Spencer Richard M. Shiffrin, the Luther Dana Waterman Professor of psychology and director of the Cognitive Science Program on the IU Bloomington campus, has received the Distinguished Hoosier Award from Gov. Frank O'Bannon. Shiffrin was cited for his contributions to education and research in Indiana and worldwide. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, he is considered one of the world's leading experts on human memory and is director of one of the leading programs in the country for the interdisciplinary study of the mind and the nature of intelligence. For a look at IUB's Cognitive Science Program, go to this site, maintained by Tony Chemero, the program's communications coordinator:
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School of Law-Indianapolis students honored three members of their faculty and staff at the school's recent Barrister's Ball. Among those honored were: James Torke, the Black Cane Outstanding Professor Award; Gary Spitko, the Outstanding New Professor Award; and receptionist Therese Kamm, the White Cane Outstanding Staff Member Award.
Linda Carroll, assistant director of intercollegiate athletics, has won the first Staff Council Spirit Award for her role in significantly increasing the number of student-athletes who attend the mentor program, for a steady improvement in athletes' grade-point averages and their participation in community service projects.
Cynthia Corbin, a secretary for operative dentistry at the School of Dentistry, has received the first dental "Non-Academic Staff Council Employee Excellence Award."
Carole Francq Gall, a library director at the School of Medicine, has received the Indianapolis Foundation Library Fund Leadership Award. She was cited for her seven years in organizing joint grant applications among 36 academic, public and high school libraries in the Indianapolis area.
Lorraine Blackman, director of the African-American Family Life Education Program at the School of Social Work, was recognized in a resolution passed by the Indiana House of Representatives earlier this year. She teaches two community courses aimed at strengthening African American families, one on couples, the other on parenting. The resolution stated that her "efforts to build strong family relationships have had a positive and lasting impact on the state of Indiana."
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Mary Zody, nursing, has received a $9,000 grant from the Healthier Communities Advisory Board and the Howard County Foundation to support her proposal for a "Community Based Nursing Center: A Program to Promote Cardiovascular Health in the Elderly." Lynda Narwold, nursing, has received a $3,020 grant from the same funding agencies to help support her second annual Camp Eez-the-Wheeze Kids Kamp for asthmatic children.
Donna McLean, speech, will conduct faculty development workshops this summer at Sripatum University in Bangkok. IUK has a formal exchange agreement with Sripatum and last fall hosted two guests from that university, Song-Sak Srikalasin, former academic vice president, and Poramate Punyale, professor of chemistry.
As part of IUK's international exchange agreement with Taipei Municipal Teachers College, two Tapei professors, Derray Chang and Rei-Tzu Yang, visited the Kokomo campus last month. Their trip followed a semster of teaching by Michael Tulley, education, at Taipei last fall. Two other IUK education faculty members, Lian-Hwang Chiu and Margo Sorgman, joined him there in December for an international conference on education.
Chancellor Emita B. Hill represented the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) at a two-day planning conference in preparation for North America's contributions to the World Conference on Higher Education to be held by UNESCO in Paris next October. Hill, who chairs AASCU's Commission on International Programs, facilitated one of three working groups that were preparing papers. Her group focused on "The Challenge of Evaluating the Results of Higher Education."
Mahmoud Saffari, assistant vice chancellor for undergraduate education, will be a presenter at the 12th annual Noel-Levitz National Conference on Student Retention, July 8-11, in New Orleans. His topic will be "Transforming the Freshman Year."
Robert Strikwerda, chairperson of the Department of Humanities, will be an Intercampus Scholar of IU's Institute for Advanced Study during May and June, working on Emile Durkheim and on the dispute over the work of Margaret Mead engendered by Derek Freeman's critique.
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Uric Dufrene, business administration, has been appointed dean of the Division of Business and Economics. Clifford Staten, political science, has been appointed dean of the Division of Social Sciences. Joanna Goldstein, dean of the Division of Humanities, has been reappointed to a term that runs through July 2001.
Bernardo Carducci, psychology, and Alan Wong, business administration, are co-authors of "Type A and Risk Taking in Everyday Money Matters," published recently in the Journal of Business and Psychology.
Christa Zorn, English, gave a paper at the 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference in Chapel Hill, N.C., recently. The title was "Can the 19th-Century Woman Be Saved?"
Linda Brengle, theatre, gave a paper titled "Flaming Flappers, Bathtub Gin and Chicago Jazz or What Made the Merry Wives of Windsor so Merry?" at the Creighton Conference on Language and Literature held recently in Omaha, Neb.
Kyle Forinash, physics, and W. Christopher Lang, mathematics, have been notifed that their paper, "Frequency Analysis of Discrete Breather Modes Using a Continuous Wavelet Transform" has been accepted in a special issue of the journal Physica D.
Gary Cobine, humanities, has had his paper, "Plying at Poetic Writing," published by the Education Research Information Clearinghouse.
Christine Frazer, English, has won a Teacher Creativity Fellowship from Lilly Endowment Inc. and will receive $5,000 for the study of Ptolemaic and Greek artifacts at Chicago's Field Museum.
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