Tributes

Bloomington

Mohammad Torabi, chair of the Department of Applied Health Science, has served as a Scholar in Residence at Ball State University’s Department of Physiology and Health Science. He delivered research presentations with undergraduate and graduate students and faculty. He also delivered the Scholar Address at the National Conference of the American Association for Health Education in Cincinnati on the topic of "Paths for Successful Health Education Scholars: Research and Teaching."

Mary Pagliero Popp, Library Information Technology Services, has been named the recipient of the William Evans Jenkins Librarian Award, given in recognition of outstanding contributions to IU or to the library profession. The award is named in honor of the first chief librarian at IU, who served 1904-1921. Popp has served two terms as president of the IU Librarians Association (InULA) and is a regular speaker at national conferences of the American Library Association and the Association of College and Research Libraries. She contributes a regular column on information literacy, "Check These Out," in the trade publication Library Instruction Roundtable News. The award will be presented Aug. 25 at 3 p.m. in the Staff Lounge of the IU Main Library.

Linda Degh, Distinguished Professor emerita of folklore, has joined the editorial board of Cultural Analysis, a new interdisciplinary journal. She is teaching this semester at Debrecen University in Hungary, and a collection of her essays on the Hungarian-American diaspora will be published later this year by the European Folklore Institute in Budapest.

Sue Grimmond, geography, has received funds from the National Science Foundation to initiate a project measuring and modeling surface-atmosphere exchanges of heat, mass and momentum, in Lodz, Poland.

Curt Simic, president of the IU Foundation, has been named one of the first recipients of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Commonfund Institutionally Related Foundation Awards, recognizing distinguished achievement by a foundation professional.

IUPUI

Kirsten Gronbjerg, SPEA, has been named the first scholar to hold the Efroymson Chair in philanthropy at the Center on Philanthropy, the first endowed chair in the history of the center. She will hold the chair for five years. Her work will be to bridge philanthropic studies and non-profit management at IUPUI and the Bloomington campuses. She currently is serving as an adjunct professor of sociology in Bloomington.

Dr. Douglas Zipes, director of the Krannert Institute of Cardiology at the School of Medicine, was inaugurated March 21 as president of the American College of Cardiology at its annual meeting in Orlando, Fla. He will lead the 25,000-member organization, comprised of cardiologists from all over the world, for one year. On June 18, all adult cardiovascular services and research facilities, including the Krannert Institute of Cardiology, will be consolidating at a newly renovated facility on the campus of Methodist Hospital. The facility, the Clarian Cariovascular Center, will be one of the largest heart centers in the Midwest. For more information about the Clarian Cardiovascular Center, go to this Web site: http://www.medicine.indiana.edu/news_releases/archive_01/nra01.html

IPFW

Stuart Blythe, English and linguistics, has received the 2001 Braddock Award for his co-authored article, “Institutional Critique: A Rhetorical Methodology for Change,” published in College Composition and Communication (CCC), Vol. 51, June 2000. The award was presented at the CCC Conference in Denver, Colo., in March, at which time he also served as a presenter with the topic “When the Industrial Model Still Applies.” Other CCC presenters were faculty colleagues Mary Ann Cain, George Kalamaras, Cynthia Moore and Marsha Shively. Cain and Kalamaras were discussion leaders for the Creative Writing Special Interest Group. Kalamaras also presented poetry readings. Moore facilitated a workshop on feminist issues and presented "If These Texts Could Talk: Scholarly Fictions of the Facts of Women's Lives." Shively presented "Teaching the Mentally Distanced Learner."

Diana Jackson, comptroller in continuing education, has received the Support Staff Member of the Year award, and Gary Steffen, electrical and computer engineering technology, has received the Faculty Member of the Year award from the Indiana Council for Continuing Education.

Barbara Ostrowski, continuing studies, has received the 2001 Administrative Excellence Award from the IPFW Administrative Staff Council. The award is given to administrative staff members for excellence in job performance, service and/or outstanding contributions to the university.

Alan Sandstrom, sociology and anthropology, received a Distinguished Professorship in Anthropology from the Mexican Academy of the Sciences and is president of the Central States Anthropological Society. He has published "Contemporary Cultures of the Gulf Coast" in the Handbook of Middle American Indians (University Texas Press), the premier volume of record for Central American Anthropology. He is also co-editor of two edited volumes: Mesoamerican Healers (with Brad Huber, University of Texas Press), and Holy Saints and Fiery Preachers: Anthropological Views on Protestant Conversion in Mesoamerica (with James Dow, Praeger).

Jennifer Bosk, alumni relations, is president of the Northeast Indiana Alumni Directors Consortium. "Building Alumni Consortia" was the title of her CASE V Conference panel presentation in December with colleagues from Ivy Tech, Tri-State and Taylor. The two-part presentation assisted alumni directors from the five-state region in developing their own consortia and creating joint events and projects.

Avon Crismore, English and Linguistics, presented "Teaching High School Students to Read and Write Critically" at the National Council of Teachers of English, meeting in Milwaukee last semester. She also presented "Rhetorical Roles for Interpersonal Pronouns and Metacourse in Fundraising Letters" at the American Association of Applied Linguistics Conference in St. Louis, Feb. 24–27.

Beverly Hume, English and linguistics, presented “Managing Madness in Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’” at the International Charlotte Perkins Gilman Conference in Columbia, S.C., March 30–April 1.

Michael Kaufmann, English and linguistics, presented "Alien Abductions: Race, Incest, and the Red Menace in Ford's 'The Searchers' and Frankenheimer's "The Manchurian'" at the 20th Century Literature Conference in Louisville, Ky., Feb. 22–24.

Richard Ramsey, English and Linguistics, presented "Overtones of Anti-Imperialism in Treasure Island" at the Biennial Conference on Modern Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature in Nashville, Tenn., April 5–7

Mary Cooper, dental education, published “Dental Detectives” in RDH, Vol. 20, 2000. She also published two book reviews: "Medical Tests Sourcebook" and "Lab Manual of Normal Oral Histology" in The Journal of Dental Hygiene, Vol. 74, Summer and Fall 2000, respectively. She lectured on dental nutrition for Dental Hygiene Seminars, Inc. review sessions in Dallas, Atlanta, Chicago, San Francisco and Philadelphia.

Brian Fife, SPEA, published "Toward Integrated Public Schools in Middletown and Beyond" in the International Journal of Educational Reform, Vol. 10, 2001. Fife and Geralyn M. Miller, SPEA, presented "Political Culture and Voting Systems in the United States: A Preliminary Assessment" at the Indiana Political Science Association meeting at Wabash College, March 23.

Beth Simon, English and linguistics, published "Richly Qualitative and Rigorously Quantitative" in American Speech, Vol. 74, 2000. She presented “Ethnicity and American English on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula” at the Linguistic Society of America meeting in Washington, D. C., Jan.4–7.

IU South Bend

Bill N. Schwartz has been named the new dean of IUS's School of Business and Economics. He will begin his duties July 1. He is currently a professor of accounting at Virginia Commonwealth University and has 30 years of teaching experience and 10 years of administrative experience. He also has taught at California State University, Northridge; Arizona State University and Temple University.