Journalism Professors David Weaver (left) and Cleveland Wilhoit have published a book, The American Journalist in the 1990s: U.S. News People at the End of an Era, which reports their analysis of the health and future of the journalism profession.
Bloomington
Joel F. Meier, chair of the Department of Recreation and Park Administration, was chosen the 1996 Jay B. Nash Scholar by the American Association for Leisure and Recreation.
Marc Rodwin, associate professor of public and environmental affairs, wrote an article on "Consumer Protection and Managed Care: The Need for Organized Consumers" in the Aug. 7 issue of Health Affairs journal. His research was underwritten with a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award.
Professors Christoph Lohmann, English, and Mohammad Torabi, applied health science, won the 1996 Distinguished Service Award, created by the Bloomington Faculty Council and presented by the vice president for Academic Affairs and chancellor of the Bloomington campus and the dean of the Faculties.
W. Eugene Kleinbauer, professor of fine arts and Near Eastern languages and cultures, has written a paper on the origins of the 4th century Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem which will be published in the Journal of Jewish Art.
Richard Van Kooten, professor of physics, recently won a $50,000 grant for improvement and balance of teaching and research, as one of four scientists in the Midwest/Rocky Mountain region to be chosen for the Cottrel Scholars Award. Last year, IU chemist Andrew Ellington won the award.
Journalism Professors David Weaver (left) and Cleveland Wilhoit have published a book, The American Journalist in the 1990s: U.S. News People at the End of an Era, which reports their analysis of the health and future of the journalism profession.
Assistant professors Bradley A. Levinson, anthropology, and Andrea Walton, history, are among 31 scholars named Spencer Postdoctoral Fellows. Levinson will do an ethnographic case study on school practice, student culture and social identity at a secondary school in Mexico. Walton will study power and empowerment in the lives of women scholars at Columbia University.
Rick Faris of IU Publications designed a poster for the IU Ballet Theater which won honors from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and will be displayed at the annual show of the University and College Designers Association.
Also selected for the UCDA show was the IU Foundation's 1994-95 annual report, "Giving and Trust." The report was written by IUF staff member Bill Holladay and former staffer Kathy Gutowsky and designed by Jim and Laura Sholly of Indianapolis, with photographs by Greg Whitaker.
Indianapolis
Stanley G. Alexander has been named Robert W. Holden Scholar in radiology at the School of Medicine. The endowment honors the former chairman of the Department of Radiology, who is now dean of the school.
Donald P. Orr, professor of pediatrics and director of the Section of Adolescent Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics, has been selected by the American Diabetes Association Indiana Affiliate as the 1996 recipient of the John H. Warvel, Sr., M.D. Award, the association's highest honor for service.
William F. Harvey, former dean of the IU School of Law-Indianapolis, was honored at the school's annual alumni banquet this month. Currently the Carl M. Gray Professor of law and advocacy, Harvey will retire at the end of 1996 after 28 years of service.
Craig Gosling, director of the Medical Illustrations Department at the School of Medicine, has been awarded Johns Hopkins' Ranice W. Crosby Distinguished Achievement Award in recognition of outstanding work in the visual communication of medical science.
Joe C. Christian is the first associate dean for Basic Sciences and Statewide Medical Education Centers at the School of Medicine. He acts as liaison between the dean's office and the centers while overseeing the direction of education in the basic sciences for first- and second-year medical students. Merrill D. Benson succeeds Christian as chairman of the Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics.
Stephen Wintermeyer, medical director of the IU Occupational Health Services and clinical assistant professor of medicine at the IU School of Medicine, recently qualified as a certified Medical Review Officer by the Medical Review Officer Certification Council, an independent organization that evaluates and identifies physicians to conduct drug and alcohol tests for public and private sectors of the workplace.
East
Phyllis Jean Phelps Day is the new director of social work programs at IU East. She came to IU from the School of Social Work Administration at Temple University.
Cindy West is IUE's student activities director. She came from Ball State where she was director of the Honors Residence Halls for three years.
Northwest
Bruce Nissen, associate professor of labor studies, is author of a new book, Fighting for Jobs, which presents the history of five labor/community coalitions that struggled to save employment in northwest Indiana.
Linda Wozniewski, associate professor of physics, participated this summer in the annual reading and scoring of the College Board's Advanced Placement Examination in Physics, which gives capable high school students the opportunity to take rigorous college-level courses and examinations.
Cynthia O'Dell, assistant professor of psychology, presented lectures on "Individual Differences in Exploratory Behavior During Infancy" and "Identification of Shape and Texture Using Passive and Active Touch" at the International Conference on Infant Studies this summer.
Richard Clements, assistant professor of psychology, recently passed both the state and national psychology licensure exams and is now a licensed clinical psychologist.
Southeast
Cathy Shea, associate professor of special education, is chair of the Indiana Special Education Administrators Services/University Forum, which studies and suggests strategies for ensuring availability of quality special education personnel for Indiana schools.
Carl Christenson, professor of biology, has received an award for innovative excellence in teaching, learning and technology presented at the annual Conference on College Teaching and Learning. Christenson uses hands-on and high-tech approaches to teaching biology to undergraduates and is developing distance learning materials on teaching and tutoring scientific subjects.
Jackie Love, admissions counselor and minority recruiter, received an award at the Equal Education Opportunity Conference.
Shelly Prochaska, coordinator of the professional practice program, has been elected vice president for membership of the Career Development Professionals of Indiana.
Deborah Finkel, assistant professor of psychology, gave three presentations this summer at the Behavior Genetics Conference in Pittsburgh.
Among those representing the campus at the recent International Conference in Technology and Education in New Orleans were Division of Education faculty Carl deGraaf, dean; and Susan Ridout and Jane Riehl. The three presented a paper.
Curtis Peters, professor of philosophy, conducted an ethics seminar this summer for the Visiting Nurses Association of Southeastern Indiana.
Frank Wadsworth, assistant professor of business administration, and M. Vicky Felton, professor of economics, presented papers at conventions this summer. Wadsworth's paper was offered at the meeting of the American Franchisee Association in Washington, D.C., and Felton's at the Conference on Cultural Economics in Boston.
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