Judith Anderson (pictured), English, has been named the 1996 recipient of
the Office for Women's Affairs' Distinguished Scholar Award. The award recognizes an IUB faculty member's outstanding scholarship and involvement in efforts to enhance women's lives through research, teaching and service. Anderson, a leading scholar of the literature of English Renaissance who has published widely on the work of Edmund Spenser, was nominated by her colleagues.
Rosemary O'Leary, SPEA, has received the Distinguished Service Award from the American Society for Public Administration's Section on Environment and Natural Resources Administration.
Indianapolis
David Orentlicher, law, is the author of "The Legalization of Physician-Assisted Suicide" that appeared in the Aug. 29 edition of The New England Journal of Medicine. Last month, he presented the sixth M.G. Schulhof Memorial Lecture at Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie. His subject was "Managed Care: A Threat to the Patient-Physician Relationship?"
An article written and published in the journal Implant Dentistry by Lawrence P. Garetto, orthodontics, has been chosen as the most outstanding manuscript to appear in the journal in 1995. Garetto, who also teaches physiology and biophysics, received the Ralph V. McKinney Jr. Award from the International Congress of Oral Implantologists during ceremonies in Chicago. Garetto, who is director of the IU School of Dentistry's Bone Research Laboratory, was the senior author of the winning article, which addressed aspects of the relationship of bone to titanium implants.
Sherry Queener (pictured), pharmacology and toxicology, recently began a four-year term of service with the National Institutes of Health as a member of the AIDS and Related Research 4 Study Section, Division of Research Grants. Queener, along with colleagues Marilyn S. Bartlett and James W. Smith, presented their data on antibodies and the immune system at the 36th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy in New Orleans this fall. Their studies indicate that the use of antibodies to improve the immune system in mice is as effective as the most successful drug treatment used today in preventing Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia among patients with immune deficiencies such as AIDS.
Joseph J. Mamlin, professor of medicine at IUSOM and chief of medicine at Wishard Memorial Hospital, has been elected to serve as a director-at-large for a three-year term for the Indiana Hospital and Health Association.
Charles R. Stephens of the Center on Philanthropy has received the 1996 Indiana Professional Fund Raiser of the Year Award. The award is presented annually by the Indiana chapter of the National Society of Fund Raising Executives.
Kokomo
Rick Aniskiewicz, sociology, had an article, "Organized Crime in the International Context," published in the September issue of IALEIA Journal, a publication of the International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts.
Allen Anderson, SPEA, will have his manuscript, "A Perspective on China's New Prison Law," published in the next edition of the International Criminal Justice Review.
IPFW
Frank Paladino, biology, has received three grants to study sea turtles. The grants are from Earthwatch, Waters of Life Foundation and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. His research has been published recently in Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology and the textbook, The Biology of Sea Turtles.
South Bend
Rhonda DeLong, SPEA, presented two papers at the Midwestern Criminal Justice Association's annual meeting in September. Her topics were: "The Female Officer: The Future of Policing?" and "Into the 21st Century: Selection and Assignment of Police Officers."
Northwest
Kathryn L. Malec, SPEA, conducted a workshop on fundraising focusing on development of a case statement for fund development and options for nonprofit organizations. The workshop was held last month on the IUN campus. Malec also conducted a fundraising workshop for the staff of the American Lung Association of Indiana.